Direct out from Brighton (Hove, actually), putting up pictures and news of all things beautiful and designed, built and drawn…
I’ve spent the day finishing off the poster for the next Handmade Brighton. It’s going to be mega – thirty-odd very talented local designers selling their wares downstairs at Komedia (Gardner St, Brighton). It’s on December 5th, from 11am ’till 4pm with free entry and you’ll pretty much be able to get all your Christmas shopping done under one roof. In one day!
See you there!
Our Kirst organised Handmade Brighton last week (on Oct 4th) and it was a brilliant day and a great chance to meet some of Brighton’s most talented designer / makers working today. The stalls were excellent, music great and the free cakes delicious (the bar was open to, so that was pretty good)!
Here are some pics from the big day….
Check out their blog (which looks remarkably similar to ours…..), and their facebook….
I’ve never been much into computer games. When I was a lad I had a Sega Master System II and got well into Olympic Gold and Moonwalker, but since then I’ve not really picked up the baton from my childhood. However, had I had Amusement to read, maybe I’d be more into them, because they make them look all sexy and cool, replacing the image of middle aged men playing online fantasy games in their disappointed parent’s basement, dreaming about the day Lara Croft will turn up to rescue them from it all.
This latest story, Made of Myth, reveal how early computer games weren’t created in developer’s labs, but forged and created for real in factories all over the world. The accompanying text fits the photos perfectly. Check these photos of Tetris blocks, Pong pieces and Sonic rings being created…
Made of Myth, for Amusement
There’s a lot of mumbo-jumbo and word-jiggery in the design world. Lot’s of people use lots of big words to sound a bit like they might know what they’re on about. Then these words catch on a become the thing to say. Words like “juxtaposition”, which I try to get in every Design and Access Statement at least once or twice. Purely ironically of course. “Cross-Polination” is another good one.
These sorts of things are the subject of ad agency Publicis Mojo’s series of Words to Work By posters.
Should there be a poster along the lines of “I shall not display my posters by having someone dressed in black hold them over their head?”. This seems to have become industry standard now.
Publicis Mojo, and I nabbed it off of the Creative Review blog.
This beautiful bit of folded high quality materials is the new design by Lars Amhoff, out of Kinkyform, called the Neo Gramophone.
It’s an update of the traditional gramophone shape, that uses modern technology to yield a top-notch sound quality via itunes streaming or music loaded onto it via bluetooth. The base holds all the info and a nice sub and the trumpet, growing out of the base, is a speaker. Kinkyform are currently looking for investors to push this idea forward and to develop it in such away that quality can be maintained whilst keeping it in a non-luxury price range. Huzzah!
I’d buy one.
This may be a bit short notice (or geographically inconvenient) for some of you, but it’s worth posting anyway.
Dieter Rams is doing a talk this evening at the V&A in London. He’ll be discussing his design ethos and the future of design. Its bound to be fascinating. Along with the Eames’, Rams is probably my favourite designer ever. His work for Braun was consistently amazing. Brilliant man.
As seen on DesignBoom
I don’t know what I prefer. The idea. The fact someone carried out. Or the design of the packaging.
Brooklyn went and got itself a Superhero Supply Store (372 Fifth), stocking such Superhero essentials as X-Ray vision in a bottle, 1 Gallon of Gravity, Oxygen Gum, Canned Chaos (my favourite) and the Antidote. Everything the budding superhero could ask for.
The whole thing is a front orchestrated by 826NYC, a non-profit organisation that exists to encourage high school kids to write creatively and to inspire teachers to encourage this further. That just makes it even more brilliant! There’s a secret door (of course) in the store that leads to an area filled up with kids reading, learning and doing all kinds of good what-not under the supervision of the 826NYC staff and tutors.
Mindblowing. I believe (I beleive…) Sam Potts Inc. is responsible for the design. If that’s true, bloody well done Sam Potts Inc.
A lot of people who know me in Brighton know that I run an occasional old school hip-hop night up in the Hope on Queens Road. A lot of people I know probably don’t know this as well, and are probably quite surprised to hear about it. I say it’s occasional, because we haven’t done it in a while, but we’ve got a great band of merry DJs who really know there stuff. At the last one, we promised a bunch of breakers they would get in for free (and I’d buy them a drink) if they came along and did their thing. They didn’t turn up though, which is a shame because we’d taped down some cardboard for them especially.
Anyways, maybe we should have made up some of these great card models instead, by Raphael Gatt…
This was found on Ward Jenkins’ blog, which is great. He does great illustration work, but is (wisely) protective enough about it for me not to grab an image and paste it here. I’ll have to trust you enough that you’ll head… here or…here to check out some of his work.
Alrighty. How is everyone? This time around, there as a damn good reason for me not posting for a while. As opposed to the normal reasons for forgetting etc etc. I’ve been in Paris! And in a wonderful marketing world where I’m trying to push my new business onto everyone. We had our first advert on Spanish radio yesterday!
But anyway, this isn’t about me, it’s about you and its about damn bloody good design. So let’s get on.
Out in China, they’ve been building a series of pavilions on the banks of the River Yiwu, in the Jinhua Architecture Park. 16 architects from all over the world have been bought together by artist and curator Ai Wei Wei and the results look pretty good. It’s all dedicated to his father, Ai Qing, the Chinese poet extraordinaire. This seems to be somewhat en vogue in Asia at the moment – the idea of getting several architects together to design different buildings all on one site. It’s nothing new, but it is very very exciting.
These photos are by Iwan Baan who is almost certainly the best Architectural Photography working in the field today and his website is well worth checking out.
Saw this on Space Invading – probably my favourite website at the moment (except for mine)
This is something I’ve never really thought about before. Or rather, never really had to think about before. Blind people need to know what the time is to. Apparently, it common for them to own watched where the glass can be lifted to feel the dial and tell the time, but this seems a little clumsy. So this fella, Julien Bergignat, came up with this very nice watch. Cracking idea.
This got me thinking about other, less obvious, things blind people miss out on…
Found on The Design Blog
