The Top 10 Most Popular Stories over The Past Week
1) World’s Largest Wooden Structure Opens in Spain
A sprawling four-storey wooden structure that is believed to be the largest of its kind just opened in Seville, Spain in April, after six years of construction.
2) Art Director Designs iPad App as Portfolio
Instead of a website or other traditional portfolios, art director João Dornellas designed a free iPad app to showcase his work while he was at McCann Erickson and Ogilvy & Mather.
3) Logo Designer Reverses Popular Brand Identities
As a tongue-in-cheek jab at popular brands and their closest competitor, designer Graham Smith created these sets of logos with “split personalities”.
4) A Rollercoaster Designed to Kill Humanely
It’s a ride definitely not for the faint-hearted—a PhD candidate in Design Interactions at the Royal College of Art has designed a hypothetical rollercoaster meant to kill.
5) Infographic: A Copywriter on Copywriters
It’s as unscientific as you can get, but this infographic by former Leo Burnett and Y&R copywriter George Ellis on his profession is as funny as you can get.
6) Street Artists Sticker Bomb London Underground
Stickers On The Central Line is a street art project that has its artists 'change' the eponymous London Underground line with carefully-placed stickers on route maps.
7) How Design Can Change the World
With design starting to be applied to many other broader fields than just producing graphics or products, a crack team of designers from the innovation consultancy IDEO is spearheading a non-profit endeavor with one simple goal: Use design to change the world.
8) Upcoming App Visualizes Your Music Collection as Planets, Stars
Created by Bloom, the app will transform artists to stars, albums to planets that orbit the stars and tracks to moons circling the planets. Users can also create a ‘constellation’ of stars by filtering artist names alphabetically.
9) Too Many ‘Likes’? Designer Proposes Alternatives for Facebook
Designer Leonard Savage created a tongue-in-cheek series of alternatives to Facebook’s ‘Like’ icon.
10) Gridbook: A Sketchbook for Designers, Web Ad Creatives
Created by the design studio Sajak & Farki, these sketchbooks come with a 15-point dot grid, column grids, as well as templates for standard banner ad sizes.
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A sprawling four-storey wooden structure that is believed to be the largest of its kind just opened in Seville, Spain in April, after six years of construction.
2) Art Director Designs iPad App as Portfolio
Instead of a website or other traditional portfolios, art director João Dornellas designed a free iPad app to showcase his work while he was at McCann Erickson and Ogilvy & Mather.
3) Logo Designer Reverses Popular Brand Identities
As a tongue-in-cheek jab at popular brands and their closest competitor, designer Graham Smith created these sets of logos with “split personalities”.
4) A Rollercoaster Designed to Kill Humanely
It’s a ride definitely not for the faint-hearted—a PhD candidate in Design Interactions at the Royal College of Art has designed a hypothetical rollercoaster meant to kill.
5) Infographic: A Copywriter on Copywriters
It’s as unscientific as you can get, but this infographic by former Leo Burnett and Y&R copywriter George Ellis on his profession is as funny as you can get.
6) Street Artists Sticker Bomb London Underground
Stickers On The Central Line is a street art project that has its artists 'change' the eponymous London Underground line with carefully-placed stickers on route maps.
7) How Design Can Change the World
With design starting to be applied to many other broader fields than just producing graphics or products, a crack team of designers from the innovation consultancy IDEO is spearheading a non-profit endeavor with one simple goal: Use design to change the world.
8) Upcoming App Visualizes Your Music Collection as Planets, Stars
Created by Bloom, the app will transform artists to stars, albums to planets that orbit the stars and tracks to moons circling the planets. Users can also create a ‘constellation’ of stars by filtering artist names alphabetically.
9) Too Many ‘Likes’? Designer Proposes Alternatives for Facebook
Designer Leonard Savage created a tongue-in-cheek series of alternatives to Facebook’s ‘Like’ icon.
10) Gridbook: A Sketchbook for Designers, Web Ad Creatives
Created by the design studio Sajak & Farki, these sketchbooks come with a 15-point dot grid, column grids, as well as templates for standard banner ad sizes.
For the most current news update within the creative, media, and technology industries, please follow TAXI on http://www.twitter.com/designtaxi
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