Carolina's summer job--

Hey Studio peeeps:

I'm working for a furniture dealing company (until next week) and I've been re-designing their website for the past few weeks. Can I get some critiques? I made it with wix--

Thank you! below is the link:

http://www.wix.com/dea2030/zoom_1

Some inspirations

-gilad  

OLED

http://vimeo.com/6378943

Cerise

Things Organized Neatly

Just a fun website if you need a distraction...so soothing to look at for people like us!

http://thingsorganizedneatly.tumblr.com/

 

This is a page from Ikea's cookbook, where they had photographer Carl Kleiner photograph the ingredients for all the recipes in the book.

THE NEW PLASTIC

http://www.pegadesign.com/en/portfolio-pp.html

woah, check it out!

-gilad

artsy living walls!

Portrait + Plants?

Check it out

Hermès × Tokujin Yoshioka

awesome window displays!

-joo

CHECK IT OUT!

http://www.good.is/post/apple-s-genius-idea-donating-your-old-ipad-to-teach-for-america-classrooms/


-gilad

what is your MEANING as a designer?

check out this info-graphic type thing

its kinda cartoonish and strange in terms of visuals but the content is really great.

http://awesome.good.is/misc/1002/what-does-meaningful-mean/index.html

Public Works (a little something for everyone...)

So I stumbled across this website, and thought it was really relevant for quite a few of your projects. It's a community center of sorts in San Francisco that basically functions as an artists' workshop and gallery by day, and as a music venue by night.

• This page shows their space, so you can start to get a sense of how it's multi-functional, flexible space that adapts for various programmatic needs.
• This page has images from events held there...it looks like they're mostly concerts, but there was at least one fashion show hosted by a boutique. I think I had read somewhere that they had a pop-up shop there, too, so there is the potential for retail in a venue like this.

Anyways, I just thought this example had so much in it...

Joo: Check out the website! Their use of the cube reminded me of your programming document. I also thought it was interesting to look at how they handled the notion of transforming space for various artists, events, etc.

Ellie: This is an interesting example of a music venue that supports/promotes local music artists and creates a community around its music.

Gilad: This an example of a community center that supports artists by providing them a work space and gallery. I don't think they're technically a non-profit, but they do say they support another non-profit.

Sara: The pictures of their space when it's empty reminded me sort of of the warehouse-type setting that you were envisioning aiaiai going in to.

-- Kristin.

we should get a water fountain on our floor.

3-D Food Printing

Someone brought this up at one time during studio. Edible space shuttles - hurray for Cornell!

A nation devoted to fonts!?

www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/aprilfool/

if your going to make infographics, read this

this is a critique on infographics. they are haters. but this is good.
by exposing some of the flaws of infographics and some of their shortcomings, we as designers can now incorporate these into our own design to make infographics that are GOOD.

http://www.good.is/post/the-infographic-that-spoofs-infographics/

Light info-graphics

http://vimeo.com/20412632

eat house

one way to lure customers is to tempt them with food

eat-me-house

example of transforming/temporary architecture

so you've probably alreasdy seen this, but in case you haven't

http://www.storyofstuff.com/

don't get too depressed

-Carolina

One more

http://www.behance.net/Gallery/www_glennz_com-Tee-Designs/149088

This is really cool

http://www.dailydawdle.com/2011/02/awesome-fake-pool-you-can-walk-into-pic.html

ALSO USE THIS

http://www.zotero.org/


Its a browser plug-in, I use it for firefox but it might work for others. It basically tracks your internet research. As you find a site you like, you add it to a folder of citations that zotero automatically creates for you. Its basically glorified bookmarking, but it saves all the information you would need for a citation including when you accessed the site.

Procrastinate Productively

http://www.stumbleupon.com/home/

In case you're not familiar with it already. It basically works as random website generator. I was thinking that if you're looking for cool ideas about your topic, you can focus the stumbleupon search to come up with only the category of sites that you're looking for, whether its fashion, indie rock/pop, or exotic pets.

-Sara

interesting perspectives

transformation

and this website is really great-watch the videos + various projects at the left bar:

materials technologies
-a

retail stores

eye candy + campaign

(lots of projects...check out both pages)

-alfred

Architect Barbie

http://toyxplosion.com/tag/barbie-i-can-be-architect/

I am sharing this mostly for your enjoyment, because it really amused me...

...but the more I thought about it, it actually is a really interesting example of branding. It says that they collaborated with the AIA to make sure the doll was an authentic portrayal of the architecture profession. They've certainly gotten some of the stereotypes down, but it really isn't an accurate representation. It's almost like the Barbie brand and the brand of the architecture profession have collided, and each have had to make concessions. A doll that truly portrayed the architecture profession would not have meshed with Barbie's brand, so the result is a Barbie-branded doll infused with some allusions to the architecture profession.

-- Kristin.