Craig and his team of vis/ressers have gone and done it again, made an awesome little publication that showcases the best in upcoming talent. If you haven’t got one, I strongly recommend you go and buy one right now, they won’t be around for long, and they will form a nice collection when future issues come out.
The second prize haul for Tuesday’s NOW SOLD OUT VS event is a couple of brilliant limited edition prints from Student Designer, ShellsuitZombie contributor and irritatingly talented Midlander [Stoke, bleugh] Andy Cooke. I warn you, I will personally be fighting tooth and nail for one of these bad boys, so bring your A game dickheads (nothing personal). If you want to jump the gun and snaffle one up right now, go to his shop here.
Still more to come you beautiful people (I’m feeling a bit bad about saying the dickheads thing now)
Nick had one of those ideas that everyone wishes they had had themselves - and boy has he run with it. Some elegant sculpture here that makes me - not inherently an ‘OMG-I-JUST-GOTTA-BUY-THIS-LAMP’ kind of person - want to buy ten of them, have them all face into a white wall (that I currently don’t own) and pretend my room is like the one in Roald Dahl’s ‘The Twits’ (those pesky monkeys!).
The only thing more impressive is the list of blogs he’s been featured on, a list that doesn’t include us. So I apologise if everyone’s seen this stuff a million times on fffffffound and other ‘user-curated-image-bookmarking-sites‘ [said in a robot voice] but sod it, it’s pretty and we like.
Having listened to/watched this for the eighth time today, I felt the desire to share.
Please if at all possible watch in HD full screen with your PC speakers turned to 11 and enjoy my nomination for track of 2009.
My god that drop.
From right, Michael C Place, Joe Shouldice, Ollie Johns, Paula Scher, Andy Altmann, Gary Fernandez
Ollie Johns
Paula Scher
Anthony Dickens
These delightful little creatures (just a few of 30) have been decorated by various famous designers and are being auctioned off on the 14th of this month at Glug - the big old monthly design knees-up in the east end. All proceeds go to DAHRA - Designers Against Human Rights Abuse, so the cause is very worthy, but to be honest I would (and probably will) throw money at it just because they’re so darn cool (shotgun the Ollie Johns one). Check out more on the project on the DAHRA site and buy Glug tickets here.
Honest to god, if I could post every image on this guys website on here I would. I mean, technically I could do that but I’d rather spend that time persuading you to look at the site itself. Editorial design rarely gets classier than this.
Simple, cute idea by Duffy London - the thick-pile rug has grooves cut into it for the sledge coffee table to sit in. If you need this in your life, buy it at the Hidden Art Shop.
Via SwissMiss
Edit: Actually don’t buy it from Hidden Art Shop - it’s cheaper direct from Duffy
Loteria is a card game played in Mexico that has been unchanged for so many years that the illustration collective monsters decided it needed a revamp. The pack features work by some really recognisable illustrators including Dave Humphries, Jim Field, Cameron Law, Lynn Hatzius, Mariko Jesse & Tom Genower and would make a nice Christmas-sitting-round-the-table-after-dinner-but-before-granny-falls-asleep gift and game. Available from some London shops and through the monsters store.
This. Is. Awesome.
Rooted is a show that awards not only design/artistic/photographic/illustrative talent but also the ability to show it off by allowing exhibitors to display work anywhere, anyhow (even going as far as being part of it themselves) - the only rule being not to deface others’ work.
Having seen Skeletor at New Blood back in July, when one of us was invited to judge at the Rooted exhibition last month and he was chilling out on centre court, the decision had to go in his favour.
He (for it is a he) was created by five Kingston grads, Laura, Jamie, Ashley, Elliott and Lewis.
Sometimes a product comes along that is so revolutionary, so iconic, that it irreversibly changes the way we behave and redefines an entire category of artefacts. While we wait for that product to come along, I suggest you have a cup of tea from one of these awesome mugs, designed by Peter Ibruegger for London Design Week.
Via the awesome Fubiz
Oi. Yeah you. Did you know that for the price of your birthday suit £6 you could get:
1. A beautiful double sided B2 poster (see more pics here)
2. A useful tube for putting things in
3. a couple of hand-printed flyers for good measure
4. a few jealous mates
All you need do is one of two things. Either email stuff@shellsuitzombie.co.uk or get on your twitter account and send this message: ‘RT @shellsuitzombie I’M GETTING A FREE SPIN POSTER BY RETWEETING THIS‘ along with your email address. We will then send you an email asking for £2 for P+P via paypal and within a week the good stuff’s yours.
Forget that. Just get to our shop here and pay up.
Just to put it in perspective, Spin (who designed the gold side) usually sell their posters for up to £20 + P and P. We aren’t selling ours, we’re giving them away. AND THEY’RE PRINTED IN GOLD!
£2 £6. That’s less more than a big mac, but less than the meal if you have a mcflurry. And you can’t hang a big mac (or a mcflurry) on your wall [very effectively].
Our roundup of the ShellsuitZombie experience at New Blood is finally here. Offering a mixture of chat, live briefs, loud music, ‘itsa-bitsa’ style artwork creation and general stick-it-anywhere-we-aren’t-precious tomfoolery (oh-err) we managed to attract graduates and industry in their hundreds to our messy corner of the Kensington Olympia (helped by D&AD generously allowing us free air-time on the tannoy - apologies to anyone we disturbed). We collected cards, friends and email addresses in scenes akin to Bruce Bogtrotter and Augustus Gloop at a chocolate convention, met loads of you, got your opinions on us and the industry and had a hell of a lot of fun at the same time. There are some photos here, to see them all visit our Flickr and Facebook pages.
We held two official SSZ Faceoffs, the first was a two-way between Falmouth University and Staffs University advertising courses. In an atmosphere more ‘intense’ than a music festival (in tents…doesn’t matter) during which we had to hold back both teams from physical blows, the brief was set - come up with a 30 second advert for Lucozade. While the relative merits of the adverts are still being discussed by creative directors worldwide, on the day Staffs were declared victorious by public vote for their ‘joe bloggs beats Usain Bolt’ concept.
The second face-off was a four-way between Duncan of Jordanstone, Lincoln, DMU and the eventual Victors Nottingham Trent, all of whom were given half an hour to rebrand D&AD. For the judging not only did we have Matt Dent, recent (and youngest ever) black pencil winner for his coinage redesign, but a curiously phallic clap-ometer which induced giggles (from us at least).
Our biggest event consisted of a free-for-all overnight brief to devise a campaign for a household cleaner - utilising any form of media necessary. As you can see we had nearly a hundred people taking part in 25 submissions - of which two teams were chosen for placements at BCL - a fantastic integrated agency responsible for Dove Natural Beauty and the current Lucozade Energy campaign. Reports on how they got on will follow. Thank you to everyone that did some work for this, the standard was very high.
To top it all off, on wednesday they let us do a Pecha-Kucha, God knows why. Here is one of our slides, all of which were created in Microsoft Paint. Again, to see the rest have a look on our Flickr page. If anyone has pics of us doing it please let us know, we have none.
We had an awesome time, we hope you enjoyed it too. Anyone who posted us your card, email address etc and hasn’t heard anything back, bear with us, you’ll be the first to know when we announce future events, and we will feature as many of you as we can over the next couple of months.
Morph are a great digital agency from Shoreditch, London, who kindly sponsored the stand and print - Coming soon, a filmed interview and article with Anthony. Eyes Peeled.
Brave - Representing BCL who offered support and time, delivering a brilliant brief and giving opportunities to nearly a hundred grads through our stand at the event.
Studio OOOMS is run by Guido Ooms and Karin van Lieshout. They design products, small or big, for themselves and for others. They focus on high quality and originality. Some for novelty reason, others because they are damn awesome. Go and have a gander, get inspired!
On July 3rd Weiden+Kennedy unveiled their design for the Concept Store windows to celebrate Selfridges’ 100th anniversary: Future A-Z 2109.
The display consists of a series of products that might be for sale at Selfridges ten years from now:
H is for HAPPY FRUIT
100% natural antidepressant. Packed full of serotonin, the natural antidote to S.A.D., global sadness and other depressive disorders.
M is for MOON FLOWERS
Harvested from the Selfridges lunar fields. Flowers arrive fresh every day. Gravity-proofed and naturally luminescent. Do not water.
P is for PORTA-WOMB
Retain your figure throughout pregnancy. Unisex design. Convenient cord tidy. Ask for details at the Pop-Up Surgery.
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However, there is no design for X.
Submit your design here by Sunday 26th July and your Idea X will be displayed at Selfridges for thousands to see for most of August. On top of that, you’ll recieve a £500 Selfridges gift card - not bad. Judges include Dr Frances Corner – Professor of Art and Design Education at the London College of Fashion, Patrick Burgoyne – Editor of Creative Review and Linda Hewson – Selfridges head of creative.
Get futureshopping.
Ray (a lady!) and Charles Eames were iconic designers of mid-century modern furniture. This TED talk is by their grandson, Eames Demetrios, talking warmly about his grandparents and revealing much unseen footage of the couple and their designs.
BTW if you haven’t discovered TED, it’s an awesome resource - hundreds of free videos of inspiring talks by incredible people from a diverse range of disciplines. Downloadable as MP3s or PodCasts, they can turn that commute into a compelling educational experience. From a design perspective, I’d recommend Chris Bangle, ex BMW designer and hero designer Philippe Starck as a good starting point. Have an explore, and if you find some good ones - chuck them up on the comments below…
via Core77
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