State of Design

 

Design Capital

Design Capital is Australia’s premier business speaker series showcasing design vision, innovation and strategies that provide a critical, competitive edge in business. Presented by Design Victoria, Design Capital will be held at BMW Edge, Federation Square, Melbourne, 16–17 July.

Learn how leading businesses are investing in innovative solutions during Design Capital’s Business Day, 16 July. Speakers will discuss case studies on the positive impact of design investments and highlight the smart tools they use to survive and strategically react to rapidly changing global markets. 

Design Capital Design Day 17 July, speakers will explore the tension between design trajectories, speculate on the next big shifts in their sector, and ‘Sample the Future’ of the tactics and ambitions embedded within their own work.

Hear from experts profiled below, including over 20 national and international industry leaders

Professor Roy Green
Dean, UTS: Business (Australia)

Creativity, Innovation and Survival for   Australian SMEs

 

 

 

 

Peter Williams

CEO, Deloitte Digital (Australia)

Business Futures: Online, Connected, Always

Peter is an international speaker on the future of the web and technology. Peter advocates businesses adopting social networking,

warning that businesses need to ‘Get on the bus or you risk being run over’.

 

 

Download the full Design Capital Speaker Series progam here.

bat mobile

Produced by Trick 3D in Atlanta for the new Batman film – the virtual Fight for Gotham City website – a great look into Gotham, and lets you choose whether you’re Batman or Joker.

Memo Mugs

While surfing  the net , I came across some really nice lil memo mugs .. with page line prints and grids .. cool ceremics to have around a fun house or an office space.

Fun! Notebook, graph and ruled.

             

flash type

This cool little flash based type toy is the perfect way to waste ten minutes on a Friday afternoon.

A lil late bravo bravia

A little late but none the less a round of applause to all involved in the new Sony Bravia ad ie. Fallon and Passion Pictures. The 3rd in the Sony Bravia series is apparently the most ambitious piece of stop-motion animation every undertaken! Filmed over 3 weeks in New York, using 40 animators and 2.5 tonnes of plasticine with a killer Stones soundtrack, it is one of my favourite so far. Watch the ad and some behind the scenes business here.

Neon Bible

Amazing interactive music video for The Arcade Fire.

Design with Purpose!!

Purpose a design house based in the uk have a very interesting site .. its absolutely fresh .

To celebrate Christmas this year, Gavin Martin Associates decided to hold
a Curryoke party – an evening of curry and karaoke – and asked Purpose to
design the invitation.

Purpose subverted popular Karaoke songs and the iconic Indian
take away container to create a memorable invite.

The invitations where delivered in a brown paper bag containing a
number of curry containers, each with a different song message scrawled
on the top. Songs include: ‘Murder on Dhansk floor’, ‘Love me tandoor’,
‘Rice rice baby’ and ‘Naaneater’, amongst many others.

Hidden away on the flipside of the lid are the event details
foil blocked onto mirror board.

 

Flat Color x Parskid

Flat Color, a Seattle-based art products site, has just opened their internet “doors” for business. They’ve got a pretty good starting point, too, since they’ve teamed up with Seattle artist Parskid for their first product release. They’re offering the traditional Giclée prints (can’t go wrong there) as well as a drinking glass and a pocket mirror (these are gaining popularity lately), all featuring some nice work from Parskid. Of course, all these items are a limited edition (everything is these days) and will soon be replaced with goods from another artist. If you’re into Parskid’s stuff like we are (it’s a pretty serious crush), then you know what to do and when to do it. Keep an eye on Flat Color to see what else they’ve got up their sleeves. www.flatcolor.com and www.parskid.com

Ideafixa – self portraits

 

One year ago,  the first edition of IdeaFixa art e-magazine, a digital magazine composed only by images and made by two girls: Alicia and Janara was published

Ideafixa is an international digital online magazine for photography , illustration and visual arts. It choses contemporary artistic works that are cosmopolitan;and works that are present of the world.