Well Done: a food company annual report that has to be cooked first Croatian creative agency Bruketa & Zinić have designed an annual report for food company Podravka that has to be baked in an oven before it can be read. Update: this project is included in Dezeen Book of Ideas, which is on sale now for £12. Called Well Done, the report features blank pages printed with thermo-reactive ink that, after being wrapped in foil and cooked for 25 minutes, reveal text and images. Here are details from Bruketa & Zinić: Well Done, the annual report for food company you have to bake before use Empty pages become filled with content after being baked at 100°C for 25 minutes. “Well done” created by Bruketa & Zinić is the new annual report for Podravka, the biggest food company in South-East Europe. a big book containing numbers and a report of an independent auditora small booklet that is inserted inside the big one that contains the very heart of Podravka as a brand: great Podravka’s recipes. To be able to cook like Podravka you need to be a precise cook.
Heaven On Earth (8 Pics) For more fun facts, click HERE. SUBNORMALITY! All content copyright Winston Rowntree, 2015. Museum previously seen here and then here. The Elegant Universe: Pt 1 The Elegant Universe: Part 3 PBS Airdate: November 4, 2003 NARRATOR: Now, on NOVA, take a thrill ride into a world stranger than science fiction, where you play the game by breaking some rules, where a new view of the universe pushes you beyond the limits of your wildest imagination. This is the world of "string theory," a way of describing every force and all matter from an atom to earth, to the end of the galaxies—from the birth of time to its final tick, in a single theory, a "Theory of Everything." Our guide to this brave new world is Brian Greene, the bestselling author and physicist. BRIAN GREENE (Columbia University): And no matter how many times I come here, I never seem to get used to it. NARRATOR: Can he help us solve the greatest puzzle of modern physics—that our understanding of the universe is based on two sets of laws that don't agree? NARRATOR: Resolving that contradiction eluded even Einstein, who made it his final quest. S. BRIAN GREENE:The atmosphere was electric. S.
30 Innovative And Creative Text Effect Tutorials Text effects are used in almost everything we see: whether it a simple inner or drop shadow, a subtle gradient, or a full-blown illustrated header. Below we have a selection of thirty great tutorials from across the design community, ready for you to follow and pick up tons of new techniques. You’ll be a text-effect master before we can say the word “go!“. The Tutorials Here we go! Clash of the Titans Text Effect (Photoshop) ↓ Produce a great Clash of the Titans themed text effect in Photoshop, inspired by the epic movie. Create a Funky Retro Wavy Text Effect (Photoshop) ↓ Create a retro-colored psychedelic background, and then mask out the image to produce some funky text. Super Easy Neon Style Text (Photoshop) ↓ Learn how to achieve a neon sign-like text effect in Photoshop. Create Sparkling, Animated Text (Photoshop) ↓ Produce a sparkling text animation in Photoshop with just a few super simple steps. How to Create a Simple and Elegant Text Effect (Photoshop) ↓ Your Turn To Talk
20 Most Amazing Microscope Shots Pictures !!!! These microscope pictures are taken from the book ‘ Microcosmos’, created by Brandon Brill . This book includes many scanning electron microscope (SEM) images of insects, human body parts and household items. These are the most amazing images of what is too small to see with the naked eye. 01 – A wood or heathland Ant, Formica fusca, holding a microchip 02 – The surface of an Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory silicon microchip 03 – Eyelash hairs growing from the surface of human skin 04 – The surface of a strawberry 05 – Bacteria on the surface of a human tongue 06 – Human sperm (spermatozoa), the male sex cells 07 – The nylon hooks and loops of velcro 08 – Household dust which includes long hairs such as cat fur, twisted synthetic and woolen fibers, serrated insect scales, a pollen grain, plant and insect remains 09 -The weave of a nylon stocking 10 – The end of the tongue (proboscis) of a hummingbird hawkmoth 11 – The head of a mosquito 12 – A human head louse clinging to a hair
Finally: Harry Potter in Comic Book Form Are you too lazy/busy/grownup to finish the Harry Potter books, even though everyone you know still makes references to them all the time? Do you enjoy pictures and have a short attention span? Well, have we got the solution for you. Illustrator and all around awesome artist Lucy Knisley has created quick and dirty abridged versions of the first five Harry Potter books — with the rest to come (we hope)! Not only is it delightful to see some of our favorite stories in comic form, but Knisley has also coined hilarious and relevant phrases like ‘Patronused!’ The Sorcerer’s Stone The Chamber of Secrets The Prisoner of Azkaban The Goblet of Fire The Order of the Phoenix [via Nylon]
High Speed Rail A 1.3 Million Jobs Catalyst A new study out recently from the American Public Transportation Association (APTA) suggests kneecapping high speed rail on the federal level might not be the best move at the moment. Why? Because the APTA study suggests the national build out of a 21st century rail system, much like is going on in places like China, could create as many as 1.3 million related jobs. The APTA is a nonprofit international association of 1,500 public and private member organizations, engaged in the areas of bus, paratransit, light rail, commuter rail, subways, waterborne services, and intercity and high-speed passenger rail, so certainly it has vested interest in seeing high speed rail succeed. image via Wikipedia Commons APTA believes that for each $1 billion invested in high-speed rail projects, it will support and create 24,000 jobs. It was noted by the APTA, in considering how high speed rail might help jump start the domestic economy, that the Economic Development Research Group for the U.S.
Juan Francisco Casas e Ballpoint Artworks - Design Atento Juan Francisco Casas é um artista espanhol de 33 anos que consegue a proeza de fazer impressionantes desenhos realísticos usando apenas a boa e velha caneta Bic azul. O processo é assim: de uma foto digital, Juan amplia a imagem obtida e a transforma em enormes painéis desenhados a mão. E não tem nada de Photoshop. É pura habilidade mesmo. O trabalho desse artista é bem conhecido na Europa e leva o nome de Ballpoint Artworks. Freqüentemente, expõe seus desenhos na Galeria Fernando Pradilla, em Madri. Saiba mais no site do designer | Busque também no Google
Lackadaisy Expressions Boy, I didn't know what I was getting myself into when I started this. I've had requests for some sort of expressions tutorial dating back a while now, so I figured, "Sure! I can explain expression drawing...and it'll be way better than all those tutorials out there that are nothing but charts of generic expressions. Yeah! Just give me a day or two to whip something up..." Um. Anyway, I found all I could really do was try to explain ways to teach yourself...and then add some pictures. L'ostie d'chat Carnovsky's RGB wallpaper For the Milan Design Week, Italian studio Carnovsky created a series of wallpapers that react to different coloured lights UPDATE: new versions of the wallpapers are on display in a new exhibition in Berlin alongside prints and playing cards using the same technique. See our story here The designs were created for the Milan shop of Janelli & Volpi, a noted Italian wallpaper brand. This one deals with the human body Under red light green light blue light This one features the animal kingdon We love the web, but there's still nothing like print.
The 40 Most Spectacular and Mindblowing Photos of Nature A lifetime is not enough to see what nature has to offer and all its beauties, along with its weirdness at times. There’s always something new happening in the world that people can hardly explain and sometimes mysteries are never solved. Pxleyes presents a stunning showcase of 40 images dedicated to the spectacular nature events from all over the world: a show of natural lights and colors, impressive rocky mountains and structures, tons of beautiful blue eyes and many other interesting elements, some almost unheard of. All images show only NATURAL elements, non altered by human hand or post editing software! It is all genuine and happening somewhere in the world. The Great Blue Hole – Belize Yellowstone Northern Outburst Wall of Light Cappuccino Coast – Pacific When Light Meets Ice Light Pillars, Jackson WY Light Pillars – from a distance Cave of Crystals, Mexico Pink and White Terraces Ice Circle – River Otter Penitentes – Ice Spikes in Argentina Rare “Rainbow” Spotted Over Idaho Maras, Peru
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