Category: Art
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Why design is essential to future branding
I wrote a blogpost a couple of weeks ago about the three components of future branding; Authenticity, Innovation and Design. Today I though I’d dig deeper into the design part of branding. Why is it important, what does it mean and how do you know you’re on track. Why is design an essential part of […]
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Thank you Instagram. Here are 21 personal favorites from my own feed.
My first ever photo published on Instagram June 11th, 2011 I’d like to use todays blogpost to thank the team behind Instagram. I posted my first photo on Instagram June 11th, 2011 about a year after they launched the service. I had taken a look at it earlier but didn’t really have the energy to start posting […]
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How To Successfully Identify A Future Trend
I’m currently working on my 2011 brand and communication prediction. While I’m working on that I drew up one of the best models I know when it comes to predicting future trends. Enjoy!
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Life Is Made Up By Small Things That Don't Seem To Matter
We are born. Even before we’re born our life is being shaped day by day. Every day, every hour and every second life passes by. Sometimes tons of things happens at once and suddenly we notice a shape, we call these shapes memories. But most of the time life is made up by small things […]
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Canon Digs Into The Vimeo Video Community
While spending some time reading up on what the ‘fine art’ video photographer Vincent Lafore was up to I ran into a campaign by Canon placed on the video site Vimeo. The concept called ‘The Story Beyond The Still’ is a perfect example on how brands could look into creating digital events rather than necessarily […]
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The Boy Who Lived – How a Comic Strip Can Make You Cry
Today I’m browsing for mood images. My search has led me to tons of newspaper blogs. Then suddenly as I noticed this comic strip below my heart stop for a brief second. This piece of communication is so simple yet so strong. If this would have a been an ad that ended with ‘Send Money […]
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Art, Technology and Nature Combined turns into a Future Innovation
Thomas Traxler has got his shit together. Powered by nothing but sunlight and some threads, Thomas Traxler‘s “The idea of a tree project” shows us how objects can grow during the course of a day. His project more or less mimics the way a tree grows and changes shape due to weather conditions. Amazing. Thomas […]
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Mr Shohei Otomo rock my sunday evening
It’s Sunday evening and I’m spending some time browsing my feeds and maybe finding some last minute stuff for this coming week presentations. Pink Tentacle, one of my favorite blogs that always surprise me with something quirky introduce me to Mr Shohei Otomo – a Japanese manga artist. Shohei’s ballpoint drawings rock! A Geisha playing […]
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Lighting up graffiti
In Paris, France there’s a guy named Aïssa Logerot. He makes all sorts of cool industrial design objects. The thing that got me hooked though was this outstanding LED spray can called halo. The photo says it all. I want one. For what I don’t know but that’s generally how I feel about cool objects […]
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Here's a flashmob I wish I'd known about
On Sergels Torg in central Stockholm yesterday. Swedish street dance company Bounce tribute Michael Jackson with this flash mob to Beat It. Found the beauty over at The Girls of Florida.
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Stage diving big balls that generate sound makes me smile
Spotted this wonderful video showcasing a series of round balls that generate different sounds as the audience bounce them around. It’s a great ‘stunt’ performed by Intellijel in collaboration with Danjel Van Tijn at the Siggraph 2009. Give people something fun and innovative to interact with and they’ll do just that. Listen to the audience […]
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I adore a good wine. I love a great design. When these two collide I'm lost in the explosion!
The Matsu’s wine triology, ‘El Pícaro’, ‘El Recio’ and ‘El Viejo’ Today on TheDieline I ran into the company ‘Vintae Luxury Wine Specialists’. Vintae is Spanish based company that specialize in top of the range and luxury wines. Not only do they have a great wine portfolio. Together with Spanish agency Moruba, they’ve designed some […]
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Here are two art project that shines a light on life and the internet
Ok, so you’re an artist studying at an art school. It’s time to graduate and you really wan’t some publicity. What do you do? In Sweden a student named Anna Odell, studying at Konstfack decided to shine a light on how the society handles people that are physical disabled. In her piece of art ‘Okänd, […]
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On my way home from 6 days on Lanai, Hawaii that changed my life
Me interacting with Mr Dolphin, his friends and family. I have spent the last 6 days on Lanai, Hawaii together with a good friend. We’ve been down here attending Tibco’s yearly conference. He as an employee and me as a guest. The optimum setup for me as I’ve focused more on exploring the island than […]
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I'm watching you!
The good old GIF format can still convey wonderful emotions. Found on FFFFound.
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Peter Jaworowski and Fonterutoli makes life easier
Saturday. It’s half past ten and I’m working an idea for one of my new clients. The concept is pretty finished and I have this idea about how the art direction should be. As I browsed my feeds I found Peter Jaworowski from Bialystok, Poland. Peter is this great retouch, illustrator, master ‘photoshopper’. Spot on. […]
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Art Lebedev Studio innovates
Fuck the rain. A creation by Artemy Lebedev founder of the design agency Art Lebedev Studio. I first noticed these guys back in 2004 when I used the Ardeæ folding chairs, one of Arts own creations, as a mood image for a BRIO pitch. I found myself loving the broad variety of projects found […]
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Pixel art has become a vintage technology
There was a time when I hated pixel art. It was around 2000 when there wasn’t any need for creating websites with pixel graphics. It mostly felt stupid and took for ages to create something that looked stunning. Some years later adidas used the pixel art above created by Eboy (the Yoda of Pixel art) […]
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Let me introduce Vladimir Gvozdev and BibliOdyssey
Sometimes you just end up spending time on a site much like when you enter a library. You feel good, spend quite some time eyeing the shelfs for something good to read. Visiting BibliOdyssey makes me feel just like that. Today I spent about 25 minutes just eye gazing the beautiful “historical” illustrations on the […]
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The White Glove Tracking project turns Michael Jackson into a viral
Today I got a link from Ya-sin, leading me to a YouTube movie where Michael Jackson performs Billie Jean…with a HUGE white glove. This is social networking at it’s best. On May 4th, 2007, the White Glove Tracking team asked internet users to help isolate Michael Jackson’s white glove in all 10,060 frames of his […]
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Mr Sagmeister innovates the blog format
I posted earlier on Stefan Sagmeisters new book Things I’ve learned in my life so far. Now he has followed up the book with a website/blog where he’s asking everyone to contribute. It’s a smart and innovative way to create an integration with the book idea but also to invite everyone to continue the story. […]
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Things I Have Learned in My Life So Far
Not me! That’s the title of Stefan Sagmeister’s new book. And judging by Stefan’s list of 20 maxims we should all have something to learn from his life. Taken from Creative Review “The book is based on a list of maxims made by the graphic designer on his “experimental year” in 2000, where he took […]
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He's hot that Banksy! But how Internet makes this art accessible to all of us is even hotter!
You all have heard of Banksy I’m sure. The other day I found some movies of him(them?) making art in Palestine. This is so cool. Imagine how hard it would be for a commercial TV station to get hold of Banksy and get him in front of camera. And how hard wouldn’t it be for […]
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It's 28 years ago but he still makes me smile.
I just happened to see one today when I was surfing the web. And I got all warmer. He’s timeless!
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Handmade 'litterary' animation by Japanese students
This is nice. Or at least could be in an ad. I’ve seen quite many of these the last couple of months so I’ll expect something like this in a Swedish TVC anytime soon (Swedish TVC’s pick up trends fast)
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Isn't this a cool girl
We were looking for cool things on YouTube the other day in the agency. This movie with a puppet girl in oversized format controlled by a large group of people turned up. It’s beautiful and innovative.
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Google celebrates the 25th birthday of Internet
On January 1, it was exactly 25 years since the precursor to the internet, ARPANET, switched over to TCP/IP. Pingdom brought to my attention that Google celebrated by changing their logo. The cablers in the logo read “2008”. But added to that they’ve placed a almost not visible easter egg. It reads SYN SYN/ ACK […]
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This is a nice animated Video
Too tired to write something. So press play and enjoy 🙂 Found it at Pink Tentacle
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Identify yourselves
Cool thoughts on new typeface by Jonathan Looman Found this one at Ytlig
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A new perspective
Found this wonderful photo over at FFFFound. Must have been waiting for a while.
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Hans Lindström portraits the ICA scandal
In Sweden, the leading food-chain ICA has been caught with their pants down while repackaging old meat and selling it to consumers. Swedish Illustrator Hans Lindström throws some gas on the fire. And I’m glad stand by and watch it burn.
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Björk – The Innovation Girl
The girl from Island – Björk, obviously has the right touch. Through the years every now end then Björk turns up in new videos and movies. Although you might think this and that about her music you must agree that she is always ahead of the crowd when it comes to creativity and innovation. Here […]
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Send your doodles online
The Moleskine Project is this artist oriented website made to help both good and ”not so good” artists to promote their work and ideas. The main idea for the project is that everyone has an equal right to participate. No one is more equal than the other. Being artists themselves, the people behind the Moleskine […]
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An innovative christmas gift for friends who enjoy wine
Etienne Meneau has designed this beautiful innovative wine decanter. They’re 65 cm high! Fill these with some cool liquid fluids and you’ll have yourselves a nice sculpture. Standing, lying on the side, up side down glued to something. Possibilities are endless. Video Anything to do with communication? Sure do. It’s innovative and innovations spread themselves […]
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Get me one of those "clay" printers
This cool video shows how designers at Volkswagen makes ideas come through. It’s the new Tiguan that is coming to life.
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Leafs identified with Pantone
Chris Glass did the coolest thing last autumn. He patiently picked one leaf after another from one tree to produce this wonderful set of Pantone colors. [singlepic=6,300,] Chris comments: “I’m obsessing over all the maples that are turning slowly this season-their tops red, fading to green. So much that I felt compelled to collect samples […]
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Dilbert delivers insight about the future
This little piece of Dilbert found on NOTCOT put’s the finger on things
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I used to Skateboard
So, when I found this extraordinary gallery at Notcot I just had to tip about it. You rarely see sports portrayed in a way that is good looking. But this is stunning!