AdvAIRtising

While on the website 1 design per day i came across this image. At first glance i wasn't quite sure what it was but thought it resembled a tree, it turns out that its actually a billboard advertising clean air. It's quite a nice idea and i think the design has been beautifully done, although i do think its quite hard to tell exactly what it is as it doesn't exactly look like your regular billboard.

ibeer

A new case for the iphone has been produced which not only protects your phone against dirt and scratches but also works as a bottle opener. The case has a bottle opener on the back of it so you'll never need to rummage around looking for one or worrying about taking one away with you as where you phone is the beer can flow.



The case retails for $19.99

Packaging

While researching for my studio project i came across a few nice package designs. Each packaging is very different, clever, innovative and suits its purpose quite well.






This design is quite comical and although not a tea drinker myself i think i could be converted if my tea bags looked like that.



I like the design of this product as it eliminates the rummaging around trying to find the correct pills as its very clearly labeled.



This is my favourite design as food is the one thing i do not like to share and with package like this you can guarantee nobody is going to want some of your lunch.

Shoe-less

While researching for one of my studio projects which is to pretend that water has just been discovered/invented and package and advertise it as a completely new product never seen by the consumer i came across this image;



Its quite a dramatic image which is painful to look at. I can't image water bottles being very comfortable to wear as flip-flops but i suppose its a lot better than walking bare foot. Although it would be better for the person to have a proper pair of shoes its quite a clever way to recycle a plastic bottle.

Dissertation Discussion

Talk of dissertations has begun already, so we were to meet in our groups to discuss the route in which we are all think of going. This discussion was then to lead to a mind map to show the proposed route.






Before the meeting i thought i wanted to go in the direction of consumer culture and conducted a mind map to support this idea but after a lot of thinking i decided to choose a topic which i am more passionate about. I have now decided to do my dissertation on music looking particularly at the effects it has on individuals.

Typography in a city environment

One of our recent class briefs is to create a Typography magazine and to do this we first had to source our own photographs of typography within a city environment.

Here are a selection of my favorite photographs (still to be edited though)

Post-its

I saw this video on Rude Tube last night and thought it was a really clever and quirky idea. The video i feel sums up the life of a design student as you start off with that one post-it note on your wall of things to do, then you get bombarded with work relying on photoshop then you get tired, distracted by games etc, and the videos seems to include all of this and more.

Who knew post-its could be so attractive.