31 year old French designer aka CHICK.. very nice online portfolio and a great collection of work. I love the Qee Customs. Check it out here:

www.chickfree.com

or, say hello on MySpace: myspace.com/tonysungki

With Big City Life competition finished we are now working to get the winning designs printed and in the shop as soon as possible. This should take about a month or so but we will keep you posted how they are doing. We'll also try to grab some snaps whilst they are being printed too.

We've also had some queries over the weekend and this morning why your scores are not visible in the My Allmightys section (they are now) and the competition is over. We thought we address this issue publicly rather than replying to each email. We at allmightys work 24/7 on allmightys and are pretty much available any time, unless we are sleeping :) ...unfortunately, or fortunately for them, our web developers work Mon-Fri. Making scores visible was one of those things that needs to be done by the developers and the earliest they could do it was this morning.  If you now go into your My Allmightys section you will see your average score and the number of voters. We hope this answers your queries....sorry no conspiracy here :)

We are also now working our way to the next competition. No themes in mind yet but we are now taking suggestions. We also have a little surprise (new feature) coming for the next competition so the gap might be a little longer between the competition as we want to implement these new features. We hope you will enjoy them and we think its gonna take the submitting of designs and voting for them to another level.

As always, if you have any suggestions, feature request or anything else you want to talk us about ..please do.

The results are finally here and what a fight it has been!
Again, we have received a large number of exceptional designs and thank you all for them!! The response to the topic was extremely varied. We actually hoped for this, as the Monsters & Mayhem competition showed us that there are so many brilliant minds and great designers out there who all develop their own, unique approach and style to a topic!

The great thing about having competitions (especially concerning design) is that you never know until the very last minute who will end up at the top… it is exiting to us as much as it is to you :) This competition has really been exciting and extremely unpredictable. We hope you like the winning designs and the following special selections.

We have decided to print 6 designs again: the three prize winners and three special selections. We have picked the special selections using the following merits: Average Score Results, Quality and execution of Design and coolness :)

The results are:

Prize Winners (Printed)
1. MYLAND by trinco, Average=2.66, (Com: 2 EUR per shirt sold)
2. City bound by hazel, Average=2.57, (Com: 1.50 EUR per shirt sold)
3. City Life by Saman, Average=2.53, (Com: 1 EUR per shirt sold)

Special Selection (Printed)
(order by score) (Commission: 1 EUR per shirt sold)
1. My Map by 1/2mite
2. Wind-Up by JUICE
3. John Carpenter’s We Live by nelloforesto

Special Mention (Not Printed)
(order by score)
1. Picking Influence by rmstice
2. big city liveS by strzyga
3. creature called city by rasiko
4. paintdubtion by zinkete
5. come back to your city by tecnicolor
6. Big City Fiend by else1

Check out separate blog post about our Special Announcement (prizes).

Please note your average scores in the "My Allmightys" section of the website will appear on Monday morning GMT.

A few weeks ago we sent out our quarterly Designer Report to all the Allmightys designers. Of course, the gold, silver and bronze prize winners were pretty pleased with the money due to them from commissions. Unfortunately for the Special Selections they did not receive comissions because until now, they would only receive commissions after the first 100 tees sold. We are now changing that because we feel that everyone should be getting commissions from the start. In addition, €0.50 is just way too little so we are changing that too!!! Actually, why don’t we change the whole lot!! :) From now on the prizes are as follows:

GOLD PRIZE: € 2.00 for every shirt sold
SILVER PRIZE: € 1.50 for every shirt sold
BRONZE PRIZE: € 1.00 for every shirt sold
SPECIAL SELECTION: € 1.00 for EVERY shirt sold

What does this mean for the previous winners/special selections?
From this quarter (31st June) they will receive the above commissions for EVERY tshirt sold.

.....and this is not all!!!

LONG TERM COMMITMENT!

After 50 shirts sold, we are increasing commissions + designers receive a Free T-Shirt of their choice!!!

GOLD PRIZE: € 2.00 for every shirt sold
SILVER PRIZE: € 2.00 for every shirt sold
BRONZE PRIZE: € 1.50 for every shirt sold
SPECIAL SELECTION: € 1.50 for EVERY shirt sold

and then… after 250 shirts sold:

€ 2.00 GOES TO THE DESIGNER FOR EVERY T-SHIRT SOLD (any prize winner or special selection)

and then AGAIN ..after an amazing 1000 shirts sold:

€ 4.00 GOES TO THE DESIGNER FOR EVERY T-SHIRT SOLD (any prize winner or special selection)

We think this is pretty amazing … now you may ask yourself, what does that actually mean …how much can I get if you guys sell for example 2000 of my tshirts and I won a gold prize?

The answer is: €6,000.00 :)))
silver is a little less (€ 5,875), bronze (€ 5,850) and special selection the same (€ 5,850)

We are committed to our designers ..as long as we are selling, you are earning. We think this is the best deal out there.

So, what are you waiting for …Give Us Your Best!!

^{Please note we will be changing our Terms and Conditions for uploading designs to reflect this update.}

We wanted to give you all are little more insight into the art of silkscreen printing and we thought that Little Old Men is a good example.

This design is particularly difficult to print as there are so many details that you really have to think how to get it onto a t-Shirt. Take a look at what's happening in the windows, the leaves on the trees and the background: the satellite dish on the rooftop , the helicopter on the building in the far back and the detail of the stonework in some buildings.

The problems start with the color: printing white on a dark background means that you have to print two layers otherwise the white won't show well enough. Although the guys at Printworks used a really thin mesh (which you need for this detailing) the color always runs a bit when you print the second layer, making the lines thicker than yo want them. So, after much debate, they came up with the good idea to print the foreground twice and the background only once. Simple really, but you got to think of it ;)

This way they were able to achieve a degree of spatial perspective as well as the buildings in the background tend to "fade out".

We are really happy with the outcome... thanks to the team at Printworks for making this happen :)

To see the final outcome or buy little old men, see them here
You can also read more about little old men and watch a short movie clip here.

Today we added two great new tees to the store from our Monsters & Mayhem competition:

All In Your Head by mr jez  and
Inner Struggle by Saman Bemel-Benrud

Grab them while they're fresh!

"City of Good" is one of Shilo Studio's four original pieces featured in their recently released Book/DVD. The book looks fantastic and you can grab it here.

Watch City of Good here or
learn more about wemakeitgood.com or SHILO Studio here

about Shilo
Co-Founded by Jose Gomez and Andre Stringer in 2001, Shilo is an Emmy Award winning creative studio of designers, animators, and directors who share a common obsession to forge a new perspective in storytelling.

Shilo strives to not only push the boundaries of contemporary design and live-action direction but also strike a nerve in an ever-numbing audience. Combining live-action, design, animation, classic typography, illustration, music and sound design, Shilo creates projects with boundless emotional impact.

(via cpluv)

Carlos J. Gómez de Llarena is an Interaction Designer working in the area or Architecture, Interaction Design for Web, Environments, Mobile, Game Design, Furniture Design, Video Installation and Broadcast Design.

Educated in School of Architecture in Venezuela and then studied Interactive Telecommunications Program at New York University has given him a very diverse view on architecture and spatial experience. He has held a number of Exhibitions and is a winner of large number of awards.

www.med44.com

He also runs a blog called City Interface where he analyses streetscape giving you two perspectives : one from the ground and another via google earth. Check it out here.

Thank you carlos for the wonderful Pictobrowser!

Things are really hotting up now ..and we are not saying a word .... well 6 that is :) . With only 2 days left to vote we don't want to influence by revealing anything. This is also the last post in the Big City Life update roll. We would like to wish everyone best of luck and may the best designs win!
As we mentioned in our last update, some really cool news are coming in 3 days when the winners are announced so make sure you come back and check it out. On Friday night, when we close the voting at 11pm GMT (sharp) we will review all the votes, double check everything is in order and announce the winners on Saturday morning. The announcement is going to be:

1. Gold Prize Winner
2. Silver Prize Winner
3. Bronze Prize Winner

4. Special Selection
5. Special Selection
and maybe
6. Special Selection

+ Special Announcement!

For information on prizes (€) see here



Site Update:
We have really wanted to include this feature for a while but were never too sure how should it be done. We think now that we have the best;

Allmightys presents Photo Gallery!  

We all love photos and we all love to share them. What better way to do this than via .  Flickr is almost certainly the best online photo management and sharing application in the world. Show off your favorite photos to the world, securely and privately show photos to your friends and family, or blog the photos you take with a cameraphone.

A new menu has now been added to the shop where you will find Photo Feed from the Flickr group called Allmightys.

Each month we will pick Best Photos of the Month. The winners will receive exclusive   (twenty percent off) discount off their next purchase!!
^{Best Photos of the Month are picked by Allmightys Team in the first week of every month.}

Upload yours today to be selected!
^{You need to be registered with and submit your photo to allmighty group pool here.}

Now, get beautiful and get those snaps to the pool!

Guerrilla Gardeners is a group of individuals with 171 people on their membership list who strike at night armed with shovels, shrubs and plants looking for areas of south london to brighten up.

Here is their latest effort:
I was invited to talk about guerilla gardening at the Port Eliot Lit Fest. A local tipped us off that the station had an orphaned platform, so Lyla 1046 and I dug out a fresh trench next to a smothered rose and in went two new mallow and some verbena. By mistake we also planted the MG in a boggy field.

Check them out here ..you can also make donations and take part yourself!

We now have 3 new fantastic tees in the store from our Monsters & Mayhem competition.
The tees are:
You are HIRED good sir! by YONIL
Heart Monsters by Giovanni Donadini
Dream Monsters by ci chenSaman Bemel Benrud

Grab them while they're FRESH!

Site Update
You may have also noticed but we have made the site a little simpler. The front page no longer takes you to the store but rather the summary page of what's going on at Allmightys. The shop is now growing fast and with 15+ tees in the store we needed to jiggle a few things. The front page now has direct access to all 3 areas of the site; 1. The Blog, 2. The Competitions and 3. the Shop.  We think this works a lot better and it gives us a little more freedom to promote events/new tees on the front page. We have also made the side bar a little less crowded, we though there was way too much info there. Friends are now on the front page instead of sidebar. Also, new designers are right on the front page, nice and big ...this is the area for all designers so we will be adding older designers there too.  You like?!

Only 4 days left to the scoring end. The funny thing is that 3,4,5 places are still fighting amongst themselves :) They are so close that every vote makes a difference. Also, it appears that these designs are also getting close to the 2 and 1st place, so no-one is safe anymore :) . We would LOVE to reveal more but we can't and its so hard to keep it away from you!! :(   All will be revealed very soon!!!..only 4 DAYS!!

We also have some good news coming in the next few days ....but only once the voting is over. We think everyone is going to be pleased about this.

We have been busy today and yesterday working on the new front page. We have really had troubles finding a best way to present your designs and designers on the front page. Its really a design issue , how to make the front page look clean and at the same time display so much info. From the start, when we originally designed the website in October 2006, we always knew that it was your work that will make up the graphic look of the website and we wanted to build something that would just act as a frame to your wonderful designs.  We also knew, including some comments we received recently, that having a store on the front page might not be a way forward. This has also resulted in slowing down the loading of the site. We now finally feel like we have a perfect solution and we think you will like it. Visit the site tomorrow/day after to see the new front.

We also have new Tees coming to the store tomorrow. These are 4 tees from the Monsters & Mayhem competition and they look fantastic! I (filip) have already grabbed one (bought it actually, oh yes, we have to pay too) and wore it yesterday. I just love when the looks are coming especially from people who identify themselves in the tee (can you guess which Tee I am talking about?)

Anyhow, lots to happen tonight/tomorrow/day after. Keep an eye on the site and off course, as always, all your comments are welcome.

Here is a very cool installation at London's Gloucester Road Underground station:
Artist Brian Griffiths "who has filled the disused platform with Life Is A Laugh, an epic installation which is part assault course, part giant panda head. The artwork is the latest exhibition in the Gloucester Road Platform for Art programme, which presents four shows a year in the Underground space. Griffiths is known for his magical, absurdist work that in the past has included a super computer made from cardboard and other household materials and a galleon constructed in wooden furniture."

The installation is comissioned by Platform for Art, an art programme by London Underground. I think this is a very good idea: three million passengers use the network every day and apart from raising awareness towards the arts it gives people waiting for their train something to look at and think about...

(via Creative Review)

Six days now left to Vote. New votes are coming in as we speak. Things are also getting really exciting as it seems that first and second place are holding strong their positions and there is a fight over the third place. Just as we think its set and the gap is widening its suddenly reduced to nothing and the 4th place design overtakes the 3rd. We think this is going to be the fight until the end. Its also very interesting what designs new visitors are voting for (see little text below). Lets also not forget about current 5,6 and 7th places as they are very close too. We'll have to wait until the end to see what happens.

The Designs
There seems to be general preference to idea strong designs which is fantastic. Richness of the design is not necessarily what people go for and from our experience voters evaluate designs on the following few principles: "Would I wear this" , "How well it is produced" and "How well is the idea demonstrated and applied to a T-Shirt". Even though we may appreciate a design from aesthetic point of view, we may not forget that this is also an apparel. If you ask yourself whether this design would also work on a Coffee Mug for example, and the answer is yes,  then there might be something with the design not being thoroughly through out for the design on a T-Shirt. Taking T-Shirt as a medium as a starting point and then the theme as secondary usually results in successful designs. This is what makes designing t-shirts especially exciting. It is very different from working with other mediums - It is wearable, and it puts the "purpose of designs" in the forefront. People notice what you wear and they do wonder why you wear particular design. We all associate in some way to what we wear. This may be colour, shape, reference to an old item of clothing and many others. What we wear makes us what we are to other people. It is a reflection of our personality.

Taking all of this into account, is it really possible to evaluate a good T-Shirt Design?  We don't think so, the only thing left to us to evaluate is how well is the design produced, how much effort has one put into it and how developed the idea is.

What do you think?

6 DAYS LEFT

ps. Has anyone noticed the theme running through our blog posts? :)

Dilston Grove, formerly the Clare College Mission Church in Southwark Park in London, is a listed building and one of the earliest examples of poured concrete construction. No longer consecrated ground, it is now the city's only permanent large-scale space available for artists.

The installation pictured here is Bridge, London artist Michael Cross' installation for the 2006 London Design Festival. "The installation allows any member of the flock to walk on water inside a former church. Cross achieved the effect by half-filling the century-old church with water and installing steps that seemed to magically appear as visitors walked across the water. Purely mechanical, the weight of a person activates each step, which rises just above the surface of the water as they walk forward. There are some 30 steps in all, ending in the middle of the church—isolation that may be peaceful for some and terrifying for others."

(via coolhunting)

A brilliant space and a fine example of re-using abandoned city space.

Not so recent but fantastic never the less. Created by friends of Allmightys in San Francisco.

Synopsis:
Piece By Piece is a groundbreaking film that documents San Francisco's highly controversial graffiti art movement. A story told by those who live the experience. Piece by Piece offers an intimate journey into the most intriguing and misunderstood artistic movement of modern youth culture. By detailing the last 20 years of San Francisco's graffiti, the tale offers the most candid and accurate story behind the writing on the wall in Northern California.

The DVD is absolutely fantastic. It comes with 2 hours of extra footage, slideshow with over 500 SF flicks, production notes and commentary, short docs, 50 page booklet with interviews and flicks, subs in Japanese, German, French, Spanish and English.

A must for your DVD collection..get it here..picebypicemovie.com!

This book has been around for a while but never the less a very good reference when it comes to understanding how we experience the city. Ian Borden uses skateboarding as a point of view. Architect by profession he teaches at the Bartlett School of Architecture in London and has written a number of great books.

About:
This book is the first detailed study of the urban phenomenon of skateboarding. It looks at skateboarding history from the surf-beaches of California in the 1950s, through the purpose-built skateparks of the 1970s, to the street-skating of the present day and shows how skateboarders experience and understand the city through their sport. Dismissive of authority and convention, skateboarders suggest that the city is not just a place for working and shopping but a true pleasure-ground, a place where the human body, emotions and energy can be expressed to the full.

buy from Amazon.com
buy from Amazon.de
buy from Amazon.co.uk

First day of voting is almost over (first 24hrs), and as expected the designs have been moving up and down the ladder like mad. Its absolutely impossible to predict anything but some designs are taking the stronghold :). With another 9 days to go everything can change so we'll keep an eye and let you know how the designs are doing.
We've also had today one of those designers that think they can beat the system. Nothing new, we've seen it all before, and we sent our usual "happy" email that said something like "FINAL WARNING" :) I think they have learned their lesson. Off course, if our email "ended up in their Junk mail folder" or "they haven't checked their email" or "I couldn't connect to Internet last night so I didn't get your message and I am really sorry" then the design is OUT of the competition :). Its a shame that these things happen but its kind of understandable. We are not here to make it difficult..just fair.

The site has also been overwhelmed with traffic in the last 2 days so if you have been getting the message "The Page is Being Loaded..Please Wait" we know about it and are working on getting around that problem. One solution is moving to faster servers and we are working on that. As soon as the storm has passed, in a day or two, you should not be getting that message anymore (hopefully).

This is also the time when the site is growing in Member numbers. A lot of friends are visiting and we would like to thank the new visitors for their votes.
We hope you enjoy your stay at Allmightys.

9 DAYS TO GO..

Continuing in the spirit of Big City Life, here are few photos of the incredible Tokyo Storm Water System.

About:
Brainchild of Japan Institute of Wastewater Engineering Technology (JIWET), this "sci-fi"-like installation consists of "five 32m diameter, 65m deep concrete containment silos, connected by 64 kilometers of tunnels 50 meters deep underground. The system is powered by 14000 horsepower turbines which can pump 200 tons of water a second into a nearby river."

See more pictures here and here

Also check out other Abandoned Tunnels & Vast Underground Spaces at darkroastedblend.com

In the spirit of our current Big City Life competition, here is a current exhibition at the Tate Modern in London; Global Cities

From 20th June until 27th August 2007

More Info Here

About:
Global Cities looks at the changing faces of ten dynamic international cities: Cairo, Istanbul, Johannesburg, London, Los Angeles, Mexico City, Mumbai, São Paulo, Shanghai and Tokyo.
Exploring each city through five thematic lenses – speed, size, density, diversity and form – the exhibition draws on data originally assembled for the 10th International Architecture Exhibition at the 2006 Venice Biennale. This unique show presents existing films, videos and photographs by more than 20 artists and architects to offer subjective and intimate interpretations of urban conditions in all ten cities.

The submission time for BIG CITY LIFE has just ended and the voting has started!!

Thank you all for submitting such wonderful designs! We are very excited to see how this round of scoring will turn out and who will come top.

Which designs make you laugh, which ones make you think? Which ones do you want to see on a T-shirt?

SCORE DESIGNS NOW

For all the newcomers to the site: you can score points for each design once.
0 points means: "Na, I really don't like that one" and 5 points means: "Yes, this is so cool that I want to see it in print".

Remember that you don't have to score all designs at once. You can score a few, have a coffee and return later to score the rest. Our server will remember you and tell you the ones you already scored by fading the image into black and white. Neat ;) but don't forget to score all the designs ..they all need your vote!

So go ahead, vote for your favourites and choose the ones you want us to print!!!

Scoring Ends on Monday, 27th July, 11 pm GMT.

Please meet Señorita Putis Mayer.

www.putismayer.net

Thanks Sara

here's something weird: the iCat is a robotic cat developed by Philips.
In their own words the iCat "interacts with the user in a natural way by understanding spoken requests, giving replies, recognizing faces or everyday objects and by using body language such as facial expressions, nodding and other head movements."

Apart from this electronic pet being no new feature (remembering the Sony Dog years ago), I am missing any real revelations here: it's more or less static, the features strongly remind me of the Wallace & Grommit characters, and the speech sounds like very early computer speak. Ok, it can play tic-tac-toe with you and there appear to be multiple personality options (one smoother, nicer one and one that is more outspoken and direct) but apart from that I see no real pioneering in the field of robotics...

I think it will still be a long time until we can say to our electronic pets: "stay...good boy".

check out a presentation film here...

A 30 year old artist based in Lille, France doing some truly fantastic work. From Nike customs, Mags, Toys, Skateboards to Prints and Apparel. A very long list of clients too.

SKWAK or say hello on MySpace

Just little over a day left now to submit entries. We are a little surprised with the number of rejections. I would say that we rejected about 40 designs this time around which is quite a high number considering in the last competition we had about 86 in total that were voted for. I believe we only rejected about 15-20 designs in the last Monsters & Mayhem competition. I can't stress enough how important it is to put some time into these designs. We are getting a lot of submissions with people thinking that spending 5 min doing a design would be sufficient ...it really isn't especially when compared to those designs that do show a lot of effort. We even got few designs where people put in the descriptions “5 min submission” which only makes us even more reluctant to accept...and the worst thing is that they look like 2 min submission :). Anyhow, the submissions that have been accepted are really cool and we can't wait to share them with you.

At the time of this post, there is only 1 day and 4 hours remaining to submit. Thanks to our Mac OSX widget, we can see exactly how much time is left, without having to be calculating it all the time with all this GMT business :)  The cool thing about the widget is that the new timer will appear on Tuesday which will be for voting. It will say how much time is left to vote. Very neat!

For those not familiar with the voting process, you don't have to score all the designs at once because the system remembers which ones you have scored and how many you have remaining. We also think this is one thing we should probably put up a page for, how to vote, with examples of what the page looks like. Our old users know this already but the new ones don't. This is also reflected in some submissions with people uploading Voting Gallery Images or thumbnails orientated the wrong way. Anyhow, make sure you score all the designs..but more about this on Tuesday when the voting goes live.

Its also very interesting that a lot of submissions are a little negative about cities ...and this is very worrying. Does this mean that our generations are no longer welcome in the cities? Do cities really alienate people? Are we really overworking ourselves and not getting much in return? Do we feel alone? Do smaller town provide more value for money?  A number of designs raise these questions, and it would be interesting to see what your thoughts are.
We will raise some of these issues over the course of voting and it would be great to get some discussions going. We want to see what our members think.

1 DAY LEFT TO SUBMIT

A very cool collection of sneakers/trainers. You can also upload yours if you have done some customisation.

Check it out: sneakerfreak.org

Johan.G aka chocoklash is a designer from Lille, France. He works mainly for music related graphics, like designs for labels and DJ's. I especially like his integration of words in his designs... very powerful.

check out more of his work here on myspace.

Fantastic site about typography and a great reference.
The latest post on the blog is "Our Favorite Fonts of 2006"

Bookmark NOW! or subscribe to their RSS feed.

Only few days left now to scoring! Its getting really exciting and the submissions are coming in dozens now. Its also great to see that people are submitting more than one submission and they are all as good. I think we are going to have a very close fight this time around ... and its going to be really interesting to see where your votes go.
The submissions have generally been very varied and even though there is one theme, the designs are so very different.

We are also looking at bringing new feature for the next competition. Developing these things takes time and we just didn't have time to include them in this competition. They are mainly about getting you guys in more of a driving seat when it comes to new submissions. The features are really cool and we think you will like them. If you have any suggestions, NOW is the time to make them! We are always looking for new ideas how to improve the site and the way competitions work.

ONLY 4 MORE DAYS TO SUBMIT

Very nice work by this French designer/illustrator. A collection of apparel, toys, plush, cd covers and illustrations. Must check out!

koadzn.com

Welcome to the daily updates on Allmightys current "Big City Life" T-Shirt design competition.

Our older members are already familiar with these updates as we had a section under My Allmightys which was called Member News and did exactly this. From now, all the competition updates will be posted in the main blog where you will be able to comment, ask questions and everything else.  If you still want to access the old Member News you can do that from here but the menu is now removed.

We've had designs coming in from the first day the competition was announced, which is fantastic. The response was also very good but we are getting worried that a lot of people are leaving submissions to the last minute ...please DONT!. Please submit as early as possible because in the last few competitions we had people submitting at 22.50 at night when the deadline was 23.00.  By leaving things to the last minute you risk your design not being accepted ..so please don't!..we want you beautiful designs!! :)

Unfortunately, as always, we had to refuse some submissions :(  but we think this is for the best. Its always better to offer designers that last opportunity to improve their designs rather than face disappointment when the results come out. If your design has been refused, just do a little more work on it and we think it should be fine. Ask you friends what they think or even you can ask us ...  just drop us an email at submissions_at_allmightys.com and we will respond as soon as possible with what we think.

ok, we think this is it for the first of many posts about our current competition to come.

Keep an eye on the blog and fee free to ask any questions about the competition and off course keep those designs coming!!

6 DAYS LEFT TO SUBMIT

Look what i came across today walking back to the office. Holywell Lane, just off Great Eastern Street underneath the old redundant railway bridge that was removed few months back. I think its pretty recent...How cool!  (London)

"Sited on farmland outside the German village of Wachendorf, the chapel is dedicated to a 15th century farmer and mystic who is being considered as a candidate for canonisation.
The 12m-high structure was built by local farmers using a technique the architect terms “rammed concrete”. A wigwam-like structure of tree trunks was erected, with the walls formed around it. Every day for 24 days the farmers poured 50cm of concrete. The logs were then burnt out, leaving a charred and richly textured internal finish.
An oculus lets in light and rain at the point where the tree trunks converged and further light is admitted through the unfilled holes left by the shuttering ties. While the interior remains extraordinarily dark, the available light reflects off a floor of poured lead.
Zumthor supervised work on the project while construction progressed on his design for a gallery in nearby Cologne, which is due to open in September."

Funny things is that the chapel stands in a village next to where I'm originally from, the countryside around Cologne. I will definately check it out next time I'm home...

A friend actually sent me the info :) Thanks, Strackwitz!

Polo shirts by industrial designer Michael Young for Lacoste. Very nice packaging and the print. Check it out.

Also check out Tom Dixon polo shirt design for Lacoste.

(Via dezeen)

The Allmightys Summer Sale is on NOW!!

Summer is here and it's T-Shirt time!

We have just launched our Summer Sale on all the Tees available in our store for a period of two weeks only!

All Tees are € 18.00 only until 22nd July 2007, 23:00 GMT.

Get your hands on your favourites today!

Very cool publication by Zeroten. Buy quick as there is only 30 copies available.

About:
It features 34 pages of drawing with the general theme being uglyness and unpleasentness. The books are made of full colour illustrations on a very good quality, 180g/m2 paper with a 280g/m2 card cover, all staple bound. The dimentions are 14.5cm by 21cm (roughly A5) and copies of this zine are limited to only 30 copies. Each copy comes numbered, stamped (with the zeroten signature stamp) and signed. The price for this zine is just £8 with a £1 postage fee worldwide. Please email me via the address found in the Contact section to buy or to ask any questions about this item or use the 'buy now' button below.

Get it Here

Hello All! There is now a little over a week left to submit designs for our current “Big City Life” competition. We have already had a number of entries and they look really cool. If you haven't registered already, and want to submit, please don't wait for the last minute and register today!

As always, a week before the submission deadline we begin posting about the competition so keep an eye on the blog.

If you are mac OSX user, download our widget here to stay in touch with the news and watch the countdown to submission deadline.

finally the dates:
Submission deadline 16th July 2007 11PM GMT (sharp)
Scoring Starts 17th July 2007 AM GMT

9 DAYS LEFT TO SUBMIT
Yours, Allmightys Team

You are probably living on Mars if you haven't heard of iPhone but we are glad you are reading Allmightys :)
It's been very hard to deter ourselves from posting anything on iPhone because:

1. There has been way too much info on the net, news, papers, everywhere about the iPhone
2. Everyone is f* talking about it!!
3. We don't have one ..as we are Europeans and god knows when it's going to be released here and its gonna cost €A,LOT.00
4. We want it! so better not talk about it and pretend as if we don't care!

But we finally give in ..

So here are three best iPhone links yet:

1. iPhone singalong
2. Europeans and everyone else who hasn't got one, you can get one here - absolutely free
3. .... or iNOPhone

Now back to looking at iPhonegraphy ....”hmm...there must be more reviews out there i haven't read , let me look”. “ ahhhhhhh.....”

Have a great weekend all!!

A wonderful collection of very exquisite work by this Serbian designer.

Nemanja Dragojlovic : Pixel Lab

Twenty four year old designer from Kraljevo/Belgrade that does predominantly web & graphic design. A Must See!!

Another great guide via MAKE: How to do Light Graffiti

Gallery and Guide here.

What you need: Gear
this is a small collection of flashlights, biking-lights and flashing LED lights they all work with batteries so that you are mobile you also get nice results with fireworks & torches...read more.

A great collection of stencil, silkscreen art and media.
I particulary love the dishes. I want them!

soule5675.mosaicglobe.com/

You can also read her blog here , cool updates.

Ever wanted to have a go at painting like Jackson Pollock?

If yes, here's the site for you... just open it and paint away - it's really good fun.
A click on the mouse (left button) changes the colour of your "brush".

go wild here...

"Drying Up" by Joe Gonzalez concludes our Mother Nature competition. This is the final shirt from this competition and it looks just stunning. In addition, Joe is including a free poster with first 100 tshirts sold. All posters are numbered and there are only 100 of them.

Grab it now!