Thoughtpile by Herman Miller

Thoughtpile is a site created by Herman Miller where visitors can both browse through ideas relating to the topic of the day, or even contribute their own idea. The website is both simple and fun to use/interact with. As a special bonus, each day a lucky contributor wins a brand spanking new Herman Miller Embody Chair. Check the site out here.

Clever 2009 Calendar by DJ DSL

More of DJ DSL's work can be found here.

The Sharing of Your Best Ideas

Interesting video describing the Creative Commons initiative, which is a new way to think of copyrighting creative material with looser restrictions to promote sharing and common resources to all creative types. It's currently being used on legally questionable photo sharing site Flickr. Check the clip.

United Airlines, Time to Fly

And for my first post…I am including a link that has a few videos of United Airlines current AD campaign.  I am intrigued by this.  The music by Gershwin is so fitting.

I'm not trying to turn this into Cory's music blog I swear (But, I guess I'm not trying that hard to avoid that either, this will be my last for a while I promise). New one from Gnarls Barkley, feeling the song, feeling the animation. Mysterioso!

Flip That!

Flip books never get old, especially when you're doing something new with them. Radical new video for the Kraak & Smaak track "Squeeze Me". Jumping Jaaks.

Shapeshifter Patriot

Fun and kinda creepy new video from The BPA aka Norman Cook aka Fatboy Slim. Content seems somehow apropos today. Blast off.

The New Pepsi

The new Pepsi can, and a lineup of previous Pepsi logos, courtesy of PSFK.

Vicki Dasilva - Fine Art Photography

Beautiful photographs involving fluorescent tubes and a very long exposure. You can find more great images at her website.

Help Me Obi-Wan

Not sure how it works, but it's sweet! I can finally live out my fantasy of having Princess Leia beg me to help rescue Skywalker during my Dj sets.

Ascender Creates New Droid Font for G1 Smartphone

Ascender created a new font, "Droid," for Google's Android platform that is found on the G1 Smartphone. According the the blog at Metropolismag.com, " Droid was intended to split the difference between the cutesy primary-colors seen in Google’s logo and a severe, squared-off 'techno' font. Steve Mattison, Ascender’s chief type designer, says: 'There was a fine line between wanting the font to have character but not cause too much commotion.' "

Ascender's press release and 5-page type specimen pdf can be found here.

Airport Wayfinding and Signage

Airports are big, and have a lot of people, and a lot of those people have never been to that airport before and are in a hurry. This translates to one of the more challenging and important signage systems. The link will take you to an interesting article about how to approach a project like this, what works and what doesn't, and lots of examples.

This is Absurdly Awesome

Nagi Noda (1973 – 2008)

"Dancing eyeballs, fitness-video-exercising poodles, half pandas/half other animals, and singing merchandise in a boutique store are only a few of the vivid, perplexing imaginings of Nagi Noda, the talented, eccentric and boundary-pushing artist, art director and fashion designer from Tokyo." (From: SpeakUp)

Fun With Music Packaging

For their upcoming new album, Skeletal Lamping, the group Of Montreal will be exploring objects that could be considered slightly more useful than a CD, which has become increasingly less useful. Below are just some the items that will be accompanied with a free digital download of the album. Click the link for a better look at some of the offerings, and an explanation from the artist himself.

Art and Photography

Some Monday morning munchies for everybody. Two artists' websites that have some cool stuff.

Gregor Graf: nice "conceptual" photography, some nice installations, all in German, mutterficker!





Nancy Abens: beautiful nature photography

The worlds first underground stadium. Stadium Laptop.

Cool... check check it out!

Esquire Going Digital for 75th Birthday

This week Esquire magazine will be the first to introduce "digital paper" on a mass produced publication level. Sounds pretty sweet, right? The possibilities are endless. Alas, click here to see the fairly unimpressive results. Well, at least the possibilities are there. Click this post's title for a little more explanation.

Word(le) Up!

 Here's an interesting tool (particularly interesting if someone can suggest how it might be useful). Wordle is a site that the will generate word clouds out of blocks of copy or web sites you link it to. Above is what the text from this blog boils down to. How about that?

Digging For A Cause

Since I haven't posted about records in few months I figured we were due. Here's a couple sweet drawings that give you a little insight into my dark psyche. Record collecting ain't for everybody.

Graphics, don't just sit there, move about!

Cool database I stumbled across of motion graphics sample reels from a variety of artists and firms.

http://xplsv.tv/movies/?start=0

If you have an aversion to techno-pop or graphic scroll overkill a lot of these examples probably aren't for you.

Kick it homeskillet.

Light, light

A design installation exhibit on Light in tokyo.

Cotton Candy

Cool short video on a recent Brooklyn exhibition by artist Takashi Murakami. Murakami has gained some recognition recently for being the artist of choice for the ego formerly known as Kanye West. Think Andy Warhol, on acid, and from Japan.

Disclaimer, I deem parts of this video unfit for young minds.

A little Inspiration for your wish list!

How to Run for Office

CLICK HERE for entire comic.

Tevis has generated internet attention with an online ad that pays homage to the webcomic xkcd. He raised $95,162.76 from more than 5,700 online donors as of July 28, 2008. Tevis's platform includes abolishing the sales tax on food, raising teacher pay, and protecting an individual's right to privacy. This is Tevis's first run for political office. He seems like a great, smart guy and it's sort of amazing to see what happens when an information architect — a web nerd (with a blog) — runs for office.

Interesting Illustrated Lennon Interview

In 1969, a 14-year-old Beatle fanatic named Jerry Levitan, armed with a reel-to-reel tape deck, snuck into John Lennon's hotel room in Toronto and convinced John to do an interview about peace. 38 years later, Jerry has produced a 5:15 minute film about it.

As The World Burns

Very cool Flash interactive that details the design history of the Olympic torch.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2008/08/01/sports/20080802_TORCH_GRAPHIC.html?hp

Shadow Typography

From the Gallery Hotel Art in Florence.

BMW keeps on Killin' It

More amazing work from BMW, this time at their museum in Munich. The video is a little slow and long, but effect of the installation is pretty amazing. Imagine the possibilities of 714 suspended metal balls moving in beautiful unison.

BMW Rethinks Car Design

Taken from Core 77: BMW have unveiled their concept car GINA which rethinks the notion of an external hard shell. The body is made from a seamless polyurethane-coated Lycra fabric stretched over a moveable aluminum frame allowing the owner to change the car's shape. Purely conceptual, there is no intention of this technology ever going into production.

Candy For Those Eyeballs

Is it considered taboo to post a link to another blog within this blog? Bah, I'm living on the edge.

Anyway, this site has a really great collection of graphics, just some pretty stuff. Unfortunately, I don't have much more information, as the authors of the site appear to speak some sort of strange non-english language. Santiago, a little help?

Eat it up: Cosa Visuale

All Publicity is Good Publicity

So, we're famous. Sort of. Marketing had me answer some questions about PPP. See the full article by following the link.

From Messy To Masterpiece

We've all scribed our tag into the filth that accumulates on car windows at some point or another. Someone was bound to take it to an OCD level. Celebrate non-traditional mediums (and pray for dry weather).

Check out the rest of homie's portfolio:Dirty Car Art

For the Record...

This is a great commercial by Brand New School for Zune, using faux album covers to construct a sentence.

World's Biggest Ego

You ever find yourself looking at a map of the world thinking, "You know what would make this better? A portrait of me, across the whole thing." If not, you are probably a sad and modest and unimaginative type of person, at least compared to Eric Nordenankar. With the assistance of DHL (the international shipping company), a suitcase filled with GPS tracking equipment, and an overactive sense of self-importance, Eric did just that. Check out the full story:Biggest Drawing In The World

Flashing Lights

The rock &  roll ensemble known as Radiohead made a rare appearance in Charlotte recently and brought with them a brain melting display of LED technologies and projection video. Below are some photo highlights and (really) short video. The presence their "LED Fortress" created was undeniable, with a depth and versatility that was seemingly endless.

Muto by Blu

MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo.

Some great stop-action animation. Enjoy.

The Cans Festival - Flickr Slideshow

"Last weekend, Tristan Manco invited a number of A-List street artists to come down and paint up a tunnel under the old Eurostar terminal in London. Then they invited the public to add their stencils. Then the rest of us took photos of the vast collection of modern contemporary art - on Flickr you can already find 39,367+ results matching cans and festival." (excerpt from psfk.com)

More information and photos can be found at http://www.cansfestival.com/.

MGM Substitute

I just discovered a new feature on my computer

This is video I made this morning... by mistake... at first. I was trying to fix Joe's movie/keynote issues and discovered that I could make my own movies in imovie (which you all probably know by now-as I'm the loser when it comes to key commands and the like). Basically, I think this feature could be useful in the future.

Flogos (aka the Flying Logo)

Quote taken from http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/.

Over on LiveScience we learn that a new company has started using "a mixture of soap-based foams and lighter-than-air gases such as helium" to create "floating ads and messages" in the sky. Unfortunately dubbed Flogos, these floating logos can be made – or printed, really – every 15 seconds by "re-purposed snow machines," thus "flooding the air with foamy peace signs or whatever shape a client desires. Renting the machine for a day starts out at a cost of about $2,500."

Type Coming At You

Question: How much fun is this?

Answer: Too much, enjoi

Design In Politics

Interesting design perspective of political campaigning.

News Flash - Men are Not Idiots

The way the advertising industry portrays men has drawn increasing scrutiny in both the trade press and the mainstream media. Defenders of the status quo -- in which men are depicted as irresponsible fathers and lazy, foolish husbands -- are starting to feel outnumbered. It's an understandable feeling. More -->

Dictionary in Leopard

Under the "Go" menu in Dictionary.app, there is an option labeled "Front/Back Matter." 

Clicking this brings up a whole slew of useful reference material 

History of the Peace Logo

It started life as the emblem of the British anti-nuclear movement but it has become an international sign for peace, and arguably the most widely used protest symbol in the world. It has also been adapted, attacked and commercialised.

DPI Conversion Scale

Participate in Get Out the Vote:

Motivate voters through poster design

Create nonpartisan posters that inspire the American public to participate in the electoral process and vote for a presidential candidate in the 2008 general election. To be considered for the juried selection of posters that will be professionally printed and distributed nationally, submit your design by May 1. Contribute your poster to help get out the vote and fulfill an ongoing AIGA objective of demonstrating the value of design to the public, by providing a clear call to action for an activity that is important to everyone.