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Muffin Pouffe by Matteo Bianchi

Danilo — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 07:50:12 +0000

Italian designer Matteo Bianchi showcased his ‘Muffin Pouffe’ at TENT London 2011 this week which is his interpretation of an ottoman or hassock. The seat is covered with plush leather cushioning that’s crafted to look like the top of a chocolate muffin. Bianchi made the base of the removable seat hollow for the storage of living room essentials including the TV remote, salty snacks, or a few books in the event there’s nothing interesting on television.

via: hungeree.com

Valencia Design Week #1

koikoikoi — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 16:50:03 +0000

Yesterday was the first day at Valencia Design Week. We had a really full scheduled day, with many interesting visits. Starting with some graphic design masterpieces by Pepe Gimeno, one of the most influent designer in Valencia and in the whole Spain; the exhibition has been attended by Pepe himself, explaining the processes behind the projects. One in particular has captured our attention, a personal project called “Diary of a Shipwreck Survivor”, consisting in a deliciously crafted book containing a collection of art/graphic pieces made of objects found on the shore.

We then had a stop at Odosdesign, a product design studio. The space is lovely, people are great as much as their project, and the thing that really impressed is that they not just create the design of the product, but they also make the art direction of its communication. This is being creative! This professional and amazingly inspiring aproach is what we found in each of the Valencian studios we have been today.

The end of the day has been illuminating, not just literally. The visit to Luzifer lamp factory showed us a reality we supposed to find just in California maybe. The creative aproach of this team of amazing people should really be teached at school. The place is an amazing former wine farm in the countryside, the picnic area was just stunning (as the food) and their creative process and production is pure art. Also they really make art of their products, with a designer creating digital art out of their photographed lamps, making series of prints and doing exhibitions of them! And inviting graffiti artists to create art pieces and displaying them in the factory (which basically is a big lab where lamps are handmade one by one!), and calling illustrators and artists to create original artworks for their catalogues, posters and stuff. What we found there was Art rather than “simply” product design. Really inspiring.

Vertical Parallax – A new trend in webdesign

Danilo — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 15:15:13 +0000

The illusion of parallax is one of the most interesting effects in the web design. Here the best examples of websites that have a parallax scrolling. Some use the effect to add a little moviement to the background of the site, while others use the parallax effect more prominently to create an exciting exploration.

TUTORIAL by webdesignshock

Pencil Shaving Portraits by Kyle Bean

Danilo — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 23:17:54 +0000

Here is a selection of artworks by UK artist/designer Kyle Bean, among which his Pencil shaving portraits.

Juan Osborne | a picture is worth a thousand words |

Martina Cavalieri — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 20:23:02 +0000

Juan Osborne is an architect by profession and passionate for programming and designing, Juan’s compositions are amazing and each of them is not only worth a thousand words but are literally made up of thousand words.

The Frrail – illustrated music

Alessandro Maggioni — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 09:20:54 +0000

The frrail is a music project exploring the concept of storytelling from both a musical and a visual side.
It’s a concept “grown out from the paper” and it has in this basic material its pivot.
Alessandro Maggioni, visual designer and band leader, developed a
musical vision strictly connected with media design, conceived in this case as one of the band instruments. The ‘Sakura No Arashi’ packaging, the website ‘thefrrail.com’ and ‘The Snail Ride’ video are part of the same universe portrayed by notes.

The Snail Ride

backstage

Drawing by Joe Fenton

Danilo — Sun, 15 May 2011 23:39:16 +0000

After studying sculpture at Wimbledon School of Art, Joe has worked for several years in the film industry as a concept designer and sculptor for directors like Terry Gilliam and companies like Disney and Miramax. Her personal work, executed in pencil and ink, are inspired by some of the early Surrealists like Hieronymus Bosch and Breugal.

http://joefentonart.com/

Retro Style Robots by Cris Rose

Danilo — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 10:40:59 +0000

Cris Rose is a London based artist and designer with a degree in Product Design BSc from Brunel University. His love of technology, antiquated curios and all things nature, have caused him to repeatedly produce retro styled robots with conservation on their mind and rust on their chests.

http://crisrose.tumblr.com

All his work currently for sale can be found at crisrose.bigcartel.com

The Art of Grant Coghill

Jellyfish — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 14:59:41 +0000

Grant Coghill is a Scottish illustrator and designer who studied web/graphic design in Aberdeen is now based in Austria. He works in a variety of media and is currently experimenting with spray/airbrush/acrylic. We just love the surreal character of his work, the intricate detail, the color palettes and textures!

Make sure, you check out his Behance gallery and his tee designs, as well (discovered via Feingut). Enjoy a sample of his work below:

Ethan is Sweet

Danilo — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 15:18:06 +0000

Ethan Park is a Graphic Designer and Art Director in London specializing in typographic compositions. He has recently worked on the SKY rebranding campaign

> ethanissweet.co.uk