Design
Paper Pulse: programming interactive paper
Printed electronics have been possible for some time now thanks to conductive inks and special printing technology. But now there is a DYI solution to make regular paper interactive. A fun way to make interactive cards, labels, games or business cards with moving images. You need only a few electronic components such as LEDs and…
Lees meerOCR Journal #001: is this the future of print?
Exclusive, with only 500 copies of which each cover has its own unique data art visualisation, content perfectly attuned to its target market and contemporary design, Office for Create Research offers us a peek into what might be the future of (magazine) printing. Mark Wilson describes in his Co.Design blog the OCR Journal #001 as…
Lees meerTesting out the taxi as billboard
The Heineken Experience, previously a Heineken brewery which was transformed into an interactive journey through the Heineken world, in cooperation with taxi service Cabture and Amsterdam Taxi Service (TCA), has revamped two taxis into driving billboards with a TaxiTop ad for the Heineken Experience. TaxiTop, well-known in New York, replaces the taxi roof light to…
Lees meerStonepaper
Paper can be produced from various materials such as wood, rags, natural fibres, but also stone. Stonepaper is made from minerals and its characteristics are comparable to coated paper and is, just like synthetic paper, waterproof and very strong. Contrary to synthetic paper made of polypropylene it has a low CO2 footprint and a low…
Lees meerErrol Morris: typography influences the trustworthiness of content
It´s here in black and white and other such famous sayings: we believe what is printed. Errol Morris, filmmaker of The Thin Blue Line and The Fog of War, has ´proven´ something else. Typography influences the trustworthiness of content. Especially typeface decides if we trust the contents of an article. Morris asked people to indicate…
Lees meerLargest paper boat in the world
For the occasion of the 300th anniversary of the city of Karlsruhe in Germany, sports people from the city have folded world´s largest paper boat. It is 13,93 meters long and is made of paper only. It weighs 117 kilo. 350 Square meters of paper were used and the building and folding took a total…
Lees meerKolor: online game to test your sense of colour
Moro, a Spanish designer and app developer developed an online game with which you can test how good you are at recognising colour. At the end of the game you know which colours you are sensitive to. That is, if you react fast enough……………
Lees meerThe Beauty of Letterpress: Blokboek becomes art
Our name, blokboek.net, comes from the oldest form of printing letterpress, blokboek in Dutch. Letterpress is relief printing carved from one piece. The similarity with blog-boek (blog book) made it even more interesting to choose the name blokboek.net. In the Beauty of Letterpress Hamilton Wood Type and Printing Museum show that letterpress has become art. 11 Special…
Lees meerDutch initiative brings light and communication to Nepal
Literally a ray of light for the thousands of victims in Nepal. The Waka Waka lamp. It´s a lamp which gives light but at the same time is a charger for mobile phones. The Unica Foundation in Zwolle, the Netherlands, has taken the initiative to bring the lamps to the disaster area.
Lees meerHow to choose a typeface
Fastcodesign has put together a poster which allows you via few simple steps to choose a typeface. For 19.90US$ you get a flowchart which through simple criteria such as ´should it look modern´ or ´should it look quirky´ leads you to a choice of 43 fonts. For professional designers the poster may be a bit…
Lees meerValue adding designs with Agfa: Fortuna
Passports, identity cards, lottery tickets and entrance tickets are examples of printing with the highest value add. Designing these, in compliance with the highest security measures, is work for specialists. These specialists will now with version 9 of Agfa´s Fortuna get a perfect tool which can save a lot of time. Version 9 builds on…
Lees meerLearn what digital content should look like from the 10 finalists in the World´s Best-Designed digital news contest
It is an impressive but surprising list, the 10 finalists of the World´s Best-Designed digital news contest. Not surprising are The New Yorker and Quartz, but the nominations of Facebook, Twitter and YouTube are, if only for the fact that they are accepted as news providers. If you look at them all there is a…
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