December 2009
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In the Shadow of the Moon - On 4oD
This beautifully shot documentary told by the surviving Apollo Astronauts is one of many recent film 4 documentary’s that deserves recognition for its exquisiteness. So much so that ‘In the Shadow of the Moon’ is probably one of the best hour’s + thirty six minutes of your life that you won’t want back.
This documentary does more than just covers the Apollo...
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London 2012 webcams
Ok.. this is my geeky confession, i love building sites. I enjoy watching the construction processes, frameworks/scaffolding, i really really like cranes and as for fluorescent colours and big generators don’t even go there. So if you also share with me an unusual YET PERFECTLY NORMAL love for construction sites but have always dreamt of ones without the uncomfortable drilling and...
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I hope everyone will come back to Myspace soon
www.lamebook.com
Research Studios - D&AD Posters
Recuperate = information graphics fan boyz. In fact i think you’d be hard pushed to find any one who doesn’t have a soft spot for a bit of well designed/sympathetic information graphics. Research Studios have been behind this years new look to the D&AD awards and i’m sure you’ll all agree it’s some really lovely stuff, they’re apparently doing all the...
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WatchBring back the old school. Bring back Shawn Farmer. If you don’t about the history and rise of snowboarding and its early pioneers + the directors who caught it all on super 16, this documentary from Vice and Burton will totally satisfying your need like us for a daily contemporary history lesson.
Patrick Leger
Theres something really charming about Patrick Legers illustrations down partly to Partick’s excellent use of tone and washed out colours. His style can’t help but remind me of excuse the slightly cliché term of work that would sit comfortably along side work from the 60s.
http://www.patrick-leger.com/
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The Lazy Designer’s Guide to Success
I still cant work out weather this is the best advised offered and complete genius or a bit rubbish and not entirely convincing anyway its amazing to get some insight of Michael Bierut a prolific designer, founder of Design Observer and partner at Pentagram’s New York office.
The Lazy Designer’s Guide to Success
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So Pitchfork have done there best of the best top 100 tracks of the year which they obligatorily have to do otherwise we seem to forget everything that happened over the last 12 months and listen to Christmas songs.
I don’t know weather the guy who compiled it got bored or if his internship came to an end but there is only 68 songs on this Spotify playlist or maybe and more likely 32 of...
One free thing to do today. Go to the Moon!
Still waiting on that phone call from Nasa? Well now you can recreate your very own Apollo 11 mission to the moon (from your laptop!)
If your familiar and still have fond childhood memories of Microsoft’s Encarta 97 this will bring back the same nostalgic tingles as when you found out they had made 97 interactive. So turn off the lights put on your headphones and pretend your in...
See you on the other side I.D. Magazine has...
Perhaps, the biggest piece of design literature news of the year has just happened underneath everybody’s nose, while we were all busy out looking for christmas trees Americas oldest design magazine I.D. (international design) not i-D folded yesterday.
Below is International Design official press release.
To Readers, Advertisers and Friends of I.D. Magazine:
Since 1954, I.D. Magazine has...
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Lo-Fi-Fnk
We asked the lovely guys...
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Architecture Sunday
Ryugyong Hotel (Pyongyang, North Korea)
Under the leaders Kim Jong-il and his father Kim Il-sung, North Korea has become fiercely isolationist, nationalistic, and totalitarian. Despite being one of the planet’s poorest countries, the communist state looks for any achievement to boost itself in eyes of the world.
Its people know little or nothing of other nations except for the fact that...
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Helmut Smits.
He is a multidisciplinary visual artist from Rotterdam, Netherland. His work offers this odd combination of derision, naiveté and above all bloody clever.
His work seems to go against assumptions and what we have learnt to take for granted.
He is most notably for a Coca Cola filter (above) through which a machine turns it into water, concealing billboards at junctions with...
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“Never judge a book by its movie.”
– J. W. Eagan
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Top 10 Animals
Our good friend Micheal Jones at Greasy Splendid has come up with the top 10 animals of the world. Maybe we should have got Attenborough but apparently BBC wildlife programmes are all done on blue screens these days so he wouldn’t know his chiseling bird from his probing bird.
So here it goes:
10) Killer Whale http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3xmqbNsRSk Orcas, as they are also known,...
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Music
Ulrich Schnauss – Monday – Paracetamol
I saw Ulrich Schnauss about a year ago at a festival, it was early on a Sunday but i got up especially to see him, i smelt like skid marks. He was this very submerged figure over nobs and buttons and a 40 miniute verve and build up climaxed like my first time with every sound that had come before it at once… and then silence.
Its stuck with me...
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The 100 essential websites100
The Guardian have released there latest list of the 100 best websites. It sees short attention spans, the rise of Twitter, more browser wars and celebrity gossip sites setting the news agenda.
LET ME SEE IT
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The Brazilian Flag
We Love Flags and we are gonna share our favorites with you.
They are so adored and represent there people. They are also such a naturaul evolution of design and to end up with refined shapes and colours is what gives us all a warm fuzz on our brains. Flags are like tea for the tummy or socks for the feet. The country is the feet the flags are the socks.
Any way here is a very famous...
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Peter Ian Alexander Holmes 20.07.85 - 05.12.09
A few days ago my brother Peter sadly lost his life in an accident on the peaceful mountains in British Columbia. I can’t really describe in words how i feel but my world for the time being has definitely stopped. Pete really loved design and the arts and he said on numerous occasions that he loved me and Blues blog Recuperate and i know he would want me not to stop blogging especially...
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Gareth Roberts.
We’ve been hanging with old friends today one of which is our close friend Gary who is constantly kicking out really good work, he recently did some stuff for Dazed and Confused which we know is that the start of a very long great career. He’s in the process of building a new site but has some bit and pieces you can check up here.
http://ohgee.co.uk
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Mr Doob - 3D face tracking
Before you think it i’d quickly like to address that i know that this isn’t the most mind blowing piece of interactive graphic design there is out there. However, i haven’t yet come across anything as fluid as this flash programme developed by Mr Doob which demonstrates simply and elegantly the huge potential and uses of 3D face tracking on the web, especially as most laptops...
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Architecture Thursday / Nakagin Capsule Tower
Location Tokyo, Japan
Constructed 1970-1972
Use Residential, office
Technical details Floor count 13 / Floor area 3,091.23 m2
Architect Kisho Kurokawa
His visions were for cities of the future inhabited by a mass society were characterized by large scale, flexible, and expandable structures, ostensibly based on Buddhist notions of impermanence and change.
It is actually composed of...
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One great free thing (for your iphone)
Minimal addictive chase the dot iphone app/game designed by Universal Everything with music from one of our favourite sound designers Simon Pyke @ Freeform
You can download it here
Moving Brands - Tackling London's Identity Crisis.
http://abrandforlondon.wordpress.com/
I meant to post about this a few weeks back when it all happened but our shiny new Recuperate wasn’t quite up so i had to delay it till now.. but better late than never!!
If you didn’t hear about it a few weeks back the Greater London Authority/Boris decided that it was time to give London a bit of re-branding and invited those who were brave...