Day 304 - Creative and funny advertisement NYC taxi

Busstop advertisement: funny and creative. Isn't it?

Via www.gutenberg.net

Day 303 - Creative and funny: Inflatable street art

Street art? Yes, we see that a lot.

Inflatable street art? I have never seen it in real life, but I like this video. It show how Joshua Allen Harris creates inflatable sculptures from plastic bags. Enjoy!

Day 302 - Free display font for graphic designers

How about this free display font? I personally love it!

It's called ACCENT and it is designed by Nelson Balaban.
You can download via his page on behance.

Day 301 - Minimal illustration: stormy weather

Today the weather is really stormy: the wind is blowing, leaves are flying around, trees are falling down, trains stop riding... People are told to stay inside.

Tis stormy day inspired me to make this illustration of windmills. As you can see, one of them has fallen down... even the windmills can't resist the storm.

Windmills - © 2VORM 2013

Windmills - © 2VORM 2013

Day 300 - Fashio design: fashion illustrations made of leaves

It's autumn. Leaves are falling, the wind is blowing and for some reason it inspires many designers.
Photographers, but also illustrators. Such as Tang Chiew Ling form Malaysia. She creates the most beautiful fashion illustrations by combining her drawings with leaves.

Here are two of her illustrations.

Source

Day 299 - Dutch Design Week: Strijp-S

Strijp-S is one of the most inspiring areas of the Dutch Design Week.

I love the industrial atmosphere of this quarter, where you find amazing shops, such as Yksi, and wonderful coffee bars and restaurants.

On my way through Strijp-S I suddenly saw these yellow shoes. I followed them. They brought me to an amazing shop-in-shop (I forgot the name :-( ) in which  designers presented their work.

Yellow shoes - photo by 2VORM, all rights reserved

Day 298 - Dutch Design Week: creepy lamp

Yesterday i visited the Dutch Design Week in Eindhoven. I had linch at Usine where I saw this lamp: it reacts to noise. The more noise, the more it movres. Creepy and cute!

Day 297 - Dutch Design Week 2013: amazing lamp

Today I went to Eindhoven, a city in the southern part of the Netherlands. Each year, in October, they organize the Dutch Design Week.

This year I started my visit at Strijp-S, a former industrial quarter of the city. In the 'Klokgebouw' I saw this amazing lamp, made of... coffee!

Designer Raúl Lauri experimented with coffee, and succeeded in transforming it into a material that can be used for product design. Such as these bowls and this lamp.

Day 296 - Photography challenge: Autmn (4)

I am still working on the photo challenge. The theme is autumn.

Today was a sunny autumn day. As the wind was blowing, leafs were falling down everywhere. So I
took my bike and went outside for a ride and took a lot of photo's. This is one of them:

Autumn, leafs- photo by 2VORM, all rights reserved

Autumn, bike - photo by 2VORM, all rights reserved

Day 295 - Photographic journal: 365 photos in a year

On tumblr I came across the blog of Daniel, a Hungarian freelance photographer.

Daniel started also a 365days project. His theme is: a photo a day, as long as it goes.
On his blog he posted some beautiful autumn photos. The one below, posted on October 14, is one of my favorites!

Day 294 - Free font for personal use: Drops of Jupiter

Today a link to a very nice handwritten font that carries the curious name:
Drops of Jupiter.

The font is designed by Kimberly Geswein, and it can be download for free at fontspace.

Enjoy!

Day 293 - Dutch Design Week 2013 has started: new concepts and trends

Yesterday was the start of Dutch Design Week 2013.

Each year you can find here new concepts, creative ideas, new trends and much more.
Next week I will take the train to Eindhoven, rent a bike an spend a day at this creative hotspot.
Of course I will take a lot of photos! You'll see...

Interested in the program? Check it out program here.

Day 292 - why day 291 is missing...

Yesterday was a friday. Althougj it was not friday the 13th, it was not a lucky day for me.

No internet, no mail, no television... It took nearly the whole day to find a new, appropriate adapter. But somewhere around four it was fixed. Hurray!

But the at six the adapter of the router gave up... Ana again we had no internet... 

Today still nothing. Trying to find another adaptor. 

Hope to be back soon with some inspiration.

For now: I'll first have coffee!

Day 290 - Photo Quiz: modern art or children's painting?

Funny photo quiz!

Ten pieces of artwork: some are made by artists and some are made by children.
Can you tell the difference?

Give it a try! Just like I did. My score? I'll tell you tomorrow.

Day 289 - Better out than in: daily artwork in the streets of New York City by Banksy

In today's newspaper I read an article about Banksy.

Banksy is a graffity artist who designs - paints - builds - ... -  every day an artwork in the streets of New York City. Nobody knows who he, but a lot of people know his work.

On his website, Banksy comments his pieces of street art:
www.banksy.co.uk

Here are two of his artworks.

Day 288 - Funtastico: exhibition at the Groninger Museum

Two days ago a new exhivition opened at the Groninger Museum: Funtastico.

Funtastcio is the first large-scale exhibition of the work of the Spanish artist Jaime Hayon.
In his work and projects he applies various disciplines and materials, such as textiles, wood, glass, ceramics, furniture etc.

Unfortunately, Groningen is not near where I live. Nevertheless, I hope to find time to visit the wonderful and surprising exhibition!

Day 287 - Typography and kerning: the roof of the new bus station in Amsterdam

The Central Station in Amsterdam is under construction.

One of the largest projects is building of a new roof on the bus station that is situated the train station. The roof is made of glass and it is decorated with the word 'AMSTERDAM'. The letters are mad of colored glass (orange and red).

Yesterday I read an article about this roof on Typographica. The article describes a few worrisome facts, such as the fact that the spacing between the first A and M is 5 windows, whereas the space between the final A and M is only 4 windows...

Want tk know more about it? Read the article here or take the train or bus to Amsterdam to see it with your own eyes.

Anyway, I like this roof and do not mind abut the kerning...

Day 286 - Photography challenge: Autumn (3)

The new photo challenge is autumn.  Yesterday I posted a photo of the sun shining across the trees that still have their leafs.

Today I like t share another autumn photo with you. This photo is taken on a few days ago. It was a little foggy and there were drops hanging on the threads of the spiderwebs.

Autumn - photo by 2VORM, all rights reserved

Day 285 - Photography challenge: Autumn (2)

The challenge for this week is autumn. A few days ago, I already posted one of my photos.
But I made a few more this week.

What I like about autumn, are the days that start foggy and end sunny. I like it when the sun peeks through the trees, like in the photo below.

Autumn - photo: 2VORM, all rights reserved

Day 284 - Graphic design: street art, Eye, Amsterdam

Yesterday, I was in Amsterdam. I started my visit at the Eye Film Museum. One of my favorite places in Amsterdam.

The sky was cloudy, it rained now and then. Nevertheless, I had the opportunity to take a lot of of photo's. When I walked around the building, I saw this piece of  'street art'.

Someone wrote 'ik herhaal ik herhaal ik herhaal...' with chalk on the pavement. 'Ik herhaal' means 'I repeat'. It was repeated at least thirty times....

Street art - photo by 2VORM, all rigths reserved

Day 283 - Poster design: Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam

Today I Went to Amsterdam and visited the Stedelijk Museum. In the museum there is a large wall covered with posyers of exhibitions.

This photo gives you an impression of the wall.  

Day 282 - Graphic design: Chanel pattern for t-shirt

Now and then I design illustrations or patterns for fashion, like e.g. t-hsirts or iPhone covers.

I made the design below for my daughter: she loves fashion and she loves Chanel.
So now she's got her own, custom-made, Chanel t-shirt.

Chanel t-shirt - by 2VORM, all rights reserved

Day 281 - Handmade typography: font made from.... flowers!

Yesterday, I told you about design studio Handmadefont. They develop new fonts by looking around them and taking everyday objects as inspiration.

This fancy font is called 'Yellow flowers' font. It refers to the hippie's time. I like it a lot, it makes me happy.

If it makes you too happy, you can buy it at the website from Handmadefont.

Day 280 - Graphic design & typography: funny font, made from... eggs!

Handmadefont, an Estonian design studio, is specialized in developing unique fonts. the inspiration comes from everyday objects. Like e.g. eggs!

Here's an overview of the ingrdients of this font:
1000 eggs
10 pans
5 burned fingers
3 hours
1 bottle of oil

And here's the result: Egg font, for sale at www.handmadefont.com/product/eggs-font

Day 279 - Furniture design: 'matroesjka chair'

Vivian Chiu studied Furniture Design at the Rhode Island School of Design.

She designed several chairs. My personal favorite is the Inception chair.
A chair that consists of chairs that are progressively getting smaller.
Like a matroesjka they can be taken apart and/or put together.

Source: Vivian Chiu

Day 278 - Photography challenge: autumn

This week we got our new challenge for the photography course I'm in: autumn.

So I took my camera today and went out to the forest. My dog, a weimaraner, was happy to go out and had a lot of fun with some other dogs.

Meanwhile I was looking for the first signs of autumn: colored leafs, mushrooms and... chestnuts!

Here's one of today's photo's.

Chestnuts - photo by 2VORM ©

Day 277 - Free script font for graphic designers: Braxton

On the website of Fontfabric type foundry I found this new font: Braxton.

Braxton is a brush script font. Is is designed by Evgeny Tkhorzhevsky, from Russia.
You can download for free.

Enjoy!

Souce: www.fontfabric.com

Day 276 - You love street art: watch this!

I love street art. Do you?

Then visit this website: www.neatdesign.net
There you find a lot of amazing street art photo's.

This is one of them.

Source: www.neatdesign.net

Day 275 - Tasty design: flags made from food

Flags made from food? Yes, the ones below were designed by advertising agency WHYBINTWBA on the occasion of the international food festival in Sydney.

Basil, pasta an tomatos form the Italian flag

Rice and tuna are the ingredients of the Japanese flag

Scones, cream and jam: this must be the United Kingdom

Via Froot.nl

Day 274 - Creativity with food: egg or chicken?

On instagram I found this creative illustration, made from/with an egg.

The illustration is made by redhongyi.