By hellotom | Published:
October 6, 2011
It's strange when people pass away that you don't know but they've had a profound effect on the way you live your life. It's not until now that I've realised how much of my life has been influenced by Mr Jobs.
Ok, so I'm not the only one that uses Apple kit for my day to day work, but it goes further than that. As a designer, Apple stands tall for many of us in the design community as one of the world's truly great brands.
The Apple ethos of creating things that are a joy to use as well as being visually stunning is what many of us working in digital design strive to achieve every day.
Apple proved to the world that things can work brilliantly and be beautiful. CEO Steve Jobs was the talisman that pushed Apple forward, constantly breaking new ground and changing the way we live our lives in the western world. A true innovator. You only have to watch one of his great keynote speeches to see what we'll all be missing (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBhYxj2SvRI).
Making things that more usable, more intuitive and more beautiful than anything we'd seen before. Things that we didn't even know we needed until we started using them, and then we couldn't live without them. I'd wager that Apple played a large part in this great stat too:
53% of young people would trade their sense of smell for technology
The Apple brand is stunning, the mark is timeless. Always ahead of the game - the iMac, the iPod, iPhone and iPad, iTunes. All amazing inventions that changed the way we communicate and consume our digital media.
Always striving for more and a true great of our time, Steve Jobs will be missed.
hellotank and Mr Marc Jennings (aka www.theundercard.co.uk) have literally moved up in the world. We’re still in the lovely Black Sheep building, slap bang in the heart of Cardiff Bay. Only now we’re in a beautiful, light and airy studio on the top floor.
We’re still in the process of kitting it out with the essentials (vintage console, mechanical robot toys etc.) but already it’s a great place to work.
2 desks available now!
So now we’re looking for 2 nice people to share this space with us. Ideally, 2 people working in a similar creative field so that we can create a collaborative working environment. We are a two graphic designers, working on branding, print, web and digital. We have 2 desks available immediately. Here’s the setup:
- Broadband already setup – just bring your mac/pc
- Rates inclusive of Broadband, utilities and rates
- Shared meeting room
- Super secure building, fully alarmed
- Quiet, light and roomy workspace
- Shared kitchen with dishwasher etc
- Price on application
Give us a shout on mail[at]hellotank.com or on twitter [at]hellotank if you’re interested.
By hellotom | Published:
October 6, 2010
I’ve recently found a slew of things that are uncannily similar to things I have designed. Now I’m not sure whether they are deliberate copies, ‘influenced by’ or pure coincidence. Ranging from colour scheme/format/typeface similarities through to complete possible brand pilfering. Read More »
By hellotom | Published:
September 29, 2010
Not sure how I stumbled across this on vimeo, probably during a brain fail period that usually occurs at 15.27 every weekday when my mouse finger starts straying from important tasks and looks for eye candy on tinterweb. This guy’s work is mind blowing. Created entirely using processing (many many many lines of code to the ordinary person) and synchronised to the music. Words can’t do it justice, check it out here: http://www.vimeo.com/658158
Also, be sure to check out some of his other awesome pieces such as: http://www.vimeo.com/7578615
By hellotom | Published:
September 24, 2010
How do these guys do it? 1 take! 1 take I tell you! Apparently that 1 take took them over 100 attempts to get it right. Stunning choreography once again. If you haven’t heard or seen any of their videos before, where have you been? EVERYONE has seen the treadmill video. My personal fave is the incredible Heath Robinson style contraption video here.
OK Go + Dogs:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHlJODYBLKs
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