design:related - mattmatt's inspirations

New PES film, Western Spaghetti

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:57:00 GMT

Credits "Western Spaghetti" 1:44 Written and Directed by PES Animated by PES and Javan Ivey Edited by Sam Welch Produced by Sarah Phelps

via Notcot

Presto, Pixar's latest short film (spoiler! presented before Wall E showing in theaters)

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 19:40:00 GMT

Presto is another wonderfully funny and delightful short film by the genius talent at Pixar.

via smileycat

Letterflow, a moving typeface design

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 16:27:04 GMT

Letterflow by eldabjerome

Milo Baughman

Fri, 16 May 2008 01:07:20 GMT

Milo Baughman is an American furniture designer, Noho Modern. Baughman was inducted into the Furniture Designer's Hall of Fame in 1987.

rosewood case sofa (pictured)

30-second bunnies theater by Angry Alien Productions

Sun, 11 May 2008 19:22:18 GMT

A silver winner for the Art Directors Club 85th Annual in 2006 (Silver – Television & Cinema Design), Alien Productions put together the Volkswagen Campaign using bunnies to reenact major Hollywood films (Pulp Fiction, The Shining, Titanic).

Art Director Jennifer Shiman, Christian Brenner
Copywriter Tim Jacobs, Sandra Illes
Creative Director Jennifer Shiman, Amir Kassaei, Eric Schoeffler
Director Jennifer Shiman
Editor Jennifer Shiman
Producer James Strader
Production Company Angry Alien Productions/Los Angeles, VCC/Dusseldorf
Studio/Design Firm DDB Germany
Client Volkswagen AG
Country Germany

These were so successful that Angry Alien went on to create a whole slew of bunny shorts for premium US movie channel, Starz. One of them, Brokeback Mountain, won two 2008 Webby Awards for Online Film and Video/Animation.

Giant Nintendo (NES) controller and coffee table

Fri, 09 May 2008 22:59:14 GMT

“Made from MDF and painted with a variety of oil based and acrylic paints”, Kyle Downes goes to great lengths to create this giant, over-sized NES controller/coffee table.

Unfortunately, he's not the first one to make this absurdly large styled box controller as Swedish students made one (pictured above) for a class project in 2007 [Project Page via Gizmodo via TechPowerUp via Technabob]

Downes improved upon its Swedish cousin by adding a nice glass top to convert this novelty 2-person single controller into a fun & functional coffee table.

"Crow" by Psyop (station ID for MTV HD)

Sat, 03 May 2008 21:49:12 GMT

Psyop’s crow, is a station ID for MTV HD produced in 2007. The moody, stark black & whites in this (stunning) visual piece are really slick.

Google Me The Movie

Sat, 26 Apr 2008 02:31:32 GMT

Jim Killeen puts together Google Me The Movie, a documentary feature film that revolves around the connection between a person's name, identity, and the connecting thread that binds us all.

The film starts with a man’s simple google search of his own name, “Jim Killeen” and becomes a journey starring 6 other fellow Jim Killeens.

You can watch it in its entirety (96 minutes) on youtube.

House of Concepts: Design Academy Eindhoven

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 01:54:33 GMT

Almost 60 years after opening it’s doors in 1950, The Design Academy Eindhoven and FRAME publishes a book that exemplifies some of the school’s unique industrial designs, furniture, tapestries, and more. All images are copyright Gestalten, 2008.

Above – Airco Tree for the British Airways executive lounge, 2004 (Droog Design for British Airways)

Tord Boontje (click img to see full spread)

Studio Tjep. Frank Tjepkeme, Janneke Hooymans

Maarten Baas

Tom Horacek’s “All We Ever Do Is Talk About Wood”

Fri, 11 Apr 2008 22:58:07 GMT

Drawn & Quarterly has a preview pdf of their book here.