FOUND ONLINE: My favourite…
Peter Orntoft created this user interactive poster with guidelines to cut out sections and ‘frame’ your favourite parts of a city. Not only a great poster idea to publicise a city, but also a strong concept to involve users to choose what they love, and to get their creativity going. His more recent work called Infographics in context 1 & 2 impressively depicts information using installations and photographs rather than digitally created content.
Paris vs NYC
Paris vs NYC is a series of Art prints created by Vahram Muratyan, available to view and buy from Society 6. Known as two significant cities in the world for culture, arts, food and entertainment, it can be a difficult choice between the two. The tally of two cities are depicted in colourful split illustrations, and posted on Vahram Muratyan’s blog whenever a new comparison comes up. From his recent posts you can tell he wasn’t intending for it to continue since last fall, as the ideas are less obvious collations. The style of the illustrations does seem to waver as well, sometimes simple, sometimes more heavily detailed, but Muratyan’s decision, albeit a conscious one, means that when his prints are up for sale the reoccurring theme is Paris vs NYC, and buyers have a choice of style to suit. Maybe it’s time to pick another two cities to compare, but personally I can’t think of any more covetable cities to live in than New York and (then) Paris.
Sacrifices between designers and clients
LFW
season, but am I really in the mood to shout about it when someone could read a Bumpus report on Vogue.com instead? Why would they want to listen to the ramblings of a recent graduate over a well established magazine site or blogger? Although the price of fashion has kept many from feeling the need to watch the catwalk, having London fashion week so ubiquitous in the press and online means we can ignore it if we want.


Lois Jeans
Hope of Love Revolution.
Lois Jeans grabs the number one position on Design Charts, the weekly top 40 website design chart, and it’s clear why…
The injustice of man destroyed love…
It’s ashes covered the world for centuries…
but there is still hope…
…Love… …Lois.
The website’s primary feature is a short story film directed by Humberto Vignali that resembles the Band of Brothers Bastogne scenes using snow (actually flour) in slow motion shots against a dark grey, gritty Russian winter background. Beautifully crafted despite for web, the film is set to the music Nessun Dorma by Pavarotti (which has now completely changed my mindset of it being for slow motion football adverts), the two lovers (Brisa and Vinicus) slow motion scream, fall to their knees, pull off masks and slap bum cheeks while wearing the collection.
It’s a shame that the promotional images just aren’t on par with the film. If anything it would have been more visually stunning if they’d used stills from the film rather than do a shoot. I wonder if the director of photography Alex Garcia even took part in the shoot? Perhaps their aim was a Call of Duty style, as the press pack images seem to look more like game covers without the blood splatter.(No it’s not the wrong way around, calm down)
Sky High Rankin
Sky High RankinHigh profile photographer Rankin shoots a campaign for Sky Arts at his Annroy studio in North London. The photographs, commemorating all areas of the arts, will blanket Tottenham Court Road billboards…every one apparently. They will also exhibit in Manchester, Birmingham, Edinburgh, Newcastle and Liverpool.
An interesting take on advertising, but a little misunderstood. Although it’s supposed to be an exhibition, it is still an advertising campaign for Sky Arts – it’s not even as if it’s an exhibition that’s been sponsored by Sky, it’s still advertising. It would have been nicer to have it in a more pure form. It’ll be interesting to see how long the ‘exhibition’ lasts with the cost of advertising space in central London.