L'Opera Restaurant Paris

Charles Garnier's Opéra de Paris finally has a restaurant, (planned by Garnier but never realized in 1875). Odile Decq Architects have just opened this spectacular restaurant space: all red, white and gold.

'What design can do' at Beijing Design Week

Beijing Design Week is on now. The posters celebrate the collaboration of British and Chinese designers. Designed by Johnson Banks & Kingston's MA Design course.

Think interactive exhibition New York by IBM

Polar Ice by Atsuhiro Hayashi

Brilliant global warming ice cube molds depicting a Polar Bear and two Penguins on slowly melting icebergs.

Designed by Atsuhiro Hayashi, produced by Momos, 1 575 Yen for two. Source John Snow On Design

Liter of Light - just brilliant!

Liter of Light from the Philippines is just brilliant.

See the video here.

Now that's what I call 'Design Thinking' by Illac Diaz.

www.isanglitrongliwanag.org

Zaha Hadid Architects brand identity

New brand identity for Zaha Hadid Architects, featuring branding and web site by Greenspace and a propriety typeface designed by Miles Newlyn.

H20 - ecology the new luxury work to show at LuxePack

The global design work, branding & packaging, produced during my creative workshop with the Ecole de Design de Nantes will be exhibited at LuxePack Monaco in October.

Graphic Zaha Hadid Museum in Glasgow

Love the very graphic profile of Zaha Hadid's new Riverside Museum of Transport in Glasgow.

Live the language - London

EF - Live The Language - London from Albin Holmqvist on Vimeo.

And for London.

Live the language - Paris

EF - Live The Language - Paris from Albin Holmqvist on Vimeo.

Great typography and video combination in these films for EF language schools.

Beach alphabet by Italo Lupi

Summer souvenir by the great Italo Lupi.

Bruichladdich Islay malt whiskey packaging

I spent some of the summer on the island of Islay in Scotland and discovered the incredible Bruichladdich whiskey distillery, home of the worlds only 100% organic island grown barley whiskeys. The design of their bottles and labeling is very distinctive and impressive. The whiskey is sublime.

Coke ok?

What I like about Turner Duckworth's new Diet Coke packaging is how it demonstrates the power of Coke branding, graphics and toolkit components.

A tight crop on just a couple of letters and we still know its Coke, ok!

Casanueva Pharmacy signage Spain

Great facade and signage by Clavel Architects in Murcia Spain.

FontBook app for iPad - 620 000 typefaces at your fingertips

FontBook on iPad from FontShop on Vimeo.

Send from my iPad

MOVE ticks all my boxes

MOVE from Rick Mereki on Vimeo.

3 guys, 44 days, 11 countries, 18 flights, 38 000 miles by Rick Mereki, Tim White and Andrew Lees. Bravo.

The Green Dot symbol and recycling confusion

What is the consumer meant to make of this? The Green Dot symbol (here brown) does not necessarily mean the packaging can be recycled, it is a fee paid licensed symbol indicating participation in packaging recovery and recycling by the manufacturer.

Consumers, understandably, think it indicates a package is recyclable. So we end up with this: a Green Dot, a recycling bin with a green cyclic arrow, a paper bag symbol and to add total confusion a red NO! All that on some organic bakery products.

Sir Terence Conran donates £7.5 million to the Design Museum

Designer Sir Terence Conran, who I had the honour to meet as a student, has donated £7.5 million to the Design Museum, to create 'the world's leading museum of contemporary design and architecture in London'.

The museum will relocate from its Thames site to the Commonwealth Institute Building in 2014. The Sir Gilbert Scott Telephone Box has been added to the Design Classics Collection. Conran's contribution to the Design Museum totals £50 Million.
His ambition is to have the greatest design museum in the world. Bravo.

b2 brand bangkok design workshop Thailand

I am currently working on a week long design workshop for the International Communication Design Programme at ComDe - the Design School of Chulalongkorn University Bangkok, Thailand.

The workshop will run at the end of the year and explore the theme of destination branding and the creation of a brand for the city of Bangkok.

Beau BO

A nice art deco influenced 60's typeface and 3D tiling detail seen on this Boulangerie sign, France.