Multimedia performers, Sweatshoppe use a digital paint roller to project color lights and designs on city surfaces, creating a new style called video painting. All the art with none of the clean up!
A LEGO master shows off his pop-up LEGO creation: a temple! Ah, LEGOs have never felt so serene.
A collection of 25 movie posters, redesigned with a much more modern feel. This one for Rain Man is by far my favorite. Click through for more. (via)
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What the world would look like if celebrities were designers.
Nickelodeon wipes away the slime as the popular kids' network celebrates its 30th anniversary. Representing its biggest change in 25 years, the new logo marks a departure from the familiar 'splat' in favor of a more standardized look. The logo hasn't aired yet, but it's appearing on material for new merchandise and the upcoming Nickelodeon Animation Festival.
This is as cool as putting away cutlery gets. A kitchen storage solution that looks like the world's most unwieldy Swiss Army knife. Design is by the Art Lebedev studio.
Erin Hanson sums up your life (whether you realize it or not) with “The Circle of No Life.” People who can create awesome things like this shouldn't be unemployed. And that is all.
Well, these are pretty. I don't know where the whole “reimagining things as Penguin classics” meme came from, but I like the hell out of it. Click through for a bunch more.
Typefaces are all the rage and so are things found on Google Maps, so why combine them? Designer Rhett Dashwood found these “letter formations” all in the vicinity of his hometown: Victoria, Australia.
I'm a sucker for venn diagrams. And this set by Frank Chimero is just awesome. The one about the internet and cats? No truer words have been spoken. Click the image for the full set.
An NYC subway map is re-imagined as something slightly more…familiar? Once you see this, you really can't unsee it — if you know what I mean.
Designer Naoto Fukasawa creates “juice skins” — that look at feel like the fruit they contain. The pineapple variety might not be as comfortable to drink from.
Only Trader Joe's could send out junk mail this cute. It's like Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium, but instead of a terrible crazy movie, it's a place to get fruit leather and chocolate-covered wasabi peas.
The perfect accessory to your tears, this hanky illustrates exactly why you might be crying.
Artist Jota Castro perfectly captures the moment with an installation utilizing rolled dollar bills. And it has nothing to do with drugs.
Just because they're evil and fictional doesn't mean they don't occasionally need to recalibrate their brand identities just like the rest of us. Fortunately, designer Mitch Ansara has done some fantastic spec work for these companies that could go a long way towards rehabilitating their struggling brands, starting with Terminator's Cyberdyne.
Watch the Batman logo mutate over forty years. Fascinating from a cultural standpoint, but also from a design aesthetics one, as well. You really get a sense of how things became sleeker through the decades.
A designer's dream college-room-poster! This is not just pretty to look at but also grouped by families and classes of typefaces: san-serif, serif, script, blackletter, glyphic, display, grotesque, realist, didone, garalde, geometric, humanist, slab-serif and mixed.
Everyone's talking about Facebook's upcoming redesign, in which the friend-tracking(stalking) News Feed will go at an almost “real-time” stream. This not only lets you seriously keep track of exes, but also allows advertisers to more frequently pop up on your front page.