Archive for the ‘Design from the web’ Category

Minimalist redesigns of the known brands

Tuesday, December 21st, 2010

Antrepo Design has decided to redesign the product packaging for a couple of known brands towards a simpler, minimalistic and elegant approach. The thing is, their designs in nearly every case are spot on and should be considered by those brands if they want to stand out.
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Microsoft presents Montage

Tuesday, December 14th, 2010

First of all I’m impressed how microsoft comes back from the ashes of crappy advertising and reinvents itself in that manner. Most of their recent ads are actually AMAZING pieces of work. It’s good to see that the “boring old PC” is getting the creative treatment. Well corporation-wise at least.

But the main thing I’d like to mention here is that they’re introducing a cloud based “magazine editor” that allows users to create their own magazines from the content from the web. This is an amazing idea and in fact I think it will be another thing that revolutionizes journalism in the e-world. Sure most of the things will be crappy, clip-art things from people with no imagination, but imagine those tools in the hands of someone wanting to do something really creative who doesn’t have programming knowledge. Yeah, that’s right! It can be huge. We just have to wait and see.

New facebook profiles – creative ideas

Monday, December 13th, 2010

Since the introduction of the “5 recent tagged pics” on top of the profiles, there have been many pranks done with pictures of Justin Bieber and other creepy things to lighten up profiles of friends. But one Alexander Oudin managed to squeeze a little more creative juices out of that change. Pretty nice!

Holographic projections come to life

Wednesday, December 8th, 2010

And these are apparently not that expensive. Well 4000$ is not cheap, but it’s not millions so we’re sure to see the technology used a lot really, really soon. Take note how thin it is.

Amazing cities made of lego bricks

Tuesday, December 7th, 2010

Wow! This is stunning. And it shows some potential for modelling the future of architecture too. Don’t ya think some of the real buildings are a bit too complicated? You can find the images at Flickr searching for “Lego cities”. Amazing stuff!

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Japan shows us a glimpse of the future

Saturday, December 4th, 2010

Unfortunately japan didn’t win the chance to organize the 2022 world cup in soccer, but their presentation is breathtaking. The amount of new technology that they’re showing is astonishing – on the fly translators, augmented reality and what’s even better a holographic representation of the main games in many other countries. Imagine that – you go to a stadium in your country and you see all the stars doing what they’re doing somewhere in Japan in real time. Well that won’t happen since Japan didn’t win and that sucks because an event like that could push the technology forward. Just watch the video

Doesn’t it always work like that? An event of a totally different kind can push the technology forward so it later can be used for many other things. Rock concerts anyone ?

Apple + News Corp. = The Daily?

Monday, November 22nd, 2010

Apple is pushing forward the magazine revolution by cooperating with news corp. and they want to create a tablet-only newspaper. This is revolutionary and exciting for a couple of reasons. One – right now the tablet papers are “versions” of a regular paper. This one will be completely 1′s and 0′s so less trees will die in the process. Good.

There seems to be a lot of discussion about it recently, but mostly content-wise or about their future plans – i.e. more electronic only but high quality content publications. And yet everyone seems to be missing one point – since we already kinda know how a tablet magazine should look and work in terms of visuals and interface, is it the time for an “apple style revolution” again? Will they invent a tablet newspaper interface of their own, or will they simply base it on the best ones out there (Flipboard). ?

We’ll probably see sometime mid-december. And if the interface will be new it might be a start for A LOT of change coming soon to the tablet publishing industry. Well unless it’s actually any good…

Mixed artforms

Tuesday, November 16th, 2010


Johan Thörnqvist is a guy that mixes drawings and photographs to create what’s not there (or at least not visible to everyone). Adding small cities and characters, he keeps the balance of the drawing-to-photo and the result is simply stunning. See for yourself after the break. Check more of Johan Illustrations at www.snarlik.se
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Amazing paper cutouts

Saturday, November 13th, 2010

Simon Lourenco has made some amazing paper cutouts that I’d like to share with you today. Call it old fashioned but analog art is still not without it’s appeal. Enjoy.







Creative Windows ad – mac vs pc all over again

Thursday, November 11th, 2010

The Mac vs PC war has been fought ruthlessly all over the interwebs for at least a decade now, both on the advertising and on social front. And as with any controversial subject there are fans of both sides. But Microsoft didn’t really make creative ads before, and now it’s trying to show that PC’s are not “square” and “office and games” only and can be used to make really nice, creative things. Good! Because in the end the machine is just the means to achieving a goal that comes up in the mind of it’s creator. And the mind is not yet branded with any logo. See the cool video below :