Urbanears
This campaign stuck with me.
Urbanears is a collective from Scandinavia that just released 3 headphone models in a series of 14 colors. The design of the headphones themselves are top notch, as well as the product photography that went along with it. bravo
Check out their site here
Remote!
So, this commercial is on my tv, and in it somebody’s controlling my tv remote, and they are changing my fav candy to an even better candy. I wish I thought of this clever simple goodness. Speechless and drooling…
Muji Kicks Ass Yet Again
Every time I’m in NY I find myself buying tons of useful crap at Muji. Paper and paper and more paper, it’s neverending. And so cheap! How do they do it?? AND THEN I just saw this bit of genius. They teamed up with Lego to revamp the possibilities of plastic.
Playing With Food, Finally Respected
I could never help it. My mom was never happy, but squishing mashed potatoes around my plate was always the best option to end a meal.
I’m sure Carlo Giovani’s mom was never pleased. But jeez, I hope she is now. Look at these:
JOcandraw
I think this is genius.
For a spread in Wallpaper, Jo Ratcliffe, aka jocandraw, used a print out of a pool as his set, and styled his model with a paper cut out hat. At first glance, you know something is off about the photo. The shadows from the hat help piece this one together
On set photos:
Pantone APP!!!
lovin me some Vena Cava
Check out their blog: Viva Vena Cava It’s filled with goodies
Remind me to sign up for this
Help I Need Help
Help I Need Help offers clean solutions to simple health issues.
They say it best: We find the best solution there is, and take away everything else. By stripping away some of the complexity and fear mongering of the health industry, we hope to make medicine friendlier and more accessible, and in doing so empower people to make their own health decisions.
They even have a “Help I’m bored” section where there are tons of Help questions answered. These are all picked from user generated questions. Making medicine friendly and reliable? That’s unheard of.
Modern History
Last week I went to the Met and a piece by Sarah Charlesworth entitled, April 21, 1978, caught my eye. She had reproduced the front page of newspapers from around the world, and besides the header, blocked out all type so only images were left amid blank white spaces. She was tracking the reproduction of one specific photographic image seen floating around each page:
It is a picture of Aldo Moro taken during his capture by the Red Brigades, holding a newspaper from the day before, April 20, 1978, declaring him dead. Obviously false. For Moro’s full story click here.
The key point of this piece lies in the manipulation of text and image, and how “Charlesworth was able to reveal some of the ways that image choice and placement were invariably politically motivated… Perceiving the photographic image as a strategic instrument for the exchange of information and the creation of values within in our culture, as Charlesworth describes it, is crucial to unraveling these persistent questions about the mass media and our relationship to it.”
Hierarchy is engrained in every designer’s brain as a way to communicate importance and visual direction. I often forget how powerful this is.
I am a direct contributor to mass media.
I have the power to change the way people think.
This is strange to me. It could be a gift or a curse, or both. Who knows. But, this piece made me start to put things back into perspective.
Sarah Charlesworth’s full project can be found here