During my recent visit in New Zealand, I’ve been delighted by great natural scenery and interesting architecture. This was particularly true in Wellington, its underrated capital. Seriously, if you ever go to New Zealand, do not miss Wellington where Maori and imperial cultures mix very… well (yes, I love alliteration). To do justice to Wellington, you will need at least
Read MoreI feel like I’ve had this dream and now it has become reality – Thinking With Design. Recompose is a new system for manipulation of an actuated surface. By collectively utilizing the body as a tool for direct manipulation alongside gestural input for functional manipulation, we show how a user is afforded unprecedented control over an actuated surface. We describe
Read MoreManyStuff is one of the best blogs about graphic design. It welcomes you with the following sentence: „Every day I check many stuff“. The author is Charlotte Cheetham and apparently by many stuff she means architecture, photography, illustration and mostly graphic design. If you want to take a closer look at her brain or just listen to her thoughts on
Read MoreThe Swiss design duo Norm will arrive for a lecture at Sofia Design Week. Their trade mark is the experiment in the sphere of graphic design. The great typography of Cologne Bonn Aiport is one good example of their work. Check out the rest of their projects here. Isn’t this typography of the airport beautiful?!
Read MoreValentin Vodev is a Royal College of Art graduate and hе is one of the founders of Pixar Studio. He has already won many international awards, including the prestigious Red Dot Design Award in 2009 for his electronic bycicle Biquattro. We are happy to announce that he will be one of the lectors at the Sofia Design Week forum. Besides
Read MoreAlex Turvey is on a never-ending quest to save the world from bad design and black-and-whiteness. His passion for unusual forms, craving for couture and awesome directing skills turn folklore into futuristic style. Alex is not your usual artist who concentrates on only one technique or means of expression – every time he surprises with new mixes of illustration, design,
Read MoreThis is more or less the official start of Sofia Design Week on GRATEFUL GRAPEFRUIT. The Bulgaria bible for creative agents One Magazine organizes for the second time the design get-together Sofia Design Week: 4 – 11 June 2010 in Sofia. More or less? That is the question this year. “The more it goes, the more it goes,” Winnie the
Read MoreMit Sicherheit hat sich jeder einmal gefragt warum aus dem heimischen Tintenstrahldrucker häufig so furchtbar erbärmliche Geräusche klingen. Designer Kenny Frankland aus Manchester versucht mit dieser 3D-Animation alle Wahrheiten über das mysteriöse Innenleben eines Druckers ans Tageslicht zu holen. Eine sehr schöne Animation, die auf jeden Fall sehenswert ist. Auch für Besitzer von Laserdruckern. Viel Spaß beim Ansehen! Printer Jam
Read MoreDiese schönen Clustergrafiken kann man auf www.wordle.net erstellen. Hierzu genügt es völlig, die Feed-Url des eigenen Weblogs oder der eigenen Internetseite anzugeben und Wordle generiert eine schöne Grafik. Man kann ebenfalls eigene Begriffe einsetzen und daraus dann eine Grafik erstellen. Bei allen Variationen, ist es für den Nutzer möglich, Farbe, Schriftart und Anordnung der Worte zu steuern. Viel Spaß beim
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