The FHD Forum

We Have Been Expecting You

So much to see, so little time. This exhibition looks like it will be good.

We Have Been Expecting You
7th - 30th August 2008

Concrete Hermit
5a Club Row, London E1 6JX
Tel: +44 (0)207 729 2646
Opening Times: 10am - 6pm Mon - Sat

http://gallery.concretehermit.com/

© paint pen on wood by Jon Burgerman, Ian Stevenson and Andrew Rae.

Made in Japan

Pingmag make is a Japan-based interview magazine about making things. The site documents talented rural craftspeople and their unique talents. Subjects include: Towels woven by the wind, shipbuilding, ceramic tradition, bee chasing, handbags made from rags, kite making, hat designing and lots more interesting interviews.

Pingmag make is the sister site to the super Pingmag which is an online design magazine.

http://make.pingmag.jp/

http://pingmag.jp/

Quiet explorer

The swiss photographer Joel Tettamanti is an explorer and traveller. His photography explores emptiness and longing, presented as soft quiet images. He has travelled to a broad range of places from Greenland to Vietnam documenting his findings with magnificent images that challenge our imagination of places that most of us will probably never visit.   

http://www.tettamanti.ch/

Reduce your design footprint

Lovely as a tree is a corker of a site which, very clearly, tells you everything you need to know to be a more environmentally aware graphic designer.

Created by Caroline Clark, the site was launched back in March 2007 and keeps us up to date on a regular basis. Simple navigation with expert information, this site is a great help for both designers and clients.

http://lovelyasatree.com/index.htm

Volkswagen

Like this. Volkswagen's electronic gearbox. Simple and extremely effective design.

Degree Art

Invest in artists of the future. I like the idea behind this site which showcases, sells, commissions and rents art created by students and recent fine art graduates.

Painiting by Caroline Hall.
© Degree Art 2007

http://www.degreeart.com/newsite/

Retrospective One

Kemistry Gallery has asked eleven previous exhibitors to create pieces to celebrate four years exhibiting outstanding graphic design and illustration. Retrospective—One brings together Experimental Jetset, Eine, James Joyce, Parra and Geoff McFetridge among others. Pieces include hand-drawn typography, one-off collages, lightboxes, print editions, and objects showcasing the breadth of graphic design both as a communication form and as a aesthetic skill.

Kemistry Gallery is the only UK gallery dedicated to graphic design.

Retrospective-One 8 August – 06 September 2008
43 Charlotte Road, Shoreditch, London EC2A 3PD

http://www.kemistrygallery.co.uk/

The Gehry Effect

Worth the wait and living up to the hype is this year's Serpentine Pavillion designed by Frank Gehry. The Pavilion gives England the first built project by the legendary architect Frank Gehry. The spectacular structure, designed and engineered in collaboration with Arup, creates a dramatic, multi-dimensional space.

http://www.serpentinegallery.org/

http://www.foga.com/

Design for designers

There are so many great design blogs. However, I recommend you bookmark this one.

http://mikedempsey.typepad.com/

100 months

Take a look at this site. Powerful stuff.

"We calculate that 100 months from 1 August 2008, atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases
will begin to exceed a point whereby it is no longer likely we will be able to avert potentially
irreversible climate change".

http://www.onehundredmonths.org/

All in a name

The auto world is going green and fast. There are so many electric cars on the market how do you choose? How about by its zany design or by it's stupid name.

Car naming has always been bad, but electric car makers have redefined what bad means, here are a few. G-Wizz, Kurrent, Tango T600, IT Sedan, e2, NmG (No more Gas), Edison, Twike, NEV (Neighborhood Electric Vehicle), The Air Car, Typ-1e, Obvio 828e and finally the Eliica (The Electric Lithium-Ion Car). I'll keep my Ford Probe thanks.

http://www.myersmotors.com/

Brand Beckham

The kids of America have voted David Beckham their number one sports idol beating Kobe Bryant and Tiger Woods. He was also recently named Major League Soccer Player of the Year.

Interesting facts are emerging from his first year in LA, that slightly contradict whether Brand Beckham is worth so much money: the average Galaxy attendance at home and away is now more than 28,000 — higher than Reading, Portsmouth, Fulham, Blackburn, Wigan and Bolton in the Premier League last season; Major League shirt sales rocketed 780 per cent last year; MLS internet traffic is up 80 per cent; TV viewing figures leapt 150 per cent whenever Becks played a match; ADIDAS sold 500,000 LA Galaxy shirts with Beckham’s name last year — making it the world’s best-selling sports top.

However, he has a way to go before he's more popular than Monster Truck Racing.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/bizarre/article1508718.ece

Six degrees of Kevin Bacon

I'm convinced that the 'Six degrees of Kevin Bacon' theory works and now Microsoft have proved me right! Great article in The Guardian.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/aug/03/internet.email

Badge snob

The all new Vauxhall Insignia launches this week at the British International Motor Show. Vauxhall will also introduce us to the new Griffin logo, described as "more dynamic and contemporary". Vauxhall doesn't have the best brand image in the UK car market, however the new car looks great. We must wait for the reviews (and sales) before it can be classed a success. Not sure I'd buy one though, I'll stick with my Skoda.

http://www.vauxhall.co.uk/

http://www.britishmotorshow.co.uk/

Beijing Olympic pictograms

The pictograms cover the following sports: rowing, badminton, baseball, basketball, boxing, canoe/kayak flatwater, canoe/kayak slalom, cycling, equestrian, fencing, football, artistic gymnastics, rhythmic gymnastics, trampoline, weightlifting, handball, hockey, judo, wrestling, swimming, synchronized swimming, diving, water polo, modern pentathlon, softball, taekwondo, tennis, table tennis, shooting, archery, triathlon, sailing, volleyball and beach volleyball. The triathalon seems to involve escaping a swarm of bees.

 

Check out this page for a full list of what's what, as well as examples of the pictograms from previous games.