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In the 1980′s Apple was putting out some seriously cool stuff. We’ve seen evidence of it before with Apple’s 1986 clothing line and now with this Apple gift catalog also from 1983. The Apple logo made it on a range of products including race cars, kites, carpets and more.
To celebrate the one-year anniversary of Coca-Cola.FM Brazil’s online radio platform, ad agency JWT Brazil designed a print ad that turns into a simple DIY iPhone speaker. The print ad ran inside the cover of Brazilian fashion magazine Capricho, with instructions on how users can create their very own Coca-Cola
First conceived in the Spring of 2010 by Eric Firestone, and organized with curator Carlo McCormick, The Bone Yard Project resurrects retired airplanes from America’s military history through the creative intervention of contemporary artists, taking entire airplanes and their elements out of aeronautic resting spots in the desert, known as
Fast Company writer Austin Carr recently interviewed a former senior UI designer at Apple who describes among other things, one particular memory of receiving criticism from Steve Jobs himself. The designer had just shown a redesigned feature to the late Jobs who responded, “I want it to look like a
eBay has unveiled a new company logo—replacing its previous ‘floating’, overlapping letters with a more sleek and simple design in the same color scheme. eBay president Devin Wenig said the new logo is part of the company’s effort to reinvent the 17-year-old brand and build a new eBay. Wenig went
French firm Orée recently launched a new keyboard made entirely from a single piece of maple or walnut. Every keyboard is made to order and is crafted, polished, oil-finished and assembled by hand in their workshop in southern France. Orée was born from our observation that modern technology products look
We received our copy of Communication Arts‘ Design Annual 53, September/October this morning and were finally able to see our entry featured within this prestigious publication. Congratulations again to our very own Jeff Harder who completed this wine package design for DC Flynt MW Selections!
The RGB Colorspace Atlas by New York-based artist Tauba Auerbach is a massive tome containing digital offset prints of every variation of RGB color possible. Think of it as a three-dimensional version of a Photoshop color picker. At 8in. x 8in x 8in. the perfectly cube book was co-designed by
Tel Aviv-based artist Shay Aaron constructs incredible miniaturized food sculptures at 1:12 scale that look almost completely edible. You can see hundreds more photos on Flickr.
In Christchurch, New Zealand, 10 massive optical illusion-inducing mixed-media art pieces by Mike Hewson pay homage to the former Christchurch Normal School which opened in 1876. The building, completely renovated for apartment and retail use in 1981 was damaged badly in the February 2012 magnitude 6.3 earthquake and is now
A couple of weeks ago we posted a few designs of classic cartoons as fashion labels. Today’s post is along the same lines, with some of the biggest brands in the world getting a hipster makeover. Check out a few of our favorites below and then head over to the
