Tag: Design
By now, if you care about these sorts of things, you’ve seen iOS 7, the new Apple mobile operating system that will be running your life come fall. It’s “flat!” It’s filled with colorful gradients! According to one coworker, it looks like iOS for babies! As the first OS to be overseen by longtime Apple […]
For Emiland De Cubber, the most offensive part of NSA’s PRISM program is not the egregious violation of privacy, but the hideous slideshow the agency used to present it. Cluttered with clip art, inconsistent colors, and needlessly emphasized type, the slides looked more like work of a grade school media teacher than that of an […]
Now for some groovy geometric digital art from Andy Gilmore of Rochester, NY. Staring into his explosive, kaleidoscopic designs kind of makes you feel dizzy, but in a good way, like you just ate some mushrooms and are frolicking through a sunny field. The illustrations are supposedly Gilmore’s visual interpretations of music, but if you’re wondering […]
For her ITP class project, NYU student/designer Xuedi Chen used 3D-printing software and chia seeds to spawn these mossy fashion accessories. Their origins are somewhat grotesque: The Invasive Growth Series was directly inspired by a parasitic fungus. The cordyceps operates by infecting an insect with spores, growing inside the insect while performing a sort of “mind control” […]
There’s no surefire way to make your creative work go viral, but for designers, there are a few formulas that see success fairly often. One is make over the aesthetics of an already well-known piece of pop culture–especially a movie, and especially especially if that movie happens to be Star Wars. Another is minimalism. So in seeing […]
Along with their relocation to the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, it’s being reported that the New York Islanders are considering a spiffy new look, which is apropos for a hockey team moving from homogenous Long Island to NYC. So, we enlisted ANIMAL ally and graphic design expert Michael Weinfeld to whip up a few different […]
Graphic designer and More Ambitious Person Than You Brandon Todd Wilson is designing a number logo for every day of the year: Zero is January 1, one is January 2, and so on. Yesterday, April 11, was day 100. Impressively, each logo has a tight aesthetic all its own, which as you might imagine, leads […]
That’s the question this nifty interactive site tries to answer, placing a 100px Earth into space, then showing exactly how far it is to the moon and Mars, all within the confines of your browser. Even if you aren’t a space buff and/or design/development nerd, it’s worth a watch just for all the pretty scrolling. […]
Have you been to the town of Scarfolk in North West England? Probably not, since it doesn’t “exist” — at least not in any tangible sense, and certainly not in the year 2013. “Scarfolk” is more than a conceptual blogspot project: It’s an intricate fictional reality where the townsfolk are perpetually stuck in the 1970’s, and […]
Nothing wrong with this picture here. That’s an actual hand-carved wood cabinet by Italian architect and designer Ferruccio Laviani. The “Good Vibrations” storage unit is a feat of artisanship, a baroque armoire contorted into seamless IRL glitch. Echoes of faraway places and Oriental elements are glimpsed in the “disorienting” design of this storage unit, which […]
