Designer Turns Studio Apartment into 24 Rooms
Make Better Mistakes
“Let’s make better mistakes tomorrow. Let’s scratch our heads and give up and wake up and try it again. Let’s fail at digging the well the first three times to get it right the fourth. Let’s build faster horses, and then strap rocket ships onto them. Let’s start a company, let’s watch it fail, and then let’s start another one.
Waiting For “Superman”
A trailer created entirely in infographics for Waiting For “Superman”, the recent documentary by Davis Guggenheim that explores the American public school system and its failures.
The animation was created by BUCK, the NY/LA motion studio also responsible for the information design and animation on Guggenheim’s last documentary, An Inconvenient Truth.
(via Design Observer)
Do You Have PSD?
The imaginative designers at Hyperakt just sailed past 500,000 views of their video “I have PSD” on Vimeo and YouTube, cheered along by Photoshop lovers who share their inability to imagine a world without PSD (a.k.a. Photoshop Dexterity).
“Photoshop dexterity (PSD) is a skillset acquired by proficient users of Adobe Photoshop, the world’s most ubiquitous digital tool for creating visual ideas. Qualities of PSD include supernatural powers of imagination and an overwhelming desire to constantly make the world more beautiful. PSD affects people from different walks of life. In fact, there is a high probability that you have PSD.”
To celebrate, Hyperakt has designed 20 variations on the PSD t-shirts featured in their video and are inviting you to vote on your favorites. If you want to share the video with friends and family, you’ll be entered into Hyperakt’s contest for a chance to be one of 150 lucky Fans who will receive a limited edition t-shirt with one of the three most popular designs printed on it.
To enter, first watch Hyperakt’s “I have PSD” video, next vote on your favorite t-shirt designs and finally Retweet “I have PSD and I want one of these shirts: http://bit.ly/amf4HB @ihavepsd via @hyperakt on Twitter. That’s it. Now you’re in the running for a chance to be one of only 150 people in the world (plus the hyperactive creative team at Hyperakt of course) with the I Have PSD t-shirt.
Shot in stop-motion style by the folks at Brooklyn design office Hyperakt. via Adobe
The Desk
A great little short by Imaginary Forces, The Desk examines the relationship and habits between artists and their desks. Directed by Mark Gardner, it includes interviews with design writer/critic Alice Twemlow, legendary graphic designer Massimo Vignelli, illustrator David Miller, product designer Søren Kjær, and novelist Kurt Andersen.
The Desk is part of Lines, a web series of mini-documentaries “highlighting the beauty and importance of the architecture in everyday objects, and how the design and structure of these objects affect and reflect our lifestyles. These objects range from parking structures to high heel shoes.”
Stella Artois by Wes Anderson
A new TV ad for the Belgian beer brand, this spot is titled Apartomatic and plays like a live-action Quagmire scene. Shot by Wes Anderson (a collaboration with Roman Coppola) in his signature style – sharp, perfectly framed, and with just enough quirk to keep things humorous.
(via Creative Review)
Recycled Gym Floors Make Their Bedroom Debut
By Ike Edeani
You thought you’d left the sweat-stained, shoe-marked floorboards of your high school gym long behind, eh? Not today. In an effort to recapture nostalgia, designer Søren Rose has introduced the Gymnasium Collection, a limited edition series of cabinets made from recycled gym floorboards, allowing your “kissing under the bleachers” memories to make an everyday appearance.
The current collection is being mass-produced, and merely borrows the graphic lines and simple silhouettes of the court. The cabinets are made using sustainable, eco-friendly materials like renewable pine and controlled Danish oak with water-based fixatives and varnishes.