Sharp geometric wallpapers for your devices.
design
new painting: Progeny, 48” x 78”, oil, enamel, and shellac on canvas, 2013, by Samantha Keely Smith.
Incredible abstract art. The atmosphere is fantastic.
Time to Explore.
Work done by the now defunct Seagulls Fly.
NASA’s Project Firebee: Top Secret VTOL jet from the 50s.
An epiphany about Charisma and Steve Jobs
It just struck me that the reason for Steve Jobs’s mass appeal/charisma comes from the fact that he, among other things, made tangible products i.e, hardware. By that I mean, if he had made only software products his charisma, though present, would be far more diminished in stature. Because it’s a far more direct experience to feel the texture of brushed aluminum under your palms or the smoothness of glass underneath your finger tips or the thinness and lightness of a Macbook Air than it is to enjoy abstract elements like the aesthetics of typography, it’s my belief that his charisma and appeal came from people experiencing his hardware and not the software. Not to say people weren’t taken in by his software, just that hardware played a much bigger role making the contribution from software negligible.
This means if you want charisma, do things that are directly tangible as opposed to the abstract. Drive fast cars, not scribble math on napkins; when deep in thought, don’t just stare into space, smoke a cig or do an effortless sonic with your pen. Because charisma comes from doing tangible things.
There may come a time when human intellect has advanced far enough that mathematic differentiation will excite or terrorize while integration will soothe, satisfy or confuse. But until such time when humans find today’s abstract concepts as tangible as the shock from an exposed electrical wire, turn to tangible things when you want to induce charisma in others towards you.
Base 8: Generative art that grows and finds a home in the spaces between your fingers and hands.
Author Chris Sugrue about the work:
The title of the work was inspired by several rare languages that developed an octal counting base because their culture counted using the spaces in between fingers rather than the fingers themselves (as in the much more common decimal system).
The work uses a 19th century theater trick (Pepper’s ghost) that was originally employed to create the illusion of phantoms or spirits on the stage with live actors. In this modern adaptation of the technique, the illusion is used to create the sensation of a reactive floating world coming to life directly around the visitors body.
Incredible technology to put 3D objects and animate then inside real-life photographs
Another stunning ad from Goodbooks. Doesn’t top the previous one though.
Tractors and User Interfaces
The designers of the Phelps farm tractor in 1901 based their interface on a metaphor with the interface for the familiar horse: farmers used reins to control the tractor. The tractor was steered by pulling on the appropriate rein, both reins were loosened to go forward and pulled back to stop, and pulling back harder on the reins caused the tractor to back up
Ridiculous branding guidelines from Skype
They take a good logo and then go to great lengths wrapping it in over-the-top shit.
Heineken Brand Identity video
So over-the-top, I had to go out and puke.
Latest Project: Logo design for A1movers.in
Made the challenging task of navigating the undulating roads on Indian highways less intimidating using simple and memorable shapes for A1movers.in
Out of the three concepts I presented to the client, we both agreed this one was the most memorable and meaningful, thus fitting to be the face of the company.
Completed in just 3 days for only 130 USD.
Need logos done? Contact me at hello@dffrnt.com for enquiries.
Frozen
Greatest Bike Concept Ever — The Honda EV RR by Arnau Sanjuan Roman
