entries Tagged as [design]
New Coke
‘French designer Jerome Olivet has crafted an awesome new look for Coca Cola entitled ‘Mystic”
Found via Creative Greed
Red bus
‘One of twelve beauties built by General Motors, this is a self-contained display and transport vehicle created by the GM design staff under Harley Earl’s direction’
Art deco bus (above) from GM’s ‘Parade of Progress’ traveling exhibit.
Gallery with many more concepts here.
Found via Boing Boing
Royal Extreme
‘The versatility of the female figure functions as guiding light for Royal Extreme’s designs’
Launched earlier this year, Royal Extreme is the first fashion collection by Icelandic designer Una Hlin Kristjansdottir.
Found via Rikki Morehouse
New OMD
‘It’s classic OMD given a contemporary shot in the arm’
Video for OMD’s If You Want It. From the album History Of Modern, which sports a cover (below) designed by the great Peter Saville.
Ralph Lauren 4D
‘The world’s first 4-dimensional experience featuring 3D imagery, digital sound effects and scents from Ralph Lauren fragrances.’
On November 10, Ralph Lauren celebrated the 10 year anniversary of its website with new media ‘feasts’ at its retail flagships in London (above) and New York (below).
‘Making of’ video here.
Found via Jake Favour
Futura, the play
‘Can a font change the future? On her first day back at the University, a rogue Professor sets out to avenge her missing husband – and the lost art of ink on paper – by conducting a dangerous lesson on typography. When the Professor’s lecture jumps the rails, we peer into a near future where desperate people search for the tangible in an ever more virtual age.’
Futura, as a play, is an interesting concept. It starts with a history of typography lecture – then weaves in its own story about a paperless future.
But is a type history talk good enough to stand on its own – without a play attached? The NYT thinks so. There’s a lot of cool stuff in type history.
The play closed last week, but here’s a few more details.
Found via H&FJ
Free Conqueror fonts!
‘Jean François Porchez was approached at the end of 2009 to create a set of typefaces to relaunch the Conqueror papers collection.’
Jean François Porchez’s beautiful Conqueror fonts are based on some great historical design eras – and are available free via Arjowiggins Creative Papers thru end of March 2012.
The fonts themselves are mostly caps and missing a few punctuation marks – but they also have similar widths, cool alternate characters (such as swashes) and 3D carved versions (as extras) – making them vastly interchangeable. And who knows, since they’re free, maybe they’ll conqueror the design world.
A standard commercial font license applies. Grab em here.
More details here.
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