London Bus

The New York City Taxi, The San Francisco Trolly, The Oscar Meyer Weiner Mobile.... every 60 years or so one of these iconic pieces of transportation is up for a re-design. This year it was time for the Routmaster, the archetypal red double-decker bus that cruises through London with amazing agility. Determined not to suffer the fate of the the classic NYC yellow Check cab, the city of London engaged a variety of UK coach builders to deliver design proposals in 2008 to improve on the classic Routmaster. The winning Wrightbus design was unveiled this week at the London Transport Museum. It pays homage to the classic while still looking forward... this handsome lad is quite asymmetrical.

Objects with a Void

The bright colors, and interesting, yet simple designs is what attracted me to write this blog. These photos are just a few of the designs exhibited at the London Design Festival 2010. The designs explore the role of voids in objects

Six designers responded to the brief, 'Intentional or coincidental, voids in objects have the power to define the function and aesthetics of the objects. It's a dismissed yet integral part of design that captivates our imagination.'

http://www.core77.com/blog/london_design_festival_10/london_design_festival_2010_objects_with_a_void__17537.asp#more

Music From Different Countries

percussion, drum, key board

South african music

south africa world cup:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsN6mbYJGGM

ngoma drums:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtcUBJaczEs

cape town jam: http://www.sounddogs.com/previews/3972/mp3/616457_SOUNDDOGS__ca.mp3

drums:

http://www.sounddogs.com/previews/2178/mp3/163423_SOUNDDOGS__dr.mp3

fast drums:

http://www.sounddogs.com/previews/3303/mp3/400046_SOUNDDOGS__pr.mp3

http://www.sounddogs.com/previews/3303/mp3/400048_SOUNDDOGS__pr.mp3

FINAL: http://www.sounddogs.com/previews/23/mp3/553197_SOUNDDOGS__tr.mp3

FREESOUND.ORG

African Drums:

http://www.freesound.org/samplesViewSingle.php?id=27359

http://www.sounddogs.com/previews/23/mp3/304870_SOUNDDOGS__ju.mp3

Italian music:

old italian music: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5wWrpiuk3E

http://www.sounddogs.com/previews/23/mp3/477086_SOUNDDOGS__pr.mp3

http://www.sounddogs.com/previews/3651/mp3/282564_SOUNDDOGS__wh.mp3

slawomir mrozek

japanese music:

http://www.sounddogs.com/previews/3671/mp3/305429_SOUNDDOGS__ze.mp3

---http://www.sounddogs.com/previews/3692/mp3/550475_SOUNDDOGS__ki.mp3

FINAL: http://www.sounddogs.com/previews/23/mp3/215690_SOUNDDOGS__sh.mp3

FINAL 2http://www.sounddogs.com/previews/23/mp3/215693_SOUNDDOGS__sh.mp3

South African Drums:

FINAL: http://www.sounddogs.com/previews/23/mp3/553197_SOUNDDOGS__tr.mp3

Italian Music:

http://www.sounddogs.com/previews/3651/mp3/282564_SOUNDDOGS__wh.mp3

Japanese Music:

http://www.sounddogs.com/previews/23/mp3/215690_SOUNDDOGS__sh.mp3

Images for Research and Traced Images for logo

Pictures for logo traced

Videos of Home Computing in the future on Core 77:

http://www.core77.com/blog/object_culture/videos_of_home-computing-in-the-future_concepts_17312.asp

INVENTED NAME:

future - gelecek - Turkish

- futur - French

- shorai no - Japanese

home - casa - spanish

- homu - Japanese

central - centraal - Dutch

- sentrale - Afrikaans

- centrico - spanish

- chuo - Japanese

innovation - arloesedd - welsh

- innovasie - Afrikaans

-innovatie - Dutch

-innovazione - Italian

- inobeshon - Japanese

speed - velocita - italian

-viteza - Romanian

-cyflymder - welsh

- sukodu - Japanese

evolution - evolucio - hungarian

-evolusion - Norwegian

-evolusie - Afrikaans

-evolucion - albanian

-kuzinduka - swahili

- shinka - Japanese

Over all I am deciding to go with the languages Italian, Japanese and Afrikaans. By choosing these languages that all exist in different continents I am showing the power of the home computing system and showing how in the future it becomes a household necessity, no matter what continent you are living on.

NAME OF PRODUCT: Notia, Nova, Cien, Senova, Sevol, Senz, Aova, Avel,

cenai, novaz, nova, senova, vel, velo, cita, sen, novas, kodu, kono, ova, zio

Pantone Founder graduate of Hofstra University

Just found out today in my graphic design 2 class that the founder of Pantone, Lawrence Herbert was a graduate of Hofstra University. He graduated with a double major in biology and chemistry. His plan was to go on to medical school, but in 1956 he began working for Pantone on a part-time basis and became so intrigued with his work that he scrapped his idea of pursuing his studies as a physician.