Posted by: Søren
in Design on Sep 11, 2011
The invisible airbag bicycle helmet Hövding has just received the worlds largest design award, INDEX. Hövding is a bicycle helmet unlike any other on the market. It’s ergonomic, it’s practical, it complies with all safety requirements and it’s subtle and blends in with what you are wearing. I will have to get one of these for my girlfriend!
Check out how it works below:
Posted by: Søren
in CMS on Jul 15, 2011
For the last month or so I have been trying to understand the open source cms Drupal7 and even build a site myself.
At the advertising agency where I work we just launched a Drupal based website for one of our clients, and sometimes it's just very nice to have an idea of what is going on behind the design of a website.
Posted by: Søren
in CMS on Jul 09, 2011
For the last couple of months I tried to learn the CMS Drupal7, which I now can see, is an ever continuing process. Normally I consider myself an quick learner when it comes to techy stuff like getting around in CMS, but with Drupal7 I suddenly felt like a non techy person - reading tutorials, watching YouTube videos just to get started. To put it simple. Getting into Drupal7 as a Drupal beginner is not easy.
With Drupal7 I sometimes felt, and still do, as I had to start all over again. When I felt I could manage all the basics, new problems arised (e.g. How to manage the module views). But every start is hard and after spending quite some time setting up a pretty minimal website I am starting (slowly) to see the beauty in Drupal7.
Posted by: Søren
in Design on Sep 29, 2010
Vogue Hommes Japan has recently launched an interactive platform together with Dior Homme. The interactive platform is based on GIF pictures in black and white. Off course. Dior Homme is involved. The output is really cool and too much - typical Dior style.
Because of the GIF feature you can watch it on an iPhone or iPad. Check out some of the GIF's from Vol. 1 below.
Posted by: Søren
in CMS on Jul 23, 2010
The other day my browser landed on the website Gonelive.dk and if you are a web consultant or just like to discuss Danish websites and CMS you found the place. Gonelive.dk is all about interesting websites produced by various advertising and online agencies in Denmark. A great place to see and discuss Danish CMS based websites.
Visit Gonelive.dk here.
Posted by: Søren
in CMS on May 24, 2010
Joomla! CMS has in many ways been outperformed by Wordpress and Drupal when it comes to the amount of minimal and aesthetic websites found on the internet. Joomla! CMS is mainly used for communities and website portals - where the website works as an information portal whereas you see many Wordpress based websites in categories like fashion, design and lifestyle magasins and blogs. I believe Joomla! has more functionality and outperforms Drupal if we are talking an user-friendly backend and easy learning curve, but when it comes to beautiful front end and design Joomla! seems to be the loser - because there is a not a lot of beautiful Joomla! based websites out there.
Designers and people working with aesthetic normally choose another platform than Joomla!. And I guess it is because you experience so many bad designed and "more is more" Joomla! websites out there. Keeping things simple and clean is not a first priority for many Joomla! programmers and designers - which is of course a big mistake.
Posted by: Søren
in Design on May 17, 2010
It is no secret I rather live in a hipster home than a no hipster home. But according to the very satirical blog Unhappy Hipsters - hipsters are not happy. The blog, Unhappy Hipsters underline their point taking images from the architecture and design magazine Dwell, and interpret the emotional states of the people in the photos.
The point is: Why are these hipsters so unhappy when they live in fancy modern design houses and apartments - which is supposed to make them happy? Anyways - the blog is great fun and the houses pretty cool. Visit the blog here and read more about why hipsters are unhappy in modern houses here.
