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A Visual Culturist pulled our coats to this one. As if the Pantone pins, messenger bags and sh*t weren’t enough, SeaVees presents Pantone footwear. Graphic design dork-wear at its finest.
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We’re back on the soap box again.
A Visual Culturist pulled our coats to this one. As if the Pantone pins, messenger bags and sh*t weren’t enough, SeaVees presents Pantone footwear. Graphic design dork-wear at its finest.
Shout out to Tom
Hip, eco-friendly Australian company Envirosax recently launched a new series of sustainable bags labeled the “Botanica Series.” The designs are full of bold, graphic imagery and patterns reflective of nature’s beauty. To get fully informed, check out VC’s interview with Envirosax co-founder Mark David-Tooze.
SouthCentral: Part 4 (The Final Chapter!) from ABOVE on Vimeo.
Peep the final installment of ABOVE’s 6-month long tour from Brazil to Mexico.
Here’s another GOOD creation spearheaded by fashion designer Kenneth Cole. Awearness.com aims to raise awareness, stimulate public debate, and provide inspiration. To learn more click right here.
London design studio Kapitza just released a stunning book called Geometric. This resource book is full of 264 colored and black and white patterns including 100 pattern fonts on an accompanying CD that contains helpful tutorials that will enable you to generate your own original patterns.
Take note of the treatment of the cover - it folds out into aposter.
We came across this inventive alphabet system developed to promote swearing via FFFOUND. Yes. This has been around for a minute, but Visual Culture wasn’t around in 2006, so consider it making up for lost time.
56 Leonard Street, New York - Herzog & de Meuron promo video from fcbtudojunto on Vimeo.
The soon to be Jenga in the sky, better known as 56 Leonard, has created an intriguing promo video showcasing the ambitious design by Swiss architecture firm Herzog & de Meuron’s.
Inspiring work by Heather Moore:
“Each one is cut from sections of the newspaper that reflect the mood of the cutout. So the first is from the Gardening and Home section, the one below is from Current Affairs/Business, and the last is from the Design and Lifestyle section. The idea is that the paper is so good, it practically comes to life!”
YKON is one of many organizations contributing to the Helsinki Biennale this year. They’ve designed this humorous world map comprised of a cluster of photographic imagery. The Biennale runs until the 25th of January of ‘09.
Philly’s own RecycleBank has developed a new an innovative system to promote recycling that’s starting to catch on throughout the U.S. All you have to do is sign-up, recycle on trash day and collect a check.
Their logo is pretty tight too. The double symbol relationship is clear and direct. To set-up an account in your neighborhood click here.
CityRacks Design Competition has officially announced the winners. Ian Mahaffy and Maarten De Greeve from Copenhagen, Denmark, got the nod for first-place. Both Harry Dobbs and Andrew Lang of London were the runners up while Ignacio Ciocchini of New York came in third.
Shepard Fairey has designed a new poster in repsonse to Proposition 8, which was approved in California on election day. To learn more on the movement to overturn Prop 8 click here.
We’ve included one more up to date Fairey find on the flip side
Shepard Fairey just released his third collaborative project called “Duality of Humanity 4″ with photographer Al Rockoff today.
Top running shoe brand Newton Running has a few green features incorporated into the design of their shoes and the packaging that caught us by surprise.
German based designer, Marcus Schaefer has developed an experimental project called “Action Types”. Each letter is comprised of 3 different fonts that you can discover by changing the objects position. In addition by using them as base models, several random fonts can be constructed by interpolation. For more on Marcus’s project press this.
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