User Rumbero Design on cpluv.com found this collection of old atari game manuals on flickr. Can you remember the good old days? :) Just check out some of those graphics!!

They look better now than they ever did. Allthough i do remember walking into a shop and checking some of these out and going ..whooooo...gotta have this!! :)

The first computer i ever got was Commodore 64. God, i still remember those sounds you have to sit through whilst copying games ...very funny looking back now.

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"Jo Coupe studied at Newcastle University and Goldsmiths College. She lives and works in Newcastle upon Tyne. Her work tackles the complex relationship between life, death, growth and decay and invades the spheres of the Victorian enthusiast, amateur scientist and jeweller. She works in materials as diverse as chalk, vinegar, fruit and bronze."

I came across her work through a friend who will exhibit her soon hopefully. She is influenced especially by nature and organic processes and recreates such processes in a seemingly inappropriate environment. Her work actually "lives", it does something, which probably doesn't help if you want to display it in your home, but adds a quality that I find remarkable. Where Damion Hirst displayed organic art for the sake of sometimes gruesome attraction and sensation, Jo Coupe is more interested in reactions and cycles derived from natural processes. My favourite one is the fruit on a table, where the decaying fruit triggers little saws which again eventually saw off the legs of the table. A self-destructive piece...

Have a look at her work at the workplacegallery.co.uk

A wonderful collection of paper sculptures by Richard Sweeney.

We had a very similar short project with 1st year Architecture students at University of Westminster where they created plant inspired structures using only paper and paperclips. Results were not as sofisticated as these but nevertheless very intersting.

Richard Sweeney is definetly a worthy reference when it comes to making objects out of paper.

Words by the artist:
As well as being driven by the material, the forms I produce are influenced by my keen interest in the photography of architecture and natural forms. Elements of repetition within architecture are very appealing to me, I’m drawn to the way structures can be produced with sets of repeating elements, each of which is simple in its own right, yet contributes to create a complex and rigid structure. This is most apparent in bridges, especially those of Santiago Calatrava, where form and structure become one; all the elements of construction are exposed and composed to create a beautifully flowing sculptural form.

Read more here

(Via ComputerLove)

Helvetica - A Documentary Film by Gary Hustwit.

Not sure if you know, but Helvetica is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. A font that hase been around for many years and its pretty much everywhere. There isn't a day we dont read something written in Helvetica and this movie is reflection of this and the subject as a whole on how type plays a part in our every day life.

Here is some info on the film:
Helvetica is a feature-length independent film about typography, graphic design and global visual culture. It looks at the proliferation of one typeface (which is celebrating its 50th birthday this year) as part of a larger conversation about the way type affects our lives. Helvetica will screen at film festivals, museums, design conferences, and cinemas worldwide, followed by the DVD release this fall. More about the film...

Happy 50th Helvetica!!

Via Infoaesthetics

I came accross this today via Inhabitat. A trully wonderful piece of (if it can be called) product design that steers away from mass production and uses organic process of bees to create this trully wonderful object. It was made by 40,000 bees over the one week. Studio Libertiny constructed a vase-shaped hive that the bees then colonized, building a hexagonal comb to encompass the existing form.

Here is a quote from Inhabitat they found from Tomas Gabzdil Libertiny via Dezeen:

I have been interested in contradicting the current consumer society (which is interested in slick design) by choosing to work with a seemingly very vulnerable and ephemeral material - beeswax. To give a form to this natural product it has occurred more than logical to choose a form of a vase as a cultural artifact. Beeswax comes from flowers and in the form of a vase ends up serving flowers on their last journey.

At this point I asked myself a question: “Can I make this product already at the place where the material originates?” My ambition to push things further led me to alienate the process by which bees make their almost mathematically precise honeycomb structures and direct it to create a fragile and valuable object – like a pearl. This takes time and time creates value.

Fantastic!!

A friend of Allmightys on MySpace is having an exhibition in Berlin from 28th April until 5th May 2007.
If you are in the area, definetly stop by - really interesting work.

Words by Jay:
I'm Jay/James Brooks, an Artist/Designer/Illustrator/Photographer based in London.

I draw inspiration from the streets around me, and find beauty in unloved and abandoned buildings and places. My medium varies, but you will usually find me with an ink pen/quill and a polaroid camera, maybe even a spraycan. I try to use different materials as I feel it gives greater freedom of expression.

I have worked with K-swiss producing a pair of custom trainers for the '06 summer tour, a top UK publisher visually documenting and writing about street art, a London based music management company working on various design projects, and many others.

Click here for invites

You can see more of Jay's work on his MySpace page or his website here

The Raab Galerie opens their new show "Romeo & Julia" tomorrow at 7 p.m.

It will be a combined show with works by Christoff Baron, an artist from France who started his career as a graphik designer and Harald Klemm, an artist from Cologne who we have posted about before.

As the title indicates, the show will focus on human interpersonal relationships, not only in terms of couples/ liffe partners but also the intimicy of family life and individual moments of togetherness.

If you are in Berlin, stop by...

Here's the link...

I came across El Puño on My Space. He lives and works in Vienna and does some truly wonderful imagery. He has worked for or working with EMI music, Universal, Sony BMG, oakley and many others.

Enjoy: el puño

In the spirit of our current "Mother Nature" competition, tomorrow is "Earth Day'. Earth Day is about bringing environmental awareness around the world. It is the day when we all should have a little think about it and maybe decide to make at least one little change in the way we do things.

Now, how big is your carbon footprint? :)

We were approached by Custom52 few days ago to be friends (link up). If you havent heard of Custom 52, we think its a fantastic idea and the site looks great. Here is what they are about:

We are an online design community using playing cards as our canvas. Entries will be graded by your peers and the strong will survive. The top design for each playing card of each suit will be chosen to go to print and a deck of the top submissions will be produced. The deck will then go on sale for the world to enjoy... grab your template and go!

Now head to Custom52 and submit your designs for the cards!

We want to show you where the shirts are printed:

We use a cool screenprinter in Berlin-Kreuzberg. It's run by a bunch of fun blokes who are really good at what they are doing.
I am very happy with the shirts they did for the first competition... wait and see :)

Here are some images, so you know where (and how) it's happening...(the screen they are working on is that for 'pigs against racism')

Something about the technique:

A screen is made of a piece of porous, finely woven fabric (originally silk, but typically made of polyester or nylon since the 1940s) stretched over an aluminum frame. Areas of the screen are blocked off with a non-permeable material—a stencil—which is a positive of the image to be printed; that is, the open spaces are where the ink will appear.

The screen is placed on top of a piece of dry paper or fabric. Ink is placed on top of the screen, and a squeegee (rubber blade) is used to push the ink evenly into the screen openings and onto the substrate. The ink passes through the open spaces in the screen onto the paper or fabric below; the screen is lifted away and then the squeegee is pushed back across the screen, with the screen lifted, "flooding" the ink into the screen. The screen can be re-used after cleaning. If more than one color is being printed on the same surface, the ink is allowed to dry and then the process is repeated with another screen and different color of ink.

Hello All,

Here is a little update on what is going on in the next few days.

First of all, we have received some great designs and are really excited about them. We think it is going to be a very close call. Different to the previous competition, we will keep everyone up to date via the blog on how the competition is doing and which designs are in the lead. We think this is important so you can see what you need to do (get friends to vote) to push your designs up.

So,

Voting is now LIVE

Here you can score all the designs on the scale from 0-5. Zero is off course no points and 5 is maximum points. Top designs are calculated on the basis of average score. In other words, if 5 people vote with 5 points for that design, that person number of points is 25 and average score is 5. (25 divided by number of votes). Designs with the highest average score win. At the same time if one design recieved 5 points and only one person has voted for them, they will have the same score as the person who has had 5 voters. Reason for this is so everyone has a fair count.

So, score as many designs as you can. Every vote counts.

Simple as that. Please also don't forget that you need to register before you can vote.





We will keep an update in the blog on how the designs are doing, to be more exact we will publish six designs with highest average scores.

This will happen on:
Thursday 19th April, Monday 23rd April and Thursday 26th April.

Voting ends in exactly two weeks: on Monday, 30th April.

During this time, we should have collected enough votes to decide 3 winners.

We will print 3 winning designs, Gold, Silver and Bronze and the designers get commission once we start selling. Originally, we wanted to print other designs too but the designers wouldn't gain commissions. We are changing that. We believe that all designers deserve commissions from their artwork.
From now, all other chosen designs will get commissions on each shirt we sell over the first 100. Commission is 0.50 EUR on each shirt sold. The reason why it is over 100 is to give more credit to the bronze winner.  We will announce who these designers are once the voting is finished.

As this competition is so closely related to the present environmental issues we are facing on this earth, we will be donating 1 EURO for each 'Mother Nature' t-shirt sold to 'Friends of the Earth' charity organisation.



Something about Friends of the Earth:
http://www.foei.org/
Friends of the Earth International is the world's largest grassroots environmental network, uniting 71 diverse national member groups and some 5,000 local activist groups on every continent. With approximately 1.5 million members and supporters around the world, we campaign on today's most urgent environmental and social issues. We challenge the current model of economic and corporate globalization, and promote solutions that will help to create environmentally sustainable and socially just societies.

So, exciting times are ahead. Enjoy these beautiful designs and if you have any questions or comments, please let us know.

Yours,

Allmightys Team

How fantastic were these. I remember spending hours with a graphic pen and stencil to name my tapes....and you favourite music always had to be on those special tapes ..I remember TDK doing some really amaizing "Metal" tapes, all in black. Oh, those were the days. Looking at them today does make you feel quite nostalgic.

Here is a site dedicated just to audio tapes. Looking at them you will get suprised how many of them you have had and loved.

http://www.tapedeck.org


(Via Computerlove)

We have already featured Joseph Gonzalez in the "interesting section" on the right column of Allmightys website. He is also a friend of allmightys. If you haven't got a chance to see his work, it is definetly a must. He has done a wide range of posters and brochures, some of them to die for. A must see...

Enjoy: http://www.miracletwentyone.org/

something for your friday and the upcoming weekend:

check out this neat site that answers questions to a lot of stuff which is not necessarily common knowledge but interesting all the same...

for instance: "Why do some countries drive on the right side of the road and others the left?" If you want to know why, find out here...

You can also subscribe to tthis site via RSS which I do, 'cos I love reading things like this every couple of days ;)

So tempting !!...just a click away + 4 days! I cant wait!! We have fantastic submissions and can't wait to share them with you...

Just 4 more days to go...

Somewhere in Seattle, outside the Market Theatre, a tradition has evolved over the years to stick your piece of gum on the wall.

The result "is a photographers dream. Bright colors, tons of textures and interesting photo ops abound. You would think it's we're talking about the theater but the art is outside."

have a look...

An interesting collection of work by Ties Albers. A 25 year old graphic designer "Loves to make illustrations that look bold, fresh and shiny, with bright colours and flowing lines, elements of nature, strange combinations and symetry."

You can see more of Ties Albers' work here

and purchase his posters here

I can't get enough of this site:

here's a collection of strange (and sometimes REALLY strange) statues from around the world. It's brilliant when you think about the ideas that people come up with and the cities that actually put them up.

have a look... (the link takes you to the main site, so you have to browse a bit)

If those morning coffees have become a little mundane and repetative then you can always challange yourself with these sets of mugs. I personally think they look fantastic ..never mind whether they are functional at all :)

Lap Mug Description:
Crockery is designed for the table but people increasingly eat around the house. Mugs for indulging on the sofa with a wedge for nestling in your lap.

Knee Mug Description:
Crockery is designed for the table but people increasingly eat around the house. Mugs for indulging on the sofa with a concave base for balancing on your knee.

Linky

Only one huge but nevertheless really impressive image of Alexander Preuss' view of future cities.

Very cool!

check it out here...

A wonderful collection of work by Sven Palmowski. Sven is originally from Stuttgart and moved to Barcelona few years go where he works as a freelancer. He studied fine arts in Stuttgart. He works with pencil, ink, watercolours, scanner and Mac.

Visit Sven's Website Here

Fantastic guide to Flickr for beginners. If you havent heard of Flickr (which would be the reason for you reading this post) it is a fantastic site for sharing photos with you friend and total strangers. Flickr also includes all kinds of photo groups which you can join and share you photos with them. It is also a great source for finding all kind of photos ...lets say for example you want to go to a place you've never been before ...flickr is definetly the place to start and I am pretty sure you will find many photos.

Read the guide here

A must if you haven't been there before!

We wish you all a Happy Easter!!!

Evgeny Kiseleve launches a new website. If you havent seen his work before, its a must. Primarily vector art and there is a link where you can purchase his posters.

Info by the artist:
Evgeny Kiselev lives and works in the northern Russian seaport city.
Evgeny's works were published in Grafik magazine (U.K.), Beautiful Decay (U.S.A.), Chewonthis magazine (U.S.A.),
I.O. Magazine (Germany), X-Funs (Taiwan), E-tapes (France), Sherbert magazine (U.S.A.), X-CUP (Taiwan), Semi Permanent books etc.

Kiselev`s images depict forms that seem to be suspended in water, with a mass of colourful tendrils and undulating organic shapes
forming fantasy landscapes and suggesting plant and animal life.

Linky

You live in a big city, you use underground (subway) to get to work ...each day you use the escalators .. now, here is an idea: With spring coming  here is something to do with those skiis sitting in your closet ....ski your way down the escalators!! Very funny!! Some guy went down the longest escalator in Europe (Angel Tube Station, London)

I stumbled upon this cool illustrator called Lev Yilmaz.

He does some amazing comics and animated short films that you can watch on his homepage. I think he's got a brilliant perception on the little details of everyday life...

definately worth checking out...

Fantastic solution for those emergency situations. Imagine you get someone breaking into your home ...all you need to do is plug in your siren ..and if it doesnt scare your thief it will definetly make him think you are totally mad and he will leave you alone :)

More info here

I am sure this is the begining of all kinds of USB products .... here is another, a coffee warmer.

Mark Jenkins is an artists who with combining and juxtaposing seemingly inadequate objects and lets the resulting story speak for itself.

Filip posted about this artist before, but I felt like drawing your attention again, especially to the nature-based projects, like the parking meter in the middle of the forest. It's kind of related to our current competition, so here you go.

have a look...

Love the idea to build your own products. This is a fantastic solution to adding something extraordinary to your home.

Info on the product:
The Designer Emulation Kits (DEK’s for short) are meant as the sincerest homage to some of the greatest modern designers of our time. The lamps and designers being “emulated” have a particular importance. They are represented in countless design tomes extolling the various movements, and they are held up as prime examples of “good design.”

- Arco kit: is based on the classic Arco by Achille Castiglioni. A ubiquitous symbol of good taste, and universally recognized...
- Lucellino kit: was inspired by Ingo Maurer’s Lucellino. Why make it the first in the series? The originator of the DEK’s, Mark McKenna, took his first professional job as a member of the Ingo Maurer team.
- Tizio kit: takes the form of the famous Tizio by Richard Sapper.  This is the most challenging DEK to put together...

Buy Here

(Via UberGizmo)

Here is a wonderful site for the middle of the week!

It's an image of a life-size whale brought to you by the Whale and Dolphin Conversation Society. It's quite amazing to think of the scale of this animal when it floats past you on your screen. Something very relaxing and grand about it...

have a look here...

This page is something for german speakers only, but a neat link all the same. It's basically a news flash where someone reads the main events of the day in 60 seconds. not really more than a soundbite, but mostly enough info to keep you up with daily events.

check it out here...

For all you Mac users: do you work with coloured labels in your finder to keep things organised? If you do, then this little application might come in useful:

"Color icons for color labels. Hey Folders! adds colored folder icons to Apple's Finder. Instead of a generic icon, labeled folders show up in the appropriate color."

here's the link...