N O U N : A design blog by Oliver Oike

Amazing. Another one of those “wish I’d thought of that first” ideas. Click on the title for more samples.

[Read more →]

Consistently smart, grouchy posts from the designer’s designer – always on the move.

[Read more →]

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) Stolen: [...]

[Read more →]

Just discovered this. Also see Lovely Design for great handmade paper objects, and the MOMA Store and Design Within Reach for the pricey stuff.

[Read more →]

I was browsing the CBC site and came across an article about a (former) Winnipeg artist – Micah Lexier – who has reprised a project he began ten years ago at the Winnipeg Art Gallery entitled “David.” In his original exhibition, he displayed full-size black and white photos of males named David, with one representative [...]

[Read more →]

A fun look at the word “brand” throughout history.

[Read more →]

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 [...]

[Read more →]

Shauna and I have discussed this on several occasions (she’s an early years educator) and wondered aloud why it doesn’t *seem* to be addressed on a large enough scale in both classrooms and in our professional practice. (I may be wrong about that – any parents/educators out there hearing about media awareness being discussed in [...]

[Read more →]

A great post on Speak Up this morning. Reminded me of the special edition “Beyond Price” publication of iD Magazine, back in 2001 sometime. It’s nowhere to be found anymore, unfortunately.

[Read more →]