Steven Holl

MIT Cambridge Student accomodation block.

nelson-atkins museum of art

designboom say-

the light-filled nelson-atkins museum of art in kansas city, USAis to open its doors on the 9th of june, 2007. designed by steven hollarchitects, the new bloch building is the centerpiece of transformation of the entire institution, which includes major renovations to the original building, a restoration of the sculpture park and a complete reinstallation of the permanent galleries, drawing from the more than 34,500 works in its encyclopedic collection. the new expansion increases the museums space by more than 70 percent and features five distinct levels of expansive, light-filled galleries. read more

Sagmeister

Sagmeister interview
http://www.designboom.com/eng/interview/sagmeister.html

Where are all the graphic design blogs

where indeed. It seems the designer is a shy retiring type that feels blogs are a little bit dirty and beneath them. I like to think of a blog as a sketch book. There are more than enough scribes out there and my interest lays in finding new things not reading reams of waffle.

NDG seems to have some good suggestions.
http://www.pingmag.jp/
http://www.designobserver.com/
http://www.underconsideration.com/
http://www.design-feed.net/
http://www.nineteeneightythree.com/2007/05/18/2007-05-18-daily-catch/
http://www.typotheque.com/site/article.php?id=74

digital planners needed

Work at one of the best creative agencies in the world as a creative planner. Voted 3rd most creative agency in the world and 1st in the UK.

awards update

Guinness Hands
Merit for Art Directors Club awards in interactive mini sites.
http://www.adcglobal.org/archive/annual/?year=2&id=1076
Viral film in book for D&AD 2007.
Won Bronze at Microsoft Digital Advertising Awards in FMCG cat.
http://advertising.microsoft.com/europe/NewsAndEvents/PressRelease.aspx?Adv_PressReleaseID=491


Economist intelligent banners
Won a silver at the ADDYs.


*The Microsoft Digital Advertising Solutions Creative Awards judges included:
Joakim Borgstrom (Chairman) - Wieden + Kennedy
Ben Clapp – Tribal DDB London
Benjamin Przespolewski – Duke
Flo Heiss – Dare
Georg Lauble – McCann Erikson
Johan Kruse – Daddy
Martin Kristensen – Framfab
David Pugh-Jones – Microsoft Digital Advertising Solutions
Emma Newman - Microsoft Digital Advertising Solutions
Sicco Beerda – Euro RSCG
Simon Waterfall – Poke
Daniele Busi – DDB Milan
Vincent Jansen – i-Merge
Vidar Singh - Bates

MR T in a tank dishes out advice

Mr T cuts carbon admissions and goes tank insetad of in a plane.

What's not to like about MR T the man who made the 80s all the better. You got a problem Mr T will sort it out A team style from the top of his tank. Just type in a question and he will give you some advice.

i love the response to I poo the bed.
that's some funky smell coming out of you computer screen.

grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. Aint getting in no plane sucka!

royksopp remind me

spiderman 3

another good use of flash by big spaceship for spiderman 3. Really smooth wireframe movement on the characters.

http://spiderman3.sonypictures.com/

john maeda exhibition

Hours of opening:Monday - Friday 10.00 AM - 6.00 PMSaturday 12.00 PM - 6.00 PM79 Beak Street Regent Street London W1F 9SUTel: +44 (0) 20 7439 0000 Fax: +44 (0) 20 7439 0070Email: info@riflemaker.org Website: www.riflemaker.org

programmers are the new designers

John Maeda once said at a lecture that programmers are the new creatives.
He was making the point that to create something in digital media you need to understand and or be able to use code to imagine it. http://plw.media.mit.edu/people/maeda/

I would also extend that thought and say that code enables the aesthetic of a new digital language we need to read information. One of my first tastes online of this new language was seeing thinkmap by plumb design in NY back in 1998. http://www.thinkmap.com/

Digg labs seem to be pushing this into functional news readers, by being able to distill vast amounts of news into a graphic form. This language is only possible by the code that enables the manipulation of content. It frees the design process to be something organic in its structure. The designer doesnt need to place image and type but mearly set up some parameters for the code to follow, or not if you like.

"In its analytic and methodic inventory design follows a range of metaphors
and paradigms: of creation, of construction, of information."

Jörg Petruschat
Informations takes command?

spell with flickr

Clockr: http://www.quasimondo.com/clockr.php

Spell with Flickr: http://metaatem.net/words/

a lot of great interface tools using various languages including; rails, ruby, ajax and java

this one you write a word out and it builds it from images on flickr of those letters.

Lots of others

Tagnautica:
http://www.quasimondo.com/tagnautica.php

Phrasr:
http://www.pimpampum.net/phrasr/

Retrievr:
http://labs.systemone.at/retrievr/

Colr Pickr
http://krazydad.com/colrpickr/

Spell with Flickr:
http://metaatem.net/words/

alan fletcher

quintessential illustrator and graphic designer, a man uniquely responsible for defining British graphic design with his witty and highly individual approach from the late 1950s onwards.

karel martens

Graphic design, on the evidence of most of the book-publishing activity that records it, is a utopia populated by the genus genius.

what noise

http://www.whatnoise.org/main.html

octavo magazine

8vo
octavo magazine 1986 / 92
Hamish Muir and Mark Holt founders


http://www.hamishmuir.com/

http://www.markholtdesign.com/hom.html

For those that missed it back in the day, Lars Muller has published 8vo on the outside.

dot dot dot

Ill look into this and
get back to you...

mm i love fast cars book

Rick where is it?

cyan

Feeding squirrels to the nuts

This takes me back to Portsmouth Art College (I must be getting sentimental lately)
Cactus network had a off shoot project Squirrels by Tony Credland.

Contributors included work from Cyan (Berlin), Cloaca Maxima (Gent), Tat & Whimsey, Melisa Price, Cactus (London), Co-op design (Mainz), Coloured hard (New York), Ian Noble (Portsmouth) and Cactus (Munchen). With writing from Michele-Anne Dauppe and Teal Triggs. Ryan McGinness (NY),Grrr (Barcelona), Cactus (Munchen) Stamp (St Etienne), WD+RU, Karen Eliot, Graphic Thought Facility, Luther Blissett, Paul Anderson (London) Utopia (Paris), Marion Burbulla (Berlin). With writing from: Teal Triggs and Cees Hamelink. Andrea Kreuse, Jurgen Albrecht, Marion Delhees, Achim Wieland, Ola Giza, Sarah Mansell, Daniel Borck, Tony Credland, Filipa Pais Rodrigues, Zeina Maasri, Glenn Orton, Peter Bilak, Daan van der Velden and Matthew Shadbolt With writing by Jan van Toorn, Paul Elliman, Andrew Blauvelt, Jean Fisher, Sylvie Toux, John Bird, Cees Hamelink, Teal Triggs, Paul Newson, and Micheal Rock.

More good links like this
http://www.cactusnetwork.org.uk/inspiration.htm

Ian Noble at the LCC designing with type projects

Ian goes blonde and designing with type.

Teachers don't get better than Noble, a man who lives and breaves type design and research.

it seems he likes Helvetica Neue as his favourite font as well.

we interrupt the programme
http://www.f5-ksiegarnia.pl/nowy_podzial.asp?id=798&kat=16

Helvetica Neue Film

Ian Noble goes blonde. See previous post.

Talking of type heads
Helvetica the movie.

In my opion there is only one cut of Helvetica and that's Neue. 45/55/65/75
(85 is just pushing it too far and 35 is just Orange noddy.)

The opinons of Wim Crouwel and Neville Brody sum up the dilema.
Broady says that Helvetica is neutral in the way GAP is, safe, you know you won't offend anyone with it. My interpretation of this is bland. The font has been so over used in the wrong way and context that it's become the magnolia of fonts.

Crouwel seems to be pointing at the idea that it's almost the only font to be used as it's neutrality makes it remain the quiet element in the design. It leaves the design to be the message and you can ignore the font. I agree that fonts are so badly used by designers, it's currency has become cheaper and easier to use. The craft of typography has all but vanished from most agencies /practices. Even to the point where clients somtimes decide on fonts to use, they have forgot what fonts were invented for, serif easier to read in smaller columns easier on the eye as you read. Gothic condensed to squeeze more words in the coloumns, sans serif for headlines for clarity.

I'd like to see the sequel to this film, room 101 of fonts. First in line would be Arial, Optima and Chicago I could go on but why bother. I love neue as much as the next designer but to only design with one font is like eating porridge ever day, good for you, neutral and long lasting but ultimately like the GAP a bit bland when over used.

Bring back classic modern favourites like Univers, Zurich and Berthold Akzidenz as well. Dust them off and and kern the buggers as these fonts won't set themselves.

Audio Collective

One Word
TODO was contacted to design a system to sample and display audience's collective voice during the events.the interactive system ONEWORD is a social display of crowd moods and feelings during an event: people send SMS to a special number and the messages are then displayed with a tree-like generative graphic software. As soon as a new message arrives a new branch blossoms.

Sketch Book

A guys diary in a flash presentation.

Big Rocket Yellow Pages Campaign

Campaign idea for Yellow pages, great idea well shot, I love the identical twins who are Lock Smiths a pure and intelligent insight into the Brand.

The Wire

One of the best TV dramas along side Sopranos.
Written by a team in Baltimore; reporter, detective and crime author

Edward Burns writer and Ex Prod David Simons.

Apart from a very few cheesy moments with McNulty and his police buddies 'hey the teams back together!High 5' (yeah sure, more like 'not your ugly mug again, shit for brains!') this TV is fucking amazing. Each season plays out over 12, 1hr episodes. Particularly amazing and low key performances by Barksdale, Stringer Bell and Stinkum. Amazing detailing and real languid filming of scenes, sometimes just a junkie fixing up or containers coming off a ship. If this is TV without the Network it's good. A rare glimse of a TV company focusing on the creative rather than the reach of audience, HBO do it again.

eye magazine

Simon Dale's Photography

a picture a day.
Great details of everyday Lewes.

visual test

http://viscog.beckman.uiuc.edu/grafs/demos/15.html

march sites

red universe from LA
http://ff0000।com/universe/


California Milk Processor Board







The Adachi family seek a glass as they have no milk.
Amazing depth of detail and game play।



http://www.gettheglass.com/

Transformers
























http://www.transformersmovie.com/main.html

Everyday Maths

A great series from 1978 to 1982, the classic years of schools tv.
Featuring Jack Wild and Arthur English.
Pure Maths TV genius!

EVERYDAY MATHS
One of the best episodes was ep. 8, PLAY NOW,PAY LATER
Jack buys an electric guitar on HP and pisses off the neighbours.

http://open.bbc.co.uk/catalogue/infax/programme/ESBA218N

Programmes
1, POUNDS AND PENCE
2, THE LONG AND THE SHORT OF IT
3, A NUMBER OF THINGS
4, TIME AND TABLE
5, THE ROUND-UP
6, TEN PER CENT PER TED
7, WHICH WAY TO GO?
8, PLAY NOW,PAY LATER
9, SAY IT WITH FIGURES:1
10, SAY IT WITH FIGURES:2
11, TRY IT FOR SIZE
12, FAST AND FURIOUS
13, CHEAP AT HALF THE PRICE
14, THE LAST COUNT

The only video post i can find;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0ebyGwZ248
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0ebyGwZ248

brian storm online

http://www.bubbl.us/

sites feb 07

www.group94.com/

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http://www.group94.com/
What's up at group94?
Fri, 9 Feb 2007 07:32:37 -0800
info@group94.com
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http://www.group94.com/?p=1
Group94 launches this temporary videocast website. Tamara commits herself.
Wed, 10 Jan 2007 00:00:00 -0800
info@group94.com




http://www.edlokawa.com/


Always in but what a site
http://www.thefwa.com/


http://www.actioncity.la/


http://www.iamalwayshungry.com/


http://www.ourvice.com/


http://www.uniqlo.jp/mixplay/

http://www.uniqlo.com/

http://clearification.com/

Digital Planning and Blog on Blog

Alistair Beattie has an indepth look at online, design,
strategy, advertising and beyond.
http://www.alistairbeattie.typepad.com



Information Aesthetics
http://www.infosthetics.com


DataMining
http://datamining.typepad.com/data_mining

banners

http://www.bannerblog.com.au/

Coca-Cola - Coke Zero Banners

http://dev.ichameleongroup.com/clients/coke

Developed in conjunction with Coke's Zero campaign.



NY Times Select Banners

http://www.pointroll.com/PointRoll/AdDemo/TimesSelect/USHispanic_728x315md11.asp


A series of Pointroll banners developed for the launch of the NY Times’
Select product to the Hispanic Marketplace





HP Workstation Rich Media Banners

http://dev.ichameleongroup.com/clients/hp/091206/



HP Workstation Flash Banners

http://dev.ichameleongroup.com/clients/hp/081706_30k/index.htm



TB 4M FoodSquare + Bullrito Rich Media Banners

http://dev.ichameleongroup.com/clients/tacobell/banners/061306_FS_BULLRITO/



LSS Special K Rich Media

http://dev.ichameleongroup.com/clients/LSS%5FspecialK/071006/



HP Speed M527 Rich Media Banners

http://dev.ichameleongroup.com/clients/HP/071406/



Virgin Mobile Penny Animated GIF Banners

http://dev.ichameleongroup.com/clients/virginmobilebanners/072106/

october sites

http://clearification.com/
ramblings of a mad man

http://designcharts.com/
the word on flash

NEW YORK TIPS

Em this is from Cath and me on NY. Links to websites are in blue, New York site is useful for latest reviews and details http://nymag.com/

Drinks
http://nymag.com/bestofny/nightlife/2006/martinis/

Brasserie
This is a cool bar where they filmed a sex in city scene. Brasserie 100 E 53rd St 10022 TEL. 212 751 4840
they do good food as well. Look out for the tv screens above the bar that show you coming in 15-20mins after you arrive.
Boiled eggs on the bar are free and the cocktails are strong!



Eat out

Breakfast
We had real trouble finding good old american dinners last time, a lot of them are closing down for coffee bars yuck! Just look in timeout guide to NY or see where people go in mornings find old ones that serve steak and eggs, hash browns and coffee.
Dont go to Veselkas its shite! Theres a good one that had neon lights and stainless steel tables and walls at 34th and 9th or could 8th. Its on the corner.


This is suppose to be good french bistro and landmark 80s place
Balthazar - Soho - New York Magazine Restaurant Guide

Keith McNally's Paris bistro-inspired masterpiece. See the review of this Bistro restaurant at 80 Spring St. in Manhattan.


This is Anthony Boudain's (kitchen confidential book) place its really good french but very amercian local, not lots of tourists. Portions are massive so maybe skip starters or share one. Buy Californian wine its cheaper and better than the french ones.
Les Halles Downtown New York

Voted the Best French Brasserie, by readers of Time Out New York, Brasserie Les Halles opened Les Halles Downtown in the financial district at 15 John ...

www.leshalles.net/ny

Bayleaf
Indian really good. 49 W 56th St NY 10019. 212 957 1818. Good to have horse cart ride in Central Park then go for dinner, or there is always tavern on the green very cheers!


Clubs
Sat night. Classic old soulful house music and disco, legend Timmy Regisford and Quentin Harris plays herehttp://www.clubshelter.com/
Club Shelter on Clubplanet New York | 150 Varick Street, New York ...

New York, NY 10013



Apartments and hotels

woogoo.com ok apartmments but expensive for the standard. Best getting cheap hotel deal some where in mid town.

Hart Parker have cheap apartments and are clean and most are central. HART PARKER AGENCY. 311 EAST 54th St 10022. TEL. 212 752 7418.

http://xml.cheaphotels.co.uk/index.jsp



Paramount is nice and here is a link for it

http://properties.hotel-savings.net/index.jsp;jsid=jnqra91WJ-7e59G59Sf4q

Jazz and art

One of the things ive found with going to NY is that sometimes you fill up your day so much that you forget to go out at night, so it pays to book a jazz club, restaurant or go to a good bar. A good jazz club is a classic NY night out.

Tribeca Performing Arts Center
199 Chambers Street, New York, NY 10007 between Greenwich St. and the West Side Hwy. 212-220-1460


http://www.bluenote.net/newyork/index.shtml

131 West 3rd St. New York, NY 10012 212-475-8592


http://www.birdlandjazz.com/

Birdland Restaurant

315 W 44th St New York, NY 10036
(212) 581-3080 (212) 956-7130
birdlandjazz.com

Opera
http://www.metoperafamily.org/metopera/
They have also been doing lots events liek live broadcast in times square, anthony minghellas butteryfly is on!




Site seeing / Shopping

if you want to see empire state, moma, guggenhiem, and other sites get a city pass as it can be cheaper.

If you go down by World Trade opp is Century 21 which has loads of cheap designer labels for socks, pants and jeans lots of knick knack things for xmas shopping. Its also open on sunday if you go then.

after that you can do Staten island ferry, it's free or cheap so get it to go past statue of liberty or if over cast probably not worth it.

Canal street is good for jeans trainers and crappy handbags.

Little Italy and China town are great, get some pasta in one of the small trattorias.

J&R tobaco old skool cigar shop with huge safe in basement, the cleaners smoke cigars while they work. You can try cigars as well. 11 E 45th St bt 5th and madison

have a good look around soho its got loads of galleries and designer shops.

thomas 19Sep06

Day after his birth which was at 11.21am 19 Sep 2006