knock knock – who’s there? banana! banana who?

what’s the perfect banana? the brown one, the green one or the yellow one?! people like this fruit in a different way. I prefer a green banana because a brown pulpy banana made me throw up in my childhood. and now my life is affected by a paranoia. and how can people eat a fried banana (this one is even with ice cream ahhh)? you get these often in a chinese restaurant as a dessert. that gives me the creeps. anyway, I am in the mood of some banana topics because I found 2 pictures of bananas in my archive while I’ve been working on a new portfolio.

banana-gun
how to make a gun out of a banana? I am curios what kind of ammo I need for this one

straight-banana
here is the proof: bananas aren’t always curved

banana-juice-naoto-fukasawa
yo get what you see – banana juice – clever packaging from naoto fukasawa

stefan-sagmeister
the banana wall, an installation from stefan sagmeister – I never expected him to do something like this – but you never can tell

I was really fighting with myself about posting or not posting this, but I need to show it. obviously its a german invention (or a chinese one). and how can they write ‘ ideal for kindergarden, school..’ – I would never give that thing in the hand of my child. it looks so kinky it cries out for a reference in an ann summers or beate uhse catalogue.

banana-bunker
banana bunker by erro ‘design’ – be ashamed when you carry this in your bag

dutch vs. german: installed photography

last night I have been at the nike store opening in berlin mitte. a nice store and a bunch of people wearing nikes. artwork of diffrent creatives were shown. could not find something that I liked but one. there was this sarah illenberger creation and I immediatly had to think about my beloved maurice scheltens. it’s not that sarah is coping him but I see a striking resemblance (I guess I see a link between the work in the nike store and the one maurice did for psp. check my post from february about maurice’s work) I do not need to say that the dutch wins again, its obvious that he is stronger by use of form. maurice is doing that with an easiness and without adding any unnecessary extras.

sarah-illenberger
sarah illenberger in the nike store berlin

mcforest_gestalten
sarah illenberger – mc forest

kustermann11
sarah illenberger – lauter nette kerle

SARAH ILLENBERGER

VS

MAURICE SCHELTENS

nike
maurice scheltens – nike (hey, everbody wanna work for them)

fantastic-man-packing
maurice scheltens – fantastic man packing

audi
maurice scheltens – audi

WHAT DO YOU PREFER?

holidays: f*** blogging (just for couple days)

I am back from poland (my stomach is resting from the vodka and the food masses) and in berlin right now. enjoying the big city feeling – a huge contrast to the little village I ‘ve been in the last days. I will go on with the fun time. that’s what I need right now. lalala

holidays

traditional allegiances: polish wedding marathon

no post in 3 days – why? I am in poland, swiebodzice (my place of birth) and celebrating a 4 day marathon of 2 weddings. first vodka at 4 pm the last one 12 hours later in the morning (but the constantly served food helps to handle it) I’ve been at a lot german weddings but there is no comparison to a real polish one, which is full of love and warmth and a lot of laughter.

polish-wedding-marathon
weronika and andrzej

the bridegroom has to take of the bride’s suspender with his teeth (one of the funny games you do for entertaining the guests)

family guy meets aha: take on me, take me oooon

how cool is that – there is an aha video included into one of the family guy episodes. to be honest, it is one of the best videos ever and also a good 80ies song. thumps up for the instructive and brilliant family guy and for the song which was sold 1.5 million times worldwide in one week.

family-guy-aha-videomorten harket (aha) + chris griffin (family guy)

the video used a pencil-sketch animation/live action combination called rotoscoping (individual frames of live video are drawn over or colored)

new designers: who needs links and information?

I could say that It’s so long since I’ve posted something. 4 days.. very long run. at present I am hanging around at my parents place, herdecke – germany, and they have trouble with the internets. so now I arranged my ‘summer office’ at a friends place in dortmund (he is in possession of the magic internet) where I will spend the next couple nights (the days are too hot) to work on some projects. unfortunatly I forgot all content, asides from the pictures, of the new designers at my home in the netherlands. like I use to say: ‘daring the gap’! – check out the pictures without any further information (or just less) from the newdesigners graduation show in london.

nick-sims
nick sims – graphic design – really average?
(ok, some information)

adam-rowe adam rowe
I do not like the design realisation but the idea of deleting the legs and giving a ‘podium’ to the armchair makes the barock chair a perfect throne

alice-in-wonderland
bad, bad design. I would not even buy that for my kids (if I would have some) but I am a of alice’s adventures in wonderland

baby-ganster
baby gangsta clothes. kinda cool.

cable-system
thats great. not my colours but it helps to distinguish the diffrent cables in the power socket – a solution for a every day problem

tinfoil-table
a tinfoil table. leaves markes when you use it.