Look+Listen: Hermanos Inglesos feat. MeMe: Wanderland

See what happens when a finch eats a magical hallucinogenic berry, in this great music video for Wanderland by Belgium's Hermanos Inglesos feat. MeMe. Featuring beautiful animation by 4 great artists.... but possibly NSFW.

Directed by Kristof Luyckx & Michèle Vanparys.

Design: Kristof Luyckx & Michèle Vanparys
Art Direction: Kristof Luyckx
Editing: Stijn Deconinck & Kristof Luyckx
Animation: Michèle Vanparys, Michélé De Feudis, Dries Bastiaensen & Kristof Luyckx.

Via pedestrian.

Daily Dose: Candy Black on Black

Eames arm chairs on dowel bases at the Candy Black Studio. Via emmas designblogg.

Alexander Girard: Works on Paper

Great vintage Alexander Girard posters, just a sample from the collection of máXimo, the official agent to the Girard Estate.

See more of the collection at Aqua-Velvet, thanks Meaghan for the tip.

Vintage Herman Miller/George Nelson + Associates Packaging

Beautiful graphics by George Nelson + Associates, most likely by Don Ervin.

Via Swimsuit Department.

@swimsuitdepartment: Is the table still in the box?

Look + Listen: Paperthin by Pete Lawrie, Hettie Griffiths, + Rob Jarvis

A heart-wrenchingly beautiful music video for Pete Lawrie. Created by Hettie Griffiths and Rob Jarvis.

Via howtomakeababyelephantfloat.

Vintage Arts & Architecture Covers

Check out a great selection of vintage Arts & Architecture covers from a variety of artists at aqua velvet, via seesaw.

Sadness

A powerful submission to Greenpeace's BP logo redesign contest. Artist uncredited.

Words to live by

Via lotusmodern.

Where Cursors Come From

By Nathan W Pyle, via Swiss Miss.

Farewell: Don Ervin

Don Ervin recently died in a car accident at the age of 85. New York Times' T Magazine has put together a great retrospective on his work as the unsung hero and director of graphic design for George Nelson & Associates. As far as I know, he was still actively creating until his death and recently had a show of his work and sculptures at Spring Gallery.

He will be missed.

Good Design Never Grows Old

Beautifully designed 1950's instruction manual for the Olivetti Lettera 22. 

"The Lettera 22 was the pinnacle of 1950s typewriters (MoMA even have one in their permanent collection), a true luxury item, and the manual testifies to this. The copy is peppered with proud sentiment, and includes gems like ‘The Olivetti Lettera 22 is quite clearly a portable typewriter of the most up-to-date design and fine workmanship’ and ‘A few minutes spent in reading this book will enable the novice and the experienced typist alike to get the very best out of this excellent typewriter’. It refers to itself as a book! You almost get the impression Olivetti decided to print a manual that people would actually want to keep and not throw away once they got used to their new typewriter. The whole thing could have been printed entirely in black, but pale greens, reds and turquoises pop up throughout, giving the manual a sense of luxury that elevates it from being just a utilitarian document."

Probably designed by either Max Huber or Giovanni Pintori.

Via designdig via wemadethis.

Binder Zombies!

Does anyone know who designed these? A hilariously macabre way to liven up a boring day at school or the office.

Via iambitta.

Vintage Knoll Advertising

Check out this collection of vintage Knoll ads via Monoscope. Likely most, if not all, were created by Herbert Matter.

Also see my earlier post with more Knoll ads here.

Spellbound: Sigrid Agren by Serge Leblon

Love the typography.  See the rest of the shoot at fashiongonerogue.

Listen: Sébastien Tellier: Look

Spring fever....

Via Record Makers. Thanks Natalie for the link.

Creative Spaces: Dee Adams: Oakland

The workspace of interiors consultant, artist and senior producer at Yahoo! Dee Adams.

Via the Herman Miller blog.

Sometimes....

Via Le Love.

Watch: Civilization: Marco Brambilla for The Standard Hotel NYC

Civilization is a video installation created with artist/director Marco Brambilla, for the elevators of the Standard Hotel in NYC. Brambilla's vision was to take hundreds of stock footage, movie footage and original clips and combining them to create a moving landscape depicting the ascension from hell to heaven. Full screen mode is recommended, this is an amazing work of art with alot going on.

Quite a powerful compliment to the Standard Hotel's incredible interiors (see previous post here).

Via motionographer, and CRUSH.

Vintage Danish Design Posters

Beautiful vintage advertising posters, which recently appeared on the market (and I unfortunately missed out on). Each featuring iconic modernist furniture designs by Hans Wegner, Ole Wanscher, Arne Jacobsen, and Nanna Ditzel. Very little information aside from being produced in Denmark and the photographer being Paul Salomonsen. Great minimalist aesthetic and very interesting 3/4 placement of the secondary image. Since they cover a variety of manufacturers, and the text is in English, I would speculate they were made for a North American retailer. Rare posters, glad to have seen them.

Revenge