Dante

Another illustration post but worth posting. I found this on the Creative Review blog, they are some designs for some Dante book covers and thought they were really nice, even better that they are turned into some nice posters.

I Love You To The Moon and Back

Another post differnt to the time theme but really enjoyed it. This is a poster by Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard which is large detail of the inlay cards Iain and Jane sent each other. I love the detail, the scale, the handwriting, the thought behind it and the delivery in the photograph. I'd love to incorporate something like this.

La Boca

Completely different to the other posts but I found some work by design agency La Boca and thought it was brilliant. The majority of their work is illustration for album artwork and magazine layouts. Most notably for electro group Simian Mobile Disco and psyhedhttp://www.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gifelic/electronica group Emporer Machine
Here are some of my favourites:

Emporer Machine - What's in the Box
Simian Mobile Disco - Remixed
Simian Mobile Disco - I Believe
Tom Tyler - Foward Going Backward
Emporer Machine - Aimee Tallulah is Hypnotised

Their Blog

Life Clock

Betrand Planes has done a Life Clock which is the same size as a normal clock but instead of having 1-12 numbers it's got 0-77ish and doesnt run at normal time but is really slowed down representing an average life-span. Interesting variation on the others I've posted.

Mirror Digital Clock

Albin Karlsson has done a massive installation which is a series of 28 hanging mirrors controlled by 28 motors to tell the time.

Time/Tesco Drawing

This is cheap clock bought from Tesco's stripped down to it's basic parts masking taped to a piece of paper with a Tesco felt-tip pen attached which makes a twelve hour drawing. It is still in the same vein as the previous posts but completely lo-fi in comparison with the mechanical installations. An interesting idea and wouldn't be as good on it's on but something like this would be good as a part of something bigger. (The link goes straight to Eivind Soreng Molvaer's site and you need to click on the 'Various' drop-down menu and chose 'Time/Tesco Drawing'. There is also another piece on the same drop-down menu called 'Time/Cress Clock', which is interesting.)

Mono Chrono Pneumatic White

Mono Chrono Pneumatic White - Sculpture from House42 on Vimeo.
This is amazing! A huge scale clock that looks about 12 ft high, beautifully designed and functional.

Big Crunch Clock

This is the Big Crunch Clock. Again part of the same exhibition this time it is a "digital clock that counts backwards the five billion years left before the the sun explodes... it is designed to funtion with solar energy-the same energy that will one day destroy it" (Lodown magazine no. 61 p113)

Perfect Lovers

Here is another piece from the vvork curated installation by Felix Gonzalez-Torres 'Untitled' (Perfect Lovers) The clocks are in sync which I love but the photo makes it with the colour wall and the lighting

Beautiful Times

I saw this in issue 61 of Lodown magazine and thought it was brilliant. It was part of something curated by vvork and there are other examples. I want to do something inspired by this: an interactive installation to do with digital clock numerals.