Italian-born motorcycle company, Vespa, celebrates its 70-year history by teaming up with French creative agency NOMOON to draft up a visual retrospective. The result is an animated piece that highlights the company's models and designs (including a brief stint with automobiles) from as far back as 1943 to today.
The dog food champions at Purina have teamed up with creative agency Publicis Bogota to present a rather interesting campaign about dog nutrition. The result is a series of humorous (or serious, depending on your perspective) photos that depict dogs as actual trashcans. Its message is "stop treating your dog like a trashcan". If you love your four-legged friend you'll listen and feed them the right stuff, not leftovers.
French graphic designer Alizée Lafon decided to toy with a few iconic films by creating a series of "Movie Hipster Kit" illustrations. Her goal was to present cult classics like Pulp Fiction and The Big Lebowski with just the use of illustrated items from the film or franchise. We think she illustrates his points rather well. Check out the entire kit gallery here.
Designer Amanda Ghassaei has discovered a way to create wooden audio records. utilizing a 1200dpi laser she has been able to successfully replicate the grooves of vinyl records onto wooden pieces and actually play them back. Check out the following video to see how she does it.
Here's an usual series from photographer/creative Sonia Rentsch. Her recent Harmless series combines plant parts and forms them into silhouettes of firearms. The result is a beautiful juxtaposition of nature's grace and man's modern weaponry design.
Things Come Apart is an intricate photo/design series by creative Todd McLellan. The premise of the project, which ultimately stemmed into a book of the same title, was to deconstruct the most popular and intricate objects (a bicycle, laptop, smartphones, Swiss army knife, etc.) that people use and truly observe their layout. Here are the visually stunning results.
Ben Barrett-Forrest of Forrest Media presents an animated short about the history of typography. The five-minute piece, comprised of 291 paper letters, 2,454 photos and 140 hours of stop-motion, features an in-depth look at type from as far back as the original Blackletter to the modern-day Helvetica. A must-watch for typography nerds and visual artists alike. Kudos to the craftsmanship and conciseness.
Spanish design firm Forma & Co. decided to explore the capacity of minimalist iconography by experimenting with a few pop-culture icons. Their Re-Visions series reinterprets franchises like Marvel Comics, KISS and the Barcelona Football Club to name a few. Amazing to see how the slightest visual cues can conjure up a conditioned mind's memory of a popular brand or concept!
Not since the days of elementary school have we really wondered about the distance of any planet. Although every now and then (when things get quiet at the office) it is possible to slip into a daydream about some interplanetary travel. We're pretty sure that's how Motion and Interaction Designer David Paliwoda came up with the idea to animate and calculate (in pixels) the Distance To Mars. What a brilliant way to show folks that the red planet is only twice the size of the Earth's moon and more than 428K pixels away.
In what looks like a scene right out of Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey or something even more futuristic and stellar, Norwegian architecture firm Cebra Studio has proposed the construction of the Church of Valer. The South-Eastern town lost its old church due to a fire back in 2009. Cebra's proposal includes a cross-shaped exterior and a massive wide-spaced, wooden interior. It'll be interesting to see if the project will take off and be adopted. The renderings alone are quite impressive and out of this world.
