Below is a news article about the recent Chopsticks Club 15th Anniversary Celebration.
As you can see it is in Chinese, so if you are unable to read it, use Google translate for a rough translation, or even better find someone to translate it for you – enjoy!
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Today sees the beginning of the Games of the XXIX Olympiad in Beijing and with it comes the 27th logo* to represent a city’s hosting of the Games.
From the iconic logos of Mexico 68 (designed by Lance Wyman) and Munich 1972 (designed by Otl Aicher) to the controversial logo for the upcoming London 2012 games (designed by Wolff Olins), the Olympics has inspired designers throughout the world to produce some intriguing and brilliant logo designs.
The ‘Unofficial 2008 Beijing Olympics Blog’ has collated an extensive list of all the Olympic logos from 1896 through to the logo for London’s hosting of the Olympics in 2012 (logos for the Winter Games are omitted but can be found here). It is interesting to see which logos have the longevity of a true timeless classic and which logos immediately feel outdated.
Of course the true Olympic logo that will never feel outdated is the logo of the five coloured interlocking rings designed in the 1920s by Baron Pierre de Coubertin. With each ring representing one of the five continents and at least one of the five colours appearing in every national flag, it has to be one of the greatest logos ever created and a true example of simplicity and excellence in design.
The opening ceremony begins at 13:00 (BST) and the Games run until 24th August.
[*The three missing logos belong to the 1916, 1940 and 1944 Games which were all cancelled because of war.]
As part of ‘The Good Design Plan’, a new three-year national strategy for design by the UK Design Council, leading figures in the design industry offer their definition of good design in a new video.
One of the contributors is Nick Leon, Director of Design London and a client of TheFrameworks. The video (included above) highlights the five objectives for the council:
- Business and public service innovation
- Public and community engagement
- Design skills development
- Design policy and promotion
- Organisational and operational efficiency.
Google has launched a new 3D application to challenge Second Life. Named Lively, the application allows users to create their own virtual characters, and build land and buildings from simple houses to exotic islands.
Google’s attempts to take over the online world and expand beyond their traditional search engine business seems to have no sign of abating, but they may find it difficult attracting users away from Second Life, which has been running for the last five years and is believed to have more than 12 million active users.
Check out Lively for yourself, and write a comment to let us know what you think.
Yesterday we attended the opening of the new exhibition at the Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art.
Frozen in Time consists of over fifty extraordinary vintage photographs and multi-plate panoramas from pioneering mountaineer and photographer Vittorio Sella (1859-1943). Together they demonstrate not only Sella’s skills as a mountaineer but also his ability to give a real sense of the immensity and beauty of his subjects.
TheFrameworks is proud to sponsor the design of the Estorick Collection’s exhibition materials and website.
Frozen in Time runs from 25 June – September 2008. It’s a fantastic exhibition so be sure to check it out.
Further information is available at www.estorickcollection.com/exhibitions and the latest email newsletter designed and built by TheFrameworks can be viewed here
