Art

I adore a good wine. I love a great design. When these two collide I’m lost in the explosion!

May 19, 2009

The Matsu’s wine triology, ‘El Pícaro’, ‘El Recio’ and ‘El Viejo’ Today on TheDieline I ran into the company ‘Vintae Luxury Wine Specialists’. Vintae is Spanish based company that specialize in top of the range and luxury wines. Not only do they have a great wine portfolio. Together with Spanish agency Moruba, they’ve designed some [...]

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Here are two art project that shines a light on life and the internet

May 17, 2009

Ok, so you’re an artist studying at an art school. It’s time to graduate and you really wan’t some publicity. What do you do? In Sweden a student named Anna Odell, studying at Konstfack decided to shine a light on how the society handles people that are physical disabled. In her piece of art ‘Okänd, [...]

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Tweet and you shall be followed anywhere…anyhow.

May 12, 2009

People tend to share a lot of information online and not the least on Twitter. All that information is possible to access by using the Twitter API. Jer Thorp, digital artist, thought about that for a while and then he decided to extract and visualize travel information from people’s public Twitter streams by searching for [...]

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On my way home from 6 days on Lanai, Hawaii that changed my life

March 8, 2009

Me interacting with Mr Dolphin, his friends and family. I have spent the last 6 days on Lanai, Hawaii together with a good friend. We’ve been down here attending Tibco’s yearly conference. He as an employee and me as a guest. The optimum setup for me as I’ve focused more on exploring the island than [...]

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Luxury champagne brand Krug pops up their brand and shows how entertain the masses with minimum effort

January 13, 2009

Nothing is like it used to be. A couple of years back I attended a Luxury marketing meeting in Monte Carlo. I was one of the speakers and I spoke about how the younger generation will want to see more things from the Luxury brands than just good old beauty shots of expensive products. A [...]

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I’m watching you!

November 29, 2008

The good old GIF format can still convey wonderful emotions. Found on FFFFound.

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Peter Jaworowski and Fonterutoli makes life easier

October 18, 2008

Saturday. It’s half past ten and I’m working an idea for one of my new clients. The concept is pretty finished and I have this idea about how the art direction should be. As I browsed my feeds I found Peter Jaworowski from Bialystok, Poland. Peter is this great retouch, illustrator, master ‘photoshopper’. Spot on. [...]

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Art Lebedev Studio innovates

October 6, 2008

  Fuck the rain. A creation by Artemy Lebedev founder of the design agency Art Lebedev Studio. I first noticed these guys back in 2004 when I used the Ardeæ folding chairs, one of Arts own creations, as a mood image for a BRIO pitch. I found myself loving the broad variety of projects found [...]

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Pixel art has become a vintage technology

September 11, 2008

There was a time when I hated pixel art. It was around 2000 when there wasn’t any need for creating websites with pixel graphics. It mostly felt stupid and took for ages to create something that looked stunning. Some years later adidas used the pixel art above created by Eboy (the Yoda of Pixel art) [...]

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Let me introduce Vladimir Gvozdev and BibliOdyssey

May 29, 2008

Sometimes you just end up spending time on a site much like when you enter a library. You feel good, spend quite some time eyeing the shelfs for something good to read. Visiting BibliOdyssey makes me feel just like that. Today I spent about 25 minutes just eye gazing the beautiful “historical” illustrations on the [...]

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The White Glove Tracking project turns Michael Jackson into a viral

March 5, 2008

Today I got a link from Ya-sin, leading me to a YouTube movie where Michael Jackson performs Billie Jean…with a HUGE white glove. This is social networking at it’s best. On May 4th, 2007, the White Glove Tracking team asked internet users to help isolate Michael Jackson’s white glove in all 10,060 frames of his [...]

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Mr Sagmeister innovates the blog format

February 21, 2008

I posted earlier on Stefan Sagmeisters new book Things I’ve learned in my life so far. Now he has followed up the book with a website/blog where he’s asking everyone to contribute. It’s a smart and innovative way to create an integration with the book idea but also to invite everyone to continue the story. [...]

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