Latte Art

This is an interesting clip shows that art and the inspiration can come from everything around us. It can start from something every simple that you may not expect. This video shows how coffee and milk become art.

Casino Royale Beginning

Yesterday, I went to watch “Casino Royal” at Galaxy cinema and that was a good movie for entertainment. However, the thing that impressed me most was not action scenes or the handsome Jame Bond. It was the opening of the movie. It was the combination of line art and the movie. Because the name of the movie is “Casino Royal”, the line art also use symbol and image that related to that subject in the opening. The main color is black and red present for the luck in a casino. The interesting thing is the way they combine the movement of the real person and the line art. Although the opening just took about 3 minus, it must took a lot of time to do it

Black and white photographs

Today, a picture is can present for the real world in the exactly way in every detail. You can easily have a coloured picture of yourself.
However, I still like the black and white pics because I think that only black and white pics can present the light in the perfect way. In these pics, viewer can easily recognize the changing of the light and the contract it created in the pics will impress people more than coloured pics

http://www.desertimages.com.au/art-prints/burma/jumping-cat.html

http://www.eoloperfido.com/portfolio.htm

Web interface

http://phoenixart.com/

http://woerk.com/menu.html

http://www.visualimage.net/

Designers and materials

Created the new look for something that is very simple is not an easy work. The chair or lamp is one of example. These are things that have in every house and every where. Therefore, design new look for these difficult because the shape these thing is already decided.

In this case the options for designers are new material or new styles. To illustrate, everyone knows that chair is mostly make by wood but what if they can be presented in a new material. The other way is designers have to find out a new style that is not change the main purpose of the object. For example, designer can think about a new form for chair but it must not change the main purpose of chair.
To illustrate:

chairs with new materials



lamps in new style design

That shows the important of material in design. Using new materials instead of the old one can bring the new look for the object. That is the reason there are many exhibition about new material every year.
For example:


Material Vision in 2007:
Materials for Product Development, Design and ArchitectureInternational Trade Fair and Conference
Frankfurt am Main22. - 23. November 2007 Forum Messe Frankfurt





iF Material Award _January 12, 2007 : open to manufacturers, designers, developers, design engineers and architectsThis award started as a platform for recognizing material trends and developments in design and will feature its third edition in 2007.

References pictures:
http://material-vision.messefrankfurt.com/global/en/presse-center_fotoservice_detail.html?guid=mf_ddsp147_3463
http://www.vanbezooyen.com/materialstories/
http://material-vision.messefrankfurt.com/global/en/fakten.html

Bak magazine

Bak, one of the international visual art magazine, have especial design covers. I am very impressive with some of layout. It is awesome. Designers use line art as one of their strong point to express and present their idea. The composition of text and image also is arranged in a perfect way that the image and text is complete each other.

Super Nature

“Nature inspires me to learn to create and express myself toward what lies beneath every nature forms I discovered” said Yeoh Guan Hong, a co-founder of Hyperthesis Visual Lab, New Zealand.
Inspiration comes from nature and bring nature forms in design are the main idea of the exhibition in
Skoloska 28 Gallery
Prague, Czech Republic 4-15 January 2007

A collection of large-format digital photographs will be show in the exhibition will show you the way author feels about nature.



The shape of nature is presented in simplicity and purity way can make you interested in the world of nature. They are simple but balance and useful in every detail and that is what we have to learn from Mother Nature.