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David Fuhrer

2008-07-03T14:07:00.002-04:00

Swiss designer David Fuhrer has an absolutely fantastic portfolio, not just the work but the actual portfolio he won a FWA for it. The above picture was included in 2008 desktopography exhibition. He has some fantastic work check it all out at his site, linked below.

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Dress For Dinner Napkins

2008-07-03T14:04:00.003-04:00

Even if the guy’s dressed in his favorite old white tee shirt, with this napkin at his neck he’ll actually look like he made the effort to get "dressed for dinner". Awesome just awesome, get them over at spoonsisters.com, $6 for a package of 20.

Julia Thesenfitz

2008-07-03T14:01:00.003-04:00

"Leave the light on" is a wonderful oil lamp from designer Julia Thesenfitz, I love that while the lamp burns the "burning" match never ever goes out.

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Bulldang

2008-07-03T13:51:00.002-04:00

The Bulldang seat would be just perfect for some sort of reading room. The Bulldang designed by Hirohiko Kamiya has an organic, supple, human feel, one can form any seating arrangement desired. Measuring a solid 30 feet in length the Bulldang definitely offers plenty of seating configurations, to make anyone comfortable.

The "Bulldang" seat is in the form of a de-structured, padded, and segmented tube nine meters long, which offers users the possibility of composing a seat adapted to their use depending on their idea of comfort. By putting a number of these modules together, possibilities of composition in spatial layout are enormous.

This piece has been realized in collaboration with Dupont de Nemours allowing to widen the application of textiles destined for the dressing of furniture. The cloth "Climate Control" by Dupont Neotis Studio is knitted which allows good ventilation and has been chosen for its qualities of elasticity, solidity, and resistance to rubbings

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Peleg Design - Falling Numbers

2008-07-03T11:39:00.002-04:00

I just like this clock, the falling numbers clock is made of laser-cut perspex. Yeah I had no idea what perspex was so I looked it up on wikipedia, it is commonly called acrylic glass or simply acrylic. Fun design from a great designer.

Shahar Peleg, owner of Peleg Design, is a multi-disciplined designer, he designs, develops and produces commercial products in small quantities. His products are sold in design stores in Israel and other countries including Japan, Singapore, and the US. He has also been a feature exhibitor in numerous shows in Israel and around the world.

Shahar designs every-day objects with additional values which give them a fresh character. His experimentation with optical illusions and magic result in smart and surprising products that challenge the spectator to take a closer, more detailed look. His products are characterized by minimalist form and with the use of ordinary materials, usually produced in low tech production processes and at times even handmade.

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Peleg Design - Reflective Clock

2008-07-03T11:35:00.003-04:00

The reflective clock from Peleg Designs is a clock with a reflective surface, bet you couldn't guess that from the name, where half-number shapes are mirrored to create the shape of the whole number. Solid design and I like that they did not use the standard 12, 3, 6, 9 setup for the numbers on the face of the clock.

Shahar Peleg, owner of Peleg Design, is a multi-disciplined designer, he designs, develops and produces commercial products in small quantities. His products are sold in design stores in Israel and other countries including Japan, Singapore, and the US. He has also been a feature exhibitor in numerous shows in Israel and around the world.

Shahar designs every-day objects with additional values which give them a fresh character. His experimentation with optical illusions and magic result in smart and surprising products that challenge the spectator to take a closer, more detailed look. His products are characterized by minimalist form and with the use of ordinary materials, usually produced in low tech production processes and at times even handmade.

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Peleg Design - X O

2008-07-03T11:31:00.003-04:00

This piece has been all over the internet lately, but it is very cool so I thought I would go ahead and follow the lead of everyone else and put it up. A reflective tic-tac-toe board, where you only play with half shapes and the reflection from the board creates the rest of the shape for you. A very interesting interpretation on an old game.

Shahar Peleg, owner of Peleg Design, is a multi-disciplined designer, he designs, develops and produces commercial products in small quantities. His products are sold in design stores in Israel and other countries including Japan, Singapore, and the US. He has also been a feature exhibitor in numerous shows in Israel and around the world.

Shahar designs every-day objects with additional values which give them a fresh character. His experimentation with optical illusions and magic result in smart and surprising products that challenge the spectator to take a closer, more detailed look. His products are characterized by minimalist form and with the use of ordinary materials, usually produced in low tech production processes and at times even handmade.

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Peleg Design - Wine Bottle Holder

2008-07-03T11:26:00.003-04:00

This wine bottle holder from Peleg Designs is made of a nickle plated iron chain. The chain is curved upwards to hold the bottle, and uses balance to give the illusion that the wine bottle is suspended in midair. Over at the Peleg Design site, linked below, there is a very cool video of how this piece is made, check it out you may learn a little something about welding. Very nice piece and definitly one of the more interesting wine bottle holders I have seen in a while.

Shahar Peleg, owner of Peleg Design, is a multi-disciplined designer, he designs, develops and produces commercial products in small quantities. His products are sold in design stores in Israel and other countries including Japan, Singapore, and the US. He has also been a feature exhibitor in numerous shows in Israel and around the world.

Shahar designs every-day objects with additional values which give them a fresh character. His experimentation with optical illusions and magic result in smart and surprising products that challenge the spectator to take a closer, more detailed look. His products are characterized by minimalist form and with the use of ordinary materials, usually produced in low tech production processes and at times even handmade.

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Peleg Design - Around The Clock

2008-07-03T11:23:00.003-04:00

I don't know why but I just like this simple cylinder desk clock from Peleg Designs. It is probably because it is quite a bit more interesting than your standard desk clock. I think the numbers should have continued the bent them of the piece and been half on the top of the clock and half on the side, but that is just my opinion.

Shahar Peleg, owner of Peleg Design, is a multi-disciplined designer, he designs, develops and produces commercial products in small quantities. His products are sold in design stores in Israel and other countries including Japan, Singapore, and the US. He has also been a feature exhibitor in numerous shows in Israel and around the world.

Shahar designs every-day objects with additional values which give them a fresh character. His experimentation with optical illusions and magic result in smart and surprising products that challenge the spectator to take a closer, more detailed look. His products are characterized by minimalist form and with the use of ordinary materials, usually produced in low tech production processes and at times even handmade.

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Peleg Design - Hot Man

2008-07-03T11:14:00.002-04:00

A simple iron trivet, yeah I never knew the word trivet until I got married I just called them hot pads, for holding a hot pot. Yes it is simple but it is oh so much fun, I would love to have a bunch of these hanging on my kitchen wall. A very interesting way of keeping your table safe from those horrible hot pots.

Shahar Peleg, owner of Peleg Design, is a multi-disciplined designer, he designs, develops and produces commercial products in small quantities. His products are sold in design stores in Israel and other countries including Japan, Singapore, and the US. He has also been a feature exhibitor in numerous shows in Israel and around the world.

Shahar designs every-day objects with additional values which give them a fresh character. His experimentation with optical illusions and magic result in smart and surprising products that challenge the spectator to take a closer, more detailed look. His products are characterized by minimalist form and with the use of ordinary materials, usually produced in low tech production processes and at times even handmade.

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Peleg Design - Magenetic Vases

2008-07-03T11:06:00.004-04:00

A thin metal base placed under any tablecloth and a strong magnet on the bottom of the vase holds it in an upright position. An interesting image is created of a vase standing upright with no base. I think these would be really cool if you could get them to hang perfectly sideways on a wall. It would make for a very interesting way to display flowers without having to drill into your walls.

Shahar Peleg, owner of Peleg Design, is a multi-disciplined designer, he designs, develops and produces commercial products in small quantities. His products are sold in design stores in Israel and other countries including Japan, Singapore, and the US. He has also been a feature exhibitor in numerous shows in Israel and around the world.

Shahar designs every-day objects with additional values which give them a fresh character. His experimentation with optical illusions and magic result in smart and surprising products that challenge the spectator to take a closer, more detailed look. His products are characterized by minimalist form and with the use of ordinary materials, usually produced in low tech production processes and at times even handmade.

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Lisa Mishima

2008-07-03T10:50:00.002-04:00

Very cool, if not slightly disturbing, piece from designer Lisa Mishima. Lisa is a Japanese born designer now living in San Francisco, she just launched her new website back at the beginning of May and I have to say it is very nice. Clean and simple the new site runs very fast, and I was very surprised at how quickly the videos loaded, well done. Check out the rest of Lisa's work at her site, lisamishima.com.

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Amnesty International

2008-07-02T14:47:00.002-04:00

"After the Olympic Games, the fight for human rights must go on."

Extremely powerful and moving ads from the advertising agency TBWA out of Paris, France and art director Philippe Taroux. The art direction and photography are wonderful and truly bring you into the advertisement. I believe the first ad is by far the strongest, the look on the face of the model is just perfect for this piece. To me the second one, the weight lifting piece, leaves a little to be desired. Compared to the other two it just doesn't seem hard hitting enough for this set of ads. The third one, the archery piece, is extremely good the art work and the look of the piece is just off the charts. But the smiling guard is just a bit strange, I don't know why but it just throws it all off for me. I know why they had him smiling, it does make sense, I just think it would have been better had he had a bit more deliberate look on his face like in the swimming pool piece. All in all great job and a few more fantastic pieces from TBWA, Paris. What do you all think which one is the best in your opinion.

Why I Am A Designer

2008-07-02T09:03:00.002-04:00

Just a real quick post this morning about why I am a designer, my love of kerning has finally been validated by a pie chart, awesome. I'll be putting up some more stuff this afternoon and night, well hopefully tonight if the puppy will actually go to sleep. Sorry about the lack of posts lately, work has been a bit crazy and the brand new puppy is taking up all my time. I guess I need to learn some of those time management skills that I never learned in college.

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Mitsuru Koga

2008-06-30T10:23:00.002-04:00

I am totally infatuated with Japanese artist Mitsuru Koga's sea stone work. Mitsuru graduated from the Tama Art University back in 2003, and this talented artist did not have to wait long for her first solo show, which she had in 2004. She finds the all the stones for her work while walking along the beach, where she chooses only the most beautiful stones for each of her pieces. Her tiny vases barely break and inch in height on a good day, but are perfect for the tiny plants and flowers that they are meant to hold. It would be fun to have an entire shelf of these tiny vases, but I'm sure my cats would steal them and hide them all from me. Misuru Koga has quite a bit of work at her site, linked below, I would highly recommend the others link and then check out the drift wood section it is a lot of fun. One more picture below of some of the tiniest stools ever, I'm not really sure who could use these stools but I would love to meet them.

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Bella

2008-06-30T10:07:00.002-04:00

So my weekends lately have been crazy busy, last week was a big soccer tournament, which we finally were able to play the championship this past Friday and we won, woot we get a sweet t-shirt. This weekend we got a new puppy, her name is Bella and she is so stinking cute. She is only 3 pounds right now, but she is 3 pounds of angry terrifying woman, not really but that would be pretty funny if she was. I'll get some new posts up today, but if I have some crazy misspellings or bad grammar sorry I haven't gotten a lot of sleep in the past two days.

Ministry of Health and Social Services Quebec

2008-06-27T10:55:00.003-04:00

New ads from the advertising agency Lg2 out of Québec City, Canada and art director Jack Latulippe. Love the use of the gift tag in these ads like it something people really want to receive. Great ads and nice use of the illustrations of each of the viruses to really bring home the whole message. Man it looks like I have been on a bit of an ad kick lately I need to get a few posts up about artists or illustrators or something.

AMI

2008-06-27T10:47:00.002-04:00

"AMI needs all of us to help the China earthquake victims. It’s everybody’s turn to help."

Spectacular ads from the advertising agency Y&R Portugal, and creative directors Pedro Ferreira and Judite Mota. Great ads for some very worthy causes, I love the use of the pull tabs in these, they really bring you into the ad.

OSO Food Wrap

2008-06-26T13:50:00.001-04:00

"Don't expect your food to look after itself."

Great ads from the advertising agency DDB out of Sydney, Australia. I think the cheese one is the strongest of the bunch, but the look on the face of the tomato is just priceless.

Dejan Pantic

2008-06-24T22:55:00.003-04:00

Some really nice abstract art from Germany based and Bosnia born artist Dejan Pantic. Check out the rest of his work, here.

Barbecue Design

2008-06-24T22:47:00.002-04:00

Absolutely sick motion graphic short by Frankfurt-based Barbecue Design. One of the Motiongrapher's readers found a quick little behind-the-scenes at the Trapcode Gallery page, apparently the only 3D generated image is the reveal of the drivetrain and the packshot of the cars, the rest was entirely done in After Effects 2.5D using Trapcode Particular and Shine, seriously crazy work.

Check out the rest of Barbecue design's work here, it is pretty sweet.

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Verity

2008-06-24T22:31:00.002-04:00

Beautiful package design for Verity. Produced and packaged in Germany, Verity is the world’s first liquid, ready-to-drink, pure tea concentrate. The package design is wonderful, I don't really enjoy tea very much, but I would love to have this sitting on my shelf.

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I Love Me Some Hot Wheels

2008-06-24T15:50:00.002-04:00

Awesome ads from the advertising agency Ogilvy out of Mexico and creative directors Rafael Martínez, Luis Elizalde and Sandra Flores. Very nice concept, nice artwork and great execution of the idea.

WMF Knives

2008-06-24T11:27:00.002-04:00

Really nice ads from the advertising agency Leo Burnett out of Bangkok, Thailand and art directors Supachai Toemtechatpong and Sompat Trisadikun. They are simple, to the point and very effective, what is not to like. Although the chicken one to me is a little bit gross, at least they didn't go so far as to put a cow in one of the ads.

Soccer Tournament

2008-06-23T09:13:00.002-04:00

So no posts again this weekend, I had a soccer tournament that lasted all day Saturday and all day Sunday. Good news is that we won all but one game through the tournament and my team is in the finals, which was supposed to be Sunday night, but god canceled due to a monsoon coming through. Bad news is that I got sucker punched in the first game on Saturday and received my first black eye in since high school check it out below, this picture does not do justice to what it looks like now, it is so much more purple now.