Rayuela Stool by Alvaro de Catalán Ocón
“Traditional tile designs can spread infinitely by just repeating a single shape, creating patterns by combining different colors of the same material. The most efficient form, offering the greatest possibilities, is the rhombus. Three of them make a hexagon which is the best way to cover a surface. Using three colors you get a fascinating optical effect.”
(via myedol)
now i know these are only concepts, but these bottles make water look expensive. which is weird because at the end of the day it is water.
however, i think these are really interesting designs, i think most people would keep the bottle after it’s empty purely for decoration and the refraction of light it causes.
(Source: adayinthelandofnobody, via rachelpalmer)
Boat’s A-Z of London Street Food
This is a A3 folded leaflet by Boat showing the best vendors, stalls and stands to eat at in London. However, the map only gives you a rough idea as to where they are, which i think is good; if you’re hungry you gotta work for it!
On the reverse there is a list of 26 food vendors, one for each letter, and a list of the best food markets around london.
I think the leaflet works well in this hand-drawn way, it’s not like a road atlas, designed to get you from A to B as quick as possible, and i think that’s why this has more likely to be kept at hand and used for longer than get stuffed in a bag or glovebox.
these are some images i’ve been working on for my magazine.
I was looking at banknotes, and the intricate illustrations on them, i found out they’re mostly etchings. After some messing about in photoshop i found a decent way of making images look like they were etched.
Another feature on notes are guilloche patterns. These are the spiralling fine lines that are on most banknotes. They’re made by using a (really long) equation, and altering it slightly gives you different shapes. I made my own using grapher on my computer, this was however after i tried it in illustrator; i don’t recommend it as it takes a very long time!
Matt Richardson has created a camera which in fact describes what it sees.
You take a photo and it is sent to someone who in return for a small amount of money describes the images. It’s then sent back and printed out. I think it’d be funny to work as someone who writes the descriptions; you’d probably get some boring and also probably weird images sent through
this is the ‘how to use a chequebook’ book, for the midland bank. The designer is unknown, which is a shame, the book has fold out sections, tracing paper pages that allow you to read through them, and bold typography in places, along with a variety of images.
This caught my eye because, it’s not a typical magazine shape.
It works well with my idea because one of the quotes i remember most from Marian’s interview was “pay me as much as you can”. The idea of the chequebook ties in with it, along with it’s unusual shape; Marian is keen to do her own thing and not stick to conventions.
I love the simplicity of this editorial design and how the designer has used the negative space so well. Its a handmade book and really well created. Every page is unique and documents the information about the universe in a striking yet simple way. This simple well thought out layout is something i want to emulate in my editorial design using the subtle details of type and enlarging them, also using the space to accentuate the typefaces. See more images of the editorial here.
the annoying thing i’ve found with this project is that i can’t find any examples of unusual magazine designs. I mean, they might have an odd layout that stretches across two pages or something, but it’s still a rectangle magazine printed on plain old paper.
these are a few examples that caught my eye, i’m going to push the idea of the magazine as we know it further.
i remembered one of marian bantjes ideas, when she made designed the sails for a boat. She didn’t want to do something typically wavy and blue to do with the sea, or sailing for that matter, instead she made it very angular, more something you’d expect to see in an urban environment.
maybe i could make my magazine not look like a magazine..
made this nifty little rubber stamp this evening. I’ve always liked the red wax seals that used to go on the back of envelopes, and how much they can personalised. I thought this was a much quicker although not very easy way of creating a personal mark or stamp that can be put on pretty much anything.
this is felt tip ink but you could could stamp it onto clothing, letters, or even walls
