Category: Friday links (Page 4 of 8)

Gif animation from Jocie Juritz

A selection of links from the wonderful world of the internet:

• Chasing Paper has an amazing collection of wallpapers.
• Why watching people take selfies feels so awkward. And check also the hilarious: Guns replaced with selfie sticks!
• 50 famous logos then and now.
• These kids’ rooms are really cool.
• A beautiful graphically illustrated video of Tokyo and Japan.
• It’s a classic: The 1975 NASA Graphics Standards Manual has been reissued with the help of a very successful Kickstarter campaign and shortly after, NASA decided to release the entire manual as a free PDF on its website.
• New logo and identity for two different Greek islands in the Cyclades: Sifnos and Kea. Sorry to the English-speaking readers, the articles are in Greek.
• The action “Security Moms” was created to help stop violence in football stadiums in Brazil.

Have a lovely weekend!

Gif animation from Carl Burton.

A selection of links from the wonderful wold of the internet:

• “Histography” is an interactive timeline of history, covering 14 billion years. Impressive! (via)
• “The Shack”: another great identity project by Backbone branding studio from Armenia.
• I haven’t seen anything like this rotating sculpture of Franz Kafka’s head in Prague.
• Please touch the art: a moving video about a man creating tactile art for the blind.
• Friends Furever: the super cute ad for Android is a super hit with my kids.
• These cool band-aids look like skate boards.

Have a lovely weekend!

Getting ready for summer!! Gif animation from the Bloody Dairy series / a 100-day animation project by designer Min Liu.

A selection of links from the wonderful wold of the internet:

• An honest and candid conversation with letterer & illustrator Jessica Hische, who shares openly about the difficulties of balancing work and family life.
• Wild Raspberries: young Andy Warhol’s little-known vintage cookbook with such beautiful illustrations!
• Gold-plated LEGO bags and jewelry. Not sure what to think of these.
• CorkFrame is a new and interesting take on the traditional cork bulletin boards. It comes in three  convenient sizes and is currently on Kickstarter.
• I would be curious to see Hamilton, the 16 Tony award-nominated, new Broadway musical, that talks about the life of Alexander Hamilton, but with a hip-hop musical theme. Have a taste here. (via)
• What can Ansel Adams’s enduring photography teach us in the age of Instagram? A short interesting video that examines the careful, deliberate approach Adams took to his work.
• ‘The Book was Better’. Nice art print with papercut art.
• Fun recipe for cookies with rainbow sprinkles.
• Instagram has a new (but not better) logo: R.I.P old Instagram logo (this is an older photo, I don’t know the source, but it’s brilliant and also, right now, very up to the minute)

Have a lovely weekend!

“Rocking Chair for 1 or 2”, a furniture concept by Julian Glander

A few fun and interesting links from the wonderful wold of the internet:

• Very well made sculptures of animals and insects made from bicycle, car, and motorcycle parts.
• This Swedish illustrator has some amazing sketchbooks with really detailed work. (via)
• Really, really short workouts for busy people. Makes sense if you manage them at least three times a week though. (via)
• A video explaining how stop motion puppets are made.
• This made me remember I had one of those chairs. The Sacrificial Chair. (via)
• You can print your own notebook covers by uploading your own design. (via)
• Although I am always a big fan, Apple should do something about some of these issues: “A brief guide to everything that’s annoying about Apple”.  (via)

Have a lovely weekend!

Gif animation by Guillaume Kurkdjian

A few fun and interesting links from the wonderful wold of the internet:

• Queen Elizabeth became 90 years old yesterday and the Palace marked the occasion by releasing new royal portraits by Annie Leibovitz.
• Pins for paper lovers from Present & Correct. Love the one with the intersecting circles.
• A pair of scissors attempts to make A Small Escape: a short animation film from Sweden.
• A dad of 4 girls, tweets funny conversations with his daughters. I can relate to many of them!
• Working from home vs. working in an office: a humorous side-by-side comparison.
• Watch the Titanic sink in real time in a 2 hour & 40 min animation. No Leonardo di Caprio & Kate Winslet on this one. (via)
• A -whale of a good time- playhouse.
• An impressive paper installation by artist Nicki Crock, called ‘Dream House’

Have a relaxing weekend!

Gif animation by Archery

A few links:

• A cute book-side table that can hold your coffee, provide storage for books & magazines and serve as a bookmark.
• Can you believe these people accidentally dressed like their surroundings?
• The Holger bag has an old-school style and is equipped with a built-in charger for your phone and tablet. Smart.
• Sherpa turns Instagram into a travel guide. It’s not launched yet, but the idea sounds exciting.
• A beautifully animated music video about a wooden doll stuck inside a forgotten old penny arcade, magically directed by a former Disney/Pixar director.
• It’s a shame these umbrellas can only be shipped to Sweden. I love the Forest one.
• This photographer documents her kids, that live without electronic devices.

I hope you have a great weekend!

This lovely animation by Chicago-based artist Laura Berger.

A few links:

• Another paper artist/illustrator, this time from Mumbai, India. Her alphabet created with quilled paper is beautiful.
• I love this range of steel shelves with perforated patterns.
• Lingo looks like a good way to organize, share and use all your visual assets in one place. You simply drag & drop your visual assets in the app.
• A little sad, but beautifully drawn birds on the back of old medicine boxes.
• I think we need a lamp for our living room. This wooden tripod lamp would do nicely.
• Who wouldn’t want a watermelon tent, or a cheese tent, or maybe a sheep tent?
• Great giant coloring posters with city themes.
• A charming nursery.
• It’s the time of the year when cherry trees blossom in Tokyo.

Have a lovely weekend!

“Memories of Paintings” from Thomas Blanchard, is an experimental dreamlike video. The visual compositions have been created out of paint, oil, milk and soap liquid.

A few links for Friday, Saturday and also Sunday:

• I just love the fifties retro-style work of Satoshi Hashimoto, one of the main illustrators for Monocle magazine.
• An apartment with a slide. Yes, childhood fantasies can come true.
• You can find many Design Facts you did not know, in this platform for sharing interesting facts about the history of design, all in bite-sized servings.
• Japan in 4 minutes. A video collection of moments and memories of a 3-week railway journey through the country.
• Instant logo search:  Search and download among thousands of well-known logos. Useful when you are looking of that company logo. (via)
• The Ellum Solar is a smart light, embedded with sensors, that illuminates the dark when motion is detected. It’s attached magnetically and charged by a solar panel. So simple. (via)
• Marble and resin tables that look like marine environments with secluded beaches. They remind me of rocky coastlines in Greece.
• Architect Dame Zaha Hadid died yesterday. A great talent and a badass lady.

Have a lovely weekend!

Gif animation design by Guillaume Kurkdjian.

A few links:

• 25th of March is a Greek national holiday! You see many greeks dressed as “tsoliades“. I love their souvenir toy versions like this one or this one.
• My obsession with North Korea continues: Michal Huniewicz’s photographs from Pyongyang.
• The “Ginkgo solar tree” can charge your phone in 2 hours.
• This new Sony spot uses turtles to show off its Action Cam.
• The Desk Box is a practical wall-mounted box that can be extended to create a small desk.
• On April 10th, 2015, 17857 people protested in front of the Spanish Parliament in hologram form. It was the first Hologram protest in history.
• I love this  original drawing by Marc Johns.

Have a great weekend!