amusing project from studio tjep, involving an ikea chair and lots of sandpaper… creating tension by deciding at which point you have to stop before it is so weak that it becomes unusable as a chair to sit on
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i already posted this poster last week, this is a reprint with some ‘make the logo bigger cream’ applied… not something i often get asked to do
nobody wants to buy sour milk
…about five years ago, apple design guru Jony Ive decided he wanted a new feature for the next MacBook: a small dot of green light above the screen, shining through the computer’s aluminum casing to indicate when its camera was on. The problem? It’s physically impossible to shine light through metal…
fascinating article which provides some insight into the inner sanctum of apple, how that tiny green light came to be and how they do business…
…before the release of the iPhone 4 in June 2010, rivals such as HTC couldn’t buy as many screens as they needed because manufacturers were busy filling Apple orders, according to a former manager at HTC. To manufacture the iPad 2, Apple bought so many high-end drills to make the device’s internal casing that other companies’ wait time for the machines stretched from six weeks to six months, according to a manager at the drillmaker. Life as an Apple supplier is lucrative because of the high volumes, though painful because of the strings attached. When Apple asks for a price quote for parts such as touch screens, it demands a detailed accounting of how the manufacturer arrived at the quote, including its estimates for material and labor costs, and its own projected profit…
into time
it would probably be quite dangerous to smoke some grass before clicking around on this page from ‘rafaël rozendaal’, because the mesmerising effect could get you trapped in a space/time continuum, forever, be warned…
i actually tried to design a website for a client with this simple yet cool, effect several years ago, but failed… if you are reading this ‘m’… this is what it was meant to look like!
16th century, contemporary proportions
a newly designed (very complete & elaborate) font family from mister ‘henrik kubel’ a.k.a. A2 type called quite simply ‘antwerp’ which is full of historical references, as the man himself states:
…my passion and admiration for 15 and 16th century Italian, French and Dutch typefaces might shine through in Antwerp — I acknowledge that it has become an integral part of my ‘type dna’ — It’s how I design letters, fonts, alphabets and it’s also a direct translation of how I draw type by hand on paper — in other words, I have been conditioned by history!…
more details on the font and it’s process can be found here