Minimalistic Posters Of Major Art Movements

Graphic designer, Outmane Amahou has created a series of minimalistic posters for your viewing pleasure, in which he pays tribute to major art movements throughout history.

































































[via 123inspiration]

Machine Prints Food Smells On Postcards

China-based Zhu Jingxuan, a student from Donghua University’s Fashion & Art Design Institute, has created a concept device that captures pictures and aromas of food and prints them on postcards.



The ‘food printer’ is a combination of a camera, a smell extractor and a printer: the camera takes the picture of the food; while the smell extractor collects the aroma of it simultaneously; and the printer prints a postcard with aroma ink.



Zhu’s idea behind her food printer is so that people can capture the fragrances of food when dining overseas, and send it to friends back home—so that they can experience the cuisine visually and aromatically.



The system would work using an aroma sensor, which would analyze the smell of the food and simulate it by mixing different aroma inks stored in the machine.



When the right formula is achieved, the smell would be printed onto part of the postcard.



“I spent several months designing it,” Zhu told China Daily. “What I completed was just an idea and draft sketch. Without the help of Sony’s designers, I could not have made the model.”



The food printer was created as part of Sony’s Student Design Workshop.













[via China Daily]

Ad Agency Creates 3D Popsicles In The Shape Of Pop-Culture Characters

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Lobnya, Russia-based ambient ad agency Stoyn designs and manufactures three-dimensional pop-culture popsicles—to spur conversations about the relationship between culture, art and commerce.



The ‘Stoyn Ice-Cream’ line features frozen treats in the shape of Darth Vader, Che Guevera, Mario and Mickey in various flavors and colors.



Its latest line ‘Stoyn Ice-Scream’ will be in the shapes of characters from ‘80s horror movies, such as Chucky, Freddy andJason.



Would they be giving you nightmares?













































































[via Stoyn]

‘Zombies’ Released In NYC As A Protest Against Satellite Broadcaster

As a protest against Dish Network and their decision to drop television channel, AMC and its popular ‘The Walking Dead’ series, the network decided to stage a protest—by unleashing the ‘horde of undead’ upon New York City.



Actors were put through extensive ‘zombie’ make-up and before being ‘let-loose’ on the streets of Manhattan as a sign of protest.



The zombies were disguised as police officers, postal workers, hot dog vendors and civilians—scaring commuters and pedestrians around them.



The purpose of this campaign was to raise awareness that Dish no longer carries the AMC network—meaning Dish subscribers will no longer be able to watch programs such as ‘The Walking Dead’, ‘Mad Men’ and ‘Breaking Bad’.



The video asked viewers if ‘zombies could live among us?’ and they had ‘transformed a few New Yorkers to find out’ the answer.



After countless numbers of scares, the video concludes with a zombie dragging a Dish Network satellite and the message “Zombies don’t belong here”, “Put them back on TV”.



Do you think AMC’s ‘scare-tactics’ will work?



















































[via Put Zombies Back]

The Map Of The Internet

Russian programmer Ruslan Enikeev has taken the time to document websites and make a map of the internet—so you won’t get lost.



The Internet Map features 350,000 websites—in the look liken to planets—and how they relate to each other.



Like Google maps, The Internet Map lets users zoom in and out, and search for specific 'locations' on the internet.



But unlike real maps, the objects shown are not aligned on a surface.



“Every site is a circle on the map, and its size is determined by website traffic,” Enikeev wrote, “the larger the amount of traffic, the bigger the circle. Users’ switching between websites forms links, and the stronger the link, the closer the websites tend to arrange themselves to each other.”



Each site is also color-coded by its country of origin. For example, US sites are colored teal/light-blue.



And as one could expect, there are lots of porn sites.





































[via The Internet Map]