MINI Space Design Competition "The Big 50" Jury Winners & More

In their 7th design competition, MINI Space, the urban initiative and creative networking site by MINI, asked people to create an image that said "The Big 50" to celebrate 50 years of the MINI Cooper.


above: one of the submissions in the contest

Here are the 1st, 2nd and 3rd place winning designs as selected by the Mini Space Design Jury:

First Prize (an Apple Macbook Pro) - "Ancient Rider" by Rasha zones:


Second Prize (a Canon Digital Camera) - "Direccion Obligada" by gas_77


Third Prize ( a 1 pair of SUPERFUTURE sunglasses) - "Road 50" by giampy535


And the winner of the "Popular" vote (an iTunes store credit equivalent to approximately 100 songs) - "50 years old british mosaic" by Pstrosz:



Like any design competition, the selection of the winners is very subjective. Here's a few other entries for you to enjoy:












To see more of the submissions like the ones below, go here.

Lacroix's New Furniture & Homewares For La Redoute (With a fun microsite to match)

Seems that fashion designers are all getting into the housewares game and Christian Lacroix's latest collection for the department store La Redoute is another wonderful example.



His line of whimsical rugs, cushions, outdoor furniture, gardening tools, towels and more has all the whimsy of his fashion designs. The UK store carries the following products, but for some reason the US site does not, although they carry Lacroix's clothes and towels.











Buy the collection here.
or visit: http://www.christianlacroixpourlaredoute.com/

They have designed a microsite to browse the collection that is a fun way to walk through and see the entire line:





Visit the microsite here that has a fun game and extras like cool wallpapers.

Meet Nik Ainley & his Screensavers, Prints & Digital Art

 

 Welcome to Shinybinary version 2.1, the online portfolio and design playground of Nik Ainley. 

 Who? 

Nik Ainley is a UK based designer who has a passion for producing personal art and illustrations. After teaching himself Photoshop in his spare time while gaining a degree in physics at Imperial College London, he has since moved full time into the design world. He is constantly trying to further his expertise in digital media, and won't stop until he has mastered all the tools he needs to fully realise his designs.

Great Use of a Website To Promote A Book

Author Miranda July has created a charming interactive site to promote her latest book. It moves quickly and is good for a giggle. Great use of the web to sell another medium.

I could post a few stills, but they don't do it justice. Go to the site yourself and click away!

Miranda July is a filmmaker, performing artist and writer. She grew up in Berkeley, California where she began her career by writing plays and staging them at the local punk club. July’s videos, performances, and web-based projects have been presented at sites such as the Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim Museum and in the 2002 and 2004 Whitney Biennials.

Her short fiction has been published in The Paris Review, Zoetrope All-Story, and The New Yorker, and a collection of stories is forthcoming from Scribner in spring 2007. July created the participatory website, learningtoloveyoumore, with artist Harrell Fletcher and a companion book will be published by Prestel in fall 2007. She wrote, directed and starred in her first feature-length film, Me and You and Everyone We Know (2005), which won a special jury prize at the Sundance Film Festival and four prizes at the Cannes Film Festival, including the Camera d’Or. July is currently working on a new performance. She lives in Los Angeles.

http://noonebelongsheremorethanyou.com

99 Rooms; An interactive website which is a good excuse for Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

I must confess that I love websites where you simply "click around' and see what happens. And I've come across one on which you can spend a ridiculous amount of time exploring. A hauntingly mesmerizing site, 99 Rooms was created in Germany by ROSTLAB (see credits below).

99 Rooms is a unique internet art project that interweaves wall painting, photography, animation and sound in a manner entirely unknown until now. Shortly after its launch in June 2004, more than two million individuals throughout the world have already visited this interdisciplinary composite work of art.


Above: Room 68 before pressing on the little knob on the wall to the right

Above: Room 68 once the knob has been pressed flashes with light and sound

99rooms stemmed from the mystical, often apolocalyptically charming pictures created by Berlin artist Kim Köster within the countless vacated premises of East Berlin‘s industrial sector. Photos of these paintings were initially produced in digital form and then animated through a cooperative effort between Richard Schumann & Stephan Schulz and then subsequently complemented through a personal sounddesign from Johannes Buenemann. The final product of this year long effort is a scintillating intermediary world which invites the observer into an journey through its morbidly-beautiful rooms.

above: another room in which the cow's nose bleeds

ROSTLAUB Gbr
Mainzer Strasse 1,
10247 Berlin, Germany

Email: wir@rostlaub.com

Kim Köster (The Artist)
Richard Schumann (Art Direction)
Johannes Bünemann (Sounddesign)
Stephan Schulz (Flash / Programming)