Now this is clever and cool - furniture design at its best! It’s as if it was made for Calm Asylum (how do we get one?) This is a table from designer John Nouanesing. It’s called Paint or die but Love Me
Anyone that knows a (good) website designer or website developer will have observed that we are a picky lot. Accessibility, usability and good old ‘doing things the right way’ are top priorities in our lives (yes thats BEFORE love and money). This can be a difficult sometimes when you spend ages making sure your code meets W3C and WAI standards but knowing that there’s people out there that don’t care.
When I’m sat in Digital corner and I feel a little sad I like to read “19 Things NOT To Do When Building a Website” This article really makes me laugh because I agree with everything he says (although possibly not with so much anger) and everything on this list is very, very right.
Its well worth considering some of these points if you are getting a website or redeveloping one - so many times something that seems like a good idea and is attractive to you, can be very fustrating for your users and without users your website is a very expensive way to entertain yourself.
Looking for Calm inspiration, I came across this site http://www.eikongraphia.com/. it not only shows inspiration for Architecture or 3D forms but that of thinking outside of the box on quite an extreme scale!
The North Sea Airport “lily pads” are an outlandish concept - yet look at what is being created in Dubai with the ‘Palm Island’ & ‘The World’. The reclamation of land is happening at an alarming rate, just look at what Singapore has acheived. And then there is the size of the current ocean going cruise liners… Is it beyond comprehension that either of these things could not be in our near future?
Add global warming, the quality of technology and the advancement in engineering………?
Interestingly the industry version of these awards this year had no major winners in the graphic design category, but in the student awards nearly half of the work is. Does this mean graphic designers in the industry are past it or is D&AD out of touch?! The majority of response to Creative Review was that D&AD was past it, but we would say that wouldn’t we?
We thought we’d introduce you to one of our best friends…Design, produce and provide some of the coolest Fonts we’ve come across here in the Calm Asylum studio. Best of all they really really are well worth the money.
One of Calm’s other great passions (aside from good design) is inventive ways to raise awareness of green issues.
These billboards are a perfect example of designers thinking green whilst still achieving the desired effect and awareness to the products they are promoting.
When you think about it they use of the “green” technique only adds to the positivity bestowed upon the brands they are promoting.
You can read a bit more and see a few examples on the link
