Swedish furniture design company Front have developed a technique for producing unique pieces of furniture from sketches drawn in air. The technology they have developed translates freehand sketches drawn in a space into 3D furniture using laser setting technology.

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I have recently seen a very wonderful music video from the band Justice. Directed, illustrated and animated by French designer So Me. The video follows two people walking through halls with animated t-shirts. The second video was a viewing recommendation from fellow Betley blogger Ash. The band is Sh*tdisco with their song Ok. The majority [...]

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“With the help of a GPS device and DHL, I have drawn a self portrait on our planet. My pen was a briefcase containing the GPS device, being sent around the world. The paths the briefcase took around the globe became the strokes of the drawing.”
Eric Nordenankar - Biggest drawing in the World

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Online news portal MSNBC recently launched Spectra Visual News Reader; an interesting and fun way to explore the latest news headlines. The simple interface lets you choose the news categories you’re interested in and then displays them in three dimensions.

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Everyone loves labeling things. As a designer I like things in the right place and I like to be able to get to those things quickly. To achieve this order a label seems to work, especially when I’m organising my video collection, Jam Jars, Facebook galleries and desktop folders.
Other label systems are not so efficient. [...]

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Betley Whitehorne are pleased to announce the appointment of Paul Smith as a
new director of the company. Paul joined Betley Whitehorne in March 2006 following 12 years London agency experience, and is delighted to have been appointed a director of the successful Guernsey based advertising and design company.
Paul says “It’s a great opportunity for me, [...]

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An interesting, if slightly bizarre concept, the Literary Doener Kebab lets you explore German book publisher Reclam’s catalogue in an easily digestible manner.

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Isn’t it about time that something was done about the Google logo? My apologies to Ruth Kedar, but I think it’s a shocking piece of design. Ruth may have won several design awards and worked as a consultant art professor but that doesn’t mean that everything she produces is a work of art.
Google is one [...]

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It’s that time of year again - today is May 1st Reboot when a host of websites around the world are relaunched (rebooted). The 2008 Reboot site comes in a rather scary shade of pink that I’m not too sure about. However you can be sure there’ll be a whole host of exciting and innovative [...]

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