Bruce Mau Design redesigns the Facebook profile page
“We invited Bruce Mau Design, a firm famous for its conceptual ambition, to reimagine what a Facebook page might be. To signal that they were aiming at more than a cosmetic redo, BMD’s design director Paddy Harrington and his team left many of Facebook’s graphic details intact…” —via The Washington Post
the Sukkah gets a modern day redesign
“Twelve architects compete to redesign the ritual holiday hut…A village of high-concept lean-tos is about to sprout in Union Square. The gathering of bulbous and bristling huts, variously built out of rattan, grass, wire, cardboard, hemp, and wooden slats, may resemble a camp for design-conscious refugees. In fact, it’s a group of avant-garde sukkahs, the devotional huts that observant Jews erect each fall in commemoration of the desert days, when their ancestors were homeless nomads…” —via NY Mag
The 12 winning Sukkah City designs will be on view at Union Square in NYC starting September 19th. Only the winning entry will be on display for the full week of Sukkot and up through October 2nd.
(the above Sukkah was designed by THEVERYMAN)
Dowling Duncan submits a unique currency redesign concept for Richard Smith’s Dollar ReDe$ign Project.
“…We have kept the width the same as the existing dollars. However we have changed the size of the note so that the one dollar is shorter and the 100 dollar is the longest. When stacked on top of each other it is easy to see how much money you have. It also makes it easier for the visually impaired to distinguish between notes…”
—Dowling Duncan on the proposed redesign for US bank notes
Newman’s Own packaging redesign by Alvin Diec (student work)
(via TheDieline.com)
Toy Story 3 revival for the classic Fisher-Price Chatter Telephone
With the release of the new Toy Story 3 film Disney/Pixar also launched a new line of toys for kids. The new Toy Story 3 branded Fisher-Price Chatter Telephone is another slight redesign of the 1961 version which has already seen numerous iterations throughout the years. Possibly the biggest difference with the new toy is that it runs on AA batteries, and it allows you to “dial” Toy Story 3 characters Woody, Buzz Lightyear, and Rex.
It was surprisingly difficult to find a good photo online of an original 1961 model of the Chatter Telephone. The photograph above is from Collectique’s Etsy page.
The Radial Fin Cup: a redesign concept for the coffee cup
“58 billion paper cups are thrown away - and are not recycled - every year. In a contest hosted by Jovoto, and partly sponsored by Starbucks and Core77, the Betacup project has the goal to find the best ideas to eliminate paper cup consumption. What could be a more sustainable alternative? This entry, by Miller Creative, solves this problem, in a realistic, manufacturable, and eco-friendly way…” —The Dieline
The Tony Award trophy gets a redesign (spoof)
“…The Tony statue, designed by Herman Rosse in 1949, is a pedestal with a hanging medallion that is etched on one side with the masks of comedy and tragedy and on the other with the profile of the actress and director Antoinette Perry, the award’s namesake and a founder of the American Theater Wing…Concepts for the New Tony varied wildly: Milton Glaser’s squat figure, Jonathan Adler’s golden banana, Winterhouse’s applause sign with audio…” —excerpt from And the Banana Goes To… article in NYT
We really like the humor in Milton Glaser’s new ‘Tony’ design and the bold “Applause” trophy by Jessica Helfand & Knowlton (Winterhouse) , and Pensa presents a beautiful concept.
(slide show featuring all 6 of The New Tony designs via NYTimes.com)
