Pizza Vending Machine

This has got to be the most interesting thing I have seen before. Too bad it isn't available all over the works , but only in the UK so far. It's called "Let's Pizza". I saw this on a TV show called "How It's Made" and I couldn't believe that there is such a thing. It' basically a vending machine that makes a pizza in less than 3 minutes. It even has the options for having different pizza toppings.
Here's the website : http://www.letspizza.co.uk/
Or Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4_C1BmT-R8&feature=related
I don't know if this is healthy even though it says "fresh ingredients" but it is a very interesting idea that has been actually put out there. I guess you can never guess what else could be invented with growing technology and design in the future.

Food Photography

I got introduced to a new project to work on with photography, its food photography. As usual, doing some research to see how I could shoot such nice photos. Here's a video from youtube that was actually interesting enough to watch and not boring about food photography that might be helpful for other people as well. http://youtu.be/xpS10LFmilc It's insane how much prep work goes into this. But then its exciting to see what you can learn from a simple video on photography and try it yourself to take professional photos. And here's a page of delicious looking food photography! http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/7iqmiY/:17CMT!l$a:aJvW93qf/punchfork.com/top/vegetarian/

Apple Vending Machine?

Ok so this is very weird video I found on Youtube.. Its a vending machine that carry's Apple products. I feel like its a cool idea, but makes people so lazy to go to the store. And how do you even know this is a safe vending machine that people won't just break the glass and steal instead? Or what if your card gets stuck in it and doesn't come back out when you need it... I feel like this is kind of silly... but never know, some people may like this idea. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_V5UPqX-Cc&feature=endscreen

Logos!

We see logos everywhere, wherever we look. But do they all look nice and look like they are really "working out" for whatever the logo is for. Some people think of making logos that have to be crazy busy looking to get peoples attentions. But instead the logo should be:
- kept simple
- engaging the audience with a simple message
- able to carry this logo on for the future too
- vector based
- adaptable to anything
- memorable
- working well with colours
- unique.
These are some tips I follow myself for making logos, so hope it helps out others who are in the graphic design business too!

Stumble Upon

So I recently decided to just sign up for Stumble Upon. I've seen my best friend have it but never really got interested until I started school again this year. Its interesting and you get spend hours on it unfortunately. I came across this one page as I kept stumbling, http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/16yexA/:1JtbMJhXm:aORm-Xg_/koalastothemax.com/?aHR0cDovL3d3dy5hbWlyaWdodC5jb20vYWxidW0tY292ZXItdGhlbWVzL2ltYWdlcy9hbGJ1bS1CcmFuZC1OZXctRGVqYS1FbnRlbmR1LmpwZw==/ click or copy the link and I hope it shows the website. Its designed pretty cool, anyhow its interactive but you don't have to click anything. Its an image that stores off with one brown dot and it breaks up into more smaller dots and different colours. I wish I knew how todo something like that. I thought this was very unique. Hope you like it too!

phone design

So as many people have already seen on Apple's website recently, there's the new iPhone 5. It has changes on its size when you compare it to the previous iPhone 4 models on the website. When you look at how long this phone is now, would you still buy it? With phone designs, companies tend to go with bigger screen, and thinner body. What about the phones that used to fit in the hand perfectly and in your pocket perfectly with the flip up screens and all? As the new models keep coming out, people are designing them bigger and bigger. Why do we need them with so many features when all you do is talk and text on it. I feel sometimes that the cell phones that are designed these days are taking over the purpose of computers and laptops. In my opinion, I don't hate the new iPhone but I don't know if I like it either, I guess we have to see when you actually hold it in hand. What do you guys think?

http://technorati.com/technology/gadgets/article/iphone-5-apple-reveals-unlocked-phones/

website design

There are thousands of websites out on the internet but not all of them look like they are ready for people to navigate through. Some websites, you can’t even click on anything to go to another page, and some just have things flashing in your face. So, here are some tips I find helpful to make a website:

- include a menu on every page, no one really likes to click the back button 10 times to go to the original page

- don’t put pop ups in your website, we all know how much people hate this, including myself

- don’t put too much information on the website, this is not a novel or an essay, so keep it simple

- put some thought into organizing the pages, the colours, the places of text and maybe pictures

- don’t make your pages very long, no one wants to scroll down forever to get to the bottom of the page

- if you want to put pictures on the website, please don’t put some flashy pictures that are just distracting and makes you not want to visit this website ever again

- have spell check, websites should look professional if you want to keep your business running of course

These are just a few basic points to start building up a website. In the end you should just keep it simple and clean. :)

architectural

When moving from a townhouse to an apartment, there are a lot of adjustments to do, space wise. I feel like the designs made for apartments are not worth the price we pay to rent them. I have lived in apartments way before I came to Canada anyway but I just find them very poorly designed. The one I just moved into recently has closets only in the rooms, which is only 2 closets, in a whole apartment! They don’t have enough storage space, the way the floor plan is done, oh especially the interior design aspects of it too. What also sucks is that you can’t really change the colours for the walls, which makes me feel like I just live in a white carton box. I would like to give the apartment my own touch with my creativity and maybe do a design on the wall. The bad part besides the designs of these places are that the price we pay for it. Maybe for some apartments its great, but for some small apartments, I don’t understand why they ask for such high price.. anyone else agree with me?