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A love story in milk
This is a lovely short film created by Catsnake for a Friends of the Earth campaign. It’s sweet and cute but with a cruel twist at the end!
In: Brand communications, Film & Animation, Ooh that's nice, Sustainability · Tags: Environment, Friends of the Earth
Falling for an angel
Back in March at London’s Victoria station, Lynx delivered an augmented reality angel down on to unsuspecting, but then rather delighted commuters.
In: Brand communications, Brand Experience, Digital, Ooh that's nice · Tags: Augmented reality, Lynx, Male grooming, Personal care
Device utopia
I noticed today an advert for the ‘DEVICE DESIGN DAY’ in San Francisco which is an event for ‘DESIGN FOR THE NEXT GENERATION OF PRODUCTS’ (yes it was all in caps!), and just as it happens I also read the first few lines of a blog that could have been titled ‘Device overload’ asking “why [...]
In: Product design, Viewpoints · Tags: Cameras, Photography
Beauty…but at a price
Many of us aspire to create beauty where we can. It could be in how a logo or letterform is crafted to suggest an emotive value. It might also be in how a surface is sculpted to bring elegance and ‘line’ to a product. It might even be how a mechanism is elegantly engineered to [...]
In: Food and Drink, Luxury, Product design, Structural design, Sustainability · Tags: Champagne, Packaging design, Sparkling wine
Sergey Larenkov: the past forms the present
Mixing the past and present in one image is not necessarily new, however the photo-compositions of Sergey Larenkov make for eerie viewing. The juxtaposition of modern life with all its luxuries against the grit and desperation of the second world-war make for images that not only appear ghost-like, but also stimulate reflection on times and [...]
In: Art, Ooh that's nice · Tags: Photography, Sergey Larenkov
Mastering the Routemaster
The Beetle, the Mini, the Fiat 500 and now the Routemaster bus. All have been or are being updated and contemporised (among many others), and I was hoping to draw some learning from the transformations that have taken place. Now speaking honestly this was principally because I love the transformations that have taken place on [...]
In: Product design, Structural design, Viewpoints · Tags: Automotive, Fiat, Mini, Routemaster, VW Beetle
Product design monotone monotony
In 18 years of product design I have never managed to read the ‘Consumer Electronics (CE) design manual’ page 35 that says that consumer electronics products need to be painted either silver or black or some indeterminate between-tone. Neither evidently did the Samsung designer who came up with the G-series hard drive and frankly, thank [...]
In: Innovation, Product design, Viewpoints · Tags: Colour, Consumer Electronics, Samsung
Amazing micro sculptures from Williard Wigan
After my previous post about Swann Morton, on their website I stumbled across the work of micro sculptor Williard Wigan and how he, for the first time in a while made me think ‘how the hell do you make that?’. I started to write a bit more about him, then realised this excerpt from Wikipedia [...]
In: Art, Ooh that's nice, Structural design · Tags: Sculpture
Loving the Swann!
I had one of those great ‘getting your hands dirty’ occasions a few days ago when I had to trim out some new concepts with a knife, so I picked up the ever faithful Swann-Morton scalpel, inserted a #11 and started to cut. While avoiding my fingers, I wondered at what made the Swann-Morton conjure [...]
In: Product design, Structural design, Viewpoints · Tags: Iconic
Big brother, Identical twin
What is the value of family over identity? That is what came to mind when I saw the new member of the i-family pop it’s head out to the media world a few weeks ago. Another way of saying this is how much does the iPad actually have to look like a scaled up iPhone [...]
In: Digital, Structural design · Tags: Apple, Brand language, Mobile
