Albert Exergian



I was browsing through FFFFound when I came across the work of Albert Exergian, who might have the coolest middle ages/King Arthur sounding name ever. What I found him through was his Popular TV Shows Poster Series but what really caught my eye was this short series he did around Mathematics. Yet again I’m writing about math concepts that I don’t really understand, but when you visualize them like this, kind of like Michæl Paukner does, it’s pretty awesome. This makes me hate math a fraction less.

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Self-Stirring Cup by Anna Gram

You know when you’re having coffee or tea, and the dregs end up settling at the bottom? It’s kind of gross and designers Florian Dussopt and Julie Girard have come up with a way to counteract this. They’ve come up with a self-stirring cup. The idea is simple, it’s a glass which at the bottom is a wider reservoir that contains a ceramic ball. Once you spin the cup the ball spins in the reservoir, mixing your drink up more successfully, or so is the hope.

I like this idea a lot but I see two potential problems, the first being that there’s no handle to it. This is meant for hot beverages and grabbing hot glass is not fun in any way. The second more obvious problem is that someone is going to swallow that damn ceramic ball. It’s made purposefully so you won’t dot that, but some damn idiot is going to swallow the whole thing and find it two days later.

Found through Daily Mail

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Jordan Crave Cover for Cinefamily

I haven’t heard much from Jordan Crane lately, so I was excited to see that he illustrated the cover of the last issue of Cinefamily. The cover is an illustration of Coffin Joe, who I believe is a host some Cinefamily events a not to be confused with that kid from The Horrors. It’s an awesome illustration and it caught my eye immediately. I’m trying to figure out some place to hang this in my house now…

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‘American Gods’ by Neil Gaiman

I wrote about the last book I finished, Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishigura, exactly a week ago and since then I finished another book, Neil Gaiman’s American Gods. A couple of weeks before I read Never Let Me Go I read Neverwhere and absolutely fell in love with it, so my boyfriend suggested that I read American Gods as well.

The book is set around a man named Shadow who’s about to get out of prison for a crime you’re not sure of. As he’s about to be released tragedy strikes and his life is thrown into chaos. On his way home he meets a mysterious man named Mr. Wednesday on a plane, who offers him a job, telling him that he knows his life is in ruins and that he can help. Shadow eventually accepts the offer and thus begins a journey through America and running into the old and new Gods that inhabit it and preparing for a might storm that’s approaching.

I really love how Neil Gaiman writes, both American Gods and Neverwhere served to show just how great he is. I knew of Neil because I read Sandman a long time ago, but I wasn’t sure if I was going to enjoy his novels as much. Turns out I definitely did. They’re definitely about fantastic stuff like magic and Gods, but he does a good job of not being overly showy or flashy with it. He definitely presents the books from a mundane point of view and you get to witness these brief moments of wonder. It’s this restraint that definitely keeps the books integrity.

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Paramount by Mind Design





The people over at Mind Design created this really amazing and graphic branding scheme for a club called Paramount in London. The created an identity system filled with repeating shapes that slowly grow larger, causing the shapes to create new shapes and patterns as they increase in size. They took this idea and applied it to large window screens in the club as well as on the business cards and other assorted paper goods.

The overall effect is really rad and is so simple it makes me jealous. Everything is so clean and simple but the shapes really add a lot of character to the overall designs. They also worked with Helene Bangsbo Andersen and Tom Dixon on the interior design, as you can see by the stunning chairs and lamps.

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