STOP-MOTION ANIMATION WITH VODKA BOTTLES

With 550 hand drawn bottles used for the animation, the shoot took more than 100 hours. The final video is a selection of over 5000 photos taken in total. This project is created by 41? 29! Agency in Istanbul for Binboa Vodka, based in Turkey.

Music: Lorenz Rhode - Like A Player
Producer: Oğuz Yücel
Creative Director: Seren Köroğlu
Director: Asya Leman Sanıtürk

PIXELS BY PARTICK JEAN

What do you get when video game characters join forces and attack New York City? Chaos, that's what.

Patrick Jean, a French director for OneMoreProd, has put out a roughly 2 1/2-minute video featuring many of the game elements and characters you grew up with during the heyday of Atari and Nintendo (NES).

What's in the clip? Well, there's colorful Tetris blocks landing atop skyscrapers before eventually eliminating them floor-by-floor, Pac-Man eating up subway lines and Donkey Kong hurling huge barrels onto city streets. Only one word comes to mind after watching this video: awesomeness.

PIXELS by PATRICK JEAN.
Uploaded by onemoreprod.

SIMPSONS PARODY

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.We are all fans of The Simpsons (some more than others!) while some can definitely appreciate the art and influence The Simpsons have... They are a niche completely unique unto its own, with an art style so distinctive- it is instantly recognizable anywhere- and imitations can be spotted easily. Plus, the decades that the Simpsons have been around for, have made us anthropomorphically attached to specific characters... I find this is what gives The Simpson parodies a life of its own.



More parodies here or just google it! 

VITRA HAUS DESIGN PROJECT

VitraHaus

Over the past few years Vitra has aquired a wide-ranging Home Collection. The quantity and variety of objects by many different designers led to the idea of building a showroom to present the items to the public. There would also be additional space to be used as an exhibition venue for selected parts of the collection or even as an extension of the Vitra Museum itself. A shop, a cafe linked to the outside and conference rooms complete the program.
The “VitraHaus“ is a direct, architectural rendition of the ur-type of house, as found in the immediate vicinity of Vitra and, indeed, all over the world. The products that will be on display are designed primarily for the private home and, as such, should not be presented in the neutral atmosphere of the conventional hall or museum but rather in an environment suited to their character and use.
By stacking, extruding and pressing – mechanical procedures used in industrial production – simply shaped houses become complex configurations in space, where outside and inside merge. The interior is designed as a spatial sequence with surprising transitions and views of the landscape. The landscape in all its variety – the idyllic Tüllinger Hills, the broad expanse of the railroad tracks, and the urbanized plane of the Rhine – was the incentive to design a building that concentrates on the vertical. In contrast to the other buildings on the Vitra Campus, an essential component of the design involved drawing the outdoors inside.
The anticipated increase in visitors – not only individuals but also many schools and other groups – gave added importance to benches, niches, covered waiting zones and entries. These areas for sitting, standing, waiting, and looking are stamped or cut out of the shape of the houses through simple mechanical manipulations. Given the large number of design objects on view inside, all of these areas are conceived as an integral part of the architecture and not as self-contained objects.
Herzog & de Meuron, 2006

http://www.vitra.com/en-gb/campus/

http://vectroave.com/2010/01/vitrahaus-by-herzog-de-meuron/

MACBOOK MINI BY ISAMU SANADA

I came across these renders for a Mac Book Mini by Isamu Sanada (he is a devoted Apple freak). There aren't any suggestions or ideas on what exactly this book should hold. Except for the fact that it has a very convenient sliding track pad, the design gives away nothing.
 via: YD

Designer: Isamu Sanada

MULTI-TAB POWER STRIP

 

We've seen plenty products both real and imagined that promise to improve on the standard power strip, but few as elegantly designed as this so-called "Multi-Tab" concept from designer Soon Mo Kang. Not only is it modular to accommodate as many plugs as you need, but each module also has its own release mechanism to eject the plug without pulling on it, and it would come with a set of stickers to let you label each plug for minimal confusion. About the only drawback is that it might not be able to handle larger plugs, but that's nothing a little fine-tuning can't fix -- optional brick modules, perhaps? Either way, you likely haven't seen a better video of a power strip than the one after the break.

(via: engadget)

  

ILLUSTRATIONS BY WESLEY EGGEBRECHT

Wesley Eggebrecht has a very unique style. A very obvious and heavy influence on graffiti and graphic novels- with intricate references to recent pop culture. Its no surprise he does graphic design for numerous companies on boards, t-shirts, etc.... the cusp of graphic design is in the hands of artists like Eggebrecht.

CLEARLY CALLING YOU: TRANSPARENT NOKIA CONCEPT PHONE

Carrying on the trend of awesome transparent gadgets, Columbian designer Juan Carlos Garzon has concocted a phone design for Nokia that adds some transparency to all of your conversations.  The touch interface gives a simple and clear view of which buttons you’re mashing, while all of the electronics bits are stored below in the white enclosure.

When not in use, the touch screen fades away, leaving only the white bottom and a glass-like top section that doesn’t give much of a clue about its true identity as a phone. The clear top portion of the phone lights up from the inside, giving the display more power and making it easier to see what you’re doing, even in the dark.

 

Despite looking very compact, the bottom part also houses a 5 megapixel camera – making this phone comparable to many of the more conventional phone designs on the market currently. We think the clean, crisp design would be a winner with design junkies, though like all transparent gadgets it would be a bit of a fingerprint magnet.

RETRO GAMES WITH MODERN THEMES

These are really witty, smart and creative! Penney Design is a freelance graphic design company from Perth, Australia..Their themes seem to be almost exclusively retro, classic, vintage, or anything appreciated from the past.
I can almost see myself playing some of these games on an Atari..!

 

 

 

ARTWORK ON SPINES OF STACKED BOOKS

Artist Mike Stilkey is painting artistic images on the spines of stacked books. His art is called “book sculptures”. Stilkey uses acrylics and colored pencil to form one image of beautiful and elegant humans and animal that reminds of German expressionism. The sculptures are also inspired by fairytale. While this artist is using books spines for his drawings, this artist is using his own face for his art.

POTRAITS OF ICONIC MUSICIANS MADE OUT OF USED JOINT FILTERS

An artist from Pittsburgh named Cliff Maynard is making portraits by using marijuana filters. The portraits are of famous people like Bob Marley, Snoop Dog and John Lennon, to mention a few. It's not easy to make such a portrait and it takes about 200 hours to complete one, and it's certainly not cheap (or legal?), one portrait will cost you $2,000. Cliff Maynard is also a tattoo artist...