*********LIL'ELIN*********
My name is Elin Aram and I am currently a student at the digital media school HyperIsland.se. Get in touch w/ me: elin.aram@hyperisland.se OR follow me at twitter.com/lilelin
Susan Kare is the graphical designer behind iconic icons for both Apple and Microsoft. I had both a Pc and a Mac as a youngster, and my heart is pounding equally as hard for both of her work.
Nowadays, this 55-year old designer is busy working with icons for Facebook.
(Inspiration from Hall of Femmes)
Usually, when companys hire artists to make a hit song about a new product release - I tend to just ignore it. But not this time. Samsungs new Amoled screen release has been made into a GREAT song by South Korean Son Dambi and the group After School.
Introduced to me by Tor. We drank umeshu (plum wine from Japan) and tried to learn the lyrics yesterday.
A bum scared me to death and made me laugh the whole way home from the platform station tonight.
I was standing and playing a game on my cell, waiting for the subway.
Suddenly someone comes up from behind and yells “BU!” (boo i english?) about one centimeter from my face. I scream and get so shit scared that i could almost burst into tears. I look up at the person who just scared me and I see a bright smiling bum. I start to laugh out loud and he walks away, waving and smiling.
I am very happy that he took his time to scare me.
I like this ad by Noko Jeans. Instead of putting some skinny girl/guy in jeans on the cover they choose to write about Pyongyangs (only?) hotel where they have been staying during their trips to North Korea.
Beside the fact that I like the three founders behind the brand very much, I also respect them from breaking the laws about how a fashion brand should act.
If you don’t know what I’m talking about, go to their website heeeeeereeeeeeeee.
Haha, I stumbled upon a picture of my own hands when reading Lisa C:s blog @ Rodeo.net. Can you see them? In the right corner.
A couple a weeks ago I assisted Erik for his work for Jc.se. The result has not yet been shown, but l think you can see for yourself what it is going to be like. The hands were painted as fantasy animals. The purpose was to show next springs jewelry collection.
Eternal helium balloons. The idea of making temporary things eternal is very appealing. It reminds me of the joy I felt when I bought a cotton candy machine a couple of years ago. Just the feeling of being able to eat cotton candy whenever I wanted was like a piece of freedom.
Here is a picture of the eternal helium balloons by Clémentine Henrion, a french designer.
Ouff. I went to Färgfabriken @ Liljeholmen to check out the venue where we will be presenting our business idea to venture capitalists. But there was more to discover. I fell in love with a painting of a floppy disk hanging on the wall.
I was organizing Hyper Bar last week. It was a blast.
The theme was nigerian scam letters. I pulled some real nigerian scam letters from 419 together with Leijon and just tweaked it a bit to fit our bar. Azin did the layout for the invitation.
I love it in the end where this guy notes that every response through the telefax must report a reference number. The picture is small but I hope you get the idea. We then faxed out this letter/invitatation to the other art/advertising schools in Stockholm.
I like to use digital thinking in an analogue way. It is like you are stripping down spam letters in a way where they seem even more useless than before. Faxing spam also takes a lot of time.
For the next bar I was thinking of celebrating the minidisc as the long lost format of music.
Dj’s for Hyper Bar was me, Azin and great music video producer Atli Viðar Þorsteinsson.
Me faxing the world, Azin Ashourvan filming and editing.
This was done a late afternoon when we realized that we actually had to fax the schools we were inviting to our bar. Azin got the camera and captured the moment.
