Gorgeous. Jamie Caliri’s 2D stop-motion ad for United Airlines. Missing my seat ‘phones, I saw the making of documentary on my way back from Vancouver yesterday and was instantly mesmerised by Caliri’s style…and kinda disappointed that it was just an ad, not a movie.
Download the 6Mb Quicktime movie here…
"What Google does not do well is apply design appropriately to its search engine interface. Other online application interfaces from Google are often done rather well, or at least not too badly. The search engine page, however, leaves a lot to be desired. Mind you, we’re talking about the most successful search tool on the Web. But it is no stretch to observe that the design of this page is pretty bad." – Google Redux by Andy Rutledge
Nice, but I disagree. Google may lack the aesthetic polish of other web designs, but if design is about solving a user’s problems, then Google is the epitome of great design, simply giving the user what’s neccessary to get them to where they’re going, no more and no less and getting out of the way…it’s practically invisible.
[ Thanks Samira 🙂 ]
Philippe Starck has been commissioned to design Virgin Galactic’s first spaceport in New Mexico as well as rebranding the company as it prepares for the world’s first commercial spaceflights.
Spike Jonze does The GAP…
The European Space Agency recently commissioned The Designers Republic to create an ident for its Music2Titan project. Evidently, ESA-mission.heads were inspired by tDR’s Wipeout team patches 😉
The Cassini-Huygens probe will carry a four-track CD to Saturn’s moon Titan ‘for intergalactic and himan audiences.’
iTunes users can listen to Music2Titan at their local store…
…following Dubya’s rebranding of DC as the hotseat of neo-imperialism, the other DC – DC Comics – today relaunched its own brand by replacing its much loved 25-year old logo.
As a long-standing fan of both DC and Vertigo, I’m not so hot for the new logo – there was something timeless and serious about the older brand and its persistance through paradigm shifts in the art and commerce of comics; DC 2005 seems a little too, well, comic-y. I imagine with Marvel’s recent run of cinematic successes and upcoming revisions of DC stalwarts Batman and Superman, DC felt they needed to reposition themselves for a new generation of fans.
Khoi Vinh says it best here.
