New links - new inspiration

This Link is to a wonderful design blog. It contains posts, articles and links to other design web sites. If you ever need to be inspired, just take a look around.


Hope you're all enjoying your holiday!

Things aren't always as they seem

Who does this cat remind you of?

It is part of a new political campaign in Germany.

Click here to read the full story

I love these kinds of mistakes

I wanted to enter Gmail.com the other day, and thanks to a typo I found this great design blog.

blogGAMIL

Enjoy!

Flong - Golan Levin and Collaborators

Incredible digital art created by Golan Levin and collaborators
Flong

Urban75 ezine

This is a pretty massive online magazine I hope you find interesting - based in England it features bulletin boards, football, politics, useless games, info, panoramas, photo galleries, direct action, protest, rave, and much much more...

Urban75 ezine

I hope you enjoy it...
Have a great week
Mike

: )

A5 MAGAZINE

Hi guys,

Great work on the Panel.

Here is a little link to a little magazine that is just for you if you feel a little creative and want to publish your own little contribution for the world to see: A5 MAGAZINE

Mike

2GB of free online storage!!!

What's better than a free 2GB flash drive?
2GB of free online storage!!!

Diino.com is a secure free online & backup storage solution that even allows secure file sharing.

Looks great to me...
: )

Check out the spleen!

So you wanna sketch the human body inside out?
Why not check out the The Visible Body

Here is a short feature list:
Complete, fully interactive, 3D human body model
Detailed models of all body systems
Dynamic search capability
Easy-to-use, 3D controls
Seamless compatibility with Internet Explorer

Enjoy!!!

GIFup.com

This great website / online tool allows you to create animated gifs without ever downloading anything to your computer. Very neat.

GIFup.com

The sweetness after - Winter semester 2008

The brief for this epilogue to the semester was:

"...Prepare a gift for your designated buddy - the format is free.

The present is a personal gift - something you would like to be remembered for or something that symbolises your buddy to you..."

Here is what you came up with:

Exercise 12 - part B

The 2nd batch of photos for presentations of Exercise 12 is now online.
Good luck with the work on the Panel - see you Tuesday...

future-of-art.com

Check this one out...
future-of-art.com

Psookim- It's yours to share

Here's an interesting opportunity:

Psookim is a website for today’s young artists to share the creativity the Hebrew Bible has inspired in them, to showcase their work, and to enable the larger community to find inspiration in these works and the ever-living stories of old.

Why not contact them and see what happens?
I know I did : )

Mike

Tokujin Yoshioka_Designer of the year 2007

Tokujin Yoshioka_Designer of the Year 2007

"Super fibre Revolution"

Industrial, Graphic, Architecture Design.
Art installation!! -- (great inspiration for design students)

The Design Miami/ Designer of the Year Award recognizes a prominent, established designer whose advanced body of work demonstrates quality, innovation and influence - a visionary who changes the way we understand design. This year we are proud to honor to Tokujin Yoshioka.

Tokujin is a master of technical innovation, developing imaginative methods of production completely unique in the field. Marrying traditional craft to cutting edge technology, his work evinces a remarkable ability to transform mundane materials - glass, plastics, fabrics, paper, even tissues into magical objects and environments.

http:// www.tokujin.com

http://www.dezeen.com/2007/12/07/tokujin-yoshioka-installation-at-design-miami/

http://www.artivi.com/encounters/tokujin.php?num=1&type=last (VIDEO)

http://www.acegallery.net/live.php : GREAT exhibitions and installations gallery (Tara Donovan)

( Work Tara Donovan)

Looking around is giving us inspiration, new ideas, and can open our MIND!
I wish those materials will help you on your last project,
(it did for me!)

Good luck!
Salomé.

Exercise 12 - presentation 1

Holon institute of technology -School of design - Foundations of design - Semester I - nearing the end...

Exercise 12 - the 1st presentation...

HIT Foundations of Design | The Buckminster Fuller Institute

Our presence in Bucky's house : )
HIT Foundations of Design | The Buckminster Fuller Institute

gamaroff.org - Presents FizzBoost for Facebook

gamaroff.org - Presents FizzBoost for Facebook: "The Best Facebook Notifier There Is!!

Based on what I'm seeing - I tend to agree!

Mark Jenkins: Street Installations

Mark Jenkins: Street Installations

We now have the Speakit feed for Design

Check out the right column -
The www.Speakitz.com feed for the Design club is now integrated into this blog :)

I love it when a plan comes together.

You can get Speakitz feeds for all you own speakitz once you sign up to the site - try it out - it's a cool way to notify people about webpages you like and to save them for future reference - you can also share pages privately between friends or groups.

Mike

NONOBJECT Design Fiction : Behind the Scenes Camera

The NONOBJECT Book is the first of its kind - the first of a genre called Design Fiction.

"...In the same way that sci-fi movies and fictional tales stretch your imagination, our hope is to take you on a journey into the future of design and inspiration. We will share stories and concepts that offer a new point of view, a new way of thinking, a new way forward. Of course, as with all fiction, some of our ideas may seem improbable – even impossible. Don’t worry, we bought the tickets. All you have to do is enjoy the ride..."

NONOBJECT Design Fiction : Behind the Scenes Camera

Facebook | Digital Art

Facebook group: Digital Art: "Digital Art is any art created on a computer or otherwise, non-trivially modified by a computing process. Certain instances of digital-art are entirely computer-generated - Fractals are a prime example of this type of digital art."

Facebook | Project Remodel

At the HIT we called it Re-funk-shion.

Facebook know it as:
Project Remodel

Must be something in the air...

Facebook | HEEB Magazine

I've written about this funky Jewish magazine before but I don't think that it was this semester...
Facebook | HEEB Magazine

The posters describing "In My Image" are now online

Your posters in response to the directive Exercise 12 - Phase 1 - "In My Image", are now online...


See the guidance for this exercise here:
http://hit-foundations-of-design.blogspot.com/2008/01/exercise-12.html

The Re-Funk-shion event

Hi all,
Just uploaded a gallery of pictures from
The Re-Funk-shion event

Enjoy !
Mike

TED: Ideas worth spreading

This is one of the most exciting places to see cutting edge technology and design:
TED: Ideas worth spreading

Exhibition of photos of old factories in what was once the "Eastern Block"

תערוכת המציגה צילומים המתעדים שרידי מפעלים מתקופת הקומוניזם במזרח אירופה

תוצג בגלריית דרובל מה 5 לינואר עד ה 25 לינואר

הפתיחה בנוכחות שגריר בולגריה תהיה ב 5 בינואר בשעה

20:00

כולכם מוזמנים!

שדרות בן-צבי 5, רמת חן

welcome to virv indie music television

welcome to virv indie music television

Gotta love this...

The Buckminster Fuller Institute

Following on Dorit's nice lecture about "Bucky" I thought you might find this interesting:

The Buckminster Fuller Institute

Exercise 12 – "In His Image"

God created us “in his image” but never explained what this means. It has always been our responsibility to give it an interpretation, worthy of his trust. Like every loving father he left it up to us…
The next few lessons will be dedicated to the final act of creation and our last exercise this semester.
The exercise is an exploration of our self, our image, our persona. The meaning of בצלמו ובדמותו…

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Presentation 1 - Poster –Thursday 3.1.08
Think about yourself - Who are you? What makes you - you? Why? Where are you? How did you get here? Why did you come? Where are you from? Was it your natural environment or just your place of origin? Are you aware? Are you awake?

As always the key to finding the answers to these questions is through a research of your surroundings. Pair up with a friend and reflect upon the questions listed above. You will discover that your taste in music, food, clothes, literature, cinema, art, etc. are a key to who you are.
ספר לי מי הם חבריך ואומר לך מי אתה is a truism as old as man…

Create a poster (100*70cm, free technique) of the conclusions of your research and who you are.

Presentation 2 – 3D body object–Thursday 10.1.08
Based upon your research you are required to create a body object reflecting who you are – an object that is in close contact with your body. The object is to be presented attached to you and you are to view yourself as part of your presentation.

Notes

1. God is in the details - Pay great attention to all the details of your project.

2. Reflect upon how your object and your body connect.
Remember that design is all about the connections between elements.

3. How are you going to present your object?
What will signify that you are an integral part of the presentation?

4. Are you free? Really free? How do you know? Can you show us?