A skip is a dumpster in England. They look a little different that American Dumpsters, but they serve the same purpose - to haul of garbage and refuse. Oliver Bishop-Young is a designer who got sick of seeing these eye sore’s every where so he started a project of converting them in a way to enrich the neighborhood: ping pong, swimming pools, half pipes or garden?
It’s hard to imagine something as simple as the shoebox being completely overhauled and rethought. But Puma and Fuseproject, the design firm led by Yves Béhar, have done just that, in a design that was almost three years in the making. (The project is actually just the beginning of a brand overhaul, to be revealed soon.)
“Rethinking the shoebox is an incredibly complex problem, and the cost of cardboard and the printing waste are huge, given that 80M are shipped from China each year,” Béhar tells FastCompany.com. “Cargo holds in the ships can reach temperatures of 110 degrees for weeks on end, so packaging becomes an enormous problem. This solution protects the shoes, and helps stores to stock them, while saving huge costs in materials.”
Via FastCompany
Via Cool Hunting:
“In a move that tackles both the lack of bike racks in NYC and the problem of what to do with obsolete parking meters, the city recently started a campaign transforming 225 of the old metal poles into circular stations for locking up bikes.”
As a cyclist I’m happy to have more spots to lock up, and regular parking meters are so safe when using chains because the bike can be lifted off and carried away to be unlocked else where.
Drop Caps, Ribbon fonts and logos.
Letter press, die cuts and odd shapes. Some great ideas and results with these 60 designs.
Ads to promote Google’s new Chrome browser use hand cranked animations, and everything from Mercury to Knitting!
The Commercial
Making Of video
Eric Testroete created a large self portrait 3D head. It looks like a photoshop collage, but it’s an actual mask he made.
“I made this as my costume for Halloween 2009. It was kind of inspired by big-head mode seen in videogames. I really wanted to get the faceted geosphere look with wireframe.”
Software used:
3ds Max 2009
Mudbox 2010
Photoshop CS3
Pepakura
Beautiful Letterpress from Ohio designer Mikey Burton.
http://www.ted.com Every seven years, designer Stefan Sagmeister closes his New York studio for a yearlong sabbatical to rejuvenate and refresh their creative outlook. He explains the often overlooked value of time off and shows the innovative projects inspired by his time in Bali.
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