DESIGN
A House Powered by Exercise
May 15, 2013 | Courtney van der Weyden
Spanish design firm Elii has created the JF-Kit House, based on “an image of a possible future where citizens produce part of their domestic energy requirements with their own physical activities.”
Each room in the concept…
Creative Start-ups find Home in Abandoned gas Station
May 13, 2013 | Courtney van der Weyden
A retro style gas station in Los Feliz, Los Angeles is on the fast track to becoming a community orientated, multi-purpose space. It will be radically transformed into a ‘marketplace where start-up companies and individuals can…
Art Meets Science: Masks Created from Strangers DNA
May 9, 2013 | Courtney van der Weyden
Information artist Heather Dewey-Hagborg has created a rather bizarre series of sculptures for her project Stranger Visions. The sculptures are based on pieces of information; DNA that has been extracted from objects located in public…
Ad uses Photographic Trick to Make it Visible only to Children
May 8, 2013 | Courtney van der Weyden
Spanish organisation Aid to Children and Adolescents at Risk has created a bus stop advert that displays two different messages to adults and children simultaneously. Two messages are shown using lenticular photography technology that…
How Oakley Tested their Wearable Platform
April 19, 2013 | Courtney van der Weyden
Earlier this year Oakley introduced new product Airwave to their range that propelled goggle design and technology to the next level. With a built-in heads up display in the form of a fourteen inch feed that integrates GPS and bluetooth, …
Forensic Artists Proves Women don’t know Their own Beauty
April 17, 2013 | Courtney van der Weyden
Dove’s public relations and marketing campaign Real Beauty launched in 2004. Ogilvy Toronto has breathed new life into the campaign enlisting the support and talent of a forensic artist. Artist Gil Zamora was employed to draw sketches…
Monocle Opens Cafe in London
April 15, 2013 | Courtney van der Weyden
Global affairs magazine Monocle launched in London, 2009. It publishes ten issues a year, has a solid online presence and took to the air in 2011 with a twenty-four hour radio station. It was during 2011 that the publication launched their…
Announcing The Rise & Rise of Made Better in China
April 11, 2013 | Ben Rennie
At a recent conference for the Australian Tourism Industry, I was asked to speak about consumer behaviour and emerging trends. During my research, all roads led to China.
The travel industry in Australia is in a good place. After…
Cafe Drive-in for Cyclists
April 11, 2013 | Courtney van der Weyden
The Zurich city council has installed the ‘Velokafi’; a drive in platform for cyclists. Housed on the terrace of the Rathaus Cafe, are two wooden docking stations with tabletops, complete with a slot at the front that enables …
A Clean Machine that could Remove Tons of Plastic from Oceans
April 2, 2013 | Courtney van der Weyden
Boyan Slat, a nineteen-year-old engineering student has been focusing on a problem that has plagued the world for decades now; ocean pollution. It is estimated that one third of the global ocean surface is covered in plastic pollution. Therefor…
Postcards from Google Earth
April 2, 2013 | Courtney van der Weyden
Postcards from Google Earth are a series of screenshots collected by Brooklyn based artist, Clement Valla. At a first glance it appears as though there was an error or glitch when the image was captured. However the effect occurs when algorithms…
Foursquare’s new Office Space
March 28, 2013 | Courtney van der Weyden
Social media networking company Foursquare recently relocated to their 28,000 foot new office in Soho, New York. The space was designed with the assistance of Audra Canfield from Designer Fluff. Take a browse through the images below.
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Travelling Pop up Agency
March 25, 2013 | Courtney van der Weyden
The Pop Up Agency was founded by six students who adopted the popular trend of the pop-up concept with a unique twist. The concept has gained a successful footing in retail, hospitality and travel and will now be adapted to the design agency. …
Australian Wine Industry Design Competition
March 21, 2013 | Courtney van der Weyden
The Association of Australian Boutique Winemakers (AABW) is currently calling on winemakers to submit entries in the 2013 Australian Wine Design Competition. The competition is devoted to label design and its harmony with the bottle it …
Floating Structures to Clean air Pollution
March 18, 2013 | Courtney van der Weyden 3
Designers Hao Tian, Huang Haiyang and Shi Jianwei have envisioned a new type of skyscraper titled the pH Conditioner. The design was submitted to the annual Evolo Skyscraper Competition. The competition recognises innovation in design,…
Saatchi Works with Homeless to Create ad Copy
March 18, 2013 | Courtney van der Weyden
The Big Issue vendors have partnered with advertising agency M&C Saatchi to create a series of advertisements that visualise their unique retail business. Five designs were selected to be featured on billboards and in magazines across…
Infographic: Twitter Tweet Cheat Sheet
March 14, 2013 | Courtney van der Weyden
Digital agency Linchpin SEO have created infographic: Twitter Tweet Cheat Sheet. Designed to help brands get the most out of the social media platform, it will also assist in increasing engagement and insure marketing efforts are not going…
Japan Erects Sculpture of the Last Standing Tree from Tsunami
March 13, 2013 | Courtney van der Weyden
The last surviving tree from the devastating tsunami that swept across the coast of Rikuzentakata in the Iwate prefecture has been transformed into a massive sculpture. It has been erected to mark the two-year anniversary of the …
Infographic: The Fountain of Youth
February 27, 2013 | Courtney van der Weyden
The UK’s Sunday Times shared a visual representation of twenty-two different ways to live longer. Each recommendation is backed up by a body of research that attributes to a beneficial lifestyle.
TED’s ads Worth Spreading Series
February 27, 2013 | Courtney van der Weyden
TED has revealed the third edition of Ads Worth Spreading at the TED Conference in Long Beach, California. The initiative is to find ads that communicate ideas with consumers that mirrors the way TED communicates with people. The ads and brand…
Google Reveals HQ Design
February 25, 2013 | Courtney van der Weyden
Google have revealed the plans for their built-from-scratch Googleplex to Vanity Fair. Historically, Google have found and taken over existing real estate and modified the building to suit their needs. The move to build from scratch is a …
Infographic: Best ad Campaigns of all Time
February 25, 2013 | Courtney van der Weyden
CollegeOnline have created infographic Best Ad Campaigns of All Time which illustrates, in what is in their opinion the best campaigns and slogans in the history of advertising. Nike leads the way with the best slogan, ‘just do it.’…
Office Designed to look like a Pop Art Museum
February 22, 2013 | Courtney van der Weyden
Design artist RJW Elsinga has collaborated with design director Alrik Koudenburg to renovate and re-design ad agency JWT Amsterdam’s office space. The agency’s motto of ‘seriously surprising’ was …
Bike Made From Junkyard Cars
February 18, 2013 | Courtney van der Weyden
Spanish creative agency Lola Madrid have developed a prototype of a bike where the parts are sourced from junkyard cars. Effectively the design team have created an efficient, ecological and healthy means of transport. The project titled…
Paper Made From Stone
February 18, 2013 | Courtney van der Weyden 2
Repap, as well as being paper spelt backwards is also paper made from stone. It is 100% tree free and requires no timber in production. Created by Ogami, a company based in Milan, this innovative paper is a natural by-product of water and limestone.…
A Floating School
February 13, 2013 | Courtney van der Weyden
Architecture Kunle Adeyemi has envisioned floating structures to become apart of Makoko’s foundation. Makoko is a slum, water-logged neighbourhood and located in Lagos, Nigeria. It has around 250,000 inhabitants that live on…
Take a Peek Inside Google’s Tel Aviv Office
February 8, 2013 | Courtney van der Weyden
In December 2012 Google opened its new Tel Aviv Office, that will house Israel’s growing teams of engineers sales and marketing staff. It boasts nearly 500 work stations and was designed by Camenzind Evolutions in collaboration…
Art School Campaign Mimics Anti-drug ads
February 4, 2013 | Courtney van der Weyden
Detroit’s iconic art and design school, College for Creative Students enlisted Team Detroit to create a campaign to attract prospective students. The result was a series of low-tech posters as the medium of choice titled Art is Worse…
See the Super Bowl Spots Ahead of the Game
February 1, 2013 | Courtney van der Weyden
Historically, ads for the Super Bowl were kept under a tight lock and key. However, with the dominance of social media in our lives, marketers are breaking with tradition. Volkswagen was the brand responsible for setting the trend. In 2011 …
QR Codes Placed Around Rio De Janeiro
January 30, 2013 | Courtney van der Weyden
Last year we featured an article on the Welsh town of Monmouth who strategically placed QR codes around the town to create a unique visitor experience. Now we learn on a similar concept adopted by the city of Rio De Janeiro. The city has leveraged…
Sleeping Around
January 29, 2013 | Courtney van der Weyden
Sleeping Around is a new, interesting take on the pop-up concept, one that has experienced success when employed in retail however has never been applied to hotels. Sleeping Around is set to change this. It is a Belgium based hospitality company…
Starbucks and the Upside of Mondays
January 29, 2013 | Courtney van der Weyden
Monday can be a hard, difficult day for some, with a low to serious case of Mondayitis as the diagnoses. Coffee chain Starbucks have used this age old day of blues as the star of their newest promotion. In a video created by AMV BBDO for the UK…
‘Hotel’ Enables Consumers to Experience Homelessness
January 23, 2013 | Courtney van der Weyden
Swedish charity magazine Faktum has collaborated with media agency Forsman and Bodenfors to create the Faktum Hotels. This innovative and imaginative chain of hotels is an initiative designed to raise awareness and encourage …
Artist Transforms Street Objects Into Miniature Buildings
January 23, 2013 | Courtney van der Weyden
“A German artists who goes by the name of “Evol”, has taken his work to the streets by creating miniature buildings out of the unlikeliest mediums. Using a layered stencil technique, Evol transforms unnoticed objects…Read More
Business Cards of World Famous People
January 23, 2013 | Courtney van der Weyden
Recently, several name cards of the world’s most well known people have surfaced on the internet. From William Gates to Andy Warhol, take a look at the collection above.
You can view more of the collection here.
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Tweets Transformed into Works of Art
January 18, 2013 | Courtney van der Weyden
Nate Larson, professor of photography at Maryland Institute College of Art and Marni Shindelman, lecturer in photography at the uni of Georgia have collaborated to create the Geolocation Project. The duo searched public geotagged tweets…
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