http://www.craftyfish.com/blog Design in the real world Sun, 05 Feb 2012 13:21:28 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en See the full 17,000px wide panoramic on Flickr (5Mb) Well, I have been honoured and privileged to have had the opportunity to feast on this wall of creativity pretty much every day for the last year. Ever changing and morphing into different forms, Rue des Pyrenées has been a vast canvas ... http://www.craftyfish.com/blog/2012/02/05/end-of-an-era/ A random project experiment found skulking on my Mac's hard drive in a dusty folder of unfinished work. A colour halftone based on a sonogram from DJ Gunshot's Wheel 'N' Deal sample of Mary J. Blige's Sweet Thing -an old Jungle favourite which stirs up memories of AWOL at The ... http://www.craftyfish.com/blog/2011/12/19/youre-my-heat/ In between designing a wicked London-based iOS/Android app for a not so mysterious Russian Billionaire (details to follow soon) and knocking out some designs for France 3 via my studio mates Motion Boutique I have been immersed in this book by King Adz published by those wonderful lot at Thames ... http://www.craftyfish.com/blog/2011/12/10/street-knowledge/ Bloody lovely Swedish liquorice from a shop in Stockholm called Karamell Kungen... probably. http://www.craftyfish.com/blog/2011/09/30/karamell-kungen/ A fascinating retrospective of  the Czech toy Designer Libuše Niklová who designed ground breaking flexible toys from the 50's to the 1980's. Check out her Accordian dogs n cats- they will seem eerily familiar to you and you won't quite know why. Ingenious use of the then relatively new material called ... http://www.craftyfish.com/blog/2011/09/18/libuse-niklova/ This is so lovely it makes me want to shout from the rooftops about it! CentQuatre on rue d'abervilliers in the 18eme arr continually puts out stunningly designed advertising. This is no exception. Inspired by the Swiss and Bahaus movements, it features great use of colour and typography. It's for their ... http://www.craftyfish.com/blog/2011/08/31/centre-quatre/ Just check out those curves-that's no Ford Mondeo! Visited Les Arts Décoratifs last night to see the exhibition L'art de l'auto mobile. -masterpieces from the Ralph Lauren Collection. Rare classics including  Bugatti, Jaguar, Alfa Romeo and a swathe of Ferraris all from the halcyon days of sports car design 1930-1965 are ... http://www.craftyfish.com/blog/2011/08/19/curves/ Well, it has been a while. When I  started this blog it was my intention to write at least a blog a week. The driving force behind this was an article about how regularly posting is meant to improve one's all round day-to-day efficiency. I think the thinking behind that ... http://www.craftyfish.com/blog/2011/08/16/bien/ It's a bit of a mouthful- the name of the airport 45 minutes outside of Oslo. 'Moss Airport Rygge'. Thankfully those in charge of the airport branding didn't try and cram it all into the logo. So, Rygge the town becomes the name of the airport and quite a lovely job they ... http://www.craftyfish.com/blog/2011/07/12/norwegian-loveliness/ Beautiful type, harmonised colours and some pleasing symmetry announcing the fact that one is about to embark on a wonderous train journey up a mountain from Flåm to Myrdal in the heart of Fjord country. Gotta love the simplicity! http://www.craftyfish.com/blog/2011/07/01/flam/