I knew Joan Jett was awesome, but I never really knew much about The Runaways what with not being born when they were around. From the evidence of this photo taken by Howard Barlow at their 1976 Sheffield University gig, they were HOT.
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I'm Phil Clandillon, designer / art director and one half of a creative team at Sony Music in London, UK. Sleevelessness is my blog about graphic design, digital music and the web. And stuff. Everyone likes stuff.
Jul 09
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Nike / Livestrong’s Chalkbot is a giant printer for the Tour De France Roads
I didn’t know this, but apparently there’s a tradition of Tour De France fans chalking personal messages of encouragement along the roads of the race’s stages. This idea forms the basis for Nike and Lance Armstrong’s Livestrong foundation’s Chalkbot, a sort of giant trailable printer which applies chalk messages to the Tour’s roads.
The upshot of this is that fans around the world can apply messages of encouragement to the race’s road surface by texting, tweeting @chalkbot or using the form on the project’s site (I suggest tweeting as for some reason they’ve decided it’s a good idea to ask people to register before they leave a message on the site).
The idea is complex in execution but simple in concept (build a printer that can take messages from the web and print them on the road) and it’s a really nice way to get an online audience to engage with the Tour. The link to Armstrong’s cancer charity is a little tenuous but I guess if it gets the name about then it can’t do any harm.
Nike x LIVESTRONG - What is a Chalkbot (English Version) (via freshnessmag)
Jul 06
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Brilliant collaborative video for Japanese band Sour shot entirely on fans’ webcams and cleverly orchestrated to include all kinds of cam-to-cam trickery. Thanks to Dan M in our video department for the tip.
Jul 03
Jul 02
Last month I posted one of the series of photos that Tim Walker recently took for Hermes. It’s now emerged that Philippe Ramette took the above (very similar) photo in 2001. Coincidence?
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Letterforms created from artfully arranged household objects (and people) by still life photographer extraordinaire Bela Borsodi. More here.
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Great stop motion animation with HP printers by students Matthew Robinson and Tom Wrigglesworth, created in response to a D&AD Student Awards brief. A real “wish I’d thought of that” moment.
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