March 8, 2010
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Under A Microscope
Design Tools, PhotographyAspex, a leading designer of tabletop scanners, has challenged its online viewers to submit sample items that they are curious to see magnified to extreme precision. Have you ever wondered what things look like up close and personal? Well, fill out a form and send them your sample to see whatever you have been curious to view magnified.
Below are common items already submitted and on display for the world to see. A penny, sidewalk chalk, cat hair, a piece of hard candy. Maybe you can see your sample on their list of items under the microscope.
March 4, 2010
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Explorations in Paper
General Design, Graphic Design, Product Design
This set of images shows an exercise in packaging by Sylvain Allard, teacher at UQAM School of Design.
Each one uses only a single piece of plain white paper, with no constraints of transportation or marketing of the 2D to 3D studies. I thought it was a clever approach to training students on limitations in the world of advertising; though many of the designs are not feasible, the students gained a knowledge of volume and practice at thinking fast on their feet.
March 3, 2010
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A Goldmine of Package Designs
Product DesignEvery so often I find a really great website and have to do some catching up to get me up to speed with its past posts. PackagingUQAM is one of those sites. So here is a crash course in some of their best content to date.
(Just a warning for you non-French readers, be prepared to activate Google Translate.)
March 1, 2010
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Innovative Uses for Everyday Items
General Design, Product InnovationClick on these images to see inventive second uses for each one of these everyday objects. Who would have ever thought?
