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Paper Tango is a London-based company specialising in origami-inspired gifts and 3-dimensional greeting cards.
Paper Tango’s latest range, ‘SPOTS LONDON’ is a range of pop up cards showcasing various London architectural landmarks including Big Ben, Tower Bridge, St Paul’s Cathedral and other iconic landmarks.
Check out more of their work over at Paper Tango | Available to buy at Etsy: Paper Tango
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Offf Festival has been a multicultural design conference event for years. From the beginning, I wanted to explore a different approach. Titles was executed with diverse ranges of techniques to underline sub-context, gathering different imagination, disciplines, mediums and artists.
Used techniques vary from computer graphics to live action, macro photography to photocopy art. One single concept unifies the variation. It is the simplicity. In contrast with the strong imagery typography plays a subtle role, placed in the centre with only two weight variations of a geometric typeface.
A century ago, rail travel was at its peak in the U.S., and New York City built the massive Grand Central Terminal to accommodate the growth. Built over 10 years, gradually replacing its predecessor named Grand Central Station, the Grand Central Terminal building officially opened on February 2, 1913.
Read more via theatlantic.com
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Sometimes the effects are executed so well we don’t even notice how much we’re being fooled.
The Emmy award-winning team at Brainstorm Digital has put together the before and after shots from season 2 of HBO’s hit series “Boardwalk Empire”. (courtesy of Home Box Office, Inc) brainstorm-digital.com. Twitter: @BrainstormVFX.
Also have a look at Brainstorm Digital’s 2011 Demo Reel displaying their visual effects work in a wide array of feature films and television series. More follows the initial Boardwalk Empire intro….
I first discovered Heather David through her site SV Modern, devoted to Silicon Valley’s mid-century past. I was immediately struck by her incredible attention to detail and ability to see the hidden treasures, both large and small, existing right under our noses. I grew up in the South Bay and it was a revelatory treat to see so many familiar landmarks pictured in their glory days. Happily, Heather has also written a book, Mid-Century by the Bay, “a celebration of some of the places that made the San Francisco Bay Area a special region in which to live, work, and play in the years following World War II.” In her own words, here’s why:
Read much more at source: aqua-velvet.com
TWA Flight Center
Building date: 1962
renovation: ongoing
Architect: Eero Saarinen
Additional: Restoration, Beyer Blinder Belle Architects & Planners
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Established by Thomas Heatherwick in 1994, Heatherwick studio is recognized for its work in architecture, urban infrastructure, sculpture, furniture design and strategic thinking. Team members come from disciplinary backgrounds that include architecture, product design, model making, fabrication, landscape design, fine art and curation.
Heatherwick Studio’s Associate Directors include the former Director of Regeneration and Environment of the London Borough of Southwark, Fred Manson, who commissioned Tate Modern, Peckham Library and the Millennium Bridge; and the structural engineer Ron Packman.
Thomas is an Honorary Fellow of the RIBA and a Senior Fellow at the Royal College of Art. He is the recipient of honorary doctorates from four British universities – Sheffield Hallam, Brighton, Dundee and Manchester Metropolitan. He has won the Prince Philip Designers Prize and in 2006, was the youngest practitioner to be appointed a Royal Designer for Industry.
Source: heatherwick.com
The Olympic Flame, which has been seen by nearly 15 million people on its 70 day journey around the UK, and by a worldwide TV audience of around one billion people in the Opening Ceremony. The Cauldron is made up of 204 steel pipes and individually designed copper petals inscribed with the competing nation’s names.
At the end of the Games, each team will take their petal home and the London 2012 Cauldron will cease to exist – it is a representation of the extraordinary transitory community that is the coming together of the world’s community at the London Olympic Games.
Thomas Heatherwick, the designer of the London 2012 Olympic Cauldron, said: ‘There is the precedent of the 1948 Games of the cauldron set within the stadium, to one side with the spectators, and with the technology we now have that didn’t exist in 1948 it can be shared with everyone in the Olympic Park with screens. We felt that sharing it with the screens reinforced the intimacy within it, if it had been a huge beacon lifted up in the air it would have had to be bigger, and would have somehow not met the brief that we discussed with Danny Boyle of making something that was rooted in where the people are.’
Source: london2012.com
Below is a reminder of a few of the beautiful projects Thomas has been involved in.
A future more beautiful? Architect Thomas Heatherwick shows five recent projects featuring ingenious bio-inspired designs. Some are remakes of the ordinary: a bus, a bridge, a power station … And one is an extraordinary pavilion, the Seed Cathedral, a celebration of growth and light.
Enjoy…
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