I'm amazed by Kodak's first digital camera from 1975. Instead of saving the data on a card it used a standard cassette. It took 23 seconds to record the digitized image to the cassette. The design is beautiful too, only engineers can design this way.
Like this book. Pig 05049 was an actual pig, raised and slaughtered on a commercial farm in the Netherlands. Rotterdam's Christien Meindertsma was shocked to discover that she could document 185 products contributed to by the animal. Design was done in collaboration with Swiss designer Julie Joliat.
Visiting the Halba factory with the crew. Photo by Filipa Peixeiro.
To be honest, normally we don't really like to work for Swiss clients. But there are exceptions – like Chocolats Halba – a Swiss chocolate factory which is determined to produce a high quality chocolate, sustainable and fair. In collaboration with yatah we will develop a strategy to establish Halba as global leader in their segment. There are interesting clients in Switzerland, good to know.
This time, it’s 140 most influential Twitter users, their #name #handle #category #influence #activity, when they first started and what they first said.
ww.informationarchitects.jp/c140/
Since this week we are distributing Anorak – the happy mag for kids – for whole of Switzerland! The London based magazine is a quarterly publication full of colorful illustrations and lovely stories. More details
Don't know how safe this would be, but nice thinking: The Chinese company Shenzhen Hashi Future Parking Equipment Co. (what a great company name!) thinks it might be able to unjam the cities streets with a concept it calls the 3D Fast Bus, a kind of giant bus/train that straddles the street and allows cars to drive right under it. This means that it isn't slowed down by traffic and it doesn't add to traffic neither. More here.
Always With Honor is the collective work of Elsa, Tyler and Zoe. Their mission is to create work that simplifies, synthesizes and clarifies. Zoe is a dog.