Brilliant reworking of the Photoshop CS5 interface! Check out CS5.org for how the visual was put together. http://cs5.org/?p=15

Graham Design photoshop

Been creating a few “Little Planets” from 360 degree panoramas. The technique is fairly simple. Hopefully we’ll create and post one based on the views from our office soon. Future developments include creating a moving image version using HD video cameras  syncronised and stitched together.

Mark Neil Design, General, Photography Amsterdam, Edinburgh, Little Planets, London, New York, Photoshop Technique

It was my birthday the other week there and I just got through my surprise pressie from my wife at the weekend there. An amaizing pair of 23 karat gold plated Adidas Original sunglasses. Not even out in the UK yet but with a little help from an insider my wife was able to purchase a pair for me just in time for the sunny weather.

Graham Design Adidas, birthday, Sunglasses

Thought I’d share the amaizing pic used for the front cover of this months plus 1 magazine. The image is of Jeff Stewart  (yup thats right PC Reg Hollis in the ITV drama The Bill)  who is an actor/model/percussionist, not your most conventional mainstream model but I loving his new look.

Graham Design, Photography

I found this great site this morning about a social experiment that happened in New York. Kacie Kinzer from Tisch ITP came up with these amazing little robots, aiming to get from the north to the south of the hazardous NYC. The Tweenbots can only move in one direction though, so are directly reliant on the public to put them on the right path.

I can’t help but wonder how long something like this would last in one of our cities here.

Graham Design, Video Experiment, New York, Tweenbots

Mark T is so excited about the release of the new Star Trek movie that he dressed up for work today as Spock. I really think they should have looked a wee bit further afield when they were casting.

Graham Design, General Good Friday, Spockleton, Star Trek

Microsoft aren’t that smart as they think. Their new campaign to hit back at Apple’s successful adverts seem to have taken a fall (or a Fail).  On opening the latest issue of .net magazine, out falls a promotional Microsoft Windows Vista mini-mag on the topic of how Vista can “Boost your Business”….  Yup, these guys are definitely PC’s, no question…

Well done Microsoft! A magnificent marketing FAIL!

Graham Design, Tech FAIL, Microsoft, Windows

Not into the whole motorbike scene myself, however I came across this article on coolhunters blog and fell in love with the whole Art Nouveau design of the bike. And after reading the article it made me wonder what other beautiful pieces of design classics are sitting wasting away in a box somewhere, I feel a revival coming on, maybe comic sans needs a revival…

Think back 70 or 75 years to a time when design began to break away from the traditional and elaborate rationalism that ensued for hundreds of years. As the styles of Art Nouveau, Art Deco, Streamline and Zigzag Moderne emerged after the Industrial Revolution, designers as well as consumers fully embraced the Age of the Machine. Shiny chrome surfaces lay across curving forms or over expansive horizontal planes and glorified a dynamic new world on the move.

And suddenly, design was muted as World War II approached. Inspiration was buried away, along with some innovative and visually stunning design work. Skip ahead to 2005 when some curious members of BMW Classic opened a box and found the R7 bike 75 assembled - although not in shining condition. The engine was corroded, the metalwork was in dire shape, the battery was unusable, but the opportunity for restoration could not be ignored.

Various specialists at the BMW workshop discovered the original design drawings in the archive collections and conjured up the ghosts from Streamline Moderne’s past. Missing parts were sourced, others were rebuilt, the chrome was polished and the frame was painted black. And the final test, retuning the 1934 BMW motorcycle to the street, proved to be worth the wait nearly three quarters of a century later.

Graham Design Art Nouveau, BMW, Motorbike

I designed this at the start of the year and thought I’d share it with the rest of the world. I thought I’d go for the whole 80’s vibe let me know what you think?

Graham Design 80's, Calendar

Google’s ever changing logo has taken the form of Eric Carle’s brilliant artwork for The Very Hungry Caterpillar. The childhood memories come flooding back!

Graham Design eric carle, google, the very hungry caterpillar