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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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DateWednesday, May 30, 2012 at 3:34PM

360 degree rainbow 

My uncle Rod, who lives in San Antonio Rio Hondo, Belize, was out for a swim last week. When he looked up he saw an amazing sight: a circular rainbow around the sun. For some reason the sun itself came out six sided (probably due to the lens of the camera). 

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DateTuesday, May 29, 2012 at 12:43PM

Katie Stout table

Who wouldn’t want to eat their Hungry Man TV dinner on this side table? Made of plastic school lunch trays by designer Katie Stout. 


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DateThursday, May 24, 2012 at 8:48AM

Cut from the same cloth

You may remember our previous entry about Magnolia Editions’ re-invention of the tapestry. Well, Mararten Baas from the Netherlands has created something cut from similar cloth. To coincide with Remembrance Day on May 4th, his piece called 780.559 is a 190 foot-long tablecloth containing the names of each resident of the country. All 780,559 of them. Associate Bertjan Pot engineered the project, developing a custom font called Font of the Loom, which allowed the names to be woven on the fly. For more wefting action, check out the making of video. 780.559 is now living in the Amsterdam Museum. Thanks to Co.Design for the heads up.

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DateTuesday, May 22, 2012 at 9:13AM

Going Gone Gorilla

One of sixty gorilla sculptures created to celebrate Bristol Zoo’s 175th birthday. Creative agency, 375, commissioned Tom Lane of GingerMonkey to produce custom lettering relating to the bushmeat trade in Africa. The life-size sculpture was then covered in heat-sensitive black paint to make an interactive show-piece located in the heart of the city center. 

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DateFriday, May 18, 2012 at 9:22AM

Østersøen

I’m taken with the charming hand-made feel of this music video from Lorenzo Papace. 

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DateFriday, May 11, 2012 at 8:51AM

Air Jordan by Tom Lane

Tom Lane’s slam dunk package design for a new limited edition ‘Year of the Dragon’ Air Jordan shoe. “What started out as a packaging job then snowballed after the first round of visuals. Eventually my work got incorporated into the shoe design, bag, some apparel, and a few more things to come.”

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