The Donut Project

JESS3 designed and animated this for the JESS3 lecture at Stevenson University for AIGA Baltimore in Feb 2010.

The State of the Internet is an infographic video which brings the shear size of the internet into focus. The numbers are staggering. 90 Trillion emails sent last year (90,000,000,000,000), 27 Million Tweets per day, Facebook’s 6 Million page views per minute.

A nice soundtrack and lovely animations make this boring info easy and interesting to digest.

Oh what a tangled web we weave.

(via Cool Hunting)

Hat-trick Design emailed us to share a new environmental design project:

We were commissioned by the RFU (Rugby Football Union, England) to design environmental graphics to improve a space behind the hotel at Twickenham Stadium.

Using the large scale of the space, we decided to showcase the giants of international rugby. A public vote was held on the most popular players from each of the 8 founding nations of rugby (England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, France, New Zealand, Australia, South Africa).

Each chosen player’s image was then reproduced at a massive scale (11 metres high) from graphic rugby shirts to form a ‘Giants of Rugby’ display.

The colour icon graphics were then printed onto a shirt material and hung as massive banners.

Love the larger-than-life aspect and the abstraction with icons. Sweet.

See their newly redesigned website (and more of their work) at www.hat-trickdesign.co.uk.

This bench by Frank Cresencia is stunning:

Splay Bench explores the relationship between the interior and exterior spaces created by furniture. Here, slats are used as an opportunity to create an exterior surface, while exposing the interior space between them. The inverse barrel form is sliced so that the relationship is between the bench and the floor of its environment, not the surfaces of the piece alone.

You can purchase it at Voos Furniture, only $1,800.

(via BLTD)

Milton Glaser: To Inform & Delight is coming to Cleveland! This Wednesday the Cleveland Museum of Art is screening the film at 5:30 and 7:15:

Milton Glaser: To Inform & Delight
Wednesday, March 10, 5:30 & 7:15
Gartner Auditorium, $8
Directed by Wendy Keys. Now in his 80s, the legendary graphic designer who co-founded New York magazine and concocted the “I♥NY” logo, is profiled in this “heartening” (The New York Times) documentary. Cleveland premiere. USA, 2009, COLOR, DVD, 73 MIN.
http://www.clemusart.com/events/film.aspx

By arthousefilmsonline.com

Check out the making of ‘This Too Shall Pass,’ the newest video by OK Go that we posted yesterday. This short four part series takes you through the conception and completion of the gigantic Rube Goldberg machine they constructed in partnership with Syyn Labs.

By now their video, which was released this week, has 3.5 Million views and is on its way to meme status, but the ‘making of’ has fewer than 100k. I think the process is as interesting (or even more so) than the final product.

In case you missed it, here’s the music video for OK Go’s ‘This Too Shall Pass’

I wanna be in a rock band :(

Directed by James Frost, OK Go and Syyn Labs. Produced by Shirley Moyers. The official video for the recorded version of “This Too Shall Pass” off of the album “Of the Blue Colour of the Sky”. The video was filmed in a two story warehouse, in the Echo Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, CA. The “machine” was designed and built by the band, along with members of Syyn Labs over the course of several months.

When the rock band OK Go, famous for their viral videos including the spectacular and award winning “treadmills video”, wanted to feature a 4-minute long Rube Goldberg Machine in an upcoming video, they tapped Syyn Labs to build it. The requirements were that it had to be interesting, not “overbuilt” or too technology-heavy, and easy to follow. The machine also had to be built on a shoestring budget, synchronize with beats and lyrics in the music and end on time over a 3.5 minute song, play a part of the song, and be filmed in one shot. To make things more challenging still, the space chosen was divided into two floors and the machine would use both.

When I was in engineering school, I had to build some Rube Goldberg machines, and they’re pretty neat. This has to be the most epic one I’ve ever seen. The fact that it was shot in one continuous take is amazing.

@BrianBuirge sent me these really cool User Interface stencils for the iPhone, iPad and Web. Made by UI Stencils, these stencils allow you to sketch accurate user interface details while laying out your applications/sites on paper.

UI Stencils also makes corresponding sketch pads to be used with or without their stencils. The sketch pads are totally cool in their own right.

Check out all the tasty photos:

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Looking for a neat way to prevent your chairs from scuffing your floors? Try these Chair Personality Socks, by Charles & Marie, designed to protect your floors in style. Available in two different striped or argyle patterns.

A set of 4 is only $20. Buy them here.

(via Apartment Therapy)

PaperWheel Press on Etsy has some cool letterpress cards to give to your nerdy friends or loved ones.

Buy these, and other non-dorky cards at PaperWheel’s Etsy shop!

Check out these killer Tarantino posters by Ibraheem Youssef. You can buy 11×17 or 24×36 versions at his online shop where there are plenty of other designs.

Thanks to Anthony Zart for the tip.