The Donut Project

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.

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I don’t know about you, but hours of entertainment can be found in the “missed connections” section of Craigslist. Sophie Blackall, illustrator residing in Brooklyn, NY saw them as a never ending source of material. Brilliant.

Check out her blog with the illustrations, her etsy shop to purchase, and her website to see her other work. Happy hunting!

Really great graphic posters from Simon Page. So beautiful! See more of his work here.

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These just speak for themselves…a selection of 25 photos that compare past snapshots of buildings, locations, structures, and people with the present day scene. There are hundreds of photos just like this in the Looking Into the Past Flickr group by Jason Powell.

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Wow wow wow wow. I was on Diana’s site for 15 minutes before I realized I had gone through her collection 3 times! Every time I changed pictures I found something I hadn’t seen the first time through. These stunning sculptures have me captivated! Her drawings are just as beautiful, eery and unique. See more of her scupture and drawings here.

Thanks to Stephanie Mote for the link!

When in doubt, WWJCD?

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On February 25th, Typodarium opened its 2011 Call for Entries. 160 font-labels and designers signed in and filled up all 365 days in 42 hours! You can still sign in here for a waiting list as some of the contributions may be rejected.

In case you missed it, here’s our post from this year’s Typodarium calendar.

I currently have the 2010 version on my desk, and love it! My favorite so far has been Surface Medium, the font for Tuesday, February 2nd. Why? Because the description on the back simply says “Carly Gilligan. Would you marry me?”

Purchase your 2011 Typodarium calendar here.

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.

Really amazing 82×27″ prints from Density Design illustrating a Map of the Future. The five parts collectively make one poster, shown above, and development and data came from sources all over the globe.

The italian magazine WIRED asked us to draw a map based on the scenarios developed by the Institute for the Future in Palo Alto to help the reader in the net of ideas and hypothesis built by 7000 influencers from all over the world.

See more of the prints in detail, here.

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On March 25 at 7pm, AIGA Kent and the School of Visual Communication Design Present: Paul Sahre. He will be speaking in the First Energy Interactive Auditorium on the Kent Campus. The admission will be free for those with Kent State ID, and $5 for all others. This is going to be a great event and we are thrilled to have one of our alumni back.

Links for all you people who like to click on things:
Paul Sahre
Facebook Event
AIGA Kent on Twitter

Big ups to Jason Bacher for creating this poster for AIGA Kent. Check out his work too.