I guess I've posted a lot of cool items this November and I'm glad I've shared these stuffs to more people. If you missed some of them, here's a list of some of my favorite entries for this month.
How Nike Immortalized Manny Pacquiao's Crest »
Top 30 Weird House Designs »
14 Best Photoshop Videos Online »
Top 10 Classic TV Commercials in the Philippines »
10 Funny Graphic Design Videos »
10 Video Inspirations by Vancouver Film School Students »
And a few design inspirations...
Real-Life Photoshop »
The ABC3D Book »
LEGO Spring/Summer 3001 by JC de Castelbajac »
Calendar Made of Matches by Yurko Gutsulyak »
Fuck The Rain Umbrella by Anton Schnaider »
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Top image: Christiaan Postma's calendar wallpaper
November: The Month That Was
Fuck The Rain Umbrella by Anton Schnaider
From the rain's point of view
“Fuck The Rain” is designed by Anton Schnaider from Art. Lebedev Studio.
In use
via Art. Lebedev Studio
Calendar Made of Matches by Yurko Gutsulyak
A unique calendar made of matches by Ukrainian designer Yurko Gutsulyak. The matches are real and the construction of the calendar is absolutely safe. Keep reading for more photos.
Each page is a month and it looks like a comb made of matches that correspond to the days.
Matches are dipped in a special chemical solution and covered with sulphur, striking surface stripes are applied on both sides of a stand base.
via Behance
Top 30 Weird House Designs
It's a dream for most of us to have a beautiful home but some people had a different idea. If you also prefer a unique concept, here's a collection of the oddest, strangest, most unusual houses you can live in.
Hundertwasser’s House
Hundertwasser, master of unconventional architecture, constructed this complex of 50 apartments in 1982-1985. It is an unusual house that does not correspond to the usual clichés and norms of academic architecture. This house is considered one of thTope city’s most popular tourist attractions. It has no straight lines or surfaces, completely asymetrical, with tortuous corridors, rounded-off corners, plants and trees.
The Upside-Down House
The Upside-Down House was created by Daniel Czapiewski in the village of Szymbark, northern Poland, on July 31, 2007. It represents not merely a bizarre tourist attraction, but is also meant to be a profound statement about the Communist era. It took 114 days to build the house, because the workers were disorientated by the strange angles of the walls.
Toilet-Shaped House
This Toilet-Shaped House south was built by the founding member of the World Toilet Association. The house features four deluxe toilets and is dedicated to providing clean sanitation to the more than 2 billion people who live without toilets. The home has a showcase bathroom placed in its centre. Other toilets have features that range from elegant fittings to the latest in water conservation devices. The house bears the named Haewoojae, which stands for Korean “a place of sanctuary where one can solve one’s worries”.
The House on the Stick
The design of the House on the Stick was inspired by highway billboards . The house is rather small. It is only 27 square meters (290 square feet) and as such it is not intended to be a family residence. It is designed as an object suitable for almost every place on earth, for instance, forests, seas, lakes, mountains, meadows as well as on the main city street.
Bubble House
Bubble House was constructed on Pierre Cardin’s demand. The project was being built by an architect named Antti Lovag for an industrialist with whom Lovag had become friends while building a previous house. The house was intended to demonstrate the possibility of short-circuiting traditional architecture in the name of original, contemporary design.
The Broken Column House
The Broken Column House is so named because it takes the form of a ruined classical column. The house was created by the aristocrat François Nicolas Henri Racine de Monville who made it his main residence during the years immediately before the French Revolution.
The Glass House by Philip Johnson
The Glass House is one of the world’s most beautiful and yet least functional homes. The house is symmetrical and sits solidly on the ground. The quarter-inch thick glass walls are supported by black steel pillars. The interior space is divided by low walnut cabinets and a brick cylinder that contains the bathroom. The cylinder and the brick floors are a polished purple hue. Philip Johnson says that when people come into his house they just shut up and look around. The Glass House is now open to the public, with tours booked many months in advance.
Wait! There's more...
Worth 1000 Photoshop Tricks (Free Download)
Worth 1000 Photoshop Tricks is the best free photoshop Tips & Tricks tutorial e-book you can have about photoshop, written by Lokale Schijf. It contains 1000 cool photoshop effects and tutorials. Pictures are included along the way, along with descriptive explanations of each step.
What you will get in this e-book?
- How to Build a Panoramic Tripod
- Make Grafitti with adobe photoshop
- Zombifying Mandy Moore
- Perspective in Photoshop
- Gender Bending
- Saving Photographs for Contests
- Tattoos
- Displacement Maps and Textures
- How I turned Ayumi into a Pinocchio
- Turning people into statues
- Doing an Invisible
- How to make your own 3D Images
- Masks in illustration
- Colorizing Line Art
- How to Build a Complete Photo Studio
- Hand Drawn Stitches in Photoshop
- The Making of Secret Pond
- Using Vector Designs & Customizing Text in Photoshop
and many more...
Download eBook »
The ABC3D Book
A handmade mock-up of the most innovative alphabet pop-up book I've seen so far. The ABC3D book was made by Marion Bataille, a graphic and book designer who lives in Paris and has never before been published in France. Visit www.abc3dbook.com for more info.
14 Best Photoshop Videos Online
Photoshop's all about the visuals so I'm sharing some of the great Photoshop videos I've found on the web. From retouching to techniques to speed paintings, it's a roundup of some of the amazing tricks we can do with Photoshop. 14 videos after the jump.
The Power of Photoshop
Dove's Evolution of Beauty
The Perfect Lie
Professional Portrait Retouching
De-aging in Photoshop
Apple TV Background Design
Liquid Metal
Vanishing Act
Digital Smoke
How to Combine and Blend Two Animals Together
How to Create the Sony-Erricsson Logo
How to Draw and Paint a Werewolf
Scarlett Johansson Speed Painting
Beyonce Knowles Speed Painting
And if that's not enough, here's an embedded playlist of the You Suck At Photoshop series by David Hoyle which includes 20 episodes at the time of writing.
Nike Prays for Manny Pacquiao
Nike's new marketing campaign focuses more on Manny Pacquiao as a religious figure and fans can show their support by submitting their own personal prayers, wishes, or dedications for Manny.
The Dream Match between Manny "Pacman" Pacquiao and "The Golden Boy" Oscar Dela Hoya is scheduled on December 6, 2008 at the MGM Grand Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas.
It's the biggest fight of Manny Pacquiao's life and the People's Champ is going to need more prayers. Although Manny is younger and more agile, the more experienced Dela Hoya still has the physical advantage. 5’10” vs 5’6”, and a reach advantage of 6 inches. But with a faith that can move mountains and a heart bigger than the Golden Boy himself, I believe Manny Pacqiuao can knock anybody down. Anybody.
Give us this day [Nike Philippines]
LEGO Spring/Summer 3001 by JC de Castelbajac
Vimeo user Fabrice Pathier (Four H) made this amazing CGI animation of a fashion show clip featuring designs by Jean-Charles de Castelbajac displayed in LEGO minifigs. I've seen LEGO animations before but this one is smooth.
Iran: A Nation of Bloggers
Aaron Chiesa's infographic about Iranian bloggers.
Gmail Adds 30 Themes to Spice Up Your Inbox
Gmail rolled out 30 odd themes for everyone bored with its standard interface, there's a shiny theme with chrome styling, another one that turns your inbox into a retro notepad, nature themes that change scenery over time, weather driven themes that can rain on your mailbox, and fun characters to keep you in good company. There's also an old school ascii theme (Terminal) which was the result of a bet between two engineers. Keep reading for more preview grids.
Unfortunately, I still don't have the "Themes" tab in my Gmail settings so I still use the Gmail Redesigned skin, a third-party extension to customize the look of my inbox. If you also don't see them yet, check back soon. I'm sure we can all expect the themes sometime in the next few days.
via Official Gmail Blog
LIFE Photo Archive Hosted by Google
Google announced yesterday that they're now hosting around 10 million photos from the LIFE photo archives on Google Image search. You can search the photos—stretching from the 1750s to today—directly from the LIFE photo archive start page, or you can simply add source:life with any Google image search query.
via The Official Google Blog
Google Analytics Tracking For Adobe Flash
Intergrating stats has been a chore for Flash developers until Google and Adobe released a solution for tracking Flash content at the Adobe MAX Conference last Monday. In the video embedded below, Sprout's Matthew NcNeely shows how to use Flash Analytics with singer Pink's widget creator as an example.
Several developers helped create the new ActionScript API for Google Analytics and the code is also available as open source under the Apache 2 license.
via Google Analytics Blog
An All-Around Better Lorem Experience
In graphic design, Lorem Ipsum has always been used as a placeholder text to mock up projects, evaluate layouts and preview typefaces when a copy text has not been provided yet. Lorem 2 is a simple and better way to provide Lorem Ipsum text content. It provides samples of text for short paragraphs, long paragraphs, short list items and long list items so that you get a better sense of where text will break in your layout and change the size of columns or fonts accordingly—and it's just one click away once bookmarked in a browser.
Visit Lorem 2 »
Top 10 Classic TV Commercials in the Philippines
I love TV commercials. I remember back then when my siblings and I used to play a guessing game of TV commercials where whoever guessed the brand first gets a point. It was fun, we didn't fight over the remote and we found ourselves eagerly waiting for the next commercial break rather than the TV program itself.
Anyway, I know it's a bummer for most viewers to get interrupted by commercial breaks in the middle of their favorite television shows but here's a list of TV commercials that we all loved to watch - with or without the guessing game.
McDonalds "Karen Po"
A girl named Karen and her Lolo are eating at McDonalds and the Lolo keeps on mistaking Karen for another grandchild named "Gina".
PLDT "Suportahan Taka"
A PLDT commercial where an Ilonggo medicine student in Manila calls up his father in Iloilo to tell him he wants to shift to Fine Arts.
Coke "The Coke Beat"
Two college girls playing the Coke Beat.
Tender Juicy Hotdog "Goodbye Carlo"
A chubby girl swears by her diary that she is ready to diet in order to win her crush Carlo's attention.
Coke "Kasama Ka"
Nikki Gil distributes Coke to people while singing the Coke jingle.
PLDT "Dugo-Dugo Gang"
Inday, the househelp, receives a call from a stranger who claims he is her employer, but who is apparently a member of the Dugo-Dugo Gang.
SMB "Sabado Nights"
This commercial made Ina Raymundo, sporting a full black outfit and flirting with Paolo Abrera, an instant star.
Sprite "Magpakatotoo ka" - Just one of the "Magpakatotoo ka!" commercials of Sprite. A guy was caught by his friends watching a cheesy drama flick in the TV.
Palmolive "I Can Feel It"
The classic Alice Dixson TV ad that brought her to stardom.
SMB "SiBoom"
The commercial that gave Rachel Lobangco the name "SiBoom". This commercial starred the Apo Hiking Society and Bert "Tawa" Marcelo.
via WikiPilipinas
What's your favorite classic Philippine TV commercial?
35 Photos of Barack Obama
The election is over and there have been millions of words written and photographs taken of the candidates over the past year. Boston.com has collected some of the best photos of President-Elect Barack Obama over the past several months. Portraits of an important moment in U.S. history.
via The Big Picture [Boston.com]
How Nike Immortalized Manny Pacquiao's Crest
Last year, Nike's endorsement for Manny Pacquiao added more glamor to the Filipino boxing icon's already superstar status. Manny Pacquiao is the only Filipino athlete to be signed up by Nike and have his logo, crest, and exclusive gear designed by the Nike US Head Office. The Crest was designed by Mike Friolo at the Nike Asia-Pacific headquarters in Beaverton, Oregon.
The crest is a part of a knight's coat of arms. Like a knight in a battle, Manny Pacquiao fights to live his sports dream. He is, therefore, worthy of this heraldic display. Inspired by Manny's life and country, the Crest represents the courage and strength of not just Manny Pacquiao but also the entire race.
Gloved Left Fist
Six Fists held "Up In Arms" represent the massive numbers of Filipinos who follow and support Manny. The left fist in a boxing glove in the middle stands for Manny's South Paw strength, and his signature powerful left hook.
Heritage
The Crest bears local Philippine symbols like banana leaves, tattoo-style waves and flames, and the Sampaguita (Arabian Jasmine), the national flower of the Philippines. The Sampaguita is a symbol of purity, humility and strength.
Philippine Eagle
The country's National Bird, the monkey-eating eagle, symbolizes courage. The eagle is a giant forest raptor endemic to the Philippines, and is one of the largest and most powerful predatory birds in the world.
Sun and Stars
The Crest carries details of the Philippine flag. The sunrays allude to the 8-rayed sun found on the flag and the country's National Coat of Arms. The 3 five-pointed stars represent the Philippines' island groups: Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao. The third and biggest star stands for Mindanao, the island where Manny was born.
The text and images above were taken from the Nike Philippines site for details on what the Crest means. For me and if I could sum it all up in a sentence, The Crest is a timeless inspiration that symbolizes everything that Manny Pacquiao is; a Filipino.
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