PLAY

http://www.youtube.com/user/playbiennial

Adopt a seed save aspecies

Continuously updating world cup games infographic.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/world-cup-match-replay

Vuvu lamp

In the spirit of the football and the oh-so-popular Vuvuzelas have a look at this.

A friend of mine, John won the Elle decoration nationwide lamp design competition with this contemporary Vuvuzela-inspired design which means that it is now being mass produced and sold in selected home decoration stores. Love it or loathe it, it is a true icon of this year’s tournament and hopefully we’ll see some returning to the UK as souvenirs post World Cup (no, the lamp doesn’t make any sound).

Quirky and clever.

http://www.bizcommunity.com/Article/196/13/41885.html
http://www.creativecapetown.net/judges-trumpet-vuvuzela-inspired-light/

The World without crafts people.

Make art from your mouse movement (Mac only Im afraid)

This great little program records your mouse movement & clicking to produce very strange but beautiful pieces of art.  Mac uses only I’m afraid.  Check it out: http://iographica.com/

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Personality Infographic Generator

The Personality Infographic Generator [http://www.ionz.com.br] first asks several questions to analyze the unique characteristics of your personality, ranging from topics such as "what do you like to eat" to "how long you are online per day".

This data then results in a simplified map of one's personality by representing the relative relationships of your answers to those of (+42k) other people. As a unique feature of this service, users are then able to personalize the resulting infographic by changing its main colors and layout orientation.

The Unseen Bean

Great use of vacuum sealed doy pack, showing product through clear front and
having a very distinctive and unique label.

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Tea Coaster Concept

Found this on Dieline

Yuree S Lim and Jleun Yang created a great teabag concept. Once you remove
the teabag from its packaging and steep your tea, you can place the soaked
bag on top of the paper envelop to reveal artwork. Take a look after the
jump.

See it working for Twinings or Taylors.

Enjoy chum

Mustard and Ketchup

Ever noticed that all the logos for major fast food chains are in red,
yellow or both colors?
In the quest to find out if there's any hidden meaning/psychology behind it
I found a few interesting things relating to graphic/packaging design.

So next time you make a beeline for that Big Mac, bare in mind that colour
has direct physiological effect on the brain. Red increases pulse, blood
pressure, and respiration (stimulating appetite) while yellow is the easiest
colors that can be seen from the longest distance.

Interesting, if not a tad worrying that the exact same colours are commonly
used in warning signs.

Looks like designers need to be psychologists too...
Below a bit of an extract from something I found on the web

Consumer Psychology - Colour
³Reds, oranges, violets, and true greens stimulate hunger. These colors are
on the majority of packaging. How the colour is distributed on the
package<for example, 15% to 20% purple, 70% to 75% gold, and a 5% splash of
red<can also stimulate appetite.

Red and yellow, the trademark colors of fast food, encourage eating quickly
and quick table turnover. Yellow (happy and warm) and red (stimulating and
speed) are probably the most popular colors used on snack food packaging.
Red, however, also indicates danger<of eating too much, too quickly, and too
often.

Colour identifies flavour and edibility. The exception is blue. Though blue
conveys trust, reliability, belonging, and coolness and appears on some food
packaging, few foods are really blue. Blue can suppress the appetite.²

So its Pepsi and Cheese and Onion flavour crips all the way for all those
dieters out there then!

Have a look at how many fast food restaurants have their logos in the
strong, attention getting contrast of red and yellow or any of the two
colors.

Related link: http://www.aiga.org/content.cfm/red-and-yellow-kills-a-fellow