A few frames from an old roll of film shot with a borrowed stereoscopic camera in Cologne, Germany, spring 2010. Continue reading
Print “alternate web covers”
A bit of randomness done for Print Magazine’s June 2011 issue, designed by Kokoro & Moi. See all of the alternate covers over here: www.kokoromoi.com/printcover
Informaatiomuotoilu.fi
If you read Finnish, check out Informaatiomuotoilu.fi, a new Finnish language infodesign blog we’re contributing to.
Disturbance
“Disturbance” is a self-referential installation whose subject is the optical flow analysis algorithm used in mpeg compression. The detected motion creates fluid-like distortion in the images – rather than a video we actually see a sequence of distorted stills.
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Kirstu design plagiarized in Thailand!
Wow. I don’t know what to say. It turns out that you can buy a pirated t-shirt in Thailand that’s a direct ripoff of our Flow Festival poster of 2007 (scroll down a bit to see the original). This is both the funniest and most flattering thing this week by far!
Extend your space
“Extend your space” is a minimal trompe-l’œil, traced with marker from the projected output of a nodebox script. If you type in the text in nodebox and run it, you get an image that can then be projected and adjusted to different spaces. Thus the work in itself contains the complete instructions needed for it’s reproduction. It was featured in the 5th Tallinn Applied Art Triennal, Know How 2009.
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Book: Tekstauskirja (1960)
Here’s “Tekstauskirja” (“lettering book”), a Finnish lettering manual by Ahto Numminen and Olof Eriksson. It’s something of a classic in its field, still used as a primer on calligraphy courses and now in its eleventh edition. These photos are of the original 1960 edition.
Map illustration of Helsinki and Vantaa
Map illustration for the forthcoming report on the possible union between Helsinki and Vantaa, showing these two municipalities combined to a single one, with some major landmarks. (2010)
Identity for Flow Festival
Identity for Flow Festival. (2006–2010) However, please note that the Flow 2011 festival identity is not designed by us.
Book: Köyhän ritarin keittokomero
Design of “Köyhän ritarin keittokomero”, a book on affordable cuisine by Vivi-Ann Sjögren. Photographs by Charlotta Boucht. Also published in swedish as “Fattiga riddare i eget kök”. (2009)
Illustrations for the Finnish Environment Institute
Cover illustrations made for the Finnish Environment Institute’s publication series “The Finnish Enviroment”. The image above is for a publication on the long-term environmental impact assessment of climate and energy strategies. (2008–2010)
Musfällan poster
Poster for Teater Mars’ clown production of Agatha Christie’s “The Mousetrap”
Book: Markkinamuotoilu
Book design and illustrations for Markkinamuotoilu (“market design”) by Suvi Nenonen and prof. Kaj Storbacka. (2010) The book received the 20 000 € prize for the best Finnish business book awarded bi-annually by SEFE, The Finnish Association of Business School Graduates.
