Can I have this in my bedroom?
It’s called Spencer Secretary… coincidence??!?!!!
4-orm by Paul Guzzetta
Archived entries for Art & Design
Skånemejeriers ‘New’ Design
I remember this new design of Skånemejerier was launched almost at the end of my stay in Sweden and I thought it was very unSwedish-like (As oppose to their clean and stencil-like old design) and hated it. Two year’s later I found that it’s actually designed by Amore, which also recently rebranded Tetra Pak.
Following are the ‘new design’ done for Skånemejerier by amore:
(Credit: amore)
But I did think the cloud pattern for yoghurt, latosfri and creme fraiche was very cute :) The cheese package is also a lot more polished compare to their previous design.
God, I miss Sweden’s dairy product – where the heck can I find filmjölk?!
portable espresso machine
I NEED THIS.
portable espresso machine: “For the caffeine addicts amongst us, Mypressie brings us TWIST, a hand-held espresso machine.
TWIST produces quality espresso rivaling traditional machines while giving
espresso lovers unparalleled convenience and portability.
The world’s truly portable espresso machine. Just add hot water and coffee. A pneumatic engine also ensures coffee without external power and can produce upto 8 cups each. Twist is scheduled to arrive in the US this fall and is estimated to cost $129. It would make an excellent addition to my travel gear!
Masking Tape Art and Melbourne
Melbourne has an ecletic sense of art. I am always amazed by the satirical and often very intelligent stencils that artists draw on various walls around the city. Then I think, well if I owned that wall, it would be a pain to clean all of that graffiti off. Sure you can draw in chalk but that’s so 90’s. Masking tape is the way of the future. Zero mess, easy clean up, and it looks pretty damn cool.
BUFF diss, a street artist, has created some interesting artwork via masking tape.
Bus Gallery (The outside, maybe the inside too?)
117 Little Lonsdale St.
Until November 3
link(Via Melbourne Metblog.)
The three places (in three continents already!) I have lived so far are all very different from each other. Hong Kong is uniformly commercial and dense (with the exception of outlying islands and some parts in the New Territories but they are hard to notice from ‘downtown’ – please remind me to pay them a visit once I am back in Hong Kong). Lund is uniformly… tranquil, quiet, almost too pleasant. (Okay, I know it may still be too soon for me to make that kind of judgement, but this is my general first impression nonetheless.) Only Melbourne is a combination with buildings and built environment of different scale – alleys versus 8-lane freeways; a heritage building standing next to a skyscraper; Victorian terraces and apartment buildings can both be found in Carlton; and detached houses out in the ‘car-urbs’.
Tee Designs
It looks like many of my juniors in BPS just had their bravo music camp.
But what surprised me most was that some of them were still wearing the camp tee that I designed for Pressez – 2005 BPS music camp! Although that may not mean anything, I am still happy that people are at least willing to wear that tee. By the way, just so you know, I whipped up that design 10 minutes after someone rang me and said that they need a tee design for the camp. I can still remember I did it in front of Charlene while she was having her afternoon tea in Causeway Bay and I just drew the very first draft on a serviette. (I really should have kept it, I always like my first draft the most.)
The first time (that I’d remember) I designed a tee was 2002, again for music camp Con Brio, the second one then perhaps would be…. technically, Avant Garde in 2004 – hold on, I didn’t design that one, Birde did :-) Then, Pressez. And the latest one would be HKYWP’s Austria Concert Tour in 2006. The tees that I have designed weren’t always great – but I gladly helped out every time since I learn something new every time and I like the feeling that it’s guarantee that people have to wear it. (Given that they are designed for a purpose.)
But somehow none of the tees came out exactly as what I had wanted.
- Con Brio: I remember Stephanie and I didn’t want yellow tee at first, but the manufacturer was out of stock for the other colours.
- Avant Garde: Well, that wasn’t really my design. LOL
- Pressez: Someone insists that she wants orange polo tee when I strongly opposed. I am too nice as a designer. LOL
- HKYWP’s Austria Tour: The most constrained design so far – since it had to be a unisex design, I couldn’t go too far with colours. And also partly because the manufacturer did not have the colour I requested.
Now that I had nothing to do, I kinda need a new project. If any of you kids need a tee design, I could try to come up with one pro bono as ever ;-) But you’re warned, I am not exactly the best tee designer!
Guggenheim @ NGV
This alone worths a post – this evening I took a born-and-raised-Melburnian to NGV for her very first time :-D
Anyway, I liked the Guggenheim collection very much. Although it’s been quite a while since I’m done with Debussy, the expressionist collection at the very beginning still is not my cup of tea. But the exhibition did get better: I loved the surrealist collection and all the hardcore modern stuff by artists such as Andy Warhol, Jeff Koons, Gilbert and George, Cindy Sherman and Roy Lichtenstein. I like how they expressed much stronger feelings towards the war-ridden or other situations than expressionists did. (Well, maybe except Marina Abramović who used her body as an object and scrubbed a skeleton which I found too disturbing, too outrageous, and too for the sake of politics.)
FYI, if you do not know what NGV stands for, it is the National Gallery of Victoria.
Torch for 2008 Olympics
2, originally uploaded by lenovophotolibrary.
Designed by Lenovo, it is absolutely the most b-e-a-u-tiful olympic torch I have ever seen. Love the subtle engraving, and lots of meanings behind. Modern yet reflecting our culture. It’s red and it’s so gorgeous that I’d like to have one!
A Night @ CBD
Had a walkabout in CBD with Tiff last night, while all the flying and crawling bugs are torturing in our apartment by the Mortein spray.
Long exposure shot experiments, a causal chat with a stranger, lots of walking, tramming – it’s so good to be out.
Highlight of the night would be the visit to Yann Arthus-Bertrand’s exhibition “Earth from Above” at Federation Square. I first encountered his aerial pictures in the Complimentary issue that came along with Sunday Age last year. His shots once again remind me how the world never fails to amaze me.
For more information about the Earth from Above exhibition, I did a little post on Metroblogging Melbourne.
It’s my card!
Yay!
My free Moo Cards have arrived on Monday! Gotta ship some of them out to my beloved ones.
If you think you are one of them, look out at your mail box :)
Well, maybe after I have finished my assignments…
Go to My photos that tagged with “Moo Cards” to view rest of the Moo Cards pictures – they are so pretty!