Designer Alex Cornell wondered what would happen if he redesigned Playboy magazine and made it something that you would actually ‘read for the the articles’. This resulted in an extensive imaginary redesign which to us looks pretty damn good. Read the rest of this entry »
At contain.r we love a good football/soccer match, and although we won’t pretend to be experts in the field of football shoes, we know something about brand experiences and productlaunches. We were very impressed with the way Nike Launched their newest model.
They turned the huge Battersea Power Station purple and showed how to take a product launch to the next level. We think the photo’s speak for themselves.
Design by ..,staat
It looks like the spray part of the shower but it actually makes espresso. It has been taken seriously by the most esteemed figures in coffee, and some of them have tested this little thing against one of the best coffee machines in the world – the La Marzocco’s GS/3 – and, not fully surprised, it didn’t beat the big cat. But the fact that it is tested among these giants says something about the quality of the Twist. How it works and where to buy, that you can read here.
Recently we’ve come across the eyewear of Ralph Vaessen This brand is not to be missed. While most sunglasses are made of metal and plastic, Vaessen uses most exclusive, and luxurious natural buffalo horn and the frames are all handcrafted by skilled craftsmen with many years of experience at a small atelier in Germany.
Canadian Ad Agency Rethink gives out a yearly scholarship to Langara College’s Communication and Ideation Design program. Applicants are asked to fill a sketchbook with good ideas, using whatever they want. Their call for entries gives a pretty good idea of how to go about doing this.
Ommwriter from Herraiz Soto on Vimeo.
We’ve just discovered Ommwriter. A new digital way of writing that attempts to bring back the concentration. Now some of us at contain.r have a bit of a problem to concentrate when necessary so this should help a bit.
What to they have to say: “Ommwriter is a humble attempt to recapture what technology has snatched away from us today: our capacity to concentrate.
Ommwriter is a simple text processor that firmly believes in making writing a pleasure once again, vindicating the close relationship between writer and paper. The more intimate the relation, the smoother the flow of inspiration.
If you are a scriptwriter, blogger, journalist, copywriter, poet or just someone who enjoys writing, welcome back to concentrating.”
Curious? Find out yourself..
Film in the Blanks is an ongoing experiment to abstract and/or reduce film posters. It’s a very interesting study in graphic design and some of the results are a lot of fun to look at. See if you can guess what movie each poster represents.
This morning we were searching the internet for some american vintage inspired graphic design and bumped into Austin-based agency PTARMAK. These guys made a really awesome identity for the Chop Shop by remastering the classic butcher shop look and feel into new freshness.
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We like the work of Benjamin Phelan. He just finished the artwork of Yeasayer’s new album Odd Blood, which will be released this february, and we have to admit it impresses much. He called it “the study of a future with a distorted biology”, well not exactly sure what that means but maybe we’ll found out when the album is released. Until then we enjoy the great video of ‘Ambling Alp‘ and the just released track ‘ONE‘.
Picked up this video on ‘the making of ‘ the Christmas gift from Highsnobiety and Selectism. It shows Michael Dacey’s proces of creating these custom two sided coasters. Inspirational stuff.
