Olympics Torches: 1936 to present

The New York Times has a fantastic interactive display of all the Olympic torches from 1936 to present. The modern Olympic Games have become as much a global contest among designers and architects as among athletes. Each Olympics is expected to produce a logo, a signature building — and a characteristic torch that symbolizes local tradition and national character.

This is a design history of the Olympic torch from 1936 to the present day.
Jump over to ‘The Evolution of Olympic Torches’..

Area_2: 100 Graphic Designers, 10 Curators

One of the ultimate references for the graphic designers bookshelf – Area 2 follows on from the success and format of the first book Area. This design resource has been collated by 10 of the worlds top designers and critics with each selecting 10 influential graphic designers, to in total feature 100 contemporary graphic designers from around the world.

Before even opening to see what’s inside, the books cover strikes of fine craftsmanship with it’s textile material overlay and carefully stuck on text headers. It becomes clear that the quality cover design itself is a statement to the collection of quality works contained within. The book’s grid-less, open layout lets the images speak for themselves, forming a cornerstone reference in any graphic designers library collection.

Word Clouds

Here’s a useful tool that will create Word Clouds from any text you throw at it.  Change the style of the cloud, the colours and everything to get it looking the way you want.  The more frequent the word in the text, the more pronounced it will become, just like how Tag Clouds work. Give it a shot over at wordle.

Desktopography – Design for nature

The Desktopography project has been going strong since 2005 and holds yearly exhibitions of various designers work.  The concept behind the project is to promote natural scape design’s and wallpapers within the design community.  

Designers spend about 90% of their working life in front of a computer so the most appealing genre for a wallpaper would be one that has beautiful design mixed with the all important aspect of being outdoors. 

Guillaume Mouton’s BMW

This is the future of the M6 series BMW in the eyes of graphic designer Guillaume Mouton. He has successfully blended the shape of the long gone 8-Series Coupe, with elements from the current 6-Series and the 4door CS Concept.

Lacoste imagines Tennis in 2083

In honor of its 75th anniversary, Lacoste has created a series of graphics and video that imagine what tennis will look like in 2083, or 75 years from now.  Sure, it sounds a bit contrived, but the execution’s actually kind of cool, as you can see in the video after the jump..

Comics made easy

I think one of the great things about owning a mac is it’s focus more on design and creativity. One of the great applications that comes bundled with all Macs is comic life, which makes it easy for anyone to create comics, using your personal photos.

Usually making comics would mean hours upon hours of work sitting down drawing and coloring and more drawing.. I think you get the idea!