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Web Lab consists of five interactive Chrome experiments that highlight how internet experiences connect to real life. The year-long public exhibit is on display online and in the Science Museum, London, through June 2013. It enables people across the world to draw portraits in sand, create music, teleport to various faraway places, see where images live and browse a library of visitors’ creations. It’s an exciting website and requires a good chunk of time for discovery. |
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Always have been a big fan of Eight Hour Day. The shop is so versatile. I first discovered them from seeing illustrations they had done, but more recently I saw this brand development for ADMCi (American Design and Master-Craft initiative) and really thought the work was smart and strong. |
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into any store in Norway to buy wooden matches or this licorice-based lozenge and this is what you’ll see. The matchboxes come in packs of six, wrapped in cellophane. This is the most recent design, but I remember slight variations from when I first began traveling there in 1979.
These are near perfect shades of yellow, red and black, in a
bold combination not usually seen in 21st century products. |
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In a country of 400 languages and over a dozen writing scripts, it’s
important to carefully consider which ones to use. Most Indic scripts
have their own numeral system, and numbers can be written in numerous
ways. This is where the design of Professor Anil Sinha of the National
Institute of Design came into play. In addition to using Arabic-Indic
numerals to indicate their denominations, the simple one, two and five rupee
coins featured pictures of hands showing the appropriate number of
fingers. Unfortunately these coins, which have been in circulation since
2007, are currently being replaced by a new edition, dropping the
finger-counting and displaying the new rupee currency symbol ₹. From the upcoming issue of Works That Work, a magazine of unexpected creativity. |
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When Austrian designer Robert Kalina designed the bank notes for the euro in 1996, he chose to depict fictional bridges rendered in different styles of Europe’s cultural history: classical, Roman, Gothic, Renaissance, baroque, rococo, industrial and modern. This perfectly generic and uncontroversial design was selected by Brussels’ bureaucrats so as not to offend any nation. Dutch graphic designer Robin Stam chose to make them real. It started as a joke, but if enough supporters can be found, ten bridges closely based on the engravings from the reverse sides of the bank notes will be built in Spijkenisse, a suburb of Rotterdam. Stam appropriated the colors and styles and made the unclaimed euro bridges Dutch. The first two bridges have already been built; the others have been delayed due to the euro crisis. From the upcoming issue of Works That Work, a magazine of unexpected creativity. |
