Moving Walls

Perhaps the most amazing, creative and ambitious stop frame animation I’ve ever seen by artist Blu from Bologna
Soon to be appearing on walls of Tate modern.

Dave Brown
Posted on Thursday, 15th of May 2008 Permalink

Carbon Footprint

I spotted this on the way to work on Monday, it was put up the night before, a pretty cool horticulral adidas poster just under the bridge by Kingsland road London, unfortunately made with plastic plants but worth a look.

Vikesh Bhatt
Posted on Thursday, 24th of April 2008 Permalink

Blowing Bubbles

I can imagine that the Fallon brainstorming session for the new Sony ad went a little something like this:
“Ok everyone, we’ve done bouncy balls, we’ve done exploding paint, we’ve even done plasticine rabbits, now what else can we fill a City with?”
“Funny you should ask that boss coz my washing machine broke this morning!”
See the ad here (via motionographer.com)
See more images here

Dave Brown
Posted on Wednesday, 16th of April 2008 Permalink

“Right Turn Clyde”

Geoff McFetridge animates Alternative Energy for the NY Times annual Year In Ideas issue. Incredibly UPS saved 28.5 million miles, three million gallons of gas and 31,000 metric tons of CO2 by reducing the amount of left hand turns that they make. Apparently they used software, not Clint Eastwood and an Orang-utan.
Link (via Motionographer)

David Rainbird
Posted on Tuesday, 11th of December 2007 Permalink

“now i know my abc…

..buy this wallchart”. Here’s a nice thing. An ABC of endangered species in the British Isles as a very beautiful illustated A2 wallchart. This is the handiwork of Present & Correct of Kentish Town. £1 for every one sold goes to The National Trust, for new hedges and dormice boxes. Buy it here. via I Like

Vikesh Bhatt
Posted on Monday, 15th of October 2007 Permalink

Have a nice day!

Guaranteed to induce a panic attack, created by poodwaddle, feed your morbid facination with World Clock. 4 people drowned whilst I was watching, wonder who they were?

Dave Brown
Posted on Tuesday, 25th of September 2007 Permalink

I am a Plastic Bag

The Photographer’s Gallery in London is collecting photographs of plastic bags in the wild to create an online archive. Shown here from top to bottom: Matthew Gordon, A. Betancourt Atias and Alex Kickham. Submit your own, perhaps while your waiting for a certain environmental version?

David Rainbird
Posted on Friday, 20th of July 2007 Permalink

Hamster Shredder!

No, not Freddie Starr’s latest gadget, but Tom Ballhatchet’s ingenious design for a hamster cage with integrated hamster-powered paper shredder. It’s a virtuous circle - hamster runs on wheel, gears drive shredder, hamster gets more bedding.

Another of Tom’s MA Industrial Design projects is already patent applied – the TV packaging that becomes it’s own TV stand.

David Rainbird
Posted on Friday, 20th of July 2007 Permalink

Blowing in the wind

Dutch artist Theo Jansen makes kenetic skeleton scultures which walk in the wind. They are incredible, at first I didn’t believe they were real, they move so beautifully they almost appear to be CGI. Eventualy he wants to put these animals out in herds on the beaches, so they will live their own lives. Genius! How long until we see his creations in a car or telecomunications ad? Visit his site and check out the gallery, or view a movie via glumbert.com.

Dave Brown
Posted on Thursday, 19th of July 2007 Permalink

Batteries not included

Whilst avoiding the snow during a summer holiday in Switzerland this year (yes it snowed in June) I came across this fantastic Freitag bag in a small town called Thun, it is made out of recycled truck tarpaulins, seat belts and inner tubes, cool already but the best bit about the bag is the packaging it came in, a box that turns into a TV!  Check out Freitag here, they have also produced a limited edition range for the Tate London only available from the Tate shops in August, pitch up your tent early.

Liz Greening
Posted on Thursday, 19th of July 2007 Permalink