Gaining your experience by discovering new trends of art and design.

Experience of a designer is not automatic available somewhere in mind but is transformed from existent history and knowledge to newer ones. By exploring new design trend from all over the world, you at least have some idea about the concepts people are aiming to. Not all of them are good, effective, but it has some experience to imitate.

Breaking The Rules Of Design - Vertikal Vodka's Neckless Bottle

Sometimes it’s a turning point when breaking rule of design, resulting in the unique character. Why do all bottles have a neck? The Non Object design group represents their creativity by deciding to break the rule and design a vodka bottle with out a neck. The result is the Vertikal Vodka in a neckless bottle.

For me, this is the result of technical creativity, not from random mind. Applying scamper technique, designer eliminated the tradition element (the neck) from thousand years but everyone is not brave enough to leave out this element, to recognize that it is not really necessary.

Just look at the bottle, it’s still an elegant design, evoking the deluxe edition, emotion, while controlling cost implications, engineering complexity and manufacturability. (yankodesign)

Virtual Forest - New Bathroom Concept

A new concept for the bathroom is virtual forest, simulating the forest environment, a fresh and green air that everyone loves. This is not really creative but by combining two different elements (bathroom and forest), the designer can entirely create new concept. And it’s in fact interesting.

Designed and conceptualized by Huat LIM of ZLG Design

Garbage as Art

What an innovative idea of use garbage to represent art. The saying ‘one man’s garbage is another man’s treasure’ is true when German artists created an exhibit of 1000 statues fashioned entirely of refuse. Substituting garbage for steel, cement, they are still statue but bring whole new concept and the message within. Actually, these statues can save thousand kilograms of garbage.

TiFinity - $50 Titanium Toothbrush

Never having a thought that science is friend of design, you should consider again. The TiFinity is a new design by dentist Dane Robinson from Arizona. By putting to another use of titanium, the toothbrush is now ultra fine and even softer than a regular soft toothbrush. With this new toothbrush, space between teeth and the gums where bacteria hides is no longer the nightmare. Titanium doesn’t absorb water and is thus more bacteria resistant and also lasts longer, unlike nylon. According to Robinson’s tests it should last 2 years. In conclusion, it’s the most durable and more hygienic, according to Dr. Dane Robinson.

Maybe there’s no evolution of the shape, but the value is really a far step from the previous origin.

Japanese School Girl Computer Case Design

This maybe crazy but still new design and pretty creative, in my opinion.

This is an actual computer case, inspired by one of the Japanese school girl character in Manga. The sexy model was named Kana. The outcome of the mod was successful and the design won various awards in computer events and case modding.

Adapting the theme of computer case is not new, the creativity is how you mod it. And School Girl Computer Case really changes the concept of a computer case. Putting it n your room, it somehow becomes your friend, your decorative doll, and I think this is the goal that the designer aims to. But it is hart to define the target of this doll. It’s not for children (because she’s a little bit sexy), but even for adult, who’s brave enough to bring this doll to home to show off with their wives or girlfriends. And it really takes the place.

However, you know it’s from Japan. Who knows what Japanese think?

(to be continued ...)
Source : http://www.trendhunter.com/

Art Nouveau vs Psychedelic

Art Nouveau is known as an international style of art, architecture, design that was popular at the beginning of the 20^th century. Some artist said Art Nouveau took its inspiration from nature women. Actually, it is characterized by characterized by highly-stylized, dynamic, undulating, and flowing, with curved 'whiplash' lines of syncopated rhythm, curvilinear designs often incorporating floral and other plant-inspired motifs; as well as the use of use of hyperbolas and parabolas.

Art Nouveau is defined as decorative style

Art Nouveau resurrected the interlacing lines of Celtic art and the fluid arches and curves of Gothic architecture in exuberant style, but the arts and artifacts of Japan were the crucial inspiration.

Art Nouveau borrowed motifs from Japanese wood prints, which had an angular, linear look, combining the grids and parallel lines of Japanese interior design. There is also inspiration from the sinuous, flowing lines of the kimono. They were intrigued by the novel artistic vision of the wood prints, with their simple palettes of colors and asymmetrical outlines, and the abrupt angularity of the branching cherry blossom tree. The result is a new aesthetic new style decoration for a new century.

Psychedelic

Psychedelic seems to be totally different from Art Nouveau. Psychedelic experience is the change of perception, synesthesia, altered states of awareness, mystical states. Psychedelic art is inspired by psychedelic experience induced by drugs; and being main style of concert posters, album covers, lightshows, murals, comic books, underground newspapers, reflecting kaleidoscopically swirling patterns of LSD hallucinations. Some main features of Psychedelic:

• Kaleidoscopic, fractal or paisley patterns
• Richly saturated colors, high contrast
• Extreme depth of detail or stylization of detail.
• Heavy symmetrical composition
• Collage elements

http://www.matiklarweinart.com/en/gallery/annunciation-1961.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychedelic_art

http://72.14.235.104/search?q=cache:uQ9tAAJ88xoJ:www.qdesign.co.nz/designhist_artnou.html+art+nouveau+elements&hl=vi&ct=clnk&cd=3&gl=vn&client=firefox-a

The Uninvited

This is a film website, so the experience of surfing web is presented much to emphasize the emotion, atmosphere of the movie. Beside the standard navigation of a formal movie website, this site has ‘experience’ part containing navigation, emphasize the main content of the movie such as dialogue, loss, belief…

The experience here is to interact to objects to discover the story, the mystery. For example, to represent the lonely, in the ‘loss’ path, designers use the pops up appearing smaller gradually. In the ‘memory’ path, users must click on the stars, move the mouse around, to see the texts, hear the voice about the disappearance of the child. In the last scene of this path, users can move mouse to 16 draw papers to see the drawing simultaneous. All the interaction explained above has purpose of developing the curiosity of users to participate in the movie, be a part of the story. By clicking on many objects, users know important events in the movie; combining with images and sounds between interactions, the atmosphere of the movie is simulated lively only by website.

Drag and drop the tape to listen

Something about myself

Currently, I’m student at RMIT University, studying about Design (Multimedia). Obsessed by visual graphical, multimedia presentation surrounding me everyday, I really like multimedia. Multimedia has wide range of aspects to present, consider or we can combine them all into a neat, cohesive product (movie is a perfect example). Before enrolling to University, my concept about Design or Multimedia is to create something with eye candy effect to impress viewers at the first time. Surfing web is the most effective way to know the recent style in designing. I am firstly impressed by the colorful, special effect websites (especially in movie website), but sometimes I wonder: Is that all we need?

Spending more than 4 semesters in RMIT, I recognize by myself that it is easily to get bored by something, even the something beautiful. Just looking some movie website published recently, they mostly have the same navigation with the same name. The graphic is always great as ever, but I never come back after downloading some wallpapers. Is that the result that website developer targeting? Maybe it is true, viewers jest need to visit it once to know the ‘face’ the film.

At RMIT, I am taught that there’s difference between the graphic and content; that there’s not only designing graphic but also designing content, structure , layout, information, or simply to conclude: designing experience. (I also mean the usability in designing a website)

According Wikipedia, experience is knowledge or skill in some event gained through involvement in that event. Simply, you can ask yourself, what result you get after that event, is it brand new or you have seen it before, is your feeling refreshed to perceive a brand new experience ?

I am learning about experience, not only about website but experience is applied for everything that can be designed by human, however, I only focus on multimedia, not only websites. Hopefully, this will be an experienced ride.