Bold, ambitious, energetic, cool these are some of the qualities needed of the world’s greatest city, and they can also be attributed to this frankly amazing concept submitted to a recent London design competition.
Mayor Boris Johnson has commited to build a tourist attraction in the Olympic Park. This entry was submitted by an international team of architects, artists and engineers.
You can read more on the BBC news website and at the official raisethecloud.org website.
The New York Times innovation group has launched their Innovation Portfolio to showcase their archive of infographics and interactive articles. The newspaper has been forefront of pushing technology and interactivity to bring articles and features alive online.
It is however, obviously another clever marketing tool to attract advertisers and to promote the reach of the NY Times. Each case study highlights the amount of page views and the average time spent on the NY Times. This is vital data that anyone in online marketing/avertising needs to create and optimise campaigns.
So what does make good information design? Well David McCandless has been pondering over this whilst enjoying a nice cup of tea. Everyone from UE’s, IA’s, designers etc etc will have a different opinion on this one but at least he’s had a stab at giving it some structure.
I was going to go out and capture some shots of the fireworks last night but was distracted by the incredible brightness of the moon. It was constantly being covered by fast moving abstract clouds which produced an amazing halo effect. I didn’t bother to get one image of the fireworks! this was much more beautiful.
Very elegant branding, typography and layout from B&W Studio up in Leeds. The minimal application of colour and styling make for very strong, effective pieces of communication. They cleaned up at this years Roses design awards and will no doubt go from strength to strength next year.
Found these lovely posters for the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime on ffffound.com today. The original work can be found here on the Pentagram site. Designed by Harry Pearce and Jason Ching the posters are a training tool specifically aimed at the Russian police, whose country has a particularly poor track record in drug treatment.
I don’t normally watch much tv these days as I can’t stand any of the reality tv nonsense which seems to be the lazy option of filling broadcast hours. But this new advert for McDonalds really made me sit up and pay attention. I wasn’t really going to blog about it but it seems I am not alone in thinking that it’s a great campaign. A very well observed script, beautifully voiced accompanied by good direction. Are we really at the point where a fast food chain is producing the best ads on telly?
Juan Cabral CD at Fallon and the creator of the now famous Sony Adverts (think thousands of coloured balls in San Fransico, paint exploding over a Glasgow housing estate and the recent Sony plasticine rabbits in NY) and the hugely popular gorilla advert for Cadbury, gives the lowdown on the making of Sony’s latest commercial Soundville.
Set in Iceland the ad documents three days in the life of the town of Seydisfjordur, after it’s been transformed into a giant soundspeaker system.
Some really nice work on Konx-om-Pax.co.uk by Glasgow based Director/Animator/Sound Designer Tom Scholefield. You can view his latest reel here. In recent years he’s worked with Warp Records, Universal Everything and Optimo Espacio. He’s had work shown in Tokyo, Egyptian Theatre Hollywood, Buenos Aires, Cannes Lions, Florence, London and Glasgow. Konx-om-Pax has recently been featured in Grafik Magazine and has been awarded a prize of Best New Blood in the annual D&AD awards. Go check it out people.
Have just spent quite a lot of time looking at these amazing Icelandic landscape photographs by Rupert Nightingale. Found them via the creative review blog they are absolutely captivating. Almost abstract in feel and quite illustrative, a couple of large format prints would be lovely!
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