Founded by Paulo Arraiano e Leonor Morais, Palm is a brand intended to serve as a ground for experimentation of portuguese design, illustration, street art, as well as for international collaborations and interaction between different styles, languages, attitudes.
They provide on their site shirts, pins and stickers,inviting new artists in each collection and doing limited editions of 25/30 that are printed and put on the streets. They feature designs of artists the likes of Peulo Arraiano [founder], Leonor Morais [founder], designer Jucapinga, David Carvalho and Musa Collective, among others.
What a great website,done in Flash. One of the first big advertising campaigns on the web for this years soccer world cup - by Rexona for Men. Check out Surefans, where you can create a fan representing yourself to show some support for your country
Warrior Magazine wants to give you a chance to see your work on the cover of an international publication. So, send your artwork to their cover until the 1st day of June. There's an entry fee payment of $15 Cdn / $13US.
For 3 intensive days more than 30 different culture institutions, companies and organisations will be showing new sides of achitecture and design in Copenhagen. You can experience a guided tour in design and craftmanship in the 20th Century, or experience new architecture by the harbour front of Copenhagen.
Those interested in design and automobiles will have the rare opportunity to have a look into the future of Ferrari from 24 May to 11 June 2006. After the vernissage on 23 May the red dot design museum in Essen will be the only institution in Germany that present 20 award-winning Ferrari design studies.
The prototypes at a scale of 1:4 are the result of a design competition held by the Italian sports car manufacturer at four leading international design universities.
The “New Concepts of the Myth” competition was organised by Ferrari together with their regular designer Pininfarina and was supported by the aluminium producer Alcoa, who supplies Ferrari. Besides constructing a model at a scale of 1:4, the conditions of participation included the task of creating a design fulfilling specific demands. The designs had to be innovative, creative and fresh on the one hand, while on the other hand taking into account aspects of practical realisation. The dimensions of the latest V8 mid engine and V12 front engine sports cars served as a basis for proportions and measurements for the students.
20 models of the numerous entries made it into the final round, in which the young designers had to explain their designs to a high-class expert jury on 18 November 2005. The jury, which was headed by Luca di Montezemolo, included Piero Ferrari, Jean Todt, Amedeo Felisa, Massimo Fumarola and the complete senior management of Pininfarina – Sergio and Andrea Pininfarina as well as Ken Okuyama. In 2004, Pininfarina had received the “design team of the year” award in the internationally renowned red dot design award in Essen.
The 20 finalists of tomorrow’s automobile designers come from 13 different countries. The four winning models are named “Millechili”, created by the design students Luis Agullo Spottorno from Spain and Felix Hiller from Germany, both are studying at the Instituto Europeo di Design in Turin; “Fiorano”, developed by Rob Battams and Tom Hardman from England and David Imai from the USA from Coventry University’s School of Art & Design; “Tre Diviso” by Daisuke Nagasato, Japan, Kim Teakyung, Korea and Hiroaki Yakubo, Japan from the Tokyo Communication Arts School and “Ascari”, also created by students of the Instituto Europeo di Design, Turin, Manuele Amprimo and Werner Gruber from Italy and Yu Jae-Cheul from Korea. Additionally the model "612Lafayette" by Shigenori Maeda (Japan) was awarded with a special prize of aluminium specialist Alcoa.
The prototypes are now going on a touring exhibition around the world. The exclusive stop in Germany will be the red dot design museum, where the models will be on show in a special exhibition from 24 May to 11 June 2006.
The red dot design museum is open from Tuesday to Thursday, 11am to 6pm and from Friday to Sunday, 11am to 8pm. Admission is 6 euros. The exhibition catalogue is available from the shop in the red dot design museum.
It might harness the wisdom of crowds approach by exploiting the APIs and feeds offered by such services such as Flickr, Del.icio.us, Digg, YouTube,Technorati, Wikipedia, and Yahoo!. It could be influenced by "personalized" modular homepages such as Microsoft Live, Pageflakes, netvibes, and Google. It could be a search box. It could be a Giant Dalek. It could be 1 link, it could be 250 links. It could actually be a working prototype. It could just be an illustration, a diagram or a picture. It has to represent and be a starting point for the BBC on the web. (but not just whats on BBC servers) It also has to think hard about to reflect how that page might illustrate how users might • play hundreds of hours of BBCTV and Radio • find their way through through millions of pages of content both on and away from our servers • share your discoveries with your friends, peers, colleagues, enemies, and strangers. Or it could just do one of these things
The Winner The winner will receive a high end Apple laptop, a visit to the BBC and have their design implemented and showcased on the bbc.co.uk homepage later this summer.
The Runners Up At least ten of what the BBC has to call "MP3 Players" are in the offing. The number and range of runner up prizes is more likely to be dependent on the volume and quality of entries.
All entries All valid entries will be showcased on open.bbc.co.uk/reboot/
Judging. Ultimately the winner will be judged by a panel of judges chaired by the BBC's Director of New Media and Technology; Ashley Highfield.
Today we want to talk a little bit about Le Parkour, also known as free-running. It is an art form of human movement, focusing on uninterrupted, efficient forward motion over, under, around and through obstacles (both man-made and natural) in one's environment. Such movement may come in the form of running, jumping, climbing and other more complex techniques. The goal of practicing le parkour is to be able to adapt one's movement to any given scenario so that any obstacle can be overcome with the human body's abilities.
Its founder was David Belle. To some people (particularly non-practitioners), parkour is an extreme sport, to others a discipline more comparable to martial arts. Parkour is often connected with the idea of freedom, in the form of the ability to overcome aspects of one's surroundings that tend to confine - for example, railings, staircases, or walls. The practice of parkour requires considerable physical and mental dedication, and many adherents describe it as a "way of life."
Practitioners of parkour are known as traceurs, a term of French origin. The names free running and free runner have been very frequently adopted by the English language media as a result of their use in the television documentary Jump London. More recently, the term Freestyle Parkour was coined to refer to activity that shares some similarities with parkour, but that incorporates movements (such as flips, spins, and many others) that lie outside the realm of parkour as practiced and advocated by David Belle and others.
More links of notice: Urban Freeflow - International Parkour community Parkour.NET - International Parkour community American Parkour - Parkour and Freerunning website Space Chase - A short film featuring Parkour
This is an urban art form that we are very interested in and that we will try to promote hereafter. If you have something you would like to share with us about parkour please send us an email (you can find it in the sidebar).
British actress Sienna Miller has signed a 2 year contract with fashion label Pepe Jeans. Sienna will be the face of that brand until the Spring of 2008.
"We wanted a strong, positive, female British figure to head the advertising campaign as the brand enters its thirty third year and strongly believe that the choice of Sienna Miller was the right one, and ties in with our heritage as one of the only true British jeans brands in existence" (Carlos Ortega - Managing Director)
My Chair Design is an open competition to design a chair, sofa or stool that reflects the XXI century personality. Think you got what it takes to do just that? Then visit the Luvodesign site to know more about this interesting competiton.
If you're a gamer, you're probably a fan of Silent Hill, the 1999 game realeased by Konami for the Sony Playstation. The plot of the game was centered around Harry Mason arriving in Silent Hill and his subsequent attempts at finding his lost daughter, Cheryl. It is considered by many the best horror survival game. As of 2006, The Silent Hill series has four games, plus one Gaiden game, and another planned for release onto the next generation PlayStation 3 console. The series plays in a continuous chronological order, meaning each game takes place after its predecessor.
Movie Synopsis " The eerie and deserted town of SILENT HILL draws a young mother desperate to find a cure for her only child’s illness. Unable to accept the doctor’s diagnosis that her daughter should be permanently institutionalized for psychiatric care, Rose (Radha Mitchell) flees with her child, heading for the abandoned town in search of answers – and ignoring the protests of her husband (Sean Bean). It’s soon clear this place is unlike anywhere she’s ever been. It’s smothered by fog, inhabited by a variety of strange beings and periodically overcome by a living Darkness that literally transforms everything it touches. As Rose searches for her little girl, she begins to learn the history of the strange town and realizes that her daughter is just a pawn in a larger game."
Due to be released in 19th of May 2006 is the new Sony Pictures' The Da Vinci Code,a Ron Howard film. Based on the novel by acclaimed writer Dan Brown, the movie is performed by Tom "Forrest Gump" Hanks and Audrey "Amélie" Tatou. The Da Vinci Code begins with a spectacular murder at the Louvre museum and all clues point to a covert religious organization that will stop at nothing to protect a secret that threatens to overturn 2000 years of accepted dogma. If the movie turns out to be so successful as the book, this will be one of the year's blockbusters.
Cha Cha Supermarket bring you homewear with attitude. This sentence couldn't be more appropriate.
Cha Cha Supermarket offers a range of lifestyle products featuring highly individual designs that bring art to the heart of your home. Completely original and very illustration-based these are homewear products worth a look, especially the cushions and lampshades.
DESIGNERS.OPEN will be a playing field for new and innovative developments and trends in modern design. Leipzig will play host to national and international designers, to newcomers in the field, to design colleges and their graduates. The venues are situated directly in the city center of Leipzig. The exciting atmosphere is provided by galleries, retail shops and several exhibition halls. DESIGNERS.OPEN is the right address for designers, interior designers, producers, retailers and end customers. Everyone participating can draw up his individual training plan for the event. Alongside the Exhibition itself, technical symposia, interviews, video presentations and fashion shows will offer new grounds for further inspiration from series to premières, the spotlight is on marketable products. Prototypes, conception-based projects and not-yet published design-related theses are further core features of the Exhibition.
Participants have the chance to register until 15 July 2006 with innovative works.
With the FIFA World Cup around the corner, it would be a good idea for you to get yourself into The Largest Online Stadium and interact with other fans, just like you.
Since 2001, OFFF is exploring software aesthetics and new languages for interactive and visual expression.Every year, the festival features digital artists, web and print designers, motion graphic studios and avant-garde electronic musicians. But OFFF is more than an event about any of these disciplines. More than a design conference, a multimedia trade fair, or a digital animation festival. OFFF is an enthusiastic celebration of a new visual culture.
OFFF is spreading the work of a generation of creators that are breaking all kind of limits. Those separating the commercial arena from the worlds of art and design; music from illustration, or ink and chalk from pixels. Artists that have grown with the web and receive inspiration from digital tools, even when their canvas is not the screen.
From exercises in interactive synesthesia that excite all our senses to stage performances made of lines of computer code. All this, and much more, is shown every year at OFFF; one of the essential meeting points for the international scene of postdigital creation.
Past participants in OFFF include legends of graphic design and visual communication like Neville Brody, Tomato, Kyle Cooper or Stefan Sagmeister; acknowledged software artists such as Jared Tarbell, Lia, Casey Reas and Ben Fry, or Daniel Brown; innovators of the moving image like We work for Them, Tronic Studio, D-Fuse or Renascent; explorers of advanced interaction like Soda, James Patterson & Amit Pitaru or Craig Swann; and the most important names that have defined the aesthetics of the experimental and creative side of the Web: Joshua Davis, Yugo Nakamura, Hi-Res!, Josh Ulm, or Erik Natzke. The festival has also a special spot for the main names in the Spanish scene (Area3, Vasava, Innothna, Cocoe, Dani Granatta, La Mosca...) and for creators of surprising new kinds of sonic landscapes:Tujiko Noriko, The Vegetable Orchestra, Sutekh, Taylor Deupree, System, Daedelus, Stephan Mathieu, Kenneth Kirschner...
Vote now for the most deserving Web sites in 2006 in categories like NetArt, Visual Design, Best Practices and more. Presented by Verizon, the Webby People's voice voting goes until May 5th.
SaleHug is a sale blog. Their goal is to provide a quick and simple way to find sales for the products and brands you enjoy and deliver them in a clean and organized manner. For fashion and home goods, among other things
DarkEye is a new breed of web design showcase. You're in control: you rate, review and submit sites that instantly appear in front of thousands of potential users.
A cross-branding promotional project, this WESC Nokia 3250 is fully customized by We Clothing. In addition to a phone cover designed by clothing label WESC, the phone also comes stocked with hand-picked MP3s (of unreleased tracks by “some of the best artists around”), as well as a custom WESC travel guide. The kit is limited to 500 pieces worldwide.
Want to customize and stylize your laptop or iPod? Then, Schtickers are for you! Removable/reusable in a wide range of sizes, Schtickers are the perfect way to customize those mass-produced and always grey laptops.
Another cool marketing idea. This time it comes from Sweden, and from McDonalds. They arranged a design competition where people could send in designs for coffee mugs (paper) that will be launched this summer. They selected a few of them and put them on their webpage inviting people to vote in their favoutite. Three winners have now received 20,000 SEK as a scholarship and their designs will be printed this summer.One of them will also have their mug/design made in porcelain by the Swedish manufacturer Gustavsberg.
