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Anything You Recognise?

"... from the retro to the modern."

A full 12 months on but this is certainly worth revisiting as we again approach Oscar season - this a winner last year.  Some wild imagination in all its glory - car chases, hostage scenarios and rampaging animals as you've certainly never seen them before. 

The crew at H5 have directed a number of music videos for the likes of Massive Attack, Goldfrapp, Röyksopp and more, but this, 'Logorama', was their first short film. A talented creative crew no doubt and if you missed it first time around be sure to give it 15 minutes of your time today.

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Categories Design Tags Art

By Sammy on 8/2/11

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On Water Land & Air

"This baby does it all."

Built in his garage by his own hand, this is New Zealander Rudy Heeman's creative masterpiece.  A hovercraft that takes to the sky at 70km/h.

£13,000 a pop.  But how much fun would it be to come to work down the Thames, and over the bridges!

I want one.

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Categories Design Tags Hovercraft with wings

By Sammy on 24/11/10

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Now For The Red Baron

"...chase him down in your own P51 Mustang!"

Ever wondered what it would feel like to sit inside a World War II fight plan cockpit? Here's your chance.

Give this connection here a little time to download. The imagery is fantastic & you can zoom way in to read all the gauges, placards etc. Read the instructions below on all you can do or just play with it after opening.

These images were taken of a P51 Red Tail at the Geneseo Air Show. The extremely high contrast was time consuming to tame, and patching in the "down-shot" required a lot of detail work. All part of an unknown photographer's commitment to his creative cause!

PS... there's a screw missing in the floorboard on the right side of the pilot's seat.  Perhaps on this occasion it's better that they just don't build them like they used to!

... that said there is absolutely no denying this bird the title of 'cadillac of the skies'!
 

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By Sammy on 17/8/10

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Good Things Come....

"... to those that sacrifice time and effort to their imagination!"

Dad always said 'if a job's worth doing it's worth doing properly.' 

Graphic Designer Harrison Krix  clearly subscribes to this approach.  When painstakingly building his Daft Punk Helmet over 17 months the full scope of sculpting, resin casting, chroming, and vacuum forming, he set a plan to capture every step on camera.  . You can check out the whole process in more detail at his blog but the video blow is an awesome tribute to the process and the result.  Pure No Can't Do.

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Categories Design Tags Daft Punk Helmets

By Juan on 2/8/10

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Coaster?

"This is one coffee table you don't want to leave a ring on..."

Gadgets are always born of somebody's imagination.  And some are more imaginative than others... particularly those that harness modern technology to deliver the spectacular.  And in this case I feel strongly that this would look spectacular in my front room, just in front of the fire place between the sofas....

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By Juan on 5/5/10

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Lane Campaign

City cyclists across the world lack protection. Check out these innovative ideas for ad hoc bike lanes.

Conceived as part of the Power to the Pedal Competition, the Contrail - a name inspired by the condensation trail left by aircraft - gives cyclists the chance to re-write the city to their own specification. A series of chalk trails create a record of their travels and remind drivers that cyclists have just as much right to the road as they do.

The high tech version is just as exciting, although less of an artistic experiment and more focused on a genuine solution. By projecting a lane from under the bike seat via a set of lasers, the motorist can easily become aware of the cyclists and gauge how much room to give. Very clever.

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Categories Art Culture Design Sport Politics Graffiti Tags Cycling Graffiti

By on 5/3/09

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Projecting Glory

Take a peek into the future (blown up huge on your living room wall...)

Despite the presenters - two big kids that seemingly have been dropped in an industrial sized sweet shop - this film should excite the most blasé of mobile technology users. This is projection on a whole new scale, and as Dick or Dom points out, the exciting thing is that this will soon be in all our mobile phones. Well done to the creators, Microvision, who look set to convert years of hard work into mass adoption. This is a little gem of an invention.

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Categories Design Tags Mobile Technology

By on 25/2/09

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The Lab Ii

What is it with Italians? First Becks gets the slimline treatment, now Ferrari launch their very own car dieting clinic.

What do you do when you’ve pushed an engine to its pinnacle and streamlined to the hilt? The only option if you want to go even faster is to shed the pounds. Last year Ferrari unveiled a design study for a new small supercar, the Millechili, target weight 1000kg. Things must have gone well, because they have just announced the creation of the Mille Chili Laboratory - a secretive facility offering eight whizz-kid students the chance to learn from the best as well as contribute their own ideas to the future of Ferrari. The focus is solely on taking the weight reduction methods uncovered by Ferrari to the next level.

In their words:

“It is a great pleasure to inaugurate this laboratory, which will work on a very important issue for the future. The experience confirms that constant collaboration between private industry and University is a fundamental part, and contributes to growth for both parties: the University has to work with not exclusively theoretical issues, while the industry can confront itself with new ideas."

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Categories Design Tags Cars Design

By on 19/2/09

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This Book Will Be Famous

Two friends unite with one clear aim.

Asi and Nicky from the design agency Poke have put together a cool little project called This Book Will Be Famous. Its a kind of Pass the Parcel meets 6 Degrees of Kevin Bacon type thing. They plan to send the empty book to the most famous person they know. He or she then does a doodle, or sticks something on the page, or whatever they fancy, just as long as they leave their mark. When the inaugural celeb has done so, they then send it on to the most famous person they know. And so it goes on until the book is filled. I can’t wait to see the results. It will be auctioned for charity this Christmas.

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Categories Design Tags Design Charity

By on 9/12/08

Underwater Flying

An extraordinary radio-controlled airship exquisitely replicates the movements of fish.

There are few things more majestic in nature than the sight of a shark in the open ocean, alone in an expanse of royal blue. In this pelagic desert, no human can survive alone. But for the shark, this is its environment. Its body seems not to move at all as it glides eerily through the deep, one lazy sweep of its broad tail enough to propel it in the direction of its next meal.

Somehow, a new airship sculpture created by LaChLuVe, ‘Ostraciform’, manages to recreate the supreme lope of a fish moving through water. It’s remarkable, beautiful and poetic. Every detail is there, from the little shake and shuffle required to get the thing moving in the first place, to the long, sweeping turns before it begins its journey back. It’s a radio controlled shark. Check it out...

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Categories Art Design Tags Ostraciform Flight

By on 5/12/08

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