LA Design Challenge 2011

Six concept cars channel Hollywood for design inspiration

As part of the eighth annual Design Los Angeles automobile designer’s conference, this year’s Design Challenge tasked six studios from Germany, Japan and the U.S. to design “Hollywood’s Hottest New Movie Car.” Each team—Honda, Hyundai, Subaru, Mercedes-Benz, Maybach and Smart—presented their idea through sketches, renderings, models and even mock movie trailers. As a holistic design challenge—centered around but not exclusive to automotive concept—the competition judged …

Code Cards

Letterpress cards sure to steal the ♥ of any computer nerd

While class=”none” might be the favorite snippet of HTML at the Cool Hunting office, user experience designer Matt Raw takes the humor behind web development languages to new heights with his cheeky set of letterpress Code Cards. Raw created three different cards—Egg Nog Arrays, CSS Happy New Year and ♥—that recall the beauty of Linotype matrices with today’s digital process. Egg Nog Arrays—a recipe Raw …

Geoff McFetridge + Heath Ceramics

The Destroy All Monsters retrospective, Aether's airstream, a zero-waste jacket and more in our look at the web this week

Graphic designer Geoff McFetridge gives his sprightly illustrations new form, hand-painting plates and tableware for the LA outpost of the beloved Californian pottery studio Heath Ceramics. The collection, dubbed “My Head Disappears When My Hands Are Thinking” was done on the fly—a testament to his talent. He tells Creative Review, “Very few of the pieces were based on a sketch, or penciled in before I …