Three cheers for Immo!

Friday, September 11th, 2009

Good friend of Orangutan, Immo, is off to Vietnam and Cambodia in February to take part in a somewhat epic 470km cycle in aid of the humanitarian landmine clearance charity MAG.

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A great effort for a very worthy cause and worth sponsoring in it’s own right. However Mr Blaese has gone one step further and designed and printed  created a bunch of posters, tshirts and postcards which in his own words are:

”A limited edition of original screenprints and other items I have carefully created for this event. If you decide to sponsor me for MAG landmine clearance I would like to give something back to you. 100% of all the money raised will go directly to MAG via JustGiving.”

So if you think you’d like to donate and maybe bag a rather nice print at the same time go here: http://www.vietnam2cambodia.com/

Bravo Immo, an outstanding effort!

Sometimes it’s better to say nothing

Wednesday, September 9th, 2009

Whilst in France recently we decided to take a cable car up a terribly high mountain as demoed below:

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It was most exhilarating and somewhat reminiscent of a Bond movie, as we neared the top I was half expecting Jaws to come crashing through the roof of the gondola. Anyway despite being quite taken with the info graphics used I was somewhat alarmed by the signage shown below:

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Firstly as if you need to say that; only a fool would do such a thing.

Secondly said fool probably wouldn’t have thought of such an amusing ruse until prompted by such clear visual communication.

Signage as ‘Red Rag to a Bull’ in my opinion.

Michelle has a lovely new bike…

Tuesday, April 21st, 2009

…and I’m expecting skills… skills i tell you…

Oh to be young (and talented)

Wednesday, April 8th, 2009

nationalworkshops

3 months residency at The National Workshops for Arts and Crafts in Copenhagen, with your own studio, your own flat… *sigh*
If you’re young (and indeed talented) go here

Hanna Werning – London prints

Friday, April 3rd, 2009

Lisson GroveHanna Werning’s wallpaper collection inspired by London is very cool.

I love the colours and the weird abstract shapes.Brick Lane

Paper Planes

Thursday, February 26th, 2009


Flying from Sam Fuller on Vimeo.

I wanted to hate this

Friday, February 20th, 2009


BOOMBOX from Ely Kim on Vimeo.

But it’s so goddam good… on Vimeo

Designing websites with pens and that…

Tuesday, February 17th, 2009

I like to draw things up sometimes, helps me get my head around more complex problems. But i do get very bored with drawing and re-drawing browser frames (or photocopying), so i like this

very useful (to me)

sketchbook for web-designers

As you know, i’m all for bikes…

Thursday, February 12th, 2009

… but if i had a car (or could drive for that matter). i’m sure i’d find inspiration amongst these beauties.

next time i’m in madison… i’m there

Wordle

Wednesday, January 28th, 2009

Came across this today after reading a related post on the excellent Noisy Decent Graphics.

In Wordles  own words: “Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text.”

I dropped in the text from our intro page and this is the result, rather lovely don’t you think:

Possibilities as a quick visual SEO check too maybe. Anyway check it out for yourself at wordle.net