Painted faces by Georg Wendt
Georg Wendt is a German photographer. His art is colorful and creative. These series can be described as little people painting faces. What more to say - watch.
3 comments January 31st, 2007
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Things are not what they look. Part III
And again a compilation of realistic looking ads. Enjoy!
Ad: Ever fancied yourself a Playmate? Well now you have such opportunity with this Playboy towel.
Agency: Grey, Argentina
Ad: A car in a window. Fiat Idea shaped adhesives were placed on the windows of airplanes. Panoramic view.
Agency: Leo Burnett, Brasil
Ad: Advertising promoting hand-washing. The sign on the doorknob says: “You washed. This guy didn’t.” or “92% of guys say they washed. 34% were lying.”. Pretty hilarious. (Btw, did you wash your hands?)
Agency: JWT, Toronto
Ad: “With 19% fat you can easily enjoy a bit more”?, says Rama.
Agency: Jung von Matt/Alster, Germany
Ad: From a distance you will see a police car, hiding behind a billboard, what police in Turkey typically does. What do you do? You slow down and slowly drive to the billboard text - “Pay your traffic tickets on time without waiting in line - isbank.com.tr”
Agency: Rafneri, Turkey
Ad: Merchandising idea for Che Men’s Magazine cross-media campaign, a real duvet and two pillow covers, so that you never sleep alone.
Agency: Duval Guillaume, Belgium
Ad: Peep into that hole -“Papa John’s” pizza is here.
Agency: Saatchi&Saatchi, Peru
Ad: Similar ad to the previous, but even more tempting - a guerilla for Otto Catalogue?, a huge mail-order company in Germany. Model Eva Padberg personally presented it to thousands of homes.
Agency: Kolle Rebbe, Germany
Ad: Old, but also nice advertisment was placed on the way to the Munich airport in Germany as a part of the Impossible Team? theme for 2006 World Cup.
Agency: TBWA
Ad: Another towel, though this time, less happy. For Skin Cancer Awareness?.
Author: Mike O’Sullivan
Ad: This Ford Mustang billboard isn’t painted - it was created using a special type of semi-transparent material, that blurs the background to make it look like you are driving really fast.
Author: Ian Hart
These two ads present cool ideas, unfortunately neither client nor agency is known.
31 comments January 30th, 2007
Fashion illustrator David Downton
David Downton is a fashion illustrator, whose works have been on the cover of Bazaar, Style, Telegraph Saturday and other magazines. David Downton favourite model is stunning Erin O’Connor, he also does fashion illustrations for such celebrities as Catherine Deneuve, Liz Hurley, Dita von Teese, Iman, fashion designers and others.
Downton uses watercolour or gouache for small scale pieces. For flat saturated colour he uses cut paper collage and then applies line using an acetate overlay.
Works of David Downton include 20 original paintings and 300 prints fot Philip Treacy’s first hotel, the G, in Galway. The drawings feature Erin O’ Connor, Jade Parffit, Jasmine Guinness, Linda Evangelista and Carmen Dell’Orefice wearing Philip’s hats.
David also drew Dita von Teese and the drawings appeared on 5 pages of the Telegraph Saturday magazine.
10 comments January 29th, 2007
Futuristic-looking car trends
Peugeot 908 RC
The 908 RC is a large 4-passenger sedan powered by the company’s new 700-horsepower Le Mans V12 diesel. Modern leather-interior, glass roof and outer coupelike profile create a futuristic feeling.
BMW Concept Coupe Mille Miglia
In the 1940 race a car prior to this one was driven into the record books and past the chequered flag. This car looks ahead to future motor sport achievements, with a modified drivetrain and suspension from the new Z4 M Coupe providing the car’s power and control. A body 23 centimetres longer, and four centimetres lower, than BMW’s production is set off by bespoke 20-inch alloy wheels on 245/40 R 20 tyres that complement the car’s powerful presence.
More about Mille Miglia
VW 1 litre
Volkswagen has presented the world’s most economical road car: the 1-litre or 285 mpg car.
An average fuel consumption of this car is just 0.99 litres per 100 kilometres, despite this the car looks as a sports car with a simple design for two people.
More of VW concept cars
Mercedes Ocean Drive
Mercedes calls this new Ocean Drive concept an inspiring jewel on wheels?. It’s a drop top four-seater with AIRSCARF neck-heating technology, which is basically a re-styled version of S-class. Mercedes Ocean Drive will be produced later this year.
Colani-Mercedes trucks
Luigi Colani, a Swiss-German industrial designer, in collaboration with Mercedes have produced these Colani Trucks back in the 80s, and now their design has improved drastically.
7 comments January 29th, 2007
Flowers are trendy
Sega launched new iSmile flower. The flower grooves to your iTunes. It features a built-in speaker, moving leaves, illuminated petals and a 3.5 millimeter input jack. iSmile flower can even react to changing genres of music. Yours for around $40.
Get iSmile here
The flower printer prints images on to real live flower petals, without damaging them. A weird gadget, though surely very romantic. Around $ 1500. Comes with everything necessary to get started at once.
Get it here
Nec will present new sensibility technology, the KotoHana (talking flower). It recognizes your feelings and changes color, depending on your mood, through LED’s via Wireless LAN and the Internet, even if you are away from it. Great thing to give someone you care about.
(Not on stock yet)
Google active desktop features Desktop Flower plugin. You can grow it and care about it.
2 comments January 26th, 2007
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Crazy Swedish guy Thomas Broome
Thomas Broome is an artist from Sweden. He is a real freak, in a good meaning of this word. His works are weird and psychodelic, yet so creative!
Thomas Broome makes bugs of cut-out and folded Coca-cola cans.
He made a painted polymer sculpture of a man shot from behind
A dog-cat, polyformclay
A lifesize sculpture in painted acrylic glass, of a man built up with 1×1x1 cm cubes (pixels). The man has a innerlight which makes him seem like he just stepped out of the screenbased world into ours.
Thomas Broome is also the author of Modern Mantras?. Modern Mantras are paintings, where all objects are drawn in words. See for yourself!
More of this great artist - www.thomasbroome.se
1 comment January 25th, 2007
Oops, wrong door
New anti-bias campaign in Vienna called”Vienna Sees It Differently”? was launched. So well-known signs in public places have been altered to make people rethink gender-based stereotypes.
Thus, nappy-changing facilities have been given a new look - now an image of a man changing his baby has appeared. Transport signs have also changed sex - a man and a child, instead of traditional mother and a child, can be now viewed in buses and trams.
The new signs also include a fire exit sign showing a woman in boots with flying hair and a warning sign of slippery surfaces with a woman on high-heels.
Vienna is not the only city, where traditional signs have been replaced for a more innovative look. Thus, these restroom signs seem to differ from the usual:
Unusual signs have been also used in advertisments. Guerilla advertising campaign for Axe is just mind-blowing!!!
So is Fender advertisment:
1 comment January 24th, 2007
Advertising
Green
Grass does not necessarily grow on the earth. See funny ways of growing grass, and this is legal.
Living walls, or vertical gardens, are very popular nowadays. Growing a vertical garden is not difficult - all you need is a metal frame, PVC and felt. Most famous vertical garden architect is Patrick Blanc. His works looks just amazing:
More of Patrick Blanc www.verticalgardenpatrickblanc.com
Living walls can also be large, including almost 100 panels, like this one in Singapore:
Living walls can be placed indoors and decorate your appartment:
Grass can also be planted on roofs, like for Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh or a smaller house.
You can make grass sculptures!
Eden Project
Or you can plant seeds for some reading:
More of the book here
In San Francisco to celebrate the launch of a new website www.letsgreenthiscity.com such funny couches were arranged in the city.
2 comments January 23rd, 2007
Eat funny!
How weird food can be? Here are our recommendations of how to have a really weird lunch.
First of all, there is Emergency Chocolate. It is natural and really tasty. Prescriptions: For immediate relief of Chocolate cravings, Lovesickness, Mild anxiety, Exam pressure and Extreme Hunger
Another funny chocolate piece of food is Al Cabino chocolate boot - looks really weird. There is a limited number of such boots made of finest Swiss chocolate.
Another boot is jelly-like and represents Nike. Comes in different flavours.
Tiny Swiss Spice Salt & Pepper Shaker also for emergency situations. One filling will last 2 weeks for 2 people.
Get one at Flight001.com
(By the way, this Flight001 features something called Spork)
A square watermellon.
And finally, set of two Virgin Mary bread presses.
Get one at IWantOneOfThose.com
Bon appetit!
2 comments January 19th, 2007
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Chairs for years
A collection of weird chairs, which will always stay fashionable.
Bibliochase
A chair and a library at one time. The chair can house up to five linear meters of books.
Ofo chair
Another chair-library.
via kancept.com
Coffee Time chair
Actually sitting in a cup of coffee.
Design by National University of Singapore
Gyro Chair
This chair bends however you like it to.
Design by College for Creative Studies
Slouch couch
A six-foot diameter curved chair with a highly finished fiberglass shell and an upholstered interior.
Chipster
Maxi lounge chair.
via kancept.com
Osteon Chair
Very interesting design with a bone-like internal structure.
Paper chair
A chair made of 500 meters of the paper. For different purposes.
9 comments January 18th, 2007
