antzFxWay.com | You have seen nothing yet! » Twitter http://antzfxway.com The Design Blog of antzFx.com | Celebrating 2 years online Sat, 04 Sep 2010 14:45:48 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 My tweets in August, 2010 http://antzfxway.com/2010/09/01/antzfx-tweets-august-2010/ http://antzfxway.com/2010/09/01/antzfx-tweets-august-2010/#comments Wed, 01 Sep 2010 09:42:01 +0000 antzfx http://antzfxway.com/?p=1626

Advertising

  1. 2500 anodized aluminum bars of 1/2” thickness are used in a pixelated interpretation of the new Lexus by NonDesigns. http://bit.ly/dBTXY3
  2. Dangers of driving aggressively around commercial motor vehicles is best explained in this billboard ad. http://bit.ly/90gDVl By Amélie Co.
  3. ‘Flying’ billboard for Mercedes-Benz SLS designed by BBDO. http://bit.ly/bxyFhp
  4. An advertising for the famous family game Pictionary made by O&M. Original, funny, creative and graphically impressive. http://bit.ly/bRhtbX
  5. Lobo created Panasonic Viera 3D Ads – Dino and Robot. Great idea! http://www.advertolog.com/panasonic/print-outdoor/dino-13783105/

Logo/Identity Design

  1. Barcamp Bangalore 9 logo competition: My entry is here — http://antzfxway.com/2010/08/24/design_bcb9/

Photography

  1. Take stunning wide angle photos using your camera phone. What you need is this: http://bit.ly/bK6igQ
  2. Photography rules are not laws. Here are some examples on how some of the rules are meant to be broken. http://bit.ly/c9KYkQ

Print Design

  1. Time to start designing! Here’s a ’round’ 2011 Calendar from Russia. http://bit.ly/bj8zVF

Product Design

  1. “The lack of personality of the iPad has enabled people to create their own enclosures.” says Jonas Damon. His iPad TV: http://bit.ly/9b8ICh
  2. “Does a water sink need the ugly drainage hole?” A brilliant answer from Dallas Winspear. http://bit.ly/ccXaDw
  3. Google ‘Cooler Thinking’ cooler. This is for promotional purpose. http://bit.ly/cQtfRp
  4. A stylish water bottle made from Bamboo. It has a glass container for liquids. Designed by @BambooBottleCO. http://www.bamboobottleco.com/
  5. ‘The Gear Ring’ by @kinektdesign has a cool design and the gears actually turn! http://design-milk.com/gear-ring-by-kinekt-design
  6. A water bottle that splits in the middle for easy cleaning. Great idea by @ALEX_bottle. http://www.alexbottle.com/
  7. Luminous mushrooms whose only magic lies in their ability to charm. Created by ‘Great Mushrooming.’ http://bit.ly/cpbzZo
  8. Cardboard Mechanics mady by 4 students of the Utrecht School of Art and Technology. http://www.vimeo.com/12480554

Resources

  1. The Best Must-have Plugins for Google Chrome : http://bit.ly/d5L0SO

Typography

  1. Anamorphic typographic installation by two graphic design graduates. http://bit.ly/cx8OBn Nice idea.
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Advertising

  1. Mini Countryman Billboard at Milan. See the creativity yourself. http://bit.ly/cvUl4J

Logo/Identity Design

  1. A chameleon like dynamic identity. Seed Media Group branding by Sagmeister. http://bit.ly/9fjXQ0

Photography

  1. Cool photo series by Linda Lundgren features different food products organized by their color. http://bit.ly/a0MoE7

Product Design

  1. Oh, the nostalgia! Designer Shira Nahon designed 5 classic toy weapons branded as ‘Piu Piu.’ http://bit.ly/9VF1sf
  2. ‘While you sleep’ 3D printed keys by Oscar Diaz Studio. http://www.oscar-diaz.net/?p=773
  3. A cute idea from Havaianas: http://theworldsbestever.com/2010/07/09/brand-details/
  4. ‘I Lock You’ device. Simple but useful idea! http://bit.ly/cSAGGS
  5. Wattson measure the electricity coming into home and displays you in cost how much electricity is being used. http://bit.ly/16awe Cool!

Resources

  1. A Collection of Image Gallery Plugins from Around the Web: http://bit.ly/bu2Vpo
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Two twelve-year-old basketball fans. A basketball star. An out-of-form New York based NBA team. The boys started an extra-ordinary campaign to convince the star to play for the team. They got the help of two family friends who are into marketing. The result: ‘LeBron Buttons.’

Read such interesting stories in my tweets of June…

Advertising

  1. Billboards for the game ‘Alan Wake.’ http://bit.ly/98l99e , http://bit.ly/9uiE64 and http://bit.ly/9tdFeX by McLaren McCann, Toronto. Great!

Freelancing

  1. @DavidAirey gives 15 pieces of advice to those thinking of “going it alone.” http://bit.ly/dDu9aH

Logo/Identity Design

  1. If you could redesign any brand, which would it be? What organization is completely undersold by its logo? NASA? http://bit.ly/bhF1UX

Print Design

  1. Transforming traditional Business Cards in the funny & unusual object, a little box of transporting cargo air. http://bit.ly/d5psfb By Y&R.
  2. A brilliant motivational calendar by the Brazil agency @DM9DDB. http://bit.ly/bqGZQw How do people come up with such ideas?

Product Design

  1. A clever little vase based on fun bendable straws designed by Hironao Tsuboi. http://bit.ly/9K2kMJ Designer’s profile: http://bit.ly/hdAMD
  2. Never miss the key hole in the dark. A brilliant idea by Junjie Zhang. http://www.yankodesign.com/2010/04/21/never-miss-the-key-hole/
  3. A unique twin-chamber design that won redDot Design award 2010 – Ygrinder by DesignWright. http://bit.ly/cI1JpT
  4. Designed by Hans Brockhage & Erwin Andra in 1950s, the “Schaukelwagen” can transform from a play car to a rocking chair. http://bit.ly/dcwzYo
  5. “LeBron buttons” – giant basketballs that can be pushed to register a vote: http://bit.ly/cR9H3n
  6. New LED technology in the form of light bulbs: http://bit.ly/cm6MZ2

Resources

  1. A dozen Useful WordPress Plugins : http://bit.ly/c1idDY
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How hard can it be to make a car advertisement of 30 seconds?

James May and Jeremy Clarkson are presenters of the popular BBC show ‘Top Gear.’ In season 13, episode 7, they try to make a TV Commercial (TVC) for the new car VW Scirocco TDi. They go through everything: understanding the brief, brainstorming, initial attempts, review of the films, rejection, another brainstorming, review of films, again rejection… It is fun to watch the creative process behind a TVC. Hilarious!

Advertising

Art

Interview

  • Design-Milk.com is an online magazine dedicated to modern design. Want to know how Design Milk got its name? http://bit.ly/9Ba9e4

Logo/Identity Design

News

Photography

  • ‘Some pointers for better photography’ written by @ashmec for the 2nd Anniversary of antzFxWay.com. http://bit.ly/dwZsXL
  • ‘Don’t Just Take Pictures, but Make Pictures’ written by @UrveshDesigns for the 2nd Anniversary of antzFxWay.com. http://bit.ly/bYuzrt

Print Design

Product Design

  • People have a 6th sense for knowing when someone’s taking their photo. For unposed shots, use this Super-Secret Spy Lens! http://bit.ly/zrus
  • “A simple and little idea of packing for honey. We tried to treat jar as a playground for a character design.” http://bit.ly/aG1qGe
  • Cafe table design inspired by the beautiful fireflies in the garden on summer nights by @VukDragovic. http://bit.ly/bMlSCU
  • Interesting trophies for the Better Housing Coalition’s Groundbreaker Awards event created by Noah Scalin (@alrdesign) http://bit.ly/bGiBOY

Resources

  • ‘Here is the secret to creativity… Reloaded’ written by @aneesKa for the 2nd Anniversary of antzFxWay.com. http://bit.ly/b5hIPN
  • RT @gosquared: Liked our VI Editor Help Sheet? Get it as a wallpaper thanks to @aneeska: http://bit.ly/cw9aYH
  • 7 Essential Tips to keep in mind while writing a post in wordpress : http://bit.ly/bEJ6us

Web Design

  • Creative & cool! Enter a Twitter username to watch an animated “parade” of their followers marching, dancing & tweeting. http://isparade.jp
]]> http://antzfxway.com/2010/06/01/antzfx-tweets-may-2010/feed/ 1 My tweets in April, 2010 http://antzfxway.com/2010/04/30/antzfx-tweets-apri-2010/ http://antzfxway.com/2010/04/30/antzfx-tweets-apri-2010/#comments Fri, 30 Apr 2010 08:35:15 +0000 antzfx http://antzfxway.com/?p=1102 Follow me at @antzFx

The best finding of this month is “Pencil versus Camera” by Ben Heine.

The real idea came by coincidence while I was watching television and writing a letter at the same time a few weeks ago. Reading my letter before putting it in the envelope, I saw in transparency the television behind the paper. I then realize it would be great to make something similar in a single image showing 2 different actions.

Read my other findings too…

Advertising

  1. Bangalore Police Campaign by Mudra. http://bit.ly/8Zm3GK

Art

  1. ‘Pencil Vs Camera’ series is the result of years of graphic exploration & a logic consequence of my artistic evolution. http://bit.ly/crJiTg
  2. There are many awesome artists out there whose work is worth watching.50 greatest celebrity caricature from deviantART. http://bit.ly/cA0OSu

Inspiration

  1. In 18 minutes can you build the tallest free-standing structure with 20spaghetti sticks,1yard tape &string,1marshmallow?http://bit.ly/9eDlFu
  2. 12 ways that will help you keep a river of ideas & inspiration running and give your creative juices a shot in the arm. http://bit.ly/cDQ95b

Logo/Identity Design

  1. The Identity: Best of the Best 2010 contest is conducted by the Identity magazine and ArtGraphics.ru. Winners: http://identity-best.com
  2. Design – Logo for CyberPark Kozhikode : http://bit.ly/aTzr5k

Print Design

  1. On April 26th, BusinessWeek unveiled the magazine’s new look. Over the years the aesthetics of the brand have evolved. http://bit.ly/cbINaO

Product Design

  1. The Hook collection by Pinetti makes use of leather modules without glue or staples, to create several handmade objects.http://bit.ly/bfvmjw
  2. Greig Brebner, designer of the Blunt Umbrella, talks about his journey developing it. http://bit.ly/cuD9ag
  3. Cute, practical designs by Qualy Design. http://www.newarriva.com/qualy/main.html
  4. PUMA has teamed up with renowned industrial designer Yves Behar to create a more sustainable packaging for their shoes. http://bit.ly/arnPgo
  5. “Standup is a reaction to the junky plastic laptop stands that I keep seeing.I wanted something natural” – Tim Wigmore. http://bit.ly/dnarIg
  6. Zhili Liu has been focusing recent designs on the great outdoors, featuring shrubs & birds in his tables and lighting. http://bit.ly/aAQVMM
  7. Simple, clever idea! Beatus Kopp has designed a table with hollow legs through which electrical wires can be channeled. http://bit.ly/cCB62E
  8. Yuji Fujimura developed an electric bike with foldable pedals and seat. It is very convenient to park in narrow spaces. http://bit.ly/bEZwst

Web Design

  1. “Bad design Vs good design: What you should be doing” – Common mistakes in design and the right way to do things. http://bit.ly/bGGxIB
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Whenever I find a relevant and interesting design related links, I tweet them so that I can refer to them later. Recently when I had to look for a particular tweet that I’m sure I did, I spent some time in doing a search in Twitter. I didn’t get any satisfactory results, so I went to my Twitter page and pressed the ‘more’ button many times and finally I fished out the link.

To make matters easy, I am going to archive my tweets at the end of every month in this blog. I will be grouping them under headings for easy retrieval.

Following are my tweets @antzFx in March, 2010.

Advertising

  1. Today we are going to see some of the coolest and newest car ads of the world. http://bit.ly/9oRVPk Compiled by @ConceptDzain

Designer

  1. March 2007: Jacob Melvin is worried about graduating. Today he is a technical director for DreamWorks Animation. How? http://bit.ly/c8Ouqq

Logo/Identity Design

  1. A Steve Jobs presentation has all the elements of a great movie. Read “Steve Jobs’ Presentation Secrets” at http://bit.ly/3YQzt6
  2. One of the great ways to add an impressive style to a #logo is to use Negative Space. See these 30 great Logo Designs. http://bit.ly/bnqAOs

Print Design

  1. Smiley: An interesting business card designed by Driv. http://bit.ly/cWdSJj
  2. Better run! http://bit.ly/aN6xZi
  3. Explosive colors; excellent poster design by Danil Krivoruchko. http://bit.ly/7dcsCD
  4. A unique, personalized & custom made wedding invitation card adds to the joy of the occasion. http://bit.ly/bYzgSo Written by @abdussalam123

Product Design

  1. Industrial design student Andrew Kim’s (@designfabulous) Coke bottle redesign is beautiful and a smart use of space. http://bit.ly/bQum2h
  2. Liked this! Furniture by Anthony Dan are flat packs, temporary structures made from recycled and recyclable material. http://bit.ly/58uflI

Resources

  1. “The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.” But I’m revealing: http://antzfxway.com/2010/03/21/secret-to-creativity/

Web Design

  1. Children and you will like it! Bembo’s Zoo http://www.bemboszoo.com/Bembo.swf #Typography
  2. Xtra minimalism! Just saw http://www.NowDoThis.com/ Read more about the useful application here: http://nowdothis.tumblr.com/
  3. Hilarious! ‘How a web design goes straight to hell’ http://bit.ly/4HMme7 Created by @oatmeal
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tweet_antzfx11

It was an instantaneous decision. I have done something similar in a webpage a couple of years back. But it didn’t see the light of the day.
Today morning, I realised that the date is 01-Apr-2009: April Fool’s day. I suddenly remembered my old prank and decided to re-do it in Twitter.

I went to the settings of our twitter account, changed all the colors to white (#FFFFFF). The background image was modified to a plain ‘Ha! Where did all my tweets go?’ in blue color. A couple of hours later, as an afterthought, I changed the profile photo to a white square.

The message
And, what is the ‘invisible’ message? Press ‘Ctrl+A’ or click the menu ‘Edit-> Select All.’

tweet_antzfx21

“If you can read this, today is NOT your day! This prank will be played in this account for the next 24 hours… #aprilfool Thanks!”
The home page looks like this.

home_antzfx11
After selecting all…

home_antzfx21

OK, Then…
This setting will be reverted back soon.
This prank will not work for our followers as our Twitter Account settings cannot work on their accounts. Also, views from RSS feeds cannot be altered. The viewer has to visit our Twitter page to see the effect.
I don’t know how many people will visit the page and realize the effect. A dozen of my friends visited, I am sure.

Update on 03-Apr-2009

We reverted the settings of our Twitter account.  The link for the prank was: http://twitter.com/antzfx/status/1428020283
Now, anybody can see the message!

Design Date: 01-Apr-2009

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