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:: Monday, February 15, 2010 ::

Project Mapping

Project Mapping has a great range of local and national rail maps with clean and innovative ideas about presentation of information. Check it out.

"A rail network map isn't just about how to get from A to B. A rail network map is about the identity of the business or organisation running services on those lines. It's what makes one operator distinct from another, it's what gives different systems their individual identity.

"Too much current map design is based slavishly on the London Underground map principles and not enough creative thinking goes into the interpretation of complex modern travel systems.

"This website is being developed as a resource portal for rail maps for education, to stimulate debate, present new ideas, criticise and congratulate.

"It is also a promotional site for new maps by Andrew Smithers. Andrew grew up in London fascinated by the tube map, and the Project Mapping name evolved from his graphic design consultancy."

Labels: Design, graphics, Maps

:: Dan 15.2.10 [Arc] [0 comments] ::
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Did Knights Solicitors stop and think about the message they were sending with this KKK logo?

Labels: Design, graphics, Humour, Logo, Visuals

:: Dan 15.7.09 [Arc] [0 comments] ::
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Last week someone stuck in front of me an article about a proposed eco-village in Hanham, on the outskirts of Bristol. Interesting as it was, all I could focus on was the graphic designer's hidden joke. Note the child on the tricycle approaching the cross roads from the right. Notice the slightly faster moving but further off runner heading towards the same junction. Then notice the clearly distracted cyclist, his head on sidewise, some distance away but bearing down at great speed from the left. This scene is about to get very messy.

This prompted me to look up what's currently going on with the Elizabeth Shaw Chocolate Factory redevelopment not so far away. (See some of Lisa Furness's photos of the closed down building here.) It seems the inspiration for the new development has been taken from a Brothers Grim story illustrated by MC Escher about a hunted shed. Not one I'm familiar with I'll admit.

Labels: architecture, Bristol, Comedy, Environment, graphics

:: Dan 30.4.09 [Arc] [0 comments] ::
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PencilBreak Book, 200 pages of breakcore inspired graphics from all arround the world, edited by Belio.
Release date: July 20th



"A big mashup of the best art and graphics inspired by and for the digital hardcore subcultures we live and enjoy. This book compiles fresh work from more than twenty international artists. All of them share a similar feeling and passion for distorted sounds and graphics. This book is meant to be an homage to Breakcore and other styles of hardcore music and corresponding attitudes.

"This book doesn't pretend to be the bible of breakcore music [so, don't espect to find everybodies faces here!], it's just a visual approximation to what we think it has been one of most fresh musical scenes during the last years. We like so many different kind of music [not only breakcore, of course], but since an aesthetic and conceptual point of view, we want to focus in this scene, because it means to us [and many others] one of the most inspirative influences in graphic creation, and a perfect mixture and remixture of the best ingredients from the culture we lived during the past decades, from the skate style, passing by the postdigital easthetic, breakcore makes fun and re-invented black metal, trash culture, rave, terror movies, 80's, rock attitudes, videogames, tattoos, errors & mistakes, tv, superheroes... and whatever could be saved in your mind during the time you grew up, all twisted... in a graphic tsunami that defines very well a music genre that is based in the creation of something new using all kind of music styles, where you can't always follow a concret rhythm, to be exact, breakcore's definition is where concret sounds or rhythm are the last thing you gonna find."

UK distro via Toy Life
Strike that. I've checked with Toy Life and although Dave does sell Belio titles in the UK he will not be getting this in. Best to order from Belio direct.

Labels: Art, Breakcore, Comics, graphics, Literature

:: Dan 15.7.08 [Arc] [0 comments] ::
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From: Ad Noiseam
"Hello,
Coming as a perfect reading companion to Raoul Sinier's new full length
album ("Brain Kitchen", Ad Noiseam adn92), a free 24 pages pdf magazine
is now available for download at brainkitchen.raoulsinier.com/."

Direct link [3MB PDF]

"Featuring illustrations by Raoul Sinier as well as other artists
inspired by his music, an interview, some drafts and three short stories
(including one by yours truely), it should help everybody grasp better
the intricate and plaful universe of Raoul Sinier. And you know what to
play while reading this."

"Brain Kitchen" info & mp3
"Brain Kitchen" free pdf magazine and video
"Brain Kitchen" in the mailorder
"Best regards,
Nicolas"

Labels: Art, Electronic Music, graphics, Ra

:: Dan 24.4.08 [Arc] [0 comments] ::
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"Bass Merchant: How long did they look at that logo before approving it?"

[via music thing]

Labels: graphics, Humour, Logo

:: Dan 23.4.08 [Arc] [0 comments] ::
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5 Badly designed logos & 7 badly designed logos

Labels: graphics, Humour

:: Dan 11.1.08 [Arc] [0 comments] ::
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'When you eat broccoli, do you pretend you are a giant eating a tree?'
[quote Nick the Greek, Transco]





More

[thanks hardoff]

Labels: Food, graphics, Humour, Photography

:: Dan 6.1.08 [Arc] [0 comments] ::
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Interesting video demo of content-aware adaptive image resizing

Labels: graphics, IT

:: Dan 31.12.07 [Arc] [0 comments] ::
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Japanese Louis Vuitton commercial by Takashi Murakami

[music by Fantastic Plastic Machine]

Takashi Murakami is probably best known for his Manga related work. "[His] style, called Superflat, is characterized by flat planes of color and graphic images involving a character style derived from anime and manga. Superflat is an artistic style that comments on otaku lifestyle and subculture, as well as consumerism and sexual fetishism. Social commentary is nothing new, nor is appropriation of mass media or popular culture." [source wikipedia]

Murakami - Army of Mushrooms


Which reminds me. I bought the recent Pop magazine because I was intrigued by the article about creating mushrooms out of designer clothes with similar sounding names. eg Shitake Versace:

Labels: Animation, Art, Fashion, Food, graphics

:: Dan 8.12.07 [Arc] [2 comments] ::
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I've collected up a lot of links that I have little to add to recently, so here's a link dump of things you might find interesting, useful or humorous:

The definitive Lorem Ipsum resource

Microsoft error messages in haiku form

The blog of "unnecessary" quotation marks

Vector Magic: image to vector converter

The 88 Fast Food Items Most Likely To Kill You
U.S. centric. I've never heard of most of these chains. And wtf is this at #54: "Jack in the Box Sausage Biscuit"? The mind boggles.
[via slashfood]

The Honeypot, West St, Bedminster

[via hijack]

For the musicians:
Octavcat remix competition
Expired Two Loan Swordsmen remix competition, but you can still grab samples if you want them. (Of course, you then shouldn’t use them.)
Virtual cct bent speak & spell

Labels: Electronic Music, Food, graphics, Humour, Literature, Typography

:: Dan 8.11.07 [Arc] [0 comments] ::
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Alex Rutterford, who produced Autechre's spell binding Gantz Graf video, has just produced this impressive CGI fest of a Bacardi ad. Check it out (it's only short).


Music: Super Bajo by Freelance Hellraiser presents Lalula.

What is it with spirits coming pre-flavoured these days? Are we now too lazy to add mixers ourselves? Or can we not bear to have the mixers lower the alcohol content any more?

Labels: graphics, Video

:: Dan 11.10.07 [Arc] [1 comments] ::
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I'm a sucker for anything related to War Of The Worlds, from H.G. Wells ground breaking novel to Jeff Waye's stunning musical interpretation. However, I've never been a 'graphic novel' person and this Dark Horse Comics ecomic version is a little unscrupulous with Well's text. Still worth a look though.
[via grom]

Labels: graphics, Literature

:: Dan 12.9.07 [Arc] [0 comments] ::
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flikr2175
Originally uploaded by flikr.

"made with Agony - a program that I wrote."
>>>>>>DOWNLOAD AGONY HERE<<<<<<

Labels: Art, Flickr, graphics

:: Dan 11.9.07 [Arc] [0 comments] ::
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Japanese Anti-Smoking Campaign [72 ads in total]

Love the design. Not exactly as hard hitting as it could be, but maybe I don't appreciate how socially devastating some of these points are?







I didn't know you could even get a portable ashtray.

Labels: graphics, Japan, smoking

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