N O U N : A design blog by Oliver Oike

From Keiichi Matsuda. Thanks to Pomo Project for the link.

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“Too often in the past we have thought of the artist as an idler and dilettante and of the lover of arts as somehow sissy or effete. We have done both an injustice.”

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Came across this super fun line up of body products at Winners of all places. Their line goes: “Whatever you look like, whatever shape you’re in, we only want you for your body.” Nice one. Lots of great product names, delivered in simple, inviting packaging using Helvetica Rounded.

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Where the Hell is Matt? (2008) from Matthew Harding on Vimeo.

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Fun! I can’t decide who has the nicer letterforms.

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Can’t really believe I’m posting a cool technology idea from Microsoft, but here it is. They acquired Seadragon and brought in house their image visualization application, which morphed into Photosynth.
Watch the demo from March of this year at TED.

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Skittles Beard
Skittles Leak
Here’s an excellent example of a question that pops into my head quite often: How did they pitch this? How did they get them to say yes? This example is particularly well-done in an insane, what-were-they-smoking way, whereas most often I find myself asking those two questions when watching ads for razors, shaving [...]

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Fairly clean & straightforward, this new site feels a lot lighter on its feet than the previous generation.However, scrolling down below the fold, I couldn’t help but notice something familiar… isn’t this the same layout as the one used by the New York Times site (launched in April of last year)?

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File under: one-good-reason-for-being-up-hours-before-the-sun. I was up checking my email very early this morning (gotta get a head start on the girls) and noticed a message from Emigre. Wha–what’s this? IDEA magazine? Emigre retrospective? Slip case? Limited to 50 numbered copies? I grabbed my credit card and hoped I would be quick enough… I was! It’s [...]

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In a continuation of its award-winning ‘Campaign for Real Beauty’ series, Dove has launched a new film. As the proud dad of two young girls, this one really hit home. Congratulations to Dove.

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Whoa!

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Nutrition Data.
I just got back from lunch at Wendy’s feeling a bit bloated and thought I might remind myself of the fat/calorie count of a juicy Big Bacon Classic Combo. Now I wish I hadn’t: 46g of fat and 966 calories (drink not included)! Blech…

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It’s rare that I find myself navigating the murky waters of politics and religion, because, well, I have absolutely NO PLACE commenting on either, given my complete lack of religious upbringing and cynical view of politics, but I couldn’t resist posting something about the hottest new right-wing creationist myth being sold all over the States: [...]

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DDB Brazil looks to be establishing itself as a “talent borrows, genius steals” interactive shop, and they’re being noticed: they picked up a couple of Cannes Cyber Lions for their “work” – and drew the ire of a well-known designer haunt. Inspiration is one thing, but c’mon fellas!
Original: “Industrious Clock” Yugo Nakamura (2001)
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Delettering the public space
“Summer 2005, Neubaugasse, a Viennese shopping street – For a period of two weeks all advertising signs, slogans, pictograms, company names and logos will be covered in monochrome. Something you might have seen before in the form of two-dimensional representations or photomontage is going to be translated for the first time into [...]

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