…to Tumblr.
After some time of abscence we will start fresh in 2012 with a new blog, new members and loads of new stories from the world of art and commerce.
Starting in January 2012, go to
Cheers,
Olli
You are studying design for way too long and still have the feeling you didn’t get to the core of the trade? I have the solution for you. Just get some “good fucking design advice“! No, I am not being rude, I am just quoting a website by designers Brian Buirge and Jason Bacher. They collect universal design wisdom and add some attitude to it to express the damn simplicity of it all.
You can always click on the “family fucking friendly” button to cross out the swearing, but then it becomes just another design law marathon and not something you better fucking remember.
Enjoy the wisdom, the swearing, the wallpapers and their fucking merchandise!!
…before the Nintendo 3DS, the PSP, iPhone, iPad, etc. It was a simpler time of gaming. But even when everything you did was push a small black figure to the right and left to catch some bananas falling down, you were the king when you brought one of those to school and parents could already sense the potential of portable video games to quiet down the children on a long car trip.
The completely nuts Polish design studio Hipopotam decided it’s time to return to the basics of gaming. They rebuild their favorite handheld electronic games image by image and made them playable in a browser for free. Their “PicaPic” website is hopefully going a long way and will not be shut down by some jackass lawyer’s copyright claim. So quickly go an enjoy the time travel!
If you love design and music, this site brings it together.
Well known designers compile mixes together with designing the cover art.
So for good music and some nice cover art go to designers.mx
This is a little experiment I did with a special retouching technique. The outcome was very nice and gives the images a mood between nostalgia and modernity. Enjoy!
For more and other new stuff go to oliverheinemann.de
Take a minute and think about famous title sequences from movies that you remember. “Catch me if you can”, “Panic Room”, “Lost Highway” and all Tarantino movies are popping into my head instantly, but there are so many more that I don’t remember but would like to be reminded of. These sequences full of names from the people who made this movie have a tradition as old as movies themselves. They often display an exciting mix of illustration, typography, film, photography and nowadays CGI, that you don’t find elsewhere.
To Honor the art of creating this little shorts within a film, “artofthetitle.com” has created a huge archive with sequences worth preserving to inspire movie makers to come. When you go through their list, there are many great ones which instantly make you want to watch the movie again.
In addition to the archive, they offer a list of the companies that made the openers, interviews, news and analysis. The also recently compiled a nice short film about the history of title design.
…well maybe that is not really a scientific approach to find out who you are, but the little project “cmdshift3″ (the mac shortcut to make a screenshot) can be very entertaining. It collects desktop screenshots from various creatives around the world and has a huge range from highly organized to utter chaos. It is updated daily and even though not every desktop is a highlight it’s always fun to take a quick look.
