Roadmap designed for The New York Times. The illustrations have appeared on the covers of The New Yorker, Newsweek, Wired, The New York Times Magazine and American Illustration.

Alexa Meade thinks completely backwards. Most artists use acrylic paints to create portraits of people on canvas. But not Meade – she applies acrylic paints on her subjects and makes them appear to be a part of the painting!

Your kids can move out now when they are 5! Also interesting for people who have to live in the streets.

Great idea from Sony: shoot a low light pic without using flash. The website is a bit crappy but the images are worth your while.

On the night of the 21st the Spanish soccer team Real Madrid played a match against the Italian team AC Milan. It was an important match that everybody needed to see..
Heineken convinced several university professors, girlfriends, and several bosses to convince their students, boyfriends and employees to go to a concert on that night. All of them couldn’t say no and had to go to the classical concert. But luckily Heineken had prepared a surprise..

Burger King’s best selling product is the Whopper. No doubt.
Almost everyone on the globe has eaten one of their giant burgers. Double it, triple it, bacon-ize it, you can compose your burger as you want. Now they’ve even personalized their burgers more as you can imagine..

Really like this concept for a fall calendar where the “leaves” fall automatically each day. Watch the video here >

Advertising Agency: Euro RSCG Duesseldorf, Germany

Imagine a splendid symbiosis between concept, aesthetics and technology, add a dash of futurism to the whole and you have a typical Postmachina project. This Amsterdam based design experience company is developing E. Project E is a set of integrated products consisting of wearable/mobile brandable devices. They have the ability to connect users to each other, as well as new or existing services, like social networks. The products create a bridge between the virtual and physical world, and are designed for natural, gesture-based operation.

A blast from the past: Originally posted 2008-05-06 12:54:37.

To promote this they made a street marketing campaign in Manchester Airport with infamous Dutch magician Ramana. Passengers passing by saw him sitting on an invisible seat, seemingly floating on air.

This is for all design professionals. X-Rite, global leader in color standards (they own Pantone), has a little color challenge for you. Can you get the perfect score?

The 21st Century Version of a Grade School Joke

Sarkissian Mason has helped the charity Pathways to Housing highlight the reality of homelessness with a life-size digital projection of a homeless man. A message appears asking people to move the virtual person via text message. Then a different video shows a door on the wall with the man moving into a new home. The person that sent the text receives a second message with a code allowing them to donate to the charity. Watch the video here >

via Creativity Online

Check out FourFace, a new iPhone app that is built on Foursquare, the location-based mobile platform that seems to be taking the world by storm (until everyone gets bored with it).

Dutch magician Ramana performs his famous levitation trick to advertise the benefits of KLM’s economy comfort product.

Perfectly Timed Photos is a great site where you can find shots taken at just the right moment. Submit yours…

A blast from the past: Originally posted 2009-06-23 10:23:01.

TypoFlat is a personal & experimental project of designer Branislav S. Cirkovic. It is a “free flow of creation where no clients or money are involved, just a pure passion for creation and form experimentation”. Check it out on the Behance network.

“All of the animations seen in David Wilson’s music video for Moray McLaren’s ‘We Got Time‘ were created in camera. Repeat: in camera. No CG, no compositing animation loops onto footage – just taking advantage of the way film and persistence of vision works.”

Also- check out the fantastic making-of video that gets deep into rpm and fps nerdiness, and the illustrated discs created by David Wilson.

A blast from the past: Originally posted 2009-04-27 08:49:43.