It’s all about character! The Pictoplasma Festival will take place in Berlin April 9-10 with his massive turnout of designers from all walks, including character artists, directors, animators, and illustrators. If you work with or -simply love – the visualisation and application of character design you cannot really miss this extended weekend of screening, artist talks, interdisciplinary …
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Vanessa Teodoro is a freelance illustrator from Portugal, with experience in the fields of graphic design, illustration and advertising. Has worked in agencies such as McCann Erickson, Proximity BBDO, Adore Ativism and Action4 Ativism. You can find her work in magazines such as Playboy, Vert, Direct Arts, Clickair Magazine and Parq; in advertising: the campaign for …
The Tail Gunner from tokyoplastic on Vimeo. The genius creators at Tokyo Plastic have been working hard to release their new character’s epic series: Kitteh Kitteh, a superfurry and apparently ultra cute cat with delusions of omnipotence. The concept is not new but the result meets the expectation and you cannot avoid at least to …
Bucky Bar is a spontaneous and temporary public building made entirely of umbrellas. Visitors were asked to show up with an umbrella at an outdoor location on a Friday night in Rotterdam, NL. With the help of a team of architects, the umbrellas were then used to build a fully equipped bar, complete with DJ …
Thype! nasce dalla volontà di sensibilizzare i graphic designer di domani riguardo ai principi basilari di ogni corretto prodotto di comunicazione che affonda le sue radici in basi di natura TipoGrafica. L’ambiente torinese ha permesso che tale progetto prendesse forma, trovando terreno fertile in una città che vanta nella sua storia,una grande tradizione in questo …
3 hours, 38 minutes and 30 seconds While moving to a new house our clock was damaged severely in transport, to a point where it’s minutes- and seconds pointer fell of the central axis, and where just laying in the transparent bubble cover. Witnessing the random patterns that occurred with the hour pointer still rotating, …
Animi Causa (For reasons of spirit), one of Israel’s well known innovative manufacturers of high quality and modern multi-use furniture, is a reputable designer, developer and producer of high quality products. By combining advanced state of the art modern technologies with individual artistic finesse Animi Causa is heralding a unique Israeli style. The company is located …
From the 13th Century, the Japanese have been producing high quality White Charcoal, known for its ability of purifying water and air. Sort of Coal introduces this holistic knowledge to the west via contemporary hand-made products, emphasizing both the function and theaestetic of White Charcoal. We often benefit from the purifying effects of charcoalwithout even …
Das rote Paket presents elegant and timeless furniture in small editions, designed by ambitious young architects and designers. Our pieces are simple, distinct, plain and charming. That is how we would describe ourselves as well. Nice people, interested in design, who rejoice in great materials and shapes. They also ran a super nice competition on …
“The Devil and I” will be the name of the album by Paul Marshall under the new name of Lone Wolf, a debut powered by Bella Union. This is the video realised for the launch of the first single “Keep your eyes on the road” thanks to the collaboration of Ashely Dean, the popular animator …
Sorapot is an another piece of design from an idea by Joey Roth, who Polkadot already featured with his Ceramic speakers. Sorapot is a simple, modern teapot. Its architectural shape and simple functionality bring tea’s quiet beauty into sharp focus. Made from 304 stainless steel, borosilicate glass (Pyrex), and food-grade silicone, it articulates the ritual …
Solitamente su Polkadot non affrontiamo mai argomenti di natura politica, anche se gli accadimenti degli ultimi mesi nel nostro paese e l’annullamento quasi totale di una sana informazione ci amareggiano molto. Non vogliamo nascondere le nostre idee politiche ma neanche metterle al centro delle nostre scelte di contenuti, salvo eccezioni interessanti. E la campagna elettorale …
The guys @ Aiaiai introduce a new approach to the upcoming releases of their Pipe earphones. They are gonna create 2-3 new colours of pipes every third month. The colours are inspired by things/objects or the like that have had some kind of inpact on AIAIAI crew throughout the years. The first one is inspired …