Torture-Basement

Award winning use of UV paint by Trapped in Suburbia

For museum goudA we were asked to redesign the torture exhibition in their cellar. And so we started to think how to make it more exciting and get kids to read the little signs next to the torture equipment. We've decided to make it an experience by putting al the information on the floor with UV-paint. In this way you can only see something when you put on the UV-flash light otherwise it is just a white floor. So you really have to go exploring and discover new things. All the info on the floor is hand drawn, even the text.

see the rest of it here:
torture basement

via:
behance network

More Is Always on the Way

I had the pleasure of seeing Bryon Boyce's "More is Always Better" last night at Southern Exposure Art Gallery. It is part of a large group show entitled and themed around the word "Boom!" I was amazed by the double entendres he was able to create by being at the right place at the right time, with the right specific perspective to shoot these amazing signage portraits. I recognized a few of the shots, as signs I had also seen around San Francisco, but the way the Boyce presents them in context with other signs, create a social commentary that I would have never imagined.


Boom! at SOEX until December 18th

lipstick enigma

This computer-driven sentence-generator, using rules and lexicon written by the artist, invents and writes a new line of text, and displays it on the sign when triggered by a motion detector. The sentences mix the language of engineering with the language of beauty advertising.

Lipstick Enigma from Janet Zweig on Vimeo.

via:
laughingsquid

Logorama the Movie

Logorama from Marc Altshuler - Human Music on Vimeo.

This is a short film that was directed by the French animation collective H5, François Alaux, Hervé de Crécy + Ludovic Houplain. It was presented at the Cannes Film Festival 2009. It opened the 2010 Sundance Film Festival and won a 2010 academy award under the category of animated short.

In this film there are two pieces of licensed music, in the beginning and in the end. All the other music and sound design are original. The opening track (Dean Martin "Good Morning Life") and closing track (The Ink Spots "I don't want to send the world on fire") songs are licensed pre-existing tracks. All original music and sound design is by, human (www.humanworldwide.com)

via:
http://braincraft.com/

Style Your Garage

As digital printing gets cheaper and more accessible, new innovative ideas on how to use it, keep popping up. This German company has take the idea seen on the back roll-up doors of cargo trucks, and applied it to the residential market. Now you can fantasize about having a gateway to paradise, or formula one race car in your very own garage, and make your neighbors look twice.



see also:
huntheadz

Lost in Penn Station

Lost in Penn Station, is the second part in a series of posts on Slate by Julia Turner on Wayfinding.

below is a video walk-thru of Penn Station with Wayfinding design expert David Gibson He is a founder of Two Twelve and the author of The Wayfinding Handbook. I had the pleasure of buying it directly from him, when I met him at last summer's SEGD design conference, where he received the 2009 SEGD fellow award.




David Gibson's Blog:
jersey city observer

Octane Coffee - Atlanta. Font: Black Slabbath

Octane Coffee is definitely a place I would like to visit if I ever make it to Atlanta GA. Nothing says "evil sign" like death metal, caffeine, Black Slabbath!

Slabbath Wall from Mick Bailey on Vimeo.

flickr set for this installation

you can get this cool font here:
Black Slabbath

vinyl production Custom Signs Today

rolling rock / i rock

rolling rock / i rock, originally uploaded by guy overfelt.

Guy Overfelt


January 21 - April 30, 2010

Opening Reception with music guest Eddie The Rat
January 21, 5pm - 7pm

Oakland Museum of California at City Center
1111 Broadway, Oakland CA 94607
Open Monday - Friday, 7am - 7pm,
third Thursday until 8pm

SketchUp: goodbye Bryce hello Sang

If you're a SketchUp user you've met Bryce, and maybe even noticed that he's recently been replaced.
In her most recent post to the SFMOMA Open Space blog,Stephanie Syjuco tells the story of the life and death of Bryce, his replacement, Sang, and their fans.

Read:
Default Men and 3-D Diversity: Bryce vs. Sang




previous:
stephanie syjuco - conceptual signage art

more hand-picked design treasures from Draplin

Draplin explores the longest yard-sale in the world spanning 5 states and over 600 miles!

Best "5" of the trip., originally uploaded by Draplin.

see also:
America is fucked graphically - Arron Draplin

...and then he DJ'd the after party

via:
wooster collective

previous:
Obama

David Byrne / Brian Eno - new album comes out tomorrow!

Everything That Happens, Happens Today
available as DRM free MP3 plus Free Download: Strange Overtones
www.everythingthathappens.com

Please go to People for the Ethical Treatment of Typography blog, and read this awesome review of the album cover designs from the past collaboration recordings of Eno and Byrne. Did you know that Gene Wilder played congas on one of them?

previous:
David Byrne Lenticular Graphics
Extra Action Plays with David Byrne

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