Brand66

Just what the world needs: another blog from another self-important design guru. Brand66 is a design discussion presented by — me, Michael Rylander. Over the years, I've been lucky enough to work on some the world's great brands, like Apple, Sony, BMW, Fortune, and American Express.

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Transmediale

Love this crazy animation for Transmediale, an annual festival which celebrates the relationship between technology and culture.

45 RPM wedding invitation

And the award for Most Creative Wedding Invitation That Comes With its Own Sound System goes to …

Designer Kelli Anderson wanted to create something magical for the wedding of friends Karen Sandler and Mike Tarantino. Folded just so, the card turns into a manually operated paper record player that plays a song recorded by the future bride and groom.

Details about the trials and tribulations of creating the piece at Kelli’s site.

Lego, meet Hitchcock 

The detail in these brick sculptures from !snap! is amazing. And incredibly, no Legos have be alter, painted, or cut. Each diorama consists of 110 to 130 thousand pieces and took around 600 hours to build. 

“The third installment of this abandoned house series continues its textural exploration of decay with a Victorian home engulfed in mud. The mud travels through the first floor, tears down a front wall and oozes over the porch side, taking with it the contents of the house.” — Mike

 

Sticker shock

This installation for the Gallery of Modern Art in Brisbane is simultaneously a modern art home run and an interior designer’s nightmare. Artist Yayoi Kusama constructed the large home environment and painted it white. Over the course of two weeks, the museum’s smallest visitors were given thousands of colored stickers and were invited to collaborate in the transformation.

The Obliteration Room runs through March 12. Via Colossal.

Fibonacci on ice

Jim Denevan’s mission was to create the world’s largest work of art. His canvas? The world’s largest lake. Jim and his team decorated 9 square miles of the frozen Siberian lake with circles based on the Fibonacci sequence. The result is, in a way, less impressive than the process. Crew members had to brave sub-zero temperatures and hurricane-force winds. Some of the gusts were so strong, they actually blew away the art work. The project was recorded in a documentary and book.

Honda Motor Compo

On exhibition at the 2011 Tokyo Motor Show is this foldable electric scooter, from Honda. The Motor Compo’s total length and height are under 39”, making it easy to pop in the back seat or trunk. It also features a removable battery designed to be used as an emergency power source in case of disaster.