Interest, Recommended
This stuff is awesome - it’s part of a show from Harvest by Haroshi called Skate and Destroy currently showing at plsmis gallery in Tokyo, Japan until the 27th Feb. All the artworks have been created with old worn, or snapped, skateboard decks.
Interest, Opinion, Recommended
via thefuntheory.com
nice simple concept by VW - great way to highlight they are a think outside of the box kind of brand, while producing some great viral activity.
After a time, ‘Fun’ can no doubt turn to ‘Novelty’ and we all know ‘Novelty’ easily wears off, but I love the notion of causing [...]
Announcements, Interest, Recommended
via semipermanent.com
9/10 October sees the Semi-Permanent design conference heading to Melbourne. As always there is a great mix of international speakers offering up a more colourful mix than many of the more serious design related conferences on the annual calendar.
Speakers for 2009 include: Grafik Magazine Collider Industrial Light & Magic Three Drunk [...]
Design, Interest, Recommended
via bobbindrawedthis.tumblr.com
the one and only Andy Bobbin goes live with his excellent bobbindrawthis illustration blog - “more tea Ern?”
Posted via web from tony’s posterous
Design, Interest, Recommended
via feedly.com
Start of a new series of experimental packaging solutions for Creative Review subscribers - will have to wait and see if the overseas subscribers get this as well - F/F hope so.
Posted via web from tony’s posterous
Recommended
The thing I love about public transport is that from time to time (more often if you take the headphones off) you get to overhear some very insightful conversations.
Last Friday provided one such moment. I have to say in general getting out in public spaces can be a great way of gleaning information for a project or about a certain demographic - a stealthy bit of eavesdropping can be just as valuable if not more so than a well constructed focus group or user workshop.
Design, Digital, Motion, Recommended
Announcing a great new collective in Melbourne, Australia -
Robots For Breakfast are made up from ‘Touch My Pixel’, ‘Renmotion’, ‘Dirty Puppet’ and ‘Something Splendid’. Between them they cover pretty much every aspect of the creative fields from full motion work to print and photography.
They are a young bunch, full of love and great ideas, and
F/F are happy to be their friends.
Digital, Interest, Recommended
A quick follow up to the previous post sees the wordly people over at Penguin really getting into the swing of things in the digital space with a whole platter of online offerings to get users engaging with their brand.
Analog, Design, Interest, Recommended
What can I say we love a well designed chair, and if your much the same then the book,
1000 Chairs, from Taschen is a must have. It’s from their 25th anniversary series and serves as a great resource for all avid chair collectors.
