YOU LOOSE WHAT YOU DON'T HOLD™

Do you know this strange feeling that a present you just bought gives you when it's something so fancy that you would rather love to keep it to yourself?

To be honest, in case of this beautifully crafted felt pouch holding computer stuff such as a mouse or a power plug, excactly that feeling occured to me ;-)

But due to the the wonderful positioning saying: »You loose what you don't hold™« I suppose somehow it's ok ;-)

So if anybody is interested in buying some superb accessories for your Mac – these Austrian guys definitely will be able to supply them!

Check this remarkable website: http://www.hard-graft.com

YES, HE CAN!

Do to the given fact that from tommorow on hopefully there will be someone in charge who stands for »change« – here are two things to be mentioned from a designers perpective:

Amongst others Shepard Fairey and Robert Indiana, two of my favourite artist, did contibute their stuff to ManifestHOPE. 

An amazing collaboration of art can be traced here: http://www.manifesthope.com.

On http://www.vsapartners.com you shall be able find an inspiring interwiev in which Sol Sanders, CD of this Chicago based design agency, will give you some nice insights on the development of probably one of the mightiest brands in the world: Obama '08.

Enjoy and keep in mind: Yes, we can ;0)

n.

LISTEN TO THIS!

Anyone sick of old iPod tunes? Don't know what to listen to next?

Don't worry, guys – there're so much inspiring sounds around these days. I guess we just need to sort them out carefully.

Here comes something quite new, something older – still and in case you don't know about all of it yet – something so much worth to share with you:

»Easy Come Easy Go«

»Home Before Dark«

»Control«

Take care ...

n.

YEEHAAAAA!

6,5km on the road!!!
Thank god for being still alive!

DITO 2009!!

A moonrise to match the sunrise for 2009!

All the best for the comming year!!

Un abrazo, cheers.
M.

2009 HAS FINALLY BEGUN

After a hilarious Christmas-Celebration with colleagues and friends and of course some extra special days in deep-frozen Paris – recently there were also some comtemplative and peaceful moments which finally make me understand that 2009 is just about to begin. 

So today we are back – back for a brand-new start!

All the best ...

n.

... IT GETS CLOSER TO A NEW START

...thank you actually for starting and supporting this! Today, a toast on your behalf, remembering you.

Let's get on with the first moments of 2009! Frohes Neues Jahr!, Happy new year!, ¡Feliz año nuevo!

Take care too, un abrazo,

Mato.

AS THE YEAR COMES CLOSE TO AN END ...

... I suppose it's time for some short greetings saying: 

Merry Christmas, feliz Navidad, frohe Weihnachten.

Thank you everybody for reading and supporting this blog! Without your effort we couldn't make this happen ...

Take care 

n.

PEOPLE ARE STRANGE!

... listening carefully to Jimmy Morrison's lyrics is definitely one of the things in my life which I pretty much like to do! However illustrating a Doors song was never on my mind until I found this rare piece of art! 

Well, it's safe to say: Thank you so much for giving »strangers« a face! Excellent work, buddy! 

People are strange from Denis Fongue on Vimeo.

WHITEY FORD SINGS AGAIN ...

... if not to say rocks again – so today Emma and I spent a really good night at Fabrik concert hall in Altona. Grey-haired Everlast and his well performing band played all his most classic tracks to us before they finally even came up with »Jump Around« that old House Of Pain song probably erveryone knows! 

You can tell that was fun!!!

SO FAR, SO CLOSE

GET SET!

Summer holidays arrive soon, a neighbour gets the camping stuff ready...

JA, KLAR!

Gute Idee! It may come really handy at times. In my case while at the Waschraum for instance, otherwise my clothes would had turned all into the same colour!

As you know, it is usually said Parisiens are not very kind with tourists who do not speak french, however, there are exeptions!, and I know even the toughest character could become softer. For instance, after requesting something, by adding "Très gentil, merci". Meaning "Very kind, thanks", could do the trick, and even he/she could look back at us and smile (partially of course ;) So, there's an easy, nice thing I use, and in their own language so they cannot complain.

Hope you'll have a nice stay there. Gute reise!!!!

MARKETING VARIATION

A sophisticated version of marketing... run for your life!

PARLEZ-VOUS FRANÇAIS?

... to be honest – I don't ;-)

So hopefully this little lifesaver will help us getting along in Paris quite well!

I'm really looking forward to some days off!

Should be fun!

Have a nice Sunday ...

n.

BASIL VARIATION

A sophisticated version of pannacotta ...

MATERIAL STORIES

Hey guys,

As I told you I went to a lecture in one of the conference rooms at Stilwerk yesterday night. Aart van Bezooyen a nice dutch guy was introducing his work. He runs a small design consultancy here in Hamburg giving clients advice on e.g. the strategic use materials.

It was quite inspiring to hear him speak about what possibilities designers do have when just considering the matter »material« in an appropriate way.

Actually there are two links I want to share with you:

http://www.materialstories.com

http://www.materialexplorer.com

The first one is all about his company. The second site, when registering, enables you to seek a huge library of materials.

Just in case – enjoy ...

n

THIS AFTERNOON ...

... we visited a quite nice retrospective on Max Bill's work in Bremen. Nothing spectacular though, as especially the exhibited product-design-stuff was hardly more than showcasing the »Ulmer Hocker«. However we could get some pretty inspiring insides on the architectual work of this great swiss designer.

So long ...

n.

HERE'S A GOOD ONE:

Do you know what Hollywood-People do after giving to us some of the most incredible motion pictures ever? 

Well – some Austrian Guys do politics in California, ok we all know that!

But in case of Mr. Coppola I was quite amazed: The Godfather himself is recently dealing with all this yummie Sicilian food stuff! Wine, pasta, chocolates to name a few! If you don't know what's on for dinner tonight just check: http://www.ffcpresents.com

Va bene!

ADVENT, ADVENT, EIN LICHTLEIN BRENNT!

How's goin', everybody?

We all have been very lazy lately!

Why's that?

Well – in my case I have very, very, very good excuse:

I spent all day long at work fumbling on my new Advent calendar ;-)

Have a nice time until X-Mas!

Ho, Ho, Ho ... n.