Emak Mafu Design Spam

Christmas is coming; we promise….

To get into the mood -  a group of the Mafu clan took themselves to Print Club London and spent a day printing up some Christmas cards - photos below. If you want to get your paws on some Christmas cheer send us your name; address and what you’re hoping santa brings.

All I Want For Xmas Is Happy Memories (Glug competition entry) from Robert Francis Muller on Vimeo

This is my first attempt at a stop frame animation. I shot it on a Nikon D70 and put it together in Photoshop. I made the audio loop and sound effects in Logic.

It is my entry to Glug Londons’ Xmas design competition. The theme of the competition is “All I want for Xmas is…” I thought about it for a while and ruled out all the obvious responses. I thought about it on a more personal level and that the memories of Xmas stand out over everything else for me.

The majority of the set is made up of original Xmas decorations from my child hood. The small toys hanging on the tree were made by my mother over 30 years ago. The tree is over 20 years old and still hasn’t broken and the nut cracker is hand made from Germany and is also more than 20 years old.

Paper cutting isn’t just for playschool. Rob Ryan shows us all up.
Very nice.

Very nice idea - well realised which is just about the greatest thing i’ve seen all morning,

Barcinski-jeanjean are from Amsterdam and they have some great work to boot.

Faile (pronounced “fail”) are a collective based in New York. Formed in 1999 they are referred (by some) as pioneers of global contemporary street art. Founding members Patrick McNeil, Patrick Miller and Aiko Nakagawa have evolved from wheatpasting screen printed posters on streets into permanent pieces of artwork combining stencil, graf, stickers and paint. The work is stunning and the venue, an old school on the verge of being demolished; surreal.

The show is curated by Lazarides gallery and is well worth the trip.

James

Great clients, with great work results in what we think is a great looking site.

http://www.jamiefobertarchitects.com/

Just a quick question. What’s the point in spending loads of government money, loads of time, and a load of marketing effort when no-one can find out what is going on.

I dare you to try and find an event in your area at a specific time on http://www.londondesignfestival.com/. I don’t think an ounce of thought has gone into it.

For example, I’m at work, it’s 5.45 an I fancy going to something within the festival tonight. I don’t mind traveling, and I don’t mind what discipline it’s in. So why on their search page do they not allow me to even see what is going on tonight? Let alone filter by location? Ok, they have given postcodes, but where I work there are 10 postcodes within 15 minutes of me. So they want me to search through every one, and then click on every result to find out when it is?

I find this really disappointing, that we as an industry can’t get our act together for something like this. It’s not rocket science, it’s just common sense.

We went for a look around Established and Sons new office just round the corner from us today, part of London Design Festival. So new you can still smell the paint. They have a great new showroom, more details here. Photo is of a bench by Amanda Levete.

We share our office with some very cool product designers - they would most famously be known for their “make your own cardboard cut out AK47” kit they have in the shops at the moment - but last week they launched something to top that…. A Concorde turbine engine on display in a Selfridges window on Oxford Street, check it out: