Helmick & Schechter

Helmick & Schechter have been collaborating on sculpture projects since 1994. A shared interest in the mechanics of visual perception, especially the consolidating properties of human vision, led the artists to the overarching concept for their first collaboration, Ghostwriter, an interior suspended sculpture. Since then the artists have developed a range of experimental approaches.

Bunker Design

The London based graphic design company have produced a great flash website. The site is really well put together with simple drop dow menus. Not only is it functional but it looks amazing. Bunker Design do work in many areas of graphic design and produced artwork for some large companies including Sony. Their website design is a good example of how simplicity can be very effective.

Bunker Design: http://www.bunker-design.com/v4/

Amnesty International

Amnesty Internationals new advertising campaign utilises the space making the poster seem real. The slogan reads 'thousands are held prisoners for their beliefs in places worse than this'. The campaign is effective to evoke emotion towards the prisoners putting the problem right before their eyes.

Book Covers

I found a helpful book design website. It is dedicated to the appreciation of book cover design. There is a huge range of different inspiring designs. The layout of the website is extremely simple, and theres room for you to add your own comments.

http://covers.fwis.com/

2008 Olympic Swimming Pool in China

The official swimming facility of the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, China, will span 7.8 acres, house five pools, and seat 17,000 spectators, yet it doesn’t contain a single steel cable, concrete column or structural beam. Instead its walls and ceilings are composed of a network of slender steel pipes linked together by 12,000 load-bearing nodes. These nodes evenly distribute the weight of the building, making it strong enough to withstand Beijing’s most severe earthquakes. A plastic Teflon-like foil—just eight one-thousandths of an inch thick—covers the entire structure like skin. It lets in more light and heat than glass does, helping to keep the pools warm and slashing energy costs by 30 percent. Construction wraps up this year with the official opening scheduled for the Summer Olympics.

The building's architecture has provided an opportunity to use new technologies in sustainable development. It uses solar energy to heat the pools and the interior area, and all backwash water and collected rain water will be filtered and recycled. The building will be hopefully a benchmark for future sustainable developments.

The WakeNBacon

What a brilliant idea. No one likes to be woken up, especially by an alarm. But this clock gently wakes you up with the mouthwatering aroma of bacon.

The ED-Awards (European Design) is the comprehensive annual awards organization acknowledging the best of graphic design, illustration and multimedia design in Europe. The website is a great place for inspiration.

The main objectives of the ED-Project are:
• To celebrate European design with all its regional distinctive elements as well as its common grounds.
• To facilitate European designers to meet, benchmark, be inspired and build networks.
• To promote and raise standards for communication design throughout Europe.
• To properly honour and award people who invest their passion in design
• To create a directory of best practise European communication design, where design buyers from around the world may compare and search for collaborators.

Link: http://www.ed-awards.com/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1