This has to be one of the stranger combinations we’ve come across.
Fulvio Bonavia is in fact not a fashion designer but a creative photographer who has put together these shots for his series “A Matter of Taste”.
The bad pun aside, this stuff is pretty interesting. We especially liked the belt made from tiny fish, although wouldn’t recommend wearing it…
(source: Design Fetish)
Posted in creative, food, green
Tagged A Matter of Taste, fashion, food, Fulvio Bonavia, photography
We found this superb infographic over at Mashable and had to post it.
It just doesn’t seem like very long – the advances have been amazing in such a short time… as has our dependence on these things…
Following on from last year’s incredible Piano Stairs, Volkswagen have done it again.
Okay so there’s a hint of repetition here, but we still love the concept of a fast lane on the tube – and bringing some fun to a dull commute has to be good – so we’ll forgive them this time. Especially since the film is brilliant.
(via Notcot)
Posted in advertising, creative, transport
Tagged Alexanderplatz, Berlin, fast lane, tube, video, viral, Volkswagen
We try not to do this too often but we’ve just had a campaign break which we really had to blog about.
We’ve been working with our friends at the Motor Neurone Disease Association to produce their 2010 awareness campaign. Motor neurone disease (MND) is incurable, fatal, strikes seemingly at random and is rapidly degenerative, killing half of all sufferers within months. So as causes go, raising awareness (and hopefully funds for research) for this disease is about as good as it gets.
Over the last six months, we’ve been working with one particular MND sufferer, Patrick Joyce, who is an absolute inspiration. Patrick probably has only months to live but is an incurable optimist. He’s determined to paint 100 portraits of incurable optimists before he dies, to raise awareness of the disease. So we’ve built him a website at patricktheoptimist.org and helped him get set up on Facebook and Twitter. On each of these, he talks about his life, his family (including his three kids) and of course his portraits, which are pretty incredible by anyone’s standards – never mind for someone who struggles to use their hands…
And alongside this, we’ve put Patrick on billboards at stations throughout the country and on teaser ads in the Daily Mail.
To find out more or get involved visit his website or watch the short film below which we made at his home in Wells.
Posted in advertising, baby creative, charity, creative
Tagged advertising, Association, awareness, charity, creative, incurable optimism, Joyce, motor neurone disease, Patrick
We love this new furniture collection from Sebastian Brajkovic.
Each item is a classic piece of furniture, but upholstered in particularly modern style. It’s a brilliant concept to mix the two, giving the option of elegance and cutting edge design in the same item.
We were fans instantly – and then found out that the designs are in fact inspired by Adobe’s Photoshop. Each image is in fact ‘stretched’, with the pixels from the edges “copied and pasted” across the middle of the items to give those massive blurs.
Which of course makes the contrast with the antique nature of the chairs even better…
(source: ifitshipitshere)
These have to be just about the most revolting things we’ve ever seen… but no doubt some people absolutely love them.
Yes, they are indeed speakers in the shape of shiny red high heels.
We’d love to tell you more but the source is entirely in Japanese. All we do know is that they have the hilarious name of “Jimmy Tunes” – a pun on designer shoes Jimmy Choos for the less fashion concious out there… truly terrible.
(via Design Fetish)
Tagged design, Jimmy Choo, Jimmy Tunes, shoe, sound, speakers, technology
You may have heard that Apple are releasing a new model of the iPhone – the imaginatively named iPhone 4. You wouldn’t think they’d need to advertise, but they are doing – and with some style.
These things have apparently appeared on the Tokyo subway – and have in fact been built in to the ticket gates. Which we think is pretty brilliant – it’d certainly liven up a long commute anyway…
(via TwitPic)
Posted in advertising, creative, transport
Tagged advertising, iPhone 4, Subway, ticket gates, Tokyo
We’ve seen all sorts of weird architecture, but this was a new idea even to us.
This is the Everrich 2 apartment complex in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, designed by DWP Architects.
It has unquestionably been designed to look like a roller coaster, although the architects try to claim otherwise. Apparently the idea is to capture the natural continuous breezes and sunlight and use them to heat and cool the building as appropriate, giving the structure it’s very own eco-friendly climate control. It also has green roofs, to try and make the monstrosity blend with the local hills.
To be honest though, we’re pretty convinced that they should just build a roller coaster around the roof – we’d certainly want to stay there…
(source: Trend Hunter)
Posted in creative, design, environment, home
Tagged apartments, architecture, DWP, Ho Chi Minh, roller coaster, Vietnam
So next time we renovate the Baby office, we’re installing these.
This is the Minjjoo children’s door – a normal white full-size door with a children’s door built in to it. In the words of our source, Minjjoo “makes the little ones feel big. Via the small door they have access to their own room and their personal world”.
It can also be painted and drawn upon so the door doubles as a canvas for their creativity, whilst leaving your big adult door untouched. All of which we think is just inspired…
We all remember sticking our hands in pots of paint and then daubing the stuff all over canvases to create ‘masterpieces’ that our parents, grandparents and other long-suffering relatives then had to stick on the fridge and laud as works of genius. [Of course, being Babies, this was rather more recent for us than for some...] However it turns out we were all amateurs.
Judith Ann Braun creates these absolute masterpieces using just her fingers, and either charcoal or chalk – just like every kid at nursery or kindergarten does.
Which just puts us all to shame, really… We love the intricacy of these things, especially given the media she works in.
(Judith Ann Braun via Notcot)
