I’ve been really busy the last few days, so this week’s round up is a short one.
http://www.vimeo.com/3421240
New York based Big Ant International won a One Show Gold Pencil for this series of public service posters for Global Coalition for Peace. Really great ambient/guerilla concept.
http://www.vimeo.com/4166681
Continuing on from last week’s typography motion graphics ads, here’s an ad for Mercedes’ Brake Assist System (BAS.
Great motion graphics piece for The Inlingua english buisness school. Click on image for HQ video.
Great work by Jason thielke. Hand drawn works that are then cut out to give the illusion of 3-d
The adventures of middleman.
http://www.vimeo.com/4313226 http://www.vimeo.com/2355334
Wicked piece created by students at Beckmans college of design in Stolkholm, which uses perspective to create the illusion.
Simon Schubert is a German artist who creates this pieces by folding napkins! No cutting, no glue, no photoshop, just a napkin and patience.
No, you’re not looking at shopping mall but rather Chrysler’s corporate headquarters in Auburn Hills Michigan. The similarities between a mall are no accident though. BusinessWeek published an article two weeks ago listing and talking about Chrysler’s various assets in anticipation of the company filling for bankruptcy. The most various bit was on the second page:
“The Chrysler headquarters building is a spectacular sight from I-75 in Michigan. But the Auburn Hills edifice and its sprawling campus sit in the middle of one of the most economically depressed areas in the country. When the building was erected in the early 1990s, it was designed so it could be repurposed into a shopping mall without too much modification if the perennially troubled Chrysler should go out of business. But there is no interest in another shopping mall in a commercial corridor where unemployment and foreclosure rates are both above 20%, and one of the best-performing malls in the state, The Somerset Collection, sits 15 minutes away in Troy, Mich.”
Totally looks like a mall to me. Its pretty intresting to think that Chrysler had enough foresight to design their headquarters so that it could be sold as a mall. Too bad they didn’t have that same foresight when it came to making cars. Hopefully fiat can do something with the brand considering their line-up of cars in Europe isn’t too shaby.
I heard about this on NPR last week. The audio can be found at Wait Wait…Don’t tell me!
What better way to start the week than to be overloaded with inspiration and general awesomeness. This will be the first of weekly blog posts in which I’ll be posting anything and everything that is cool that I’ve found during the week from around the interwebz. Its my gift to you (plus blogging is hard work and this is my cop-out). Atleast I’m honest right?
Cool short for Lonesome Enterprises
http://www.vimeo.com/1353507
I’ve always been a fan of photo-manipulations and the combination of photography and illustration. These are from Italian illustrator Alberto Seveso. More of his work Here and Here.
Art student Sara Watson, from the U.K, makes an old Skoda parked in front of her art studio to look as if its invisible using only spray paint. Full story via The Telegraph.
Stop motion video made from over 4000 photos
http://www.vimeo.com/4472980
Another great vid. This video was filmed in one take, with audio being recorded simultaneously with the film.
http://www.vimeo.com/4189528
Stefan Sagmeister. Nuff said. This was an installation created in Sept 08 consisting of 250,000 eurocents being aranged in a square in Amsterdam. Via Sagmeister’s Official blog
20 hours after completing the piece, a neighbor saw someone stealing the coins. She called the police who stopped the person and then decided that the best way to protect the intallation was to swept it all up into bags and hold it at the station.
