A Showcase of Creatively Redesigned Movie Posters

Being a designer is a never-ending quest. Designers must constantly improve and expand their skills, as trends in design are always changing. Like any art susceptible to the whims of fashion, design reflects the tastes, values and concerns of a certain point in time, and as such it never sits still for too long.

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CuteCircuit and H&M

A glimpse at the future of fashion, see how CuteCircuit is making magical couture!

Don’t miss the chance to see the exclusive interview to CuteCircuit Chief Creative Officer, Francesca Rosella, and our and CEO, Ryan Genz, for H&M Life website.

You are invited for 4 minutes to our studio… Find out more about CuteCircuit future projects, have a look at our designers’ inspiring sketches, discover prototypes never shown before and of course, experience our amazing garments in action! Ready?

Enjoy tomorrow’s fashion today!

Johnny Calls the Chemist

JOHNNY'S BACK! FALLING MIRROR PLAYS THE RIVER CLUB - LIMITED SEATS, ONE NIGHT ONLY, SECURE BOOKING ASAP! R60 ENTRANCE, SECURE PARKING, FULL A LA CARTE MENU
Falling Mirror is: Nielen Marais (vocals), Allan Faull (guitar), George Den Das (keyboards), Harvey Cohen (bass), Patrick Humphreys (drums)

Wednesday 19th December @ The River Club - R60

A Creative Catharsis

Ireland's creative community got together to release a lot of pent up anger and sadness through the medium of the A3 poster, all in aid of Temple Street Children's Hospital. 

Ad creatives, designers, animators, directors, illustrators and more took time out to dress up their favourite worst feedback from clients, transforming quotes that would normally give you a twitch, into a diverse collection of posters. 

The work was exhibited by the kind folks at The Little Green Café, Bar and Gallery. The exhibition ran from November
2nd - 7th, with A3 prints of all entries selling for only €10 apiece, with all proceeds going to Temple Street. 

After receiving an unbelievable amount of support and interest we've finished taking orders on prints. However feel free to drop us a line at verysharpsuits@gmail.com.

You can find them here.

The Design Student Handbook: on sale now

The first in our six-part series of practical manuals, The Design Student Handbook is your definitive guide to breaking into the design industry – and it's on sale now in the UK and online

Whether you’re thinking about studying design, part-way through a creative course or taking the self-taught route, The Design Student Handbook brings you everything you need to know to get the most out of your course, gain that essential real-world experience and hit the ground running when you graduate.

Packed full of pro tips and practical advice, plus plenty of invaluable industry insight, The Design Student Handbook is your essential guide as you journey from the lecture hall to life in the design industry.

Chapters include: click here

for all you typeface designers out there

Design a stunning typeface with just six shapes? Go here and do it.

Flight of the Conchords - Feel Inside (and stuff like that) + Interviews

EepyBird's Sticky Note experiment

robo-rainbow

Die Antwoord - "Fatty Boom Boom" (Official Video)

Faraday Bikes

Our flagship product is the Faraday Porteur – the bike that was dubbed “the ultimate modern utility bike” by the Oregon Manifest bicycle design competition.

The Faraday Porteur will surprise your friends when you tell them it’s electric, and it will surprise YOU when you realize just how much is possible on a bicycle with a little “boost”.  Everything you need to ride safely and comfortably has been considered, from integrated front and rear lights to a sturdy, frame-mounted front rack, wood fenders, accessory bag, and 8-speed internal hub. 

The Faraday Porteur. It’s for doing more than you ever thought possible – for keeping up with your friends, or leaving them in the dust. It’s your daily ride. It’s crazy fun.

Go to http://www.faradaybikes.com to learn more about this motor assist bicycle and the company manufacturing them.

30 Modern Examples of Vintage Style Graphic Design

Go and get inspired with more great examples by clicking here courtesy of Spoon Graphics.

Rio 2016's Olympic Typeface Is Drawn From The City’s Famous Icons

DALTON MAAG’S BUBBLY BRUSH SCRIPT FOR RIO INVOKES BRASILIA AND CARNIVAL IN ONE FELL SWOOP.

Get inspired further by clicking your mouse right here courtesy of Fast Co Design.

Open the Door into the Science of Color Theory

Color theory is a vast and complicated sphere of knowledge. It consists of different scientific elements, such as: optics, spectroscopy, human anatomy and physiology, psychology, art history and theory, philosophy, ethics, architecture theory, design and many other applied sciences. In this article we will show only the schemes of harmonic color combinations and the examples of their usage by a bunch of talented vector artists.

Get up to speed with colour theory here

Scary Beautiful by Leanie van der Vyver

View Emerging creatives here

WOW

Art Exhibition - Motel7

Motel7: Daydreamers -
Solo Exhibition at 34FineArt, Cape Town

16 October 2012 - 10 November 2012

After her initial solo exhibition,Tears and Castles, at 34 Long Fine Art in 2009, Motel7 left South Africa to work in Europe and America. Having returned to South Africa she has reclaimed her position on the streets and in the Gallery environment.
After working in traditional mediums from an early age, Motel7 has moved through the ranks of graffiti to street art and like many international artists, such as Banksy, Mr. Brainwash, Miss Van, Blek le Rat, D*Face and Nick Walker, she has secured her position as an acclaimed urban contemporary artist. Since then her work has been featured in numerous international exhibitions, including the Basel Art Fairs, as well as galleries in Amsterdam and Los Angeles. Motel7 continues to hone her skills in urban spaces whenever and wherever the opportunity presents itself.

Increasingly street artists occupy both urban and fine art environments. In cities like Cape Town, where street art is still illegal, artworks seldom remain on the walls for long enough to be fully appreciated before being cleaned off or defaced. Ironically, while the value of works in urban spaces is often overlooked, within the gallery environment these same works are approached with a more appreciative eye.

Daydreamers, Motel7’s second solo show, affirms the ease with which she straddles the divide between urban and gallery spaces - where the traditional process of work progressing from gallery environment to museum or public commission, is reversed. The exhibition is presented in her unique visual idiom, built-up over years of working in a challenging environment. The seemingly juxtaposed images of sculls, toys, fruit and sweets are complimented by the vintage quality of the paintings… it's all about symbolizing daydreaming and nostalgia and the past.

Street art and graffiti are closely associated, but are often regarded as vandalism - evidence of urban decay - in stark contrast to gallery art, which is seen as the epitome of artistic achievement. Daydreamers demonstrates that it is not these works themselves which are different, but rather the contexts within which they are viewed.

Don’t miss the opening reception on 16 October 18h34. 

World Chess Identity - Pentagram

World Chess identity designed by John Rushworth.

At the end of last year, entrepreneur Andrew Paulson acquired the rights to the World Chess Championship. He asked Pentagram to re-enoble chess by branding the pinnacle of chess; giving the World Chess Championship an identity, campaign and experience that could restore its reputation as a contest between the world’s greatest minds and capture the interest of a new generation.

Partners John Rushworth, Daniel Weil and Naresh Ramchandani first created a system of names. They named Paulson’s organisation World Chess, reflecting the World Chess Championship and chess as a world game. This led to a system of names for each competition: World Chess Championship, World Chess Blitz Championship, World Chess Junior Championship, and so on.

With the names in place, they chose to bring World Chess alive through the qualities of intelligence and intensity; the exceptional intelligence needed to process every possibility and permutation that can play out across the sixty four squares, and the heightened intensity of winning or losing a contest against a mind that proves itself to be superior or inferior to your own.

Your move...

are you the next BIG street artist

Nokia Asha is searching for the next big street art name in South Africa through this competition. To enter, they’re asking you to design a mural inspired by the young and fun Nokia Asha phones and submit it through the Nokia Street Artist Facebook tab or through Mxit.

The entries will be judged by us at 10and5 and street artists themselves Yo Yo Paint Crew and Sindiso Nyoni aka R!OT. The winner walks away with R10 000 in cash and their very own city wall space to exhibit their mural painting skills.

Find out more about the new full touch Nokia Asha range here and more about the street artist competition right here. Deadline is 10 October.

Keep an eye on 10and5 for competition updates, some street art inspiration and photos of competition judges, Yo Yo Paint Crew and Sindiso Nyoni, live painting at Str.Crd.

tshirtOS :: T-shirt of the future

Derick Watts & The Sunday Blues - Behind The LOLS

Breaking Bad Intro

Breaking Bad - Illustrated from Martin Woutisseth on Vimeo.

A 40-Minute Crash Course In Design Thinking

Wavefields from Edward Tufte on Vimeo.

Great example of video editing

Typography Timeline

Here is a great interactive timeline and history of typefaces website. Go and explore from the cave painting to 2010 and HTML5. What major event took place in 1984?

Press here to get there.

The 20 most-watched TED Talks to date

Take a look here...

Embrace the Remix

Randy on the subject of MILK

Harriet Stockwell - a social approach to sustainability in Africa

I recently graduated from the Cape Peninsula University of Technology in Graphic Design. I am an enthusiastic 22 year old geared to making positive changes through design. The Eco Design Initiative changed my whole outlook on design. All that was taught to me about design being 'sell sell sell a product', has now changed to make 'change change change in people's lives'. Design is possibly the most powerful tool to change minds, lives and living. If Design thinking is just powered in the right direction, positive social upliftment and innovation could sprout up all over the world. It is the simple idea that is the most effective and what the Eco Design Initative Challenge taught me was the best way to get that simple idea is to involve those whom you designing for. Design for me used to be an inward perspective but it is now an outward approach. Design is not about the Designer, it is about the people whom you design for. Africa is the greatest place to begin to design for social upliftment and innovation. Africa is so rich in design, it just needs a little guidance in the right direction.

Africa is in me, it is in my home, it is in my community. I was not born in Africa neither am I a South African citizen but I have only ever known what it is to be African. Africa is my home, it is my teacher, it is who I am. Whenever I come home from traveling overseas and I see Table Mountain I know I am home. Hearing an African accent while overseas makes me feel close to home. Africa is a beat, a vibe, an energy that flows through every single on of us that live here. It is what connects us and makes us African. It is that connection that should fuel design in Africa. Design can eradicate that which was left by the colonial powers and the apartheid era if everyone is involved. Community is key in designing and if design had to focus on social upliftment and innovation with the involvement of the community one is designing for, then Africa could be a sustainable rich continent. The theme Africa in me relates to who I am, how I design and who I design with. I would like to share my experience with the Eco Design Initiative challenge as well as my own personal thoughts relating to the theme Africa in Me at TEDxYouth@CapeTown.

In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized.* (*Subject to certain rules and regulations)

Some Lovely Packaging

As the website says here is some lovely packaging - http://lovelypackage.com

4 Loves & 1 Hate at WWDC

Apple. The name has become synonymous with good design. But it’s also had a few missteps in recent years. Skeuomorphism is taking the place of clean interfaces. At today’s WWDC, Apple shared details of new MacBook Pros, the next OSX Mountain Lion, and iOS 6, all of which will be available by July. Here’s what we loved and what we hated. Click here.

Apple WWDC 2012 Live Coverage

Watch live streaming video from applefansite at livestream.com

Inanimate Object

Inanimate Object is a solo exhibition by Gerhard Human at Searle Street Post in Woodstock, Cape Town on the 14th of June 2012.

This is the website.

IN-EI BY ISSEY MIYAKE FOR ARTEMIDE

IN-EI is a new collection of table, floor, and hanging lamps by fashion designer Issey Miyake for the Italian lighting manufacturer Artemide. Born from the 132 5. ISSEY MIYAKE project in which clothing can be folded flat but also become a three-dimensional form, Miyake and his research team Reality Lab. naturally transitioned into lighting. The fixture’s material is made from recycled PET plastic bottles and diffuses light beautifully. “IN-EI” is Japanese for shadow, and with the pleating of the material each lamp becomes a striking sculpture when lit.

Read more at Design Milk: http://design-milk.com/in-ei-by-issey-miyake-for-artemide/#ixzz1wukZH7th

Artist Creates Portraits Of Pop Culture Icons Using Barcodes

Florida-based artist Scott Blake has created various portraits of celebrities and pop culture icons using only the barcodes of items specific to the person to make up their individual portraits.

Read further here.

Top 14 announced in the TFG competition

The CPUT Graphic Design students recently entered the TFG Gift Card Competition to redesign a set of 4 gift cards for The Foschini Group shoppers. The top 14 designs were announced today and 8 of them are CPUT Graphic Design students. The top 5 designs will be announced in August.

The 8 CPUT GD students are: Andisiwe Juta, Bianca Nakan, Colin Thomas, Kayla Schoonraad, Kobie Niewoudt, Matthew Crisp, Romeo Mabuda and Stacey Knipe. The 
top 5 will be announced next month - Best of Luck!

Rethink Breast Cancer presents: Your Man Reminder

Zayd Minty - The Fringe District Developments

Adobe Muse / Refueled Magazine

Chris Brown, publisher and creative director for Refueled Magazine, collaborates with his friends, tapping into the creativity of those who surround him to fuel the shared aesthetic of the magazine. With Adobe® Muse™ software, he can focus on the soul of the content.

Go view the Refueled magazine here

Brett Murray painting defaced

Graphic Design Stand at Open day 2012 for schools

Here’s What Happens When You Force Teens to Text and Drive

Watch The World’s First Shoppable Music Video

Music videos have come a long, long way since back when The Buggles and their new wave aesthetic killed the radio star. Ssense, a luxury retail company based out of Montreal, has recently introduced what they’re billing as the “world’s first interactive shoppable music video.” And yup, it’s pretty much exactly what it sounds like. I Think She Ready features Diplo, FKi, and Iggy Azalea all decked out and styled in brands and items carried by the site, while WireWax technology, which enables users to tag videos in essentially the same way they would a Facebook post, makes the "interactive shoppable" part possible.


Many thanks fastcodesign

Watch A Tiny Rube Goldberg Machine That Makes Postcards

Rube Goldberg Machines complete a simple task in the most inefficient way possible. They tend to be sprawling contraptions that can take days to set up for a single “run.” Not so with Melvin, the world’s smallest Rube Goldberg machine, who is currently traveling the world in a suitcase.

Melvin is smart: he geo-locates himself using GPS, documents his audience with his built-in smartphone camera, and talks about his “runs” on Facebook and Twitter. After each successful run, he spits out a stamped postcard that reads “wish you were here.”

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This Nutty iPhone & Mac UI Concept Wants To Replace iCloud With Gorilla Arm Syndrome

Transferring files from your Mac to your iPhone is supposed to be an easy process thanks to iCloud, but sometimes the lack of a physical connection between your devices can make the process feel daunting.


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Inspiring Collage Artworks

Just go and have a look at these

Typography tutorials: 50 clever ways of working with type

This round-up of typography tutorials has a central theme of experimentation. Learn how to design a headline typeface, create isometric 3D lettering and to smelt your favourite font.

Kern you way over to the creativeblog website and get going

HELSINKI: World Design Capital 2012 - NOW!

Open Helsinki: Embedding Design in Life

The news came on 25 November 2009: Helsinki had been appointed the World Design Capital for 2012. From the start, our application had emphasised openness, continuity, collaboration and the social dimensions of design. These same themes remain the basis for all our activities.

What is the World Design Capital?

While there are many awards that recognise individual accomplishments in design, the World Design Capital (WDC) designation is unique as it aims to focus on the broader essence of design’s impact on urban spaces, economies and citizens.

The Organisation

The World Design Capital initiative promotes and supports the cultural, social and financial uses of design. The title is assigned every other year by the International Council of Societies of Industrial Design (Icsid).

Open Helsinki - Open City

Like every city in the world, Helsinki exists for its people. An enjoyable urban culture is the result of many factors, perhaps the most important of which is openness.The concept of Open Helsinki is literal – a city where information, ideas, thoughts and people can move freely without unnecessary creativity-hampering obstacles.

Global responsibility: the new role of design

Design can be old or new; large or small. Pretty or controversial. Visible or invisible. Design often also has a social or public dimension. For example public transport, municipal and private health care, political systems or schooling would not work without proper design.

Roots of the new growth

The term 'embedded design' is one of our points of departure. It means expanding the realm of design from products to various systems and public services such as healthcare. Embedded design also focuses on taking users' needs into account from the very initial phase of design.

Go to the helsinki 2012 design ground here

The Evolution of the Geek

Flowtown - Social Media Marketing Application

Brilliant!!!

The Pringles Package Sucks. This Chip Can Blooms Into A Bowl

Young designer Dohyuk Kwon encountered the same problem we all have before: He was enjoying a package of Pringles potato crisps until, suddenly, he found the chip level had sunk to a critical expletive-laden stage just below the reach of his fingers. “So I sketched a more convenient package of chips,” he tells Co.Design. Read on here...