The Guardian has commissioned the Hannover-based Lego animator behind the Lego Fussball website to recreate all the goals in each of England's World Cup matches.
The first film, featuring England's match against the USA has already become a major draw to guardian.co.uk It lovingly recreates, using several different camera angles, both Steven Gerrard's opening goal for England and, rather unfortunately, Robert Green's bumbling goalkeeping error which allowed USA to level the game...
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Tuesday, 22 June 2010
Thursday, 17 June 2010
Harmless Dissolve appears on the Daily Politics Show on BBC2.
Wednesday 16th June 2010 - Issues of Plastic Pollution.
Documentary writer Simon Reeve talks about the issues of plastic pollution in our society. MP Francis Maude then goes on to mention potential solutions to the problem with a dissolving plastic "Harmless". Check out the footage. The piece commences at 1hr 14 minutes, with dissolve being mentioned at around 1hr 21mins.
VIDEO FOOTAGE COMING SOON.... In the meantime please click here to view the footage.
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Documentary writer Simon Reeve talks about the issues of plastic pollution in our society. MP Francis Maude then goes on to mention potential solutions to the problem with a dissolving plastic "Harmless". Check out the footage. The piece commences at 1hr 14 minutes, with dissolve being mentioned at around 1hr 21mins.
VIDEO FOOTAGE COMING SOON.... In the meantime please click here to view the footage.
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Tuesday, 15 June 2010
Student Spotlight - Allessandra Greco
Beautiful work from Allessandra Greco, a recent graduate from F.I.T. and have just received her BA in Packaging.
Reverse: Time progresses like the formations of tree rings, Reverse helps counter this with powerful anti-aging lotions and face creams.
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Reverse: Time progresses like the formations of tree rings, Reverse helps counter this with powerful anti-aging lotions and face creams.
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Starbucks Recycled Mugs
The Starbucks design team sends in the packaging for the first ever recycled ceramic mug. Check it out below.
"This recycled ceramic mug was brought to life in a zero-waste factory in Japan, which reuses the clay of former mugs and dishes to create new ones. It's a story of reuse and renewal that is told from mug to package. The particles coming together to form words and shapes represent a renewed respect for resources. For from broken bits of ceramic, we can make beautiful things."
Design: Alice Friedel
Creative Manager: Fumi Watanabe
Writer: Francesca Merlini
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"This recycled ceramic mug was brought to life in a zero-waste factory in Japan, which reuses the clay of former mugs and dishes to create new ones. It's a story of reuse and renewal that is told from mug to package. The particles coming together to form words and shapes represent a renewed respect for resources. For from broken bits of ceramic, we can make beautiful things."
Design: Alice Friedel
Creative Manager: Fumi Watanabe
Writer: Francesca Merlini
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Football Fever - Design Style
From Canadian artist Eric Quebral, and just in time for the World Cup, of course, is this wood-effect football, the latest in Paint FC's range of, err, designer balls
Quebral's beautiful, woodcut artworks featured in the Art and Sole sneaker design book. This new design is not solid wood - it's screenprinted onto a regular ball and can be yours for a mere £51.
Paint FC 'works with emerging artists, art directors, image-makers, personalities and fashion and street brands' to create limited edition footballs with unique designs.
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Quebral's beautiful, woodcut artworks featured in the Art and Sole sneaker design book. This new design is not solid wood - it's screenprinted onto a regular ball and can be yours for a mere £51.
Paint FC 'works with emerging artists, art directors, image-makers, personalities and fashion and street brands' to create limited edition footballs with unique designs.
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More Harmless Installations
Artist Jacqui Jones
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In Crops Annual Report - featuring Harmless Packaging
Creating an innovation cluster in the East of England.
InCrops is a major project designed to stimulate the economy in the area of green innovation and green technology development. Please click here to download the annual report.
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InCrops is a major project designed to stimulate the economy in the area of green innovation and green technology development. Please click here to download the annual report.
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Thursday, 10 June 2010
Further Harmless Pieces of Art
Artist Jacqui Jones continues to work with Harmless Packaging to create her latest installations.
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Cyberpac Introduces Curb_The Natural Media Company
CURB is the world's first natural media company. They offer a range of highly effective media solutions solely using natural earth elements. They have created a portfolio of unique eco-advertising services and a crack green team of creative experts, to provide clients with outstanding natural marketing which impacts on their target consumer without impacting on the environment.
Their award winning natural media have already achieved worldwide coverage and put simply they offer a viable and effective choice for clients and agencies looking to integrate nature into their marketing communications.
Check out their fantastic work at: http://www.mindthecurb.com/
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Their award winning natural media have already achieved worldwide coverage and put simply they offer a viable and effective choice for clients and agencies looking to integrate nature into their marketing communications.
Check out their fantastic work at: http://www.mindthecurb.com/
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Tuesday, 8 June 2010
The Clever Little Bag
Designed by Yves Behar of Fuseproject | Country: United States
“For the last 21 months we have been thinking about shoeboxes: how to fold them, how to ship them and how to reduce them. In the end, we decided to get rid of them altogether because along the way we discovered a new design solution….a “clever little bag”.
Why so clever? By providing structure to a cardboard sheet, the bag uses 65% less cardboard than the standard shoe box, has no laminated printing, no tissue paper, takes up less space and weighs less in shipping, and replaces the plastic retail bag. Now happy Puma customers will take home the clever little one instead. Oh, and that little bag is non-woven which means less work and waste (it is stitched with heat), and after accompanying you in your suitcase wherever you may go, our little friend is even recyclable.
With our “clever little bag”, Puma kicks-off the next pivotal phase of its’ sustainability program. The tens of millions of shoes shipped in our bag will reduce water, energy and diesel consumption on the manufacturing level alone by more than 60% per year. In other words: approximately 8,500 tons less paper consumed, 20 million Megajoules of electricity saved, 1 million liters less fuel oil used and 1 million liters of water conserved. During transport 500,000 liters of diesel is saved and lastly, by replacing traditional shopping bags the difference in weight will save almost 275 tons of plastic.
That such a little bag can have such a big impact…you can see why we called it clever.”
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“For the last 21 months we have been thinking about shoeboxes: how to fold them, how to ship them and how to reduce them. In the end, we decided to get rid of them altogether because along the way we discovered a new design solution….a “clever little bag”.
Why so clever? By providing structure to a cardboard sheet, the bag uses 65% less cardboard than the standard shoe box, has no laminated printing, no tissue paper, takes up less space and weighs less in shipping, and replaces the plastic retail bag. Now happy Puma customers will take home the clever little one instead. Oh, and that little bag is non-woven which means less work and waste (it is stitched with heat), and after accompanying you in your suitcase wherever you may go, our little friend is even recyclable.
With our “clever little bag”, Puma kicks-off the next pivotal phase of its’ sustainability program. The tens of millions of shoes shipped in our bag will reduce water, energy and diesel consumption on the manufacturing level alone by more than 60% per year. In other words: approximately 8,500 tons less paper consumed, 20 million Megajoules of electricity saved, 1 million liters less fuel oil used and 1 million liters of water conserved. During transport 500,000 liters of diesel is saved and lastly, by replacing traditional shopping bags the difference in weight will save almost 275 tons of plastic.
That such a little bag can have such a big impact…you can see why we called it clever.”
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Votrys
Designed by Athanasios Babalis | Country: Greece
“A series of boxes that contain one, two and three wine bottles each. Each box can accept two different sizes/forms of bottles of the same capacity. The three sizes are either combined together or separately and by stacking them a wine-rack is formed. Even a big wine-rack could be produced in this way. The shape of the box was chosen because it is sympathetic to the shape of the bottle and it also looks like a grape from one side when stack. The box has a handle and can be carried like a bag without the need for additional packaging. The use of Oak plywood as the main material was chosen because it makes references to the Oak barrels the wine matures in. The client logo appears on the box and on a label on the handle which also explains the concept and the way to reuse the box.”
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“A series of boxes that contain one, two and three wine bottles each. Each box can accept two different sizes/forms of bottles of the same capacity. The three sizes are either combined together or separately and by stacking them a wine-rack is formed. Even a big wine-rack could be produced in this way. The shape of the box was chosen because it is sympathetic to the shape of the bottle and it also looks like a grape from one side when stack. The box has a handle and can be carried like a bag without the need for additional packaging. The use of Oak plywood as the main material was chosen because it makes references to the Oak barrels the wine matures in. The client logo appears on the box and on a label on the handle which also explains the concept and the way to reuse the box.”
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TrueCoffee Hot Dog
Designed by Subconscious Co. | Country: Thailand
“TrueCoffee, the coffee shop that serves coffee and bakery with high-speed internet in a cozy and modern atmosphere, expanded their food range to a quick bites like hot dogs. They wanted hot dog packaging that would attract teenagers. We reinterpreted the word ‘hot dog’ and created a lovely dachshund character.”
Courtesy of Lovely Package.
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“TrueCoffee, the coffee shop that serves coffee and bakery with high-speed internet in a cozy and modern atmosphere, expanded their food range to a quick bites like hot dogs. They wanted hot dog packaging that would attract teenagers. We reinterpreted the word ‘hot dog’ and created a lovely dachshund character.”
Courtesy of Lovely Package.
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Dazzle your colleagues with a new fact every day!
Check out more at http://www.learnsomethingeveryday.co.uk/
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Design Your Own Wallpaper Cover
For Wallpaper*'s forthcoming August issue (The Handmade Issue) the magazine is encouraging its readers to design their own bespoke cover using a nifty online design-it-yourself app.
Users of the app will be able to play around (rotate, resize and colour or pattern) a host of shapes, illustrations and typographic assets supplied by James Joyce, The Hort, Anthony Burrill, Kam Tang, and Nigel Robinson.
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Users of the app will be able to play around (rotate, resize and colour or pattern) a host of shapes, illustrations and typographic assets supplied by James Joyce, The Hort, Anthony Burrill, Kam Tang, and Nigel Robinson.
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Latest Innovative Packaging - What next?
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Wednesday, 2 June 2010
The Paper Bottle
The 360 Paper Bottle is the first of its kind in the world, and a true environmentally-friendly solution to the problem of plastic water bottles.
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The importance of checking artwork!
The English is clear enough to lorry drivers - but the Welsh reads "I am not in the office at the moment. Send any work to be translated."
When officials asked for the Welsh translation of a road sign, they thought the reply was what they needed.
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Dream Ball Project
The Dream Ball Project by Unplug Design is an amazing demonstration of how packaging can impact mankind in a positive way- increasing quality of life, ensuring a second life to a box, and forming a bond between two people.
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Innovative Packaging Idea
Italian chef Giovanni Ciresa of Olivier & Co. has created a delectable array of products to make you never want to leave the kitchen again. They also have great packaging too!
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Minjjoo Childrens Door
The minjjoo childrens door is a small door integrated in a regular sized door - it comes in standard door sizes, may be ordered via www.minjjoo.com and after delivery simply be hung into the existing doorframe. It is finished with a white chalkboard surface and can be easily wiped of when drawn or written on.
Designer: jjoo design (Germany)
Manufacturer: Holitsch GmbH (Germany)
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Designer: jjoo design (Germany)
Manufacturer: Holitsch GmbH (Germany)
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Nike78 Project
Nike78 is a design project initiated by soon-to-be LCC graduate Paul Jenkins, who has given 78 pairs of Nike shoes out to designers and creatives internationally and asked them to "challenge the function of a pair of Nike shoes".
The project came about after the LCC was offered a selection of shoes by Nike that were leftover from its 1948 concept store, for a student to use in a project. Jenkins came up with the idea to use the shoes to encourage new design ideas. In devising the list of collaborators, he drew on the knowledge he attained while interning in Berlin as part of the LCC 'year in industry' that selected students on the BA Graphic and Media Design take part in. "Whilst I was interning in Berlin, my night job was sourcing creative talent worldwide," says Jenkins. "I didn't want Nike78 to be just another creative project with the same people and the same styles of work produced. Instead I invited people who from their style/work/projects I could see had a touch of conceptual excellence."
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The project came about after the LCC was offered a selection of shoes by Nike that were leftover from its 1948 concept store, for a student to use in a project. Jenkins came up with the idea to use the shoes to encourage new design ideas. In devising the list of collaborators, he drew on the knowledge he attained while interning in Berlin as part of the LCC 'year in industry' that selected students on the BA Graphic and Media Design take part in. "Whilst I was interning in Berlin, my night job was sourcing creative talent worldwide," says Jenkins. "I didn't want Nike78 to be just another creative project with the same people and the same styles of work produced. Instead I invited people who from their style/work/projects I could see had a touch of conceptual excellence."
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Neil Fitzpatrick, Managing Director, www.fitzpatrickdesign.co.uk
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"I meant to say how pleased I am with the outcome! I think you've done a great job of the menus and the client is very pleased also. The chief executive's reaction when presented with the menu's was 'wow'! Exactly what we wanted."
Neil Fitzpatrick, Managing Director, www.fitzpatrickdesign.co.uk
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