Updated every Friday,
the Friday 5ive Project is a
creative space where the
RR Donnelley design studios
unite to share and show the
latest and freshest inspiration.
Bold, bright colour and positive, uplifting messages have helped to brighten the shanty town of Villa Brâsilandia in São Paulo.
Loving these cafe stools with famous quotes laser etched into their tops. Great idea, execution and level of finish.
Thoughtfully witty and interesting illustrations from Berlin.
Highly masculine and powerful oil paintings using vibrant colour and dramatic brushwork.
Spectacularly nice bamboo laptop case.
Playful design and a nice bit of walnut veneer.
A beautifully simple and elegant solution that somehow feels quirky.
Really smart backlit polaroid-style frames.
Graceful table design by Makota Tojiki.
Gorgeous – whisky casks reclaimed and reused as flooring.
Lovely kawii style Star Wars illustrations.
A brilliant Star Wars referencing illustration.
Seriously detailed and well-engineered LEGO model. The video is worth watching.
Amazing paintings cleverly using visor reflections.
Great Star Wars themed mosaic and poster set.
Adorable. Love the way that they take on their own personalities.
The name just describes the table perfectly – lovely idea and beautifully executed.
There’s something really satisfying in how these buttons are only complete when threaded.
Spectacularly nice bento box style lunchbox.
Really cute illustration style, simple and appealing.
Colsubsidio-Book-Exchange
Made by Lowe, a Spanish design agency, these posters are a really clever
and minimalist mash-up of two stories: Snow White/Sherlock, Harry
Potter/Troy and Little Red Riding Hood/Moby Dick. Playing on the
exchange’s tagline “Come With A Story And Leave With Another”. These
posters are AMAZING!
Beautiful Typography
Strategic use of type, colors and graphics, and obstruction-free aesthetics devoid of visual clutter are a few of the characteristics shared among web designs that are clean and simple. Here are some examples of excellent web designs that are clean, simple and elegant.
TV Posters
These minimalist graphics by Albert Exergian perfectly capture the
essence of some of my very favourite shows with his simple but really
iconic designs. The full collection can be found on
http://print-process.com/
National Music Centre, Canada
The Cantos Music Foundation set out to reshape their organization to a new cultural institution that commemorates outstanding Canadian music while also serving as the national music community. The organization will serve education, research, recording, live music, innovation and will facilitate programs for people of all ages.
In order to complete the above The National Music Centre under went a complete rebrand starting with the architecture of the building following through to the branding an identity.
The result is a brand that is modern, clean lined and expresses its self through white space. http://nmc.ca/en/building
Pixar Posters
These posters form part of a limited edition collection created by designer Wonchan Lee as a tribute to Pixar. He created minimal versions to represent some of his favourite Pixar films. You can see the full collection in colour at http://www.behance.net/gallery/Pixar-Minimal-Posters/3008131 and the limited edition collection prints are available at http://www.gallerywonchan.com/
Labu Miah
TROPICANA
DDB Advertising created a billboard that harnesses the energy from oranges to illuminate a neon sign that reads “Natural Energy” & the Tropicana logo. Through several thousand spikes of copper and zink, a lot of wiring and 3 months of testing to make a giant multi-cell battery powerful enough to light up a billboard.
A 90second film was made to accompanying the advert.
Choose a career in health
In a bus shelter, a billboard showing a man on a hospital bed was installed. An electrocardiogram monitor was incorporated into the billboard so people could see and hear that the man had no heartbeat. By pressing the “push here” sign on the man’s chest, people could make the heart beat again and resuscitate the patient.
Help the homeless
The longer you live on the street, the harder it is to get off it.
Adidas in China
The visuals are quite striking.
Insect repellent spray
Excellent image manipulating to get the brilliant concept come literally come alive.
And finally…
When you pledge an organ, you gift someone a new life. A simple but very effective piece of design.
Bianca Chang
Sydney based artist and designer Bianca Chang creates these painstakingly lovely sculptures by cutting, carving and layering pieces of paper.
Felice Varini
Varini creates his artworks in the 3d built environment, no canvasses in sight. Walking around in these spaces and all you will see are seemingly random lines and shapes. However, move to the correct point of view and suddenly all becomes clear and you see some striking visual effects. Many, many more works on his site.
City Maps
An interesting visual way to map cities (well only New York, San Francisco and Denver for now anyway).
d.stitched
Some lovely examples of knitting from d.stitched, aka Deirdre Nelson.
Timo Mayer
A great series, The Movie Icons – 120 minutes packed into a single pictogram, based on a quote, a scene, a concept.
Erik Natze
Erik Natze is a pioneer of generative art, using routines coded in Actionscipt he uses Flash to produce some stunning organic imagery that blur the lines between design and technology.
A quick snapshot of some good advertising.
‘I met the walrus’ - John Lennon 1969 interview with animation
A great interview with the Lennon with some fantastic animation to accompany it.
Some nice examples of creative typography.
I saw these on youtube and thought they were an interesting vision of the future of technology and how it becomes part of everyday life.
“A day made of glass”.
Concept video created by Corning. An interesting extension of some of the glass and multitouch technology we use today.
“Advance future technology”.
Pixels
“Pixels” is an animated short movie inspired by video games and filmed in New York City. It was written and directed by Patrick Jean, photography direction by Matias Boucard, SFX by Patrick Jean and guest team members, and produced by One More Production.
PIXELS by Patrick Jean from ONE MORE PRODUCTION on Vimeo.
It is not the Yellow Brick Road
To celebrate the 10th anniversary of the “Arts and Nature Trail” program, artist Gaelle Villedary installed a long grass carpet across the village of Jaujac in France. The green trail required 168 rolls and runs for 420 meters and blends seamlessly into the village streets.
Safari Calendar
Safari is a paper animal calendar. Simply press out the parts, fold and secure to complete.
Concept iPad
The key highlights of this iPad 3 concept include edge-to-edge screen, magnetic iPads with near field communications (NFC) and 3d holographic display for multiplayer games. Not a gamer? Nor am I. It’s just that these features would make a much more interesting experience.
Iceland
Below are some stunning landscape photographs from Iceland.
Richard Mayfield
Richard Mayfield was named photographer of the year by the British Institute of Professional Photography (BIPP).
Paul Cadden
Pauls work may all look like photographs at first glance but they are all drawings. I especially like his drawing of the man with the water running down his face. The detail involved is incredible.
Michael Rogers
Minimalism is a key factor in Michael’s designs and the Chewbacca poster is awesome.
Dave Sutton
Dave Sutton is a local illustrator to Edinburgh and his drawings are all fun, bright and breezy. His website is quite quirky too and is worth a look.
Coco DeParis
Coco DeParis creates unique pieces of art over antique paper or books. No painting is ever the same as she always creates new copies if you want a print that has already been sold.
