Illustration and animation by Giulia Ponti.
Category: Design
Audi of yesteryear
Poster series for Audi, Creative by GGK, 1965. (design-is-fine)
Product in action, music taking you for a ride
Apple | Powerful. Apple shows off the iPhone 5s digital media creation capabilities through a slew of music, movie making, translation and exploration apps. Music, Gigantic by the Pixies. Yes, you’re more powerful than you think…
(Source: https://www.apple.com/)
And it’s about what you wear
Color, fit, collar style, graphics, cleat design. What World Cup stars wear on field may soon influence fashion. (nytimes)
Always loved a good banana leaf print
Leonardo DiCaprio and Martin Scorsese on the set of The Aviator, 2004. Art deco bathroom featuring iconic Martinique wallpaper.
Words matter
Packaging SPOTTED. Cultivating Thought | Chipotle. The fast-casual burrito brand famous for their un-branded advertising introduces its new packaging curated by renowned author Jonathan Safran Foer. The new literary packaging—bags and cups printed with new writing from ten celebrity authors, comedians and thought-leaders including Malcolm Gladwell, Sheri Fink, Toni Morrison, George Saunders along with comedian Sarah Silverman, director Judd Apatow and SNL star Bill Hader. “We live in a world in which there is shrinking space for literature and writing, and less time than ever for quiet reflection,” said Foer. “The idea of expanding the space and time, of creating a small pocket of thoughtfulness right in the middle of the busy day, was inspiring to me – particularly given the size and diversity of the audience, which is America itself.” The stories are paired with commissioned illustrations and graphics that support the themes in each story. Major points for distinctiveness here. Enough with the branding to death and promotional wasteland. Watch for copycats or imitations. Yes, the highest form of flattery…
Color me Wes Anderson
Color palette for Wes Anderson’s Rushmore, 1998. Dark tones, muted reds, mauve, muted violets, muted blues. Cinematographer, Robert D. Yeoman.
Denim blues redux
Gap Spring 2014 LIved-In campaign photographed by David Sims. The campaign includes Trinidadian-born American recording artist Theophilus London; English singer-songwriters Birdy and Anna Calvi; American actors RJ Mitte and Julia Garner; Swedish photographer Lina Scheynius; and American singer-songwriter and record producer Ernest Green (performing under the stage name Washed Out). Yes, the Gap celebrity portrait lives on…
Design collaboration that extends the brand
Y-3 turns 10… Campaign for 10th year anniversary of adidas and Yohji Yamamoto collaboration. The campaign captures the bold energy of Y-3 and explores the partnership of the opposed – the transmission of ideas from the two worlds of Japan and Germany. Pierre Debusschere’s photographs are a celebration of motion and exploration of movement that draws on the bold colors and graphic lines of the collection. The photographs have been distorted to provide a palpable sense of kinetic energy to the images. Anything by Yamamoto is worth taking note…
Design behind a visually-driven film director
The making of Wes Anderson’s The Grand Budapest Hotel, 2014.
