Inspired by - Thailand
Vintage Siamese postcards
Posted by rod - 07.03.2013
Check out these beautiful vintage Siamese postcards dating back to the 1900. The postcards capture Siamese ballet-dancers performing traditional dances. via songkran
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Inspired by - China
Chinese restaurant interior design fook yew
Posted by rod - 06.03.2013
This Chinese restaurant doesn’t not only have a young interior design style but also a cheeky name. Fook Yew is a vibrant, colourful and funky traditional Chinese eatery inspired by the streets of Schanghai, set in an old fashioned Chinese pop-style canteen. The restaurant has lots of fun interior pieces such as the the red lanterns, the rickshaw, and all the cool modern posters. If you fancy paying a visit to Fook Yew, head to Jakarta, Jalan Sultan Iskandar Muda. via weheart
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Inspired by - USA
Texas Monthly City editorial illustrations
Posted by rod - 05.03.2013
Texas Monthly commissioned US illustrator Kendrick Kidd to create a series of city editorial illustrations. The illustrations which look like coin’s each highlights a unique feature of a major city in the state of Texas. Kendrick created 7 illustrations in total, one overall Texas illustration and 6 city illustration of the cities, Austin, Dallas, Fort Worth, El Paso, Houston and San Antonio.
Creative Direction: TJ Tucker; Art Direction/Layout: Brian Johnson; Illustration: Kendrick Kidd; 3D Rendering: Digital Progression
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Inspired by - Italy
Italian packaging design for Paolo Robertos
Posted by rod - 04.03.2013
Former boxing world champion Paolo Robertos has gone back to his Italian roots and launched a line of pasta and pasta sauces products. The premium packaging design has a distinct Italian feel with its bay leaf boarder, the product medals and the type treatment. All these Italian inspired design elements were skilfully crafted into a nice round emblem and set into a boxing belt shape which wraps around the plastic container. Swedish design agency Nine created design.
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Inspired by - China
Tian’anmen inspired roof typeface
Posted by rod - 01.03.2013
The roof of the Tian’anmen inspired visual designer Dan Cheng to create a typeface with concealed subversive potential. The typeface is based on the roof tiles of Tian’anmen itself. Then Dan created a short text which then returned to the original building, proposing it as a public art work. Appearing like an unobtrusive patterning of the roof, on closer inspection the audience discover it to be revealing sensitive information: In China, because of unregulated construction some historic buildings have been replaced with inferior replicas.
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Inspired by - Malaysia
Malaysian inspired Restaurant design – Old Street Kobiteh
Posted by rod - 28.02.2013
The Old Street Kobiteh restaurant was inspired by Malaysia‘s streetscape and the traditional 1920s Malaysian coffee shops called “kopitiam”. Kopi is the Malay term for coffee, and tiam is the Hokkien world for shop. A kopitaiam is an unique Malaysian dining experience that reflects the country’s multi-ethnic society, serving dished from different ethnicities so that people from different background can dine together.
The main visual characteristic of the restaurant is the 37foot long ding table. It is comprise of 30 modular units, each featuring a different tile pattern from the Malaysian streetscape. Other elements such as the neon signs, vintage vintage plates and hand drawn menus contribute to the overall ambience. Designed by Nelson Chow
If you ever visit the Popcorn shopping mall in Hong Kong’s Tseung O district check out the Old Street Kobitech restaurant.
via dezeen
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Inspired by - Pacific Islands, USA
Ohana by Hawaiian livery design
Posted by rod - 27.02.2013
Hawaiian Airlines is starting up a new regional airline called Ohana by Hawaiian which is going to connect the islands of Moloka‘i and Lana‘i. “Ohana”, which means family, communicates the mission of the new airline: bringing people together and the communities of the Hawaiian archipelago. The airlines design was created by renowned Hawaiian designer Sig Zane and his son Kuha‘o who used traditional Kapa fabric print elements on the airline livery. The concept was to use three different patterns, each interpreting their own meaning: piko, representing ancestor and progeny; manu, representing both a bird in flight and the prow of a canoe, the traditional form of migration; and kalo, representing family, that were masked within shapes that come from the flight routes. This design was placed onto the tail of the ATR42 turboprop aircraft tail fins. Apart from the tail fin design the airline also received a logo.
The piko symbol is derived from patterns seen in braided ti leaves.
The manu symbol is derived from the shape of a bird in flight.
The kalo symbol is derived from the shape of a taro leaf.
via BrandNew
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Inspired by - USA
The decline of the American Dream
Posted by rod - 26.02.2013
American artist Mark Dean Veca who is known for creating paintings, drawings and installations of pop culture iconography recently finished his latest installation called Made for you and Me. You can check out the installation until March 9th 2013 at the Cristin Tierney Gallery in New York. For his latest installation Mark choose create a body of work around the theme of Americana that refers to capitalism, nationalism and the American spirit.
“Feeling as though he was witnessing the collapse of the “American Dream,” Veca began these paintings in 2009 to address the corruption of ideals in this country. The title of the exhibition comes from Woody Guthrie’s popular folk song, This Land Is Your Land – a song originally meant to express communist sentiments that has been co-opted to represent the spirit of capitalism and growth. Veca’s latest work can be understood as a form of Sinister Pop, with images from our consumer culture—Exxon Mobil’s Pegasus, the Monopoly logo, dollar signs—twisted and transformed into dark, slightly maniacal forms. This is best exemplified by the image of Reddy Kilowatt. Once an emblem of consumption, Veca has revived this character as a symbol of our ever greater dependence on electrical power and our embrace of consumption rather than conservation.” Press Release
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Inspired by - Afghanistan
Antique Afghan artefact photo collection
Posted by rod - 25.02.2013
Afghanistan has an enormous range of artefacts which are a testament to the incredible rich cultural history of Afghanistan. Photographer Francine Zaslow‘s personal photo collection feature antique masks, jewlery, garments and instruments. Jean Blundon was commissioned by Francine to design a 32 page booklet called “Tipping the light Afghanistan A stranger on Chicken street”. It incorporates the pictures which are accompanied by beautifully setup type.
via fpo
