Anna’s blog
It is nonsense to be an inspiration geek without a slight addiction to music. Last week I met Anna in the cafe I usually study at and found out about her passion and profession which is music. Checking her blog made me believe that I have added one more of those “online-living species with an addiction to inspiration” to my network of friends. You can visit her website and follow her blog to increase your weekly dose of inspiration.
An epic commercial by Intel
To build excitement around the 2nd Generation Intel® Core™ i5 processor, Intel is launching an action-adventure video titled “The Chase.” The spot demonstrates the performance capabilities of the new processors by creating an action-movie style chase sequence that takes place through a wide variety of program windows on a computer desktop.
Paul Neave
Paul is a British interactive designer. His passion, as he says, is to dissolve the barriers between technology and people. I believe he is very successful in making the digital world more simple, fun and human. Visiting his website is fun and playful. I loved his works. Jump into his world and get your daily dose of inspiration. Click here >>
The poetics of Arghavan
A Bachelor of Fine Arts in Iran, later, studying Fashion design in India and finally running her studio in Hungary represents her as an artist and designer with passion of mixing western and eastern culture as well as design and arts. “I try to mix my art and design knowledge to empurple my world” she says. You can visit her poetic design portfolio by clicking here >>
A power point presentation?!
Today, while surfing the net, I was faced with two posts on ideasareawesome and swiss-miss blogs that were so inspiring.
Communicating a concepts is very challenging. It is extremely demanding not to make boring presentations specially when it comes to design strategies or contents that lots of graphs and texts have to be displayed.
Creating awesome and communicative presentations does not necessarily need high skills in soft-wares such as Adobe After effects. Look how three animators have made this presentation, in three days, just using Google Docs!
What I have shared here is part of the creation process but you can also check this link if you want to access—and playback—the presentation.
For exhibition and booth design geeks
Recently, I borrowed the book “Exhibition Design” from a friend. For those who are interested in “exhibition and stand design” and look for inspiration and some case studies, it will be a mind opening one. As it is said in the Reddot design store “the book presents the world’s most spectacular designs for commercial and cultural installations, spanning from smaller trade stands, large museum-like exhibition areas and temporary presentations in cultural centers, to design showrooms and spaces for product promotion”. Take a look at the book here >>
Incredibox
Here are the instruments, percussions and effects. Drag them on the characters and they will sing it by heart. The Incredibox is an online application that offers you to discover the musical universe of ” The Incredible Polo“. Enjoy it.
Farshid Monfared’s illustrations
Lovely monsters that he creates and his recent exhibition, “Aklil-Al-Molouk“, have impressed many critics and designers. Farshid Monfared has studied Illustration at Art and Architecture University in Tehran. Better to take a look at his portfolio to feel the essence of his work and find out how he perceives the world. Click here to visit his personal website >>
Prezi, the zooming presentation editor
It is almost two years that I am using Prezi to prepare some of my presentations. A number of features that were crucial to edit and customize the presentation were missing.
The recently-added editing features, now, give users more control in designing their own works.
Today, I was exploring their website and found this presentation interesting, content-wise and also as a sample for what you are able to do by Prezi.
The Memymom
To create their beauty and the beast, mixed with a pinch of humor, Marilène & Lisa (mother & daughter) have been working intensively together on images through the use of digital photography and Photoshop for almost seven years. Their so-called “Photographism” artworks simply inspire me! Visit their website Memymom and you can follow Lisa on Facebook, as well.
FUJITSU DESIGN AWARD 2011
A LIFE with Future Computing
a design competition to create new lifestyle from next-generation computing
Japanese company Fujitsu will work with designboom to hold an international industrial design competition.
everyone is eligible to enter the competition, from professionals to students, who are involved with,
or are interested in, design. participation in groups is also accepted.
Saba’s snapshots
Saba Niknam, is an Iranian art student at Ecole Superieure des Arts Decoratifes de Strasbourg. Her artworks represent snapshots of her nightmares and dreams. Her fashion designs and illustrations truly demonstrate her super-cool mindset. Take a look at her profile.
Village Green
Village Green is a creative studio. They are designers working on disciplines such as branding, graphic art, image making, art direction and moving image and from fashion, arts, music, sports, advertising, print design to interactive design. You will enjoy taking a look at their works. Click here >>
PSFK CONFERENCE LONDON 2010
John Grant talks about crowd-sourcing, sustainability and the power of co-operative systems. I found his talk is very inspiring. Click here to watch his lecture >>
Superbien
The super creative use of projection mapping. I would not miss visiting SUPERBIEN video channel on Vimeo.
Design Management Blog
I would highly recommend this blog for those who like to follow news and information around design management. The latest post of Raulf is about “Design Strategy”. Click here to read this post.
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The Brand Driven Innovation, a fresh approach
Well! take a deep deep breath and visit their website.
What is Brand Driven Innovation anyway?
BDI is a vision and working method, merging the domains of branding, innovation and design, to create value and meaning for organizations and their customers.
BDI is based on the understanding that:
1. The focus of branding should not be the creation and communication of the brand promise, but its fulfillment. The brand should be rooted in the organization’s culture and vision, and connected to its customers’ needs and aspirations. In order for the brand to function as a shared launching platform for innovations, the brand must be accessible, usable and inspiring for everyone who must work with it.
2. Innovation should be driven by a vision on the value an organization can add to the lives of its customers. Innovation is about understanding this value, and turning it into a sustainable growth. In BDI, innovation is focused on fulfilling the brand’s promise through new products, services, processes or business models.
3. The brand needs innovation to fulfill its promise, and innovation needs branding to infuse it with meaning and understanding of the relationship between the organization and its customers. Design, and more particularly, design thinking, is the glue that creates the synergy between branding and innovation. Design turns vision into value and connects organizations to users.
Stand
Stand, a Glasgow based studio, has developed an astonishing portfolio through five years of work. Their portfolio is rich and includes wide range of projects from interior design to designing brand identities for their clients.
monsterdrawings on post-it notes
Don Kenn draws on post-it notes when he finds some free time. He writes and directs television shows for kids. Take a look at his gallery >>
Colombo phones and Joe Colombo himself
UK designer Tej Chauhan has designed some killer retro-futuristic telephones, named the Colombo One and Colombo Two (photo above) after designer Joe Colombo.
Joe Colombo had a short but impactful career in design, from just 1962 until his untimely demise, at age 41, in 1971. In addition to working on furniture for Alessi and Kartell, Colombo was fond of producing hi-tech interiors that featured touches like TVs that disappeared into the ceiling and panels that rotated to reveal hidden bars.
You can read more about Colombo’s work here, and if you happen to live in Graz, you’ll be able to catch the last installment of the Vitra Design Museum’s Colombo retrospective, “Joe Colombo: Inventing the Future.”
