decodeunicode.org is an independent online platform for digital type culture, developed at the Department of Design at the University of Applied Sciences in Mainz.
To meet the requirements of global communication, every modern operating system facilitates access to a great variety of scripts: Greek, Cyrillic, Hebrew, Arabic, Thai, Chinese, Braille, to name just a few. There’s also a huge number of special characters such as dingbats, copyright characters, currency symbols, mathematical characters, and punctuation.
decodeunicode is an independent platform for digital type culture, conceived and developed under the lead of professor Johannes Bergerhausen in cooperation with the designer Siri Poarangan at the University of Applied Sciences in Mainz. The project is supported by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and has the objectives of creating a basis for fundamental typographic research and facilitating a textual approach to the characters of the world for all computer users. That way, expert knowledge can be systematically collected and made accessible to the general public.
Keith Loutit, a Sydney-based photographer made some short films in ordinary places around the city. Combining a variety of techniques including tilt-shift and time-lapse photography, the films aim to present Sydney as the Model City, and help people take a second look from a different perspective. Some situations in the films are quite hilarious. See the rest of the movies after the click:
One of my favorite websites this year for Nokia’s business mobile phone – the E-Series. The Unloader – a crazy and funny site to waste your time. Just upload one of your boring documents and pick one of the three ways you want it to be destroyed. After the file have been uploaded you can actually see how it comes out of the regular printer. Have a look at the ‘Making of’ as well.
Tobias Hoss and Christian Schwentke from the University of Applied Sciences Konstanz, Germany designed an A1 size wall calender portraying the company MBTech, a subsidiary of Mercedes Benz, from a new angle. The calendar shows the services of this company in an unorthodox way and translates the highly technical processes in a friendly, humorous world. They created a world out of paper and cardboard showing the different fields MBTech is active in. Everything was cut, pasted, and photographed - no Photoshop. Beautiful illustrations!
Even if this style of product presentation – pressed in starch/flour – is not new, I still like it a lot. These shots for Muse magazine are from Mitchell Feinberg, who has been shooting luxury still life for over fifteen years, distinguishing himself as one of the world’s premier jewelry and accessory photographers.
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Kristof Kintera is an award-winning Czech artist whose work appears in many prestigious collections such as the American Museum of Fine Arts. He has also sold many pieces to private collectors. This 33-year-old sculptor and designer is something of an enfant terrible of the Czech art scene. My favorite creations are Miracle, Red is coming, Revolution, Something electric, It is beginning! and Do not touch!
