Sketchy Ice Cream
by Eberle, Lars
24 August 2010
in Just Interesting
Cadbury’s – The Tumble Machine
by Pauli, Marcus
23 August 2010
in Just Interesting
via 10and5.com. Created by Promise Brand Specialists, Johannesburg.
Little Big Berlin
by Pauli, Marcus
20 August 2010
in Just Interesting
Just stumbled over the following video made by Pilpop. Watch the second one as well. Hint: Watch in full screen resolution...
Little Big Berlin from pilpop on Vimeo.
Glidecam - Berlin Calling from pilpop on Vimeo.
In case you don't have a fucking Social Media Strategy
by Eberle, Lars
3 August 2010
in Just Interesting
Try out this magic website to get a custom generated one. http://whatthefuckismysocialmediastrategy.com/
Helvetica Rant
by Eberle, Lars
1 July 2010
in Just Interesting
I just received an e-mail from Daniel Nacamuli with a transcript of a type forum conversation about Helvetica. And it needed some kind of illustration.... Enjoy!
Some of you might like to read this, it’s taken from a conversation we having on a forum. (Robin this is the guy who was my typography mentor back when we were in whitechapel).
Oh OK THEN.
A cool time for start-ups!
by Eberle, Lars
30 June 2010
in Just Interesting
MDC Partners, the Toronto based holding company which owns agencies like Crispin Porter & Bogusky and Kirshenbaum Bond Senecal & Partners just announced in a New York Times interview that its about to launch a business plan competition for entrepreneurs in the marketing arena.
At least one team entering a business idea will be chosen until the end of october 2010 and rewarded with a 1$ investment in exchange for 51% of their shares.
What a great opportunity for both sides!
The South-African Perspective
by Pauli, Marcus
29 June 2010
in Just Interesting
This year, especially now, all eyes are on South Africa. Besides soccer and all the contrasts the media loves to show us, South Africa has a lot more to offer. Creativity for instance.
We're gonna start a little series on creative South African work with the most topical issues: HIV and Human Rights. I know it's easy to start with the striking things but on the other side: if we start with these we can tick them off very early...
For the Topsy Foundation, Ogilvy Jo'burg created a commercial which got Gold at Cannes 2010. Topsy focusses on rural communities and the re-integration of HIV-positive people there. Check there website and support their work.
The next video focuses on a document called »Freedom Charta«. Written and approved in 1955 by the Congress of the People, for decades it served as the ANC's manifesto and finally formed the basis of the current South African constitution.
Though South Africa already took big steps to overcome their past, there are still grave problems with poverty heading the list.
During the last months, graffiti artist Faith47 created some great works referring to the South African status quo and the aims of the Freedom Charta. Rowan Pybus from Makhulu Productions shadowed her and just published the result.
There is more to come... stay tuned...
Please do it like before.
by Schneider, Carsten
20 May 2010
in Just Interesting
The hugely popular Tokyo Metro manner posters by illustrator Bunpei Yorifuji got a make-over. Unforunately the sometimes unintentionally funny slogan "Please do it at home" has been replaced. Like:
The future of publishing
by Eberle, Lars
17 May 2010
in Just Interesting
Awesome Book Tour from Dallas Clayton on Vimeo.
The future of publishing, at least for the "media friendly" people amongst us.
British pavilion at Expo 2010
by Eberle, Lars
14 May 2010
in Just Interesting
Called Seed Cathedral, the wooden structure is pierced by 60,000 fibre-optic rods that each contain plant seeds at their tips.
Design by thomas heatherwick. Read more on dezeen.
simplify your daily ssh usage
by Pauli, Marcus
8 May 2010
in Just Interesting
Typing ssh commands can be very annoying but it doesn't has to. There's a quite nice way to simplify your daily admin life: shell scripts.
Okay, let's say we have a dozen servers which we regularly connect to. Let's assume that they have quite long names and we don't want to type them every time. Surely, we could simply use Ctrl-i, but if the server name is not in the history any more, we will have to type again - and loose time.
The solution is quite easy. Create the following script connect-to-server.sh and save it i.e. under /usr/local/bin
ssh `basename $0`
Don't forget to
chmod +x /usr/local/bin/connect-to-server.sh
Done? Great! Now we just need symlinks like this
ln -s /usr/local/bin/connect-to-server.sh this-is-the-name-of-the-server.my-companies-name.com
So if you want to connect to you server just enter the first letters of the server's name and hit Tab to autocomplete, then Enter and you're done.
KOSHI KAWACHI, the snack artist
by Eberle, Lars
15 April 2010
in Just Interesting
During Design Tide 2009 i came across Koshi Kawachi´s work in Axis gallery.
The picture above is from his "Pote-taku" series, using a traditional japanese form of fish printing (Gyo-taku) to record the biggest catch. His piece was made to record the biggest chip in a potato chip pack.
My Face on the iPhone
by Schneider, Carsten
14 April 2010
in Mobile
Fat Me
Our friend Hawken just released his first iPhone app, Facemakr, and apparently I'm in it. So if you ever wanted to create a portrait based on my likeness, now you can!
Powerful Snapshot Tool
by Eberle, Lars
31 March 2010
in Just Interesting
This might be interesting for all those designers out there.I just stumbled across this powerful snapshot tool which takes snapshots of your screen containing all windows and icons as individual photoshoplayers.
download the free trial or buy it for just $24.95
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