I just thought I quickly share this with everyone..
Miguel Endara created this beautiful Stippling drawing of his dad. Composed entirely of 3.2 million ink dots, the piece has been adeptly named ‘Hero’.
It took him 210 dedicated hours to complete the work spanning almost a year from start to finish.
You can see the The making of “Hero” in a very well put together video below.
Here’s an interesting concept from Max Frommeld & Arno Mathies, two product design graduates from the Royal College of Art. Foldboat was presented at this years London Design Festival, as an ingenious portable water transportation device… A boat!
They are made from a single piece of high density polyethylene plastic, and can be put together in just 2minutes using only 3 components. The boat pictured (‘The Dock Edition’) is the second, simplified incarnation of the prototype Boat One.
Boat One actually folded down to a third of its size into a transport pack, while Boat Two instead dismantles to a 2.5m x 1.5m flat sheet, as pictured below.
Fantastic 3D wall art piece by Niels Bruschke. Commisioned by Two Wheels Good (a Hamberg based bike shop & developer of urban mobility concepts) “I feel good today” is a result of the collaboration between the two creatives. It’s located in the erste liebe bar (erste liebe translated – first love), a popular jaunt for coffee & lunch in the German city.
Bruschke uses a Schindelhauer Viktor (a carbon fibre belt driven fixie / singlespeed bike – a work of art in itself) as the centre piece, with beautiful typography and flowing illustration. Well worth a visit next time I’m in Hamberg me thinks…
A beautiful concept unveiled at Beijing Design Week by Nicholas Hanna.
A tricycle modified by the Canadian artist simulates the Chinese custom of writing temporary messages on the road with water.
Unveiled at Beijing Design Week, which began yesterday and finishes on 3rd October, the Canadian Artist, Nicholas Hanna has combined traditionalism with innovation to produce a unique form of transportation. Nicholas’ creation is adeptly named the ‘Water Calligraphy Device’, produced as homage to the Chinese custom of writing calligraphy in public spaces with a water brush, as a ‘contemplative and poetic act’.
The device is attached to a flat-bead tricycle (a popular form of transportation in Beijing) where the rider is able to type out passages Chinese characters via custom software. As the tricycle moves forward, the values release droplets of water to the floor, to then form beautiful Chinese characters that eventually evaporate entirely.
A beautifully worded extract from the organisers…
Water Calligraphy Device – an ubiquitous form of transportation on show at Beijing Design Week
The Water Calligraphy Device combines the inherent beauty of an ancient form of writing, a refined public art practice with the mystery and magic of mechanisms.
Anthony Burrill has just released some new artworks this week. As we have a fondness for Anthony’s work here, we thought we would share the love..
Anthony’s woodblock posters are 51x76cm in size and signed in pencil. They are printed by Adams of Rye onto 100% recycled paper, and more excitingly, using traditional woodblock printing techniques.
Hello!..
Welcome to our shinny new inaugural post on the Geco Designs Ltd blog!
When we’re not busy designing, we’re busy expanding our love for the all things related to design. So we decided it’s about time we created our blog! A place where we can talk about anything and everything in the Advertising & Design industry…and anything else we come across that’s creative, cool or interesting.
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