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Callender Creates – the Creative Digital Agency

by Mark Alexander on January 29, 2010

Callender Creates is a creative digital agency with offices at eoffice London, and also in Brighton.
“We create cutting edge web sites & applications, that give memorable user experiences”

Our services are web design, web development,  & web site promotion, we specialise in using open-source content management & ecommerce solutions.
As early adopters, it’s our job to discover latest web technologies and tools that our clients use to save time and make their web sites work harder for them. Ensuring what we deliver you is always robust and future-proofed.
Since 2004, we’ve worked with a wide range of clients – International corporates, agencies, charities, local councils and start-ups. Recent clients include Nokia, Unilever, NHS, and East Hants council.
We’ve published a series of client eguides that you can download for free and share with your colleagues.
Find out more about us at www.callendercreates.com

Contact us on 01273 806 672
 

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Fur is back – and this time, it’s USB

by Mark Alexander on January 13, 2010

“The Modern Amulet is a collection of USB keys. It is part one of two concepts for Kopenhagen Fur’s competition; The Golden Fur Neadle. The project from Magnhild Disington’s MA project Deviated Evolution where she worked with the relationship between humans and their portable electronics, and the lack of emotional appeal these products provide. With The Modern Amulet she tried to balance the emotional value between the information we carry and the objects we use to carry them.”

Pointless fashion accessory? You might think the last thing you want to do to a computer chip is to keep it warm – but this makes a nice dongle for design conscious laptops and potentially quite an item for the glitterazi elite – without stirring a big animal rights lashback, I say this one is for the win.

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Laminate Curtains – Window Art

by Mark Alexander on January 10, 2010

Created for a new housing area in helsinki, finland. ‘colour curtains’ is a set of 30 paintings laminated on glass, cut out of various shapes installed on the corridor windows of the building. the paintings were done in water colours using a print glass technique where the images are laminated between two 6mm glass panels and cut into shape.

[ Article Source: DesignBoom ]

 

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Colourful Road Crossings

by Mark Alexander on January 9, 2010

A site-specific installation that makes visually arresting use of coloured tape. Aakash Nihalani modifies the urban landscape and plays with perspective by using “flamboyant hues and idiosyncratic precision.” Nihalani’s work also translates to the gallery space and will be featured in an upcoming Carmichael exhibition.

[ Articel Source: CarmichaelLA ]

 

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Roughly Drawn Chair – V&A Design Award

by Mark Alexander on December 16, 2009

The RD (Roughly Drawn) Legs Limited Edition chairs are hand woven from 100% recycled molten plastic waste. Building on the early experimental plastic processes developed by Richard, the design uses no glues or additional fixings in its production.
All we add is heat and skill.”

The RD Chair has been widely recognized as one of the major iconic eco products of the decade and was short listed in the category of innovation in the House and Garden Classic design awards at London’s Victoria and Albert Museum.

These are the final RD chairs produced by Richard as he’ll be hanging up the process soon to concentrate on new work for Cohda.

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[ Article Source: MocoLoco ]

 

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Clockwork Love – Tjep

by Mark Alexander on December 16, 2009

Inspired by the earlier Bling Bling medallion, Tjep layers the wheels and gears of clockwork to form the hearts that make up a new series of pendants and timepieces. Other symbolic elements include wings and flames, all part and parcel of the
complicated mechanism of emotion. Clockwork Love is an expression of wishful thinking, but we all know love
never runs on time.

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[ Article Source: MocoLoco ]
 

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Akvo Offices

by Levi of eOffice News on December 15, 2009

“Akvo is like a Wikipedia, eBay and YouTube for water and sanitation projects, rolled into one.”

[ Photo Source: Flickr ]

 

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Brain Stirring Optical Illusions

by Mark Alexander on October 19, 2009

If you’ve ever felt like you go a little cross-eyed after taking a peek at an optical illusion, then you know they can be a pretty intense phenomenon. What your eyes perceive when looking at one of these images is actually a visual illusion; you see the image as something different than what it is because the different cells and receptors in your eyes distinguish images and colors at dissimilar speeds. The eye can only receive a limited amount of visual stimuli, but as your brain constantly processes the visual information, it gives you the illusion of continuous sight. Whether it’s an optical, physiological or cognitive illusion, the design plays a trick on your eyes (and mind). Check out some of the interesting illusions below—but beware, you may not be able to absorb them all in one sitting.

Flowing Leaves

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The brown leaf shapes against a green background make this look as if the entire group is flowing—making waves if you focus on the picture as a whole. Photo from Flickr

Pulsing Vortex

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If you stare at this one long enough you’ll notice a fast and pulsing multicolored vortex. Photo from Flickr

Waves

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The blue almond-shaped objects look as if they’re all passing over three separate columns. Photo from Flickr

Hypnosis

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Although this image is comprised of simple purple and green squares outlined in black, it looks like it is bulging out in the center. Photo from Flickr

Kaleidoscopes

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A collection of black, blue, green and white shapes appears to be five different kaleidoscope-type figures—each swirling toward their centers. Photo from Flickr

Wormhole

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The black and white circular lines make this illusion seem as if there are various depths in the image, creating different entryways and tunnels. Photo courtesy of Paco Calvino

Bull’s-Eye

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If you stare at the center of the image, it looks as if the outer rings are rotating in alternating directions—an effect meant to mesmerize the viewer. Photo courtesy of Todd A. Carpenter

Starbursts

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These bright purple and green star-like shapes appear to be moving, which can be a little nauseating if you stare at it for too long. Photo courtesy of Angie Armstrong

[ Article source : Yahoo Health ]
 

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The 20mm Desile Chair

by Mark Alexander on October 11, 2009

With modern spaces shrinking day by day, folding and portable furniture are becoming an integral part of the modern lifestyle. Designed by Christian Desile, the “Desile” is a folding chair that unfolds to provide instant seating to the users. Made of bamboo and recycled PET, the folding chair is not only light in weight but also promotes a more ecological lifestyle. Presenting a unique two-way opening, the sustainable chair folds flat into a 20mm thick sheet for easy storage as well as transportation. When not in use, you may simply fold it and hang on the wall like a calendar.

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35 Smart Logos With Second Thought To Make You look Twice

by Mark Alexander on October 11, 2009

We’ve put together a great showcase of logos, a commodity which in reality is quite a challenging creation for any company. Get inspired, hopefully this article will help you to look different at logo creation – it’s not always just about typography, good looking font and nice animation.

You need to really deliver message to people and you need to deliver the RIGHT message – those are logos, which will be remembered. Of course it’s hard task, but this collection should help to get better!

1. Texas association of stolen children

Designed by Sibley/Peteet design

This one is my favorites logos and it is unforgettable! White playhorse which everybody knows and can recognize with black colored outline of child on the horse and black background which makes an illusion that child had disappeared. Amazing, what designers can create just from shapes and two basic colors!!!

2. Avid Technology

Designed by The Brand Union

Avid’s logo is composed of simple geometric shapes derived from the fundamental buttons of the digital audio and video solutions: volume up, volume down, play, pause, record and forward, signaling of the companies core audio and video offerings. Company’s name is spelled out in distinctive and abstract letterforms.

3.Bison, Vancouver

Designed by Seamoose

Logo design for rock band from Vancouver B.C. This logo is very intelligent solution in my opinion.All what designer did was take all the letters of the word BISON and make them look like a bison body. I like the way how the body details are found within the letters, as tail or horn. The version linked seems like a much easier execution.

4. Eight

Designed by Stylo Design

Really original and fresh logo design with variations of an 8 to made word eight. Even the placing of TM is placed in the right place to create an angle and clarity of the design.

5. One Degree

Designed by Landor Associates

This logo was created to drive public action on climate change. If everyone could change their behavior by just one degree, we could change the future of the planet. Both – number 1 and symbol of degree represents a person and meaning of conception.

6. Lets fix this

Designed by dache

This logo was created using different colored puzzle pieces locking together in the shape of a cross and represents how many parties can come together and fix their own problems in an online resource.

7. DJ Loop

Designed by mavleeb

Don’t need any explanation .Simple, smart and clear.

8. Friedman psychology group

Designed by Mugar Mihai

Butterfly, two faces, person with wings or maybe inkpot? Freedom of mind. Fantastic and awesome representation of the field it was designed for.

9. Guild of Food Writers

Designed by 300million

Logo for guild of food writers. Spoon within a true nibbled fountain pen. There is a meaning!

10. CSCN

Designed by Jovan Rocanov

The idea of this logo, which is designed for Consumer Society and Citizen Networks, of course was to show the protection of the consumers. There is combined a well-known symbol of the market such as the bar code (which graphically looks like the rain) with an ordinary umbrella (symbol of protection).

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