January 2011
14 posts
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Inner Child: Colorful Home has Trap Doors & Secret...
If kids could design and build whole homes, what would they look like? This so-called Rainbow House is filled with secret doors, slides that bridge between floors and multi-colored spiral staircases to wind you back up. Chutes and ladders, anyone?
Dubbed a “magical oasis’ by its creators (AB Rogers and DA Studio, the busy and noisy road next to the building is matched by equally ...
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Who would design your dream world?
In the movie Inception, Leonardo DiCaprio’s character enters dreams to influence the dreamer or extract valuable information. To redeem himself and gain the opportunity to see his family once again, he agrees to take on a risky dream-within-a-dream-within-a-dream job to plant an idea, called “inception.” For these dream sequences, he requires the assistance of an architect — someone who...
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RGB | Exploration of the “surface’s deepness”
RGB | Color est e pluribus unus
RGB is a work about the exploration of the “surface’s deepness”.
RGB designs create surfaces that mutate and interact with different chromatic stimulus.
RGB’s technique consists in the overlapping of three different images, each one in a primary color. The resulting images from this three level’s superimposition...
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Responsive Web Design: What It Is and How To Use...
Almost every new client these days wants a mobile version of their website. It’s practically essential after all: one design for the BlackBerry, another for the iPhone, the iPad, netbook, Kindle — and all screen resolutions must be compatible, too. In the next five years, we’ll likely need to design for a number of additional inventions. When will the madness stop? It won’t, of course.
In...
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Mercedes-Benz Embraces Sculptural Experimentation
The designers at the big MB are pushing the limits of automotive design by embracing sculptural experimentation. It permeates every aspect of their design process, from collaborative sketches to workgroups. The resulting sculpture titled Aesthetics No. 2 is stunning – deceptively complex and being ingeniously organic. I can only image which future Mercedes-Benz interiors will benefit from...
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Facebook Icons & Illustrations
At Facebook we often need to use our iconography at sizes larger than the original 16x16 pixel versions (which were not drawn by me). It took many iterations and critiques to understand the best way to balance the amount of detail and rendering style to maintain the aesthetic of the original icons at larger scale.
Illustrations for various Facebook projects. Work done while...
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OTETE & ANYO | Baby's Handprint & Footprint
The word “OTETE & ANYO” are lovely nickname for baby’s “HAND & FOOT” in Japanese language.
They are only original stamps in the world that engraved handprint or footprint that is within defined size (H.127mm × W. 89mm) in real size. Not only using a simple stamp that can be stamped on papers and letters, but also they can be used for lifelong memorial...
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