The Design Ark

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January, 2012 Monthly archive

After winning a competitive pitch, Channel 4 commissioned ManvsMachine to create a new brand identity and on-air look for More4. The package aligns with a re-focussed range of content on the channel.

The re-brand is centred round a bold, flexible logo that morphs through a series of flips, folds and reveals. The colour palette reflects the vibrant nature of interiors, food culture, fashion and other contemporary lifestyle programming.

I just love it.

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We live in a wonderfully beautiful world. NASA has published what it calls the “most amazing highest resolution image of Earth”. The 64-megapixel image weighing in at 8000×8000 pixels is actually a composite photograph taken on January 4th of this year using a number of captures stitched together from NASA’s Earth-observing satellite Suomi NPP. See the full size image to really appreciate the details.

(via Colossal)

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Russian designer Maxim Maximov’s latest lamp called W&M explores the friendly relationship between wood and metal (thus the name W&M).

(via Design Milk)

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This looks moving and worth a watch.

After being diagnosed with ALS and rendered almost completely paralyzed, legendary L.A. graffiti artist Tony “Tempt” Quan gets his voice back through technology that reads the movement of his eyes and enables him to create art and write once again.

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This made me laugh – Places I Haven’t Been by Evan Drolet Cook.

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Lovely.

Photographer Ulrika Kestere created this wonderful series of photographs based on a fairy tale about a woman whose drying laundry is taken by a sudden storm, and as she travels the countryside discovers her clothing has taken an unexpected form. See more here.

(via My Love For You)

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Will be keeping my eyes peeled for Clear when it is released soon.

Clear is designed to help you manage your life without adding clutter. It’s a beautifully-designed, gesturally-driven app that we’ve created to improve on a pencil and notepad for flexibly keeping quick, simple todo lists.

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