Crowd Sourcing

M.I.T students came together to form this online project called : IdeasScale

The concept behind this a collective insight on an Idea rather than an individualistic one. How does it work? Well you submit your idea, people from across the globe add to it, criticize it and potentially make it grow into super idea. From there businesses can identify where to improve and ideas that can help them make that change..

Basically you have this living specimen that modifies your idea on a daily basis. This is a blessing for marketers everywhere!!

Khatt : Arabic Typography

Above is the artwork of a budding graphic designer and calligrapher, Farah Behbehani who won a Khatt competition and got her design printed as wall vinyls!

Many have butchered Arabic type {myself included}, Arabic typography is one of the most beautiful and complicated type faces to work with. For some stellar examples click here.

Wottsit called?

Leave it to Urban Decay to call their eye shadow, Asphyxia.

Albino Dolphin!

For any frequenters of Harmony, this was only seen on .. 'toys'. A Pink mother flipping dolphin!
Hopefully when people start spear hunting the poor thing it will swim towards a whirlpool and resurface as pink sushi. YAY!

Rub my Hand

When I was younger I used to believe that God and Satan were like Mr. Willy-Wonka and Mr. Slugworth. That they were really working together to see who was honest and I thought that if I told anyone, and exposed God's plan, that I would be blamed for blasphemy.

When I was younger, I stole my classmate's swissrolls and ate them as I sat on them. True Story.

Nakba: The Return of the Soul

This is Jane Frere's Installation, Nakba.

The project was devised as a means of exploring the historic events of 1948 when 750,000 Palestinians were driven into exile to become the longest suffering refugee population, whose numbers have grown to 4.5 million. The installation, Return of the Soul, was conceived as a means to extend the artist’s work to involve Palestinians themselves in the process of creating the components of a sculpture and multi-media artwork that addresses displacement, and offers an expression of their collective sense of injustice and loss, as well as asserting their right to a national heritage.

Suspended wax figures
Over seven thousand wire, paper, wax figures are suspended in the air on a raked angle across the space. Spectators are able to walk around the installation and at a certain point to pass underneath.

Hanging testimonies
Three-meter long scrolls of paper bearing the imprint of personal testimonies relating to the moment of exile are suspended vertically between handing Perspex strips, creating a “forest” of words. The testimonies are installed in a separate space complementing the figures and bear witness to the identities representing those forced to flee from their homeland in 1948.

Sound Installation
Fragmented layered voices, edited from a series of filmed interviews conducted by the artist, are played in the space surrounding the hanging testimonies.

http://www.artdubai.ae

Design by Humans

How amazing it would be if one of your designs were sported by a Band, selling out across the globe. Here is the opportunity! Deadline: 22 March '09.

Tree Forest are you with meh?! Collaboration time!

Rebranding Abu Ghuraib

This is a designer's nightmarish challenge for a brief. Anyone up for it?

YEP! ITS REAL

I still don't think I'm completely sold. Despite the fact that its on National Geographic and there's a video to go with it. It just looks like a super photo shopped and CGI made fish.

For the Ladies!

Lookey here. If you are a designer/illustrator and a woman and want to be published, log on & send your stuff in. ENDS ON FRIDAY SO HURRY!

Btw, what is up with gmail?

One more

Last post about Threadless. I was reading about the prizes you get when you have your t-shirt printed and came across this fine piece of print:

If your design has been chosen for print; Choose a $3,000 scholarship as a form of payment towards your college fees. Open to everyone regardless of what your studying.

This is what we really need, and what a super way to encourage all the people who are struggling with loans. Brilliant.

Don't forget to vote for my tee - last few days :D - Click on the link below!

When designers come together they...

Make Monsters! Met up with BlackPepper member, Rachel to brainstorm on our bid for the Surrey 2012 Logo. As Shao was brainstorming on her stuff we got carried away started to play.

Suprisingly Yemeni

The most alien looking tropical desert (who knew those things existed) on the planet is in Yemen. P A U S E . Socotra Island is located just off the coast of Yemen and is considered of the most endangered ecological sites in the world.

This looks like something straight out of Miyazaki's animated features.

Classic

Hazy Cyan Pink with a touch of Orange.

A multi-lingual colour naming Experiment, in English, Greek, Spanish and German is being conducted by the Colour Imaging Research Group at the University of Arts. It is part of an MSc research project on colour naming and colour categorisation within different cultures, which aims to develop an online colour-naming model based on "natural" languages.

Click here to be apart of their research. 10 minutes maxxx. :D

In the Running! EEK!

Your submission is in the running!

Hey!

I submitted a tee shirt design called The Pelican to Threadless.com to be voted on and hopefully printed.

If I get enough high scores the shirt will be printed and sold from the site and I will win some prizes. Take a look at it and if you like it, sign up and give it a score.

URL: http://www.threadless.com/submission/198318/The_Pelican

Thanks!

P.S. I'm sure Threadless would be happy if you bought a tee too!

threadless.com
4043 N Ravenswood Ave #106
Chicago, IL 60613
1 (773) 878-3557


Note: This is entirely different to the previous post that had my Tee in it. This actually decides whether it gets printed or not. So go on ahead and vote :D

In This Shirt

I was lucky to come across this last night upon a visit to Shunt. "The Forgotten Circus" is a short film that features Circus Space.

Music by The Irrepressibles.

A GIANT

S A N A Y A L - Snails have officially made it into the Haute Couture World, wondering around in Selfridge's new display window ensemble right beside a Swarovski studded dress.

This is dedicated to Dribbler. x

Don't you feel like that when you do a number 2?

This is a cute vinyl wall sticky thing that Blik have done in a bathroom.

Scoring some ...

DESIGN not dope! Please score and critique my tee shirt on Threadless! All ego-bashing is welcomed, do not hesitate. And yes, it's YELLOW ;)

It's just a

Philip Tseng is an illustrator whose had his illustrations printed on threadless. If your designs are picked and printed, you get around $ 2,500 and an additional $ 500 for every reprint.

NUKE THEM ALL with pills?!

Found this on deera-chat.com :

Kuwait Purchases Nearly 6 Million Doses of Emergency Nuclear Radiation Drugs

Nukepills.com today announced the sale of 180,000 units (5.4 million doses) of ThyroShield(TM) Potassium Iodide to the Kuwait Ministry of Health. Worth approximately $1.4 million, the sale was brokered by Nukepills.com and signifies Kuwait’s proactive course in protecting its citizens during a nuclear radiation emergency.

I've been saying this for years ever since I went camping in Kuwait's Desert nearly 7 years ago now! During the 1990-1991 Gulf War, a lot of people who lived close to the borders, (Jahra and Fahaheel especially) died of radiation poisoning and cancer.

I hate sketchbooks

Alright, I didn't exactly stray away from paper, but I think plates are the way to go. Most of my sketches are now on paper plates.

GET SOME NUTS

I have personally wanted to do this at most footie matches I've been to.

Pretty Special

Park rangers are "very excited"

Completely out of context. Couldn't Help it.

The Opposite of Lamp

Genius marketing ploy. These guys sent Perez Hilton a valentine's day card via youtube with links to their Portfolio. Perez gets a total of 7 million users clicking on his site daily. Great exposure at no cost. As for the video.. well it's a video! I like their Lamps.

Celebrating Squirters

Screw dragon dancers and fireworks. A performer squirts milk through his eyes, by blowing hard against a blocked nose, during a performance to celebrate Chinese New Year at a park in Beijing.

Gagging For Sympathy

On Friday 13 February (the day before Valentine’s Day), a World Record attempt to form the longest kiss chain will start at 1pm in Spitalfields Market (near Liverpool Street Station, London).

What they need: 200 volunteers :D
Incentive: Raising awareness for premature babies and a romantic weekend getaway.

Calling all Abusive Objectiphilian's

This is for you. Panasonic has launched it's no nonsense Toughbook laptops that you can now torch, drop and immerse in water, flames, pubes and still be fully functional.
Virals to follow!

"I wish I had Ten Terry Tates"

An American Football Linebacker who "gives out the pain" to those in the office who are not obeying office policies. Seriously funny old school virals. Apparently so viral people didn't even know it was in association with Reebok, but not any less superb. WOOWOOO!

Celebrity Sell-Out Part 2

Oh my god. This is why I don't have a T.V. Johnny Rotten why why why why. I hate Country Life anyway..

Latin Mottos Part 1

Izzie submitted this cute lil motto : If all else fails, Play Dead.

WTF - in a good way

So I started this morning with that note taking up half of my screen. After my initial anger subsided, I realized that we had Hot Chip playing in the background. Seriously it's just a student video nothing to be bothered by ... unless you want the same team to work on your next video :D Hello! I'm Inji *paws screen*

HAH!

Genius.

Alcatraz to Croatia

Meet Lars Erik Bratveit. By day a super-hero I.T vigilante that whips coaxial cables into shape (wow you so know I don't know a thing about computers etc) and by night and in his spare time he traverses the planet and does a lot of photography. Check out his website here.

UBTIS! OI!

So in lieu of hanging out and networking, Tree Forest came across this super flyer promoting Gym Box. What really got me was the Esctasy pills with G & B's on the front and the fab colour system that highlight the classes where you can improve on your Chav Fighting, Boob aerobics and Bitch Boxing.