15.1.11
13.1.11
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.
12.1.11
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.
11.1.11
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...
10.1.11
...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...
3.1.11
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.
Google Maps 5.0 for Android,
Google's latest update in satellite navigational systems for android - Tilt, rotate and zoom smoother than ever before! As a non-android civilian alot of these new apps and programmes go over my head, but made me look twice. The graphics look impecible and the 'compass mode' really twists up the standard way of presenting GPS mapping on such devices.
30.12.10
Collection 100,
Pen Facts
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1// On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.
2// More than 2 billion pens are manufactured in the United States annually.
3// There are 5 main kinds of pens used worldwide; ballpoint, fountain, soft-tip. rolling-ball and specialty pens.
4// The first fountain pen was invented by L.E. Waterman in 1883, and had it patented in 1884.
5// The first ballpoint pen was invented by Hungarian journalist Laszlo Biro in 1938, but the first patent belonged to John J. Loud in 1888.
6// In World War II, pilots used ballpoint pens because they do not leak at high altitudes.
7// The oldest surviving fountain pen designed by Frenchman M. Bion, dates back to 1702.
8// The first American patent for a pen was received by Peregrin Williamson, a shoemaker from Baltimore.
9// Today, 4 fountain pen producers have a monopoly on the market, Waterman, Sheaffer, Parker and Wahl-Eversharp.
10// In October, 1945, Milton Reynolds, after a previous visit to Buenos Aires where he discovered the Biro pen, (invented by Laszlo Biro) copied the product in 4 months and launched his own massive campaign in New York City, selling USD 100, 000 worth in the first day.
11// In England, the first pens sold were in December 1945 by the Miles-Martin Pen Company.
12// Parker introduced its first ballpoint pen, called the "Jotter" to the market in 1954, superior to both the Reynolds and Eversharp versions. Because the "Jotter" wrote 5 times longer, annual sales came to USD 3.5 million.
13// The BIC Crystal, the immensely trendy adaptation of the Biro pen sells 14 million pieces daily world-wide.
14// Black ballpoint pens manufactured by Parker have a lifespan five miles long of writing before the ink dissipates.
15// In 1831, John Jacob Parker claimed the copyright to the original self-filling fountain pen.
16// Quill pens were first used circa 700 A.D. and were the popular writing choice for 1, 000 years.
17// The United States of America's Declaration of Independence was written using an eagle feather quill pen by the late President Abraham Lincoln.
18// The pen used by President Abraham Lincoln to sign the Emancipation Proclamation was a steel dip one made by the French Company, Blanzy, Poure & Cie.
19// The Al Faisalia skyscraper in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, takes the shape of a ballpoint pen
20//People speak at about 150 to 180 words per minute, but the best writing speed tends to fall at 35!
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