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Inglorious Fruits & Vegetables

by Intermarché

The Inglorious Fruits & Vegetables posters and promotional material was designed by creative agency Marcel for French supermarket Intermarché, which offered 30 per cent off "ugly" produce to encourage customers.

"This is a very down to earth, straightforward way of saying 'enough with the food waste'," said Georgacopoulos. "It glorifies the differences, celebrating something which is organic, and does not always appear in the same shape, colour or weight."

#design #graphic

Work Safety Propaganda Posters

Dutch graphic posters

They sure want you to know just how horribly inattention to your work will maim you.

#graphic

Somebody

By Miranda July

Have you ever found it impossible to say something, face to face, to someone you know, someone you love? The words just won’t come out? A new messaging service, SOMEBODY, by Miranda July could help. It’s the star of her film for Miu Miu Womens’ Tales, the eighth commission in the acclaimed short-film series by women directors who critically celebrate femininity in the 21st century.

SOMEBODY takes our endless hunger for communication, technology, avatars and outsourcing, and blends it into what seems to be a surreal near-future — but it’s not. It’s right now. In close collaboration with Miu Miu, July worked with a team of developers to create this radical and complex app; when the movie ends we’re invited to visit somebodyapp.com to send or deliver our first message.

#technology

Zimoun

Swiss Artist

Zimoun (born 1977) is a Swiss artist who lives and works in Bern, Switzerland. As self-taught artist, he is most known for his sound sculptures, sound architectures and installation art that combine raw, industrial materials such as cardboard boxes, plastic bags, or old furniture, with mechanical elements such as dc-motors, wires, microphones, speakers and ventilators.

#art

Paracosm

Album by Washed Out

Paracosm: a detailed imaginary world created inside one's mind.

The music recorded by Ernest Greene as Washed Out has been nothing if not dreamy, and on his second full-length, Paracosm, he takes the dreamlike, otherworldly atmospheres of his music a huge leap further.

#music

Major Malfunction: Revisiting Challenger

By New York Times

"On Jan. 28, 1986, seven astronauts “slipped the surly bonds of earth to touch the face of God.” America’s space program was never the same."

#film

prostheticknowledge

I xxx cant imagine ARTFOR/UM xxxx ever doing a special issue on electronics or computers in art, but one never knows

Rejection letter from 1967 - hat-tip: @jim_boulton

#technology

Johnny Express

Written and Directed by Kyungmin Woo

"It's 2150

There are all sorts of Aliens living throughout space. Johnny is a Space Delivery Man who travels to different planets to deliver packages. Johnny is lazy and his only desire is to sleep in his autopilot spaceship. When the spaceship arrives at the destination, all he has to do is simply deliver the box. However, it never goes as planned. Johnny encounters strange and bizarre planets and always seems to cause trouble on his delivery route. Will he be able to finish his mission without trouble?"

Such a funny film! got to watch this

#film

Taxidermy

On taxidermy artist Becca Barnet

A short documentary about taxidermy artist Becca Barnet, performing taxidermy on her pet hamster, Fishhook.

#art

Wet Dog

Photography by Sophie Gamand

“Wet Dog” is a series of portraits of dogs photographed during their least favorite activity: bath time. Exposed at a vulnerable and humiliating moment, the soggy doggies wiggle, shake, haul themselves out of the groomer’s soapy grasp. The series celebrates dogs for what they really are: more than just animals. After millennia of close collaboration with humans, dogs have acquired a unique status in our society. Have they also taken some of our expressions?

Sophie believes dogs mirror humans and our society. The unique bond we have develop with them says a lot about our own solitude and social challenges.

#photography #art

97%

Short film directed by Ben Brand

"Via an app on his phone, Bert discovers that a 97% lovematch is near. Will he find her before the subway reaches the end of the line?"

I thought it was quite a humorous and interesting take on finding love through digital platform. But it also shows how frivolous modern relationship can be.. One interesting TED talk that examines online dating is by Amy Webb that talks about using algorithms to find love.

#technology #film

The Great Canton and Hong Kong Proverbs

Graphic by Ah To

"In 1559, Dutch artist Pieter Bruegel created the oil painting “Netherlandish Proverbs” which illustrates many Dutch proverbs to praise the Dutch culture. "

阿塗(Ah To), a graphic designer and part-time cartoonist who concerns about the survival of Cantonese in Canton and Hong Kong, has just published a comic called ” The Great Canton and Hong Kong Proverbs” on Hong Kong independent media “Passion Times“. The cartoon contains illustrations of 81 Cantonese proverbs.

#graphic

Prospect

Directed by Zeek Earl and Chris Caldwell

Prospect is the coming-of-age story of a teenage girl on a toxic alien planet. She and her father hunt for precious materials, aiming to strike it rich. When the father is attacked by a roving bandit, the daughter must take control. Prospect premiered at the 2014 SXSW Film Festival.

#film

The Final Frontier

Photography by Steven Klein (Vogue)

"Beyond the blue horizon lies a futuristic vision of fashion—a beautiful minimalism tailored for the brave and the bold."

Google Glass makes headlines in many arenas of the media — technology, breaking news, business, health — but high fashion isn't a subject typically associated with the geeky wearable device. However, 2013's encyclopedic September issue of Vogue — the magazine's second-biggest issue ever — features a 12-page editorial in which all of the models don outfit-matching AR glasses.

#design #technology

Marina Abramovic Institute

Building design by OMA

The mission of the Marina Abramović Institute for the Preservation of Performance Art (MAI) is to cultivate new kinds of performance while functioning as a living archive, preserving and hosting performances of historic pieces. Abramovic plans to use the space as a laboratory for exploring time-based and immaterial art - including performance, dance, theater, film, video, opera, and music - through collaboration with practitioners in the realms of science, technology, and education.

The first phase of MAI's development was funded through Kickstarter. The building will be designed by OMA in a former theater in hudson, new york.

#design

The Eye Of Ballet Dancers

Works by Artist JR

For his newest initiative, a collaboration with the New York City Ballet, JR has produced a 6,500-square-foot composite photo of NYCB dancers inside the legendary Koch Theater. Maneuvering the dancers' bodies in intricate and abstract arrangements and simultaneously wrapping them around huge sheets of crimped white paper, he creates the massive image of an eye photographed from above.

#art

Sound Locator

In the past century we started to build machines that would help us locate source of sound. Here are some of the most insane moments in the history of sound-location technology.

#history #design

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