Infographic,Apples Rise to No.1

Collection 100,DVD sleeve,

The dimensions of a standard DVD sleeve are: 12 cm x 12 cm (4.75 inches x 4.75 inches).
I shall keep these measurement consistent throughout the finalisation of my production process, not just simply using it for the DVD sleeve and booklet, but working the fold-out poster to these dimensions too. - Maybe even applying it further to my 4 main posters. Working in a 4:3 ratio?

Pantone calendar,

Amazing calendar, consisting of hundreds of photographs using different shades and tone. 

Book of paper,

'Book of Paper' by Oliver Helfrich and Antje Peters. Would really like to get my hands on this book, or at least a few more detailed shots...

Julian Zimmermann,grid design.

I really like the description of this project posted on Julians website.. 'Cover designs for beef magazine issue 03/08 & 04/08 with the topic, grids and crisis. So the idea of the crisis-cover is a blue screen of death — worst case scenario.' 

This use of the grid as image really works well, and the embossed black type on black adds a certain crispness to the design.

HAUS HOCH,

'HAU'S HOCH' is spectacular adaption of the ring–the–bell game, commonly found at fun fairs and carnivals. This interactive genius arose from the University of Mannheim in 2008, the project was led by Johannes Brückner & Bernhard Pompey.

Multi touch light table,GERGWERK,

Senior Degree Project for the Kansas City Art Institute. DJ touch screen interface and gesture interaction concepts. 

OK GO, Last Leaf,Stopmotion music video,

Jason Tozer,Website,

I came across Jason Tozers (photographer) website, although not overly keen on some of his works, I really like the impact the website has upon entry. It's almost on the verge of being too cluttered with the clash of typeface and ever changing point size but it does however, have an element of conformity with the colour scheme doing the design a lot of justice.

His 'Elements' projects did intrique me and I would recommend checking them out here.

'The Grid System...,

...the ultimate resource in grid systems'. A really useful website home to hundreds of grid templates, articles and numerous links. I'm sure this will become a very useful resource in the future and I look forward to understanding what it has to offer.

Collection 100,Biro chandelier,

Collection 100,Anatomy of the pen.

A few images I found relating to the pens anatomy. It's interesting to see how complex a pen can be. Probably the most complex is exhibited here, the fountain pen. I shall look at 'dissecting' other pens and replicating the one below in illustrator to hopefully produce some clean info-graphics.

Editorial design,Experimental page layout.

Audiopad,

Although fairly old in terms of technology timescale, Audiopad is a composition and performance instrument for electronic music which tracks the positions of objects on a tabletop surface and converts their motion into music.

The video below captures Audiopad in use at the Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona as part of the Sonar 2003 Festival of Advanced Music and Multimedia Art.

Time warp project,

Interesting bookbinds,

Excerpts from PTA live AV show (2007/8)

Collection 100,Edding advertisement.

Rather amusing advertisement idea for a haulage truck. Loads more here, irrelevant to my project at the moment but some witty ideas.

Interactive display window concept,

Interactive Window Concept made for the module Advanced Interface Design at Hyper Island hosted by North Kingdom.

Collection 100,txtBOMBER

'The txtBOMBER is a one-hand-guerilla-tool that generates political statements on the fly and immediately prints them on any flat surface...' The write up on Behance Network continues informally to describe this machine by Felix Vorreiter and offers a few more photos in context. Weather or not they are available isn't disclosed but they definitely should be! //VIDEO

Collection 100,CMYK Pen,Beautiful.

...and given it's only a concept pen, the 3D rendering by Roma Lubimov is pretty amazing. More really cutting work on the website.

Collection 100,Colour picker pen,

As a concept this pen is very nearly genius, such a brilliant idea. The technical side of it however, lacks certain thinking and science. The use of RGB ink cartridges combining to make any colour may be all well and good in the screen based world of colour, but print based media requires CMYK. Also for this pen to achieve its full 'any colour' goal a white and black cartridge would probably come in useful...

Reinventing the Bic,

...t.y.p.o.r.g.a.n.i.s.m...

Rather than me describing the aims of this website in great detail, the description is a much more entertaining interactive flash script that will inform you further. What I will say is that they experiment with type on various levels, treating text like an 'organism' reacting in different ways to certain constaints.

 

The home page mimics a microscope slide and links the menu to coloured cells in this view that constantly move regardless off user interaction. I really like the script that looks at weighting of text and allows you to weigh different fonts, sizes and weights. Endin up with something like this...

Tim Fishlock,

I came aross Tim Fishlock through a rather interesting experimental music video working soley with minimal shape and vibrant colour. His vimeo account uneartherd quite a fun little video demoing 'an interactive sound toy and compositional tool' called, Dapper. I'll let the video description explian the rest, but I just thought it was pretty cool. In all honesty once the board starts to come together with these 'visual sounds', I feel the colours don't do the design much justice.

Collection 100,I LOVE BIG FAT DRIPPY PENS!