Posts Tagged “Design”

Hot Wheels Billboard

By | April 7, 2011

Hot Wheels billboard

This “billboard” for Hot Wheels is simply brilliant! Unlike most advertising which tends to concentrate on a specific product, this iconic loop is simply designed to evoke a pleasant childhood memory. It’s brand-building at it’s best. via YNot

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PressPausePlay: A Film About Hope, Fear and Digital Culture

By | April 7, 2011

About PressPausePlay: The digital revolution of the last decade has unleashed creativity and talent of people in an unprecedented way, unleashing unlimited creative opportunites. But does democratized culture mean better art, film, music and literature or is true talent instead flooded and drowned in the vast digital ocean of mass culture? Is it cultural democracy [...]

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Premium Pixels: Free Resources for Designers

By | March 18, 2011

PremiumPixels.com offers free resources for designers including, interface elements, textures, icons, buttons, etc… I can’t recall where I originally heard about this site, but they have some nice stuff. If you’re a designer you may want to have a look.

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Turbine-Free Wind Power

By | March 17, 2011

This looks very cool. The video isn’t embed-able, so you’ll have to watch it, here. Conservationists argue that wind turbines pose a risk to birds, bats and sensitive habitats like shorelines. People living close to wind farms, meanwhile, complain of constant noise and vibration. This year, engineers responded with a new way to draw electricity from [...]

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Is Adobe rethinking how Flash should be used?

By | March 4, 2011

Ever since Adobe acquired Macromedia, just about every page at adobe.com has been thick with Flash content. Their home page, especially, always had lots of motion and giant interactive flash banners. Recently, they’ve been doing some redesign work on the site, and I was extremely surprised today when I noticed that the entire site is [...]

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San Francisco Typographic Map

By | December 10, 2010

Axis Maps is custom cartography company located in Hewitt, Texas. Among a variety of other services, they’ve also made some super-cool maps made entirely of type. They’ve had typographic maps for Boston and Chicago, and they just recently released one for San Francisco. It looks very cool! The map is available through Zazzle.com. There’s four sizes [...]

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Design a Cover for “Project” Magazine

By | December 7, 2010

If you’re unfamiliar with, Project, it’s a new iPad-only magazine from Richard Branson. The publishers are having a contest to design a future cover of the magazine. It could be a fun project (no pun intended), but bragging rights will be your only reward, as there are no actual prizes – other than having your [...]

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Shop Vac – Kinetic Typography Animation

By | December 6, 2010

I’m a big fan of this style of animation – where the primary element is text. This video by Jarrett Heather is an exceptional example of how to do this well.

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