Design

Architecture meets Product Design

Real estate developer Omniyat Properties, based in Dubai, is planning to build an apartment tower inspired by Apple’s iPod MP3 player. The 23-storey building, which is scheduled to bring more than 200 units onto the market in 2009, was designed … Read

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La Caixa Logo And The Painter Miro

I just found out that the third biggest bank of Spain, La Caixa, keeps it like Chupa Chups with Salvador Dali. In 1980 the spanish savings institute took a painting by Joan Miro as basis for its logo: a blue … Read

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Communication City by eBoy

eboy created this great illustration for a Fortune magazine article on the resurgence of internet companies. The Berlin-founded company also does futuristic posters of cities, pixel pictures for companies and publishes books with “Die Gestalten”. They are the popstars of … Read

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Awkward, Quawkward, Quark

Honestly, the old logo from publication design software company Quark was outdated and ugly but at least it had some unique characteristics. On the left is the new one: pretty modern and cool but

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Kodak’s New Logo

For the sixth time and joining the recent rebrandings of Intel, at&t and Visa, Eastman Kodak Co. is introducing a new corporate logo designed to help the company forge a new image as a cutting-edge, 21st century innovator. The box … Read

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Starbucks wins logo fight in China

According to a press release in german newspaper WUV the american coffee company Starbucks has won a copyright battle that has lasted for over two years. A court in Shanghai decided the chinese coffee chain “Xingbake” has infringed Starbuck’s brand. … Read

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Intel’s new logo “leaps ahead”

Intel changed its 37-year-old logo as part of a major rebranding that will emphasize on the company’s shift away from the traditional PC business into consumer products. The California-based company will discard its “dropped e” logo, used since its founding … Read

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Meet OQO – the Ultra Personal Computer

This device is so new, powerful and handy, OQO (Brand Directory: OQO), the company producing it, needed to create a new name. Not PDA, not MDA, not PocketPC, no. It’s called UPC as in “Ultra Personal Computer” I’m yet to … Read

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A1 Lounge – Mobile Phone Provider with futuristic Lounge and Shop Design

The Austrian mobile phone provider A1 has got an interesting showroom located on a main shopping street in Vienna. Built on 700m² it features a very modern interior design and futuristic computer interfaces to provide the guest with multimedia information. … Read

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Branded Nails

Cool nail artwork by manicure specialists, e.g. branded nails with brands like Sprite, Oreo, Pepsi, Dr. Pepper, … Technorati Tags: nails, human, color

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blummy – The Tool to end all Bookmarklets

My friend Alex had a great idea: to get rid of all those bookmarklets one has in his/her toolbar: “add to delicious, add to newsgator, add to bloglines, blog this with wordpress, …” You get the point. blummy is a … Read

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