Category: Friday links (Page 5 of 8)

Gif animation design by Aakash Nihalani.

A few links:

• Love almost all of these 80 amazing examples of gig poster designs.
• An animation of a dancer created with 1,250 small paintings and the making of the animation.
• Desktop Stool is a beautifully designed laptop stand that can hold your portable computer in style and allow you to have a better posture while working. (via)
• An interesting renovation of a Japanese daycare.
• Hexagon erasers in cheerful colors.
• Color Greece: A lovely series of coloring travel guides. (via)
• Meet Franz: a free messaging app / the former Emperor of Austria. Franz combines chat & messaging services (like Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp and Skype) into ONE application. I am curious to try it. (via)
• Tea and symmetry: traditional Japanese architecture inspires “To Tsai” a Greek teahouse.
• A Canadian launched a website inviting Americans to take refuge on an island off Nova Scotia, in case Donald Trump wins the elections. It received almost a million visits. Haha!

Have a great weekend!

Gif animation design by Patakk.

A few links:

• Daily Dishonesty is a book & a hand-lettering blog, that humorously documents the lies we tell ourselves on a regular basis.
• ‘Fruloons & Iegeloons’ witty creations from UK based designer / stylist / artist Vanessa Mckeown.
• A beautifully renovated Art Deco house in Ontario, Canada.
• 270 years before Pantone, an artist mixed and described every color imaginable in an 800-page book  (thanks Flavia)
• A cheese map of the US and other Things Organized Neatly.
•  Wire Number is house numbers inspired by the curves of neon lights.
• A yummy recipe for churros (spanish doughnuts).
• What happens if you photoshop your dog as a giant. Hilarious.

Have a great weekend!

Gif animation design by Patakk.

A few links:

• New highlights from artist Tatsuya Tanaka’s Miniature Calendar photo project. Here is the post I did for him some time ago.
• Beautiful illustrations for this children’s book.
• Notice the great use of copywriting in this simple but powerful new campaign for the Samaritans.
• Fasted Tableware Series is inspired by the objects surrounding us and plays with their representation.
• The next generation of Boston Dynamics’ Atlas robot. Kind of creepy.
• Anna and  Argyle is a dynamic digital tale, that combines the power of modern technology with the timeless simplicity of a storybook. A lot of detail and attention has been given for this great little app-story-book. You can download it here from the App Store. (via)
•  The Robinson’s Accident Repair Centre in Australia has a very cool new identity. (via)
• 3 to 1. A set of three notepads.
• I laughed so much with this video by the Australian comedy duo Hamish and Andy. If you are a new parent, you’ll absolutely understand this. (via)

Have a super weekend!

Gif animation design by Guillaume Kurkdjian.

A few links:

• At Stamps & Sons, you can make your customized stamp by just dragging & dropping or uploading any of your PNG, JPG or GIF images. That simple.
• The hypnotizing beauty of Iranian mosque ceilings by a local Iranian photographer.
• 6 things you can throw out of your kids’ room right now. I should definitely do this in my kids’ rooms asap.
• Mind the Map: Illustrated Maps and Cartography is another beautiful book about the art of mapmaking.
• I love this Geometric Screen by Itzana Home collection. (via)
• A short Q & A with Pentagram partner and legendary US graphic designer Michael Bierut.
• Create customized banners  with your own Instagram photos or images. And they ship worldwide for free.  (via)
• I love the mid-century modern style of Eichler homes and was glad to hear they began building new Eichler homes. Such a pity these houses are designed only for California weather.

Have a super weekend!

Clouds GIF by “Un gif dans ta gueule…”

A few links:

• Album colors of the year 2015. (via)
• A miniature artist in Russia creates intricate pencil carvings.
• A small house with an unusual façade in Japan hides a tranquil, minimalist interior.
• There is something in abandoned buildings that attracts me: Here is one photographer that tracks down abandoned buildings throughout Australia and some haunting images of abandoned places around the world. (via)
• A great app for the monsters, uh …I meant for the kids. (via)
• I just love the colorful sketchbook drawings of artist Lisa Congdon.
• Wow! This is how the new Google HQ in California is going to look.
• British artist Jason deCaires Taylor has created eerie sculptures for the first underwater museum in Lanzarote, Spain, inspired by the current refugee crisis.

Have a relaxed weekend!

It’s Friday and when it’s Friday we all have this mood! I’m not sure what is the original source, but I love these funny vintage sewing pattern GIFs.

A few links:

• Book designer Hea Eun Grace Han has done some gorgeous book covers. (via)
• A pick of this year’s Super Bowl ads: Except the Heinz ad, I also love the Audi ad with David Bowie’s song.
• My kids would love a pancake bag!
• On the Grid is an online travel neighborhood guide by local creatives. Very interesting and it is growing fast!  (via)
• Using creative animation to highlight one hospital’s pioneering work to fight cancer. Check also this tiny funny animation by the same designer (via)
• This artist’s beautiful work is “at the intersection of art, graphic design, and photography”
• A magazine for Fathers, finally!

Have a really great weekend!

An episode from Shaun The Sheep, where the sheep set up a disco in the barn. I just love the sense of humor!

A few links:

• How to read 100 books a year. (via)
• An inventive small apartment in Bucharest.
• A video about the history of movie trailers as told through the history of Star Wars trailers.
• Hipster Ipsum: Lorem Ipsum for hipsters!
• Today’s (American) teenagers reveal what they think is cool — and what isn’t. (via)
• “Meet the Ketchups“, the hilarious new Super Bowl commercial from Heinz.
• How to make Minion Oreos and how to make Darth Vader cupcake toppers. Just saying.
• I always wanted one of these calendar-clocks. (via)
• The video for The Chemical Brothers “Wide Open” song has some interesting visual effects. (via)

Have a relaxing weekend!

Les lumières de la ville / gif by “Un gif dans ta gueule…”

A few links:

• Rachel Berger created Icon Diary, a beautiful collection of daily memories recorded in writing and in simple gif animated illustrations!

• Great use of lettering for this laser cut artwork.

• Mail to Self: An iOS app that does exactly what the name suggests: it adds a ‘mail to self’ option, so that you can quickly email yourself anything you want from your phone – in almost any app.

• Letter Collections is a personal project by Berlin-based letterer and designer Martina Flor: A collection of 100 lettering postcards designed, written and sent to people that Flor wants to get in touch with around the world.

• For the past few days I have been listening to Noon Pacific, a great weekly playlist of 10 songs handpicked from the best music blogs. There is an app for iOS & Android or you can get it delivered to your inbox every Monday.

• Plug is not a plug. If placed on the floor, it acts as an umbrella stand, otherwise, it can function as a candle holder. Smart and minimal.

•  An art print with a huge number 2. If “two” is your thing at the moment.

Have a good weekend!

Gif created by Feliks Tomasz Konczakowski

A few links:

• Great tableware with geometrical patterns.

• A mighty Titanosaur, now stands in N.Y. City’s American Museum of Natural History. Here is an amazing time lapse of how they built it.

• A selection of images of some of the best animal photos of 2015 from photographers all around the world.

• Art with air-fresheners from the 80’s.

• Paper World is a video made for WWF Hungary.

• “Friend request”, funny art print by Timothy Goodman

Have a good weekend!

Gif created by Feliks Tomasz Konczakowski

A few links:

• Top 52 destinations to visit this year by the New York Times.

• A French photographer captures melancholic images among the decaying large housing projects in Paris.

• Daisy Disk is a useful app that helps you find and remove large unneeded files you may have forgotten about, in order to free up space on your disc .

• Love this rotary tray by Vitra. I can think so many different uses for it.
• 7 unfortunate type trends we wish we could all forget. I agree.
• Interesting read: How to become the best in the world at what you do.

Have a good weekend!