Engineering the Perfect Pop

Matthew Reinhart engineers paper to bend, fold, and transform into fantastic creatures, structures and locales. By adjusting the angles of folds and the depth of layers, Reinhart animates his subjects to tell dramatic stories that literally pop off the page.

via SciFri

Antao Progetti

Antao Progetti Brand Design 01

Design by Lucio Bolognesi

Antao Progetti is an important architectural agency in the Republic of San Marino. We redesigned Antao’s logo and gave it a contemporary & modern flavor by a balance between the letters’ empties & filled spaces. The 3-rounds part comes from the letters A, A and O.

Research about materials went first: grey paperbox, lycra and other technical ones are taken from everyday worklife of an architect.

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Creative Circle Award

Creative Circle Award Brand Development 01

That thing you wished you designed but someone else designed it first now you get to write and talk about how amazingingly sweet the gold book for the Creative Circle Ten Year Anniversary Awardfest (Denmark) is. Yeah, that’s this thing for moi.

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10 Crazy Pop Up Books (almost)

I noticed the word ‘POP’ seems to be at the forefront of my lexicon when describing visual beauty and / or exciting stimuli. To help get me through my POP phase I compiled a video post of pop-up books, pop-up rooms, pop up theater even an electronic paper pop-up Venus Fly Trap that POP’s and bites back.

First off…

The Ice Book

The Ice Book is the story of a princess who lures a boy into the forest in order to warm her heart of ice. The performance blends animation, puppetry, and film to bring a pop-up book vividly to life in front of the audience’s eyes. The Icebook is available for touring. For information on touring dates or bookings in 2011 check the website: theicebook.co

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