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PingMag - The Tokyo-based magazine about “Design and Making Things”

PingMag - The Tokyo-based magazine about “Design and Making Things”
Dear PingMag readers, It’s the last day of 2008, and we have a sad announcement to make. From today, PingMag will be taking an extended hiatus, and will not be updated for the foreseeable future. PingMag has been running for 3 and a half years now, and over that time literally millions of you, from every single corner of the planet, have visited, read our articles, left comments, linked to us on your blogs, sent us letters of support - some of you have even flown to Tokyo to join us! We are eternally grateful for your fantastic support over the years. It is only because of you all that we have managed to keep PingMag going this long, and with every article - and there have been around 1000 of them!

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Design Inspiration Design Inspiration DesignWannabe in association with Ingimage presents ‘Two’s Company‘ … an exciting opportunity to show off your Photoshop skills and win prizes! Your task is simply to create a piece of digital art using one of the 15 images below as a base. Step 1: Sign up for a free trial at ingimage.com – which gives you one week to download any 35 high-res images on their site for free.Step 2: Choose and download one of the images below to use as the base for your Photoshop creation. Each of these “Subject Photos” have two human subjects.Step 2: Combine your Subejct Photo with any of the millions of other images/graphics available on ingimage using your free trial. You can create any type of compilation, collage, poster or any other graphic design concept you can visualize.

cuisine luxe The kitchen is truly the heart (and soul) of any home so we are always on the look out for future-forward brands that fuse a sleek modern aesthetic together with sustainable materials and advanced technology. To date, European design has led the field, but newcomer Bazzèo by NY Lofts is the first US contender to convincingly woo American homeowners over to the green side. Debuting this year at ICFF, Bazzèo is definitely worth a second look. Even if you’re not in the market for a new kitchen, these mean green sexy cuisines will make you wish you were. Crafted from ¼ inch Paperstone combined with artfully stamped aluminum, Bazzèo offers American consumers a decidedly modern, European aesthetic.

We Made This: Olivetti Lettera 22 Instruction Manual Hello all, tea's made so now I can get writing. As Alistair mentioned, I'm Ed Cornish and I've taken time out of my busy summer holiday schedual of avoiding my thesis and worrying about the dreaded final year of uni to help out at the studio. Regular visitors to We Made This will know that they are big fans of old printed ephemera, and I've been squandering my student loan on old tat for a while now, so I thought I’d commandeer the blog to show off a piece from my own collection; the manual for an Olivetti Lettera 22 Typewriter. Both Alistair and I are proud owners of Lettera 22s (I was lucky enough to get mine with a case and instruction manual as a gift, and apparently the whole package was picked up for around £3 from a car-boot sale!)

6 Steps for Designers to Successfully Partner with an Illustrator Illustrators of work shown, clockwise starting at top left: Mark McGinnis, Edward McGowan, Daniel Krall, Kate Hindley and Susy Waters Pilgrim. (Editor’s note: This post was contributed by Hannah Fichandler with Connecticut-based, marketing and communications company Taylor Design. This post originally appeared on the company’s blog 247 Main.) I can’t draw. Web Design Trend Hunting – Fluid Grid Layout: 10+ Outstanding Ex In our daily web hunting raids we have spotted another interesting & good-looking trend – the fluid grid-based layout, mostly used by galleries and visual inspiration blogs. Here are 12 amazing examples (just one of them in Flash) and a fantastic tutorial. Please use the comment box for suggestions and opinions – Will the future of webdesign be fluid? Creative Depart

Recycled Wine Bottle Torch 08.09.09 | by Erik Anderson Whether it’s product branding, package design or projects for ourselves, we’re pleased when we find a solution that’s very effective and creative, while keeping resources to a minimum. This idea is very inexpensive idea and it’s a great way to recycle a wine bottle.

HUH. MAGAZINE - Harvest by Haroshi: Skate and Destroy Here's a close up look at the Harvest by Haroshi: Skate and Destroy Exhibition currently showing at plsmis gallery in Tokyo, Japan until the 27th Feb. All the artworks have been created with old worn, or snapped, skateboard decks. ?Skate decks eventually see its life shortened by snapping, cracking and/or wearing out. Purchasing new decks is a never ending cycle and this was evident by the tower of old decks that were reaching to the ceiling of my room. We can?

Dream Big by Peter Fecteau “Dream Big” was a year-long project in which Pete created a mosaic of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. using 4,242 Rubik’s Cubes. > petefecteau.com

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