Archive for the 'Art & Design' Category

I Met The Walrus

Wednesday, July 9th, 2008

This short film is produced by Jerry Levitan with visual animation by Josh Raskin, James Braithwaite, and Alex Kurina.
The recording is taken from a 1969 interview by Jerry Levitan when he was at the age of 14. Levitan snuck into the room of John Lennon and recorded an interview with him about peace and the [...]

Wal-Mart is now Walmart; new logo introduced

Monday, July 7th, 2008

Just over a week ago, Walmart unveiled their new logo to the public. The new logo does away with the star that served as a sort of hyphen between “Wal” and “Mart” and instead introduces a new yellow starburst icon at the end of the store name.
Along with the new starbusrt, the most significant change [...]

Alexandre Herchovitch designer Band-Aid packs

Thursday, July 3rd, 2008

Brazilian fashion designer Alexandre Herchovitch has come together with Johnson & Johnson to create these great-looking Band-Aid adhesive bandages.
These band-aids are only being sold for a limited time, so if you’re in Brazil, you better pick some up soon before they’re all sold out.
For those of us in the United States, you can pick up [...]

Art history with extra ducks

Thursday, July 3rd, 2008

w/ extra duck is a Flickr photoset that features great works of art with one noticeable difference: a few extra ducks added into the image. [via]
Adobe Photoshop comes with a yellow rubber ducky as a default sample image, so if you’ve got that program then you can start added ducks everywhere as well. This photoset [...]

Lightpipe: Artificial ventilation pipe that gives off a glow!

Saturday, June 21st, 2008

Haha, I’d love to place one of these in the basement of my dad’s building and record his reaction to it. I think it’d be funny.
If only I had $395 EUR to spend. [via]

Sumopaint: Powerful online image creator and editor

Saturday, June 21st, 2008

Sumopaint is one of the greatest online image editors I’ve tried out so far. If you use Photoshop a lot, the interface for Sumopaint will come very naturally. The setup is virtually identical (but obviously, not as powerful).
In lots of ways, I guess Sumopaint is like Splashup or Photoshop Express, but I guess the webspace [...]

See the New York City Waterfalls by bike

Thursday, June 19th, 2008

The City of New York has published detailed maps on how to view the upcoming New York City Waterfalls by bike. The PDF map shows you where the waterfalls will be, where the bike paths are, where you can walk, where the Subway stations are, where the facilities are located, and where you can park/stand [...]