Caux Collective Redirects: Tiptop Speakers
Three students from Stanford University recently began a Kickstarter campaign in order to fund their reinvention of the bluetooth speaker. The Tiptop Speaker connects to your bluetooth devices wirelessly, just like many other products. However, it is the sleek design configuration, effortless set-up and unique integration of an indoor environment, that makes this speaker stand out.
If you’d like to read more head over to Inspirez, where you can find this post in it’s entirety, including additional images and further links.
Minsk StyleDespite being a national capital and a city of considerable size (with the population of nearly 2 million people), Minsk lacks a clear identity. Its residents define themselves mostly by nationality, and admit that Minsk does not have a particular culture or tradition of its own. INSTID was asked to help improve international recognition of Minsk to help it attract foreign investment, visitors, and talent. Within the city itself, the task was to help residents feel proud of Minsk and develop a unique city culture based on their distinct character, and create a powerful platform for city’s future development.
Ovadia & Sons Spring 2013 Collection Preview
New work with Ovadia & Sons.
Calligraphi.ca -_Rl//lB//A//N//ll_- brush and acrylics on rusty tank (work by Blaqk) - Greg Papagrigoriou
Annika Weis | http://behance.net/annikaweis
“The strategic positioning ‘Strong Together’ was visually articulated in the overlapping of the individual letters of the brandmark. A broad spectrum of colours was used to represent core internal pillars of love, hope, strength, wisdom and belonging creating a positive brand expression for both internal and external audiences. Developing the system further, supergraphics were created using enlarged, cropped sections of the brand device. This strong visual language and colour system has been applied to all facets of the business from online, office interiors, merchandise and wayfinding signage.”
Senior designer based in Sydney, Australia. Focused on graphic design, branding and print design.
Caux Collective Introduces: Cronobreaker
Being from England, I’ve never paid too much attention to America’s favourite sports, with Football taking up the majority of my sporting affections. However, I’ve always appreciated the logos of the teams in the NFL, NHL and NBA, which have always been designed to be colour-rich and full of character, mimicking the creativity and variety in the team’s names. Add that genre of illustration to a deep-rooted love of Pokèmon, and the work of Australian Designer, Cronobreaker makes for the perfect gaming crossover.
If you would like to see more of Cronobreaker’s artwork, including more from this project named ‘Parody Stickers’ head over to his DeviantArt profile, as linked above.
ESAD’s Pli 2 + 3, 2012 by Atelier Martino&Jaña, Lettering by Hugo “Xesta” Moura from Portugal
Kokeshi Matches by Kumi Hirasaka, Akiko Yamada, and Shinsuke Nishiumi of The Kokeshi Team
Kokeshi Matches started as a product of pure creativity. In 1994, as a part of a group exhibition, Kumi Hirasaka drew faces of KOKESHI (traditional Japanese wooden dolls) on each match by hand. In 2000, Kokeshi Matches are mass produced and later expanded into various designs such as chicks, piggies, cats and cranes.
DDB | http://ddb.com
” The 91st Art Directors Club Annual This book is an extension of the “keep fighting the good fight” campaign, which pokes fun at the industry while celebrating the best of the year’s creative achievements. Designed at DDB New York, Creative Direction: Matt Eastwood & Menno Kluin, Art Direction: Carlos Wigle, Copywriter: Aron Fried, Book Design: Juan Carlos Pagan & Brian Gartside, Illustrations: Rami Niemi.”
At DDB we are guided by playbooks, not rule books. Rigid methodologies minimize creativity. Paint-by-numbers gets you the same painting every time. That is not to say we do not have tried and true approaches to building and growing world class brands – we do. But rather than share our methodologies, we rather you spend time on the rest of this site and take a look at examples of our work, peruse some of our thinking, participate in our debates and discussions – basically get to know who we are.
