Cup & String

Cup & String: The no nonsense network for people who just want to make phone calls.


-- Post From My iPhone

Idea: The Guerilla Bread Co.

I'm going to start a guerilla bakery.

We will trim a metre of wheat from the edge of every local field and use the flour we make from it to make bread.

No particular reason... just to keep overheads down really.

I'm learning a new skill

Summer is lovely.

I've worked for a month so I've earned a little money.

I bought a new bike and I've been riding a lot.

and I'm learning to programme, I'm currently learning objective C and can make very basic iPhone apps. I'm hoping that it can make me a little more self sufficient and I'm sure it will come in handy at some point.

I must say it is very interesting, and a refreshing change to sketching ideas as a final outcome.

The In-Book Awards

Well hello there, I've now finished my second year of uni. Quite a scary, yet motivating thought. Things have been good since I last posted, noteworthy of which, I got my work for Mini into the D&AD Student Awards Book. I was elated, until it dawned on me... My parents, brother, sister, grandad, grandma etc. are going to want a copy of the book. The thing is, there is no book. I know, D&AD take my £12 and in return I get nothing physical; just a mention on their website.

This is not right.

Which is why I am now formally announcing that I am starting my own awards body...

The In-Book Awards 2010.

The difference is, The In-Book Awards does have a book. In fact the book is the award, your own personal 8 page book with your work in it, IN A BOOK!

The entry requirements are that you won an In-Book in the D&AD Student Awards. Anybody who enters automatically wins.

Luckily, Leah Klein, former Creative Director of Wired Magazine, taught me how to bind books last year in a workshop, so I'm going to be a bit busy.

I'm going to make some booksleeves and then get a website registered and start promoting this. Hopefully it will get me a bit of coverage. And the best thing is, the people who get in book are likely to be the best creative students who are likely to be getting jobs soon, so I'll hopefully be getting some good contacts.

I'll keep you updated,
Dan

Insiration can come to you at any time

Which is why you must always be prepared.

Just a few initial ideas, but a pen on the handle end of a toothbrush with a toothpaste notepad, so if you ever get that killer idea while staring at yourself brushing your teeth.

This could be used as a campaign for a student competition, maybe YCN or student D&AD.




I'll think of some more examples soon,

Dan

A book I made

These are a few pages I designed for a project at uni. We had to design and make a book. I made mine the same size as an iPhone and put it in an iPhone case. The idea is to leave the book around on benches or tables so people think that they have found an iPhone. When they look closer, they realise that it is a book called "The Day I Found an iPhone" which is about somebody who has found an iPhone and is trying to find it's owner.

This is my entry for the Roses Student Awards

Since it's past the deadline, I thought I'd share my ideas with you for the Roses brief. The brief I chose was to redesign the £5, £10, £20 & £50 notes. You only had to use the queens face.




In case you can't open the images,

"The handshake has been used as a way to seal the deal for centuries. It is used to show equality, confirm the transfer of goods or just to say hello. It transcends cultures all over the world.

Nowadays, we are so used to making transactions through credit cards that we have lost the personal connection in making a deal. We no longer have to get to know who we are trading with or have any physical contact with them.

The new notes are designed so that in order to use them, you have to get back to being personal in your business deals.
The design encourages bartering, which has never been a part of the reserved english culture.

It takes influence from the culture of the Kurdish farmers in Turkey, in which traders shake hands for the whole period in which the deal is taking place."

"The new system takes its form as a ring which is worn on the right hand. In order to start a transaction, the two parties hold hands as they are about to shake. The two rings begin a Bluetooth connection. The harder the person grips the hand, the more money is set to be transferred between the traders. When the right amount is reached, the two shake hands, this transfers the monetary value between the rings and the transaction is complete."

"The ring changes colour the more or less money is on it.
£5 - Wood
£10 - Bronze
£20 - Silver
£50 - Gold"

"ATM machines have been redesigned as a result, the new design features a prosthetic hand coming out of the wall. The hand can be set to different pressures to withdraw set amounts of money. It also uses fingerprint technology to ensure that identity theft is eliminated."

Hopscotch in Central London Video

My Design for the Wagamama competition

Hands of the world, unite! (creating the wagamama logo)

The Creative's Playground

Hello guys at Dare Digital, I hope you are well. Feel free to look through my ideas on this blog and email me some feedback too if you wish.

My friends Steff Cirignano, Alex Marking and Jess O'Shea came and helped me this morning so keep an eye out for any of their work in the future.

Check out Alex's blog at alexmarkingwhat.blogspot.com

-- Post From My iPhone

I'm available for placement 16th November

A bit of shameless begging here, but I have a week off from uni between 16th November and 20th November. I am more than happy to do a placement during this time, so if you like my ideas and can see me fitting into, or standing out of your company, please send me an email on dan_pape@hotmail.com.

Thanks
Dan

Work: Image/Strapline

This week at uni, one of the old tutors of our course has returned to give us some hardcore advertising 101. The first project we had, we were given a strapline and an hour to come up with a visual that would "be a D&AD winner." I was given the line "The Sexiest Underwear" for Anne Summer.

Here's what I came up with...



When the hour was up our work was layed on the floor and arranged into either the good, average or shit pile. Dave liked my piece, he put it into the good one.

Idea: Cinema Accessibility iPhone App

When you get into a cinema it would automatically pair up to a Bluetooth connection which would then mean that using your iPhone you can access extra accessibility options. For the hard of hearing there could be synchronised subtitles on the iPhone screen and for the hard of seeing there could be automatically sychronised audio commentary explaining what is happening on screen. Also you could have directors commentary for film buffs. When a phone rings in the film your phone would ring too and what the person hears comes through your phone. A bit of exclusive insight.


-- Post From My iPhone

Idea: Lemsuck

Cough sweets made by Lemsip called Lemsuck


-- Post From My iPhone

Russian Packaging

With a box this big, what would you expect to have been posted?

A years supply of cashew nuts? Gordon Brown's head? A copy of every episode of Have I Got News For You? on VHS?

No, it was in fact a new harddrive for my laptop. About the same size as an iPod.

It's given me an idea though, Post The Parcel, like pass the parcel but you play through the post with all your old mates when you've moved around the country.






-- Post From My iPhone

Summer Project: Typographic Quote

For uni I need to find a quote that sums up my philosophy on life, I've had a few ideas so I'll put them up on here and if anyone on my course reads it, let me know which one you think is the best and has the most typographic opportunity.

"Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of idea is a obstacle." - Ken Hakuta

"Then I remembered that these men didn't seem any cleverer than I was: they were highly trained, that was all. If one worked hard enough, one could master anything." - From Islands in the Sky by Arthur C. Clark

R.I.P. Black Canvas

Today I threw out a piece of art I did a few years ago, the monolithic black canvas. It will be dearly missed, as will my then planned career as a fine artist.

Idea: iTunes Boy Racer Car

I had this idea when one of those boy racer cars went by with really loud music on, and I'm sure these guys have some kind of complex where they just want everyone to listen to their music too, to share their passion. Well, that's all good and well Mr. Racer, but even if we do acknowledge your musical taste and share it, we don't know where we can get a hold of this music because we don't know the title. So here is my idea...

A boy racer car that is sponsored by iTunes, it would have apple logos on it and underglow and just look like your average boy racer car. It would be an experiential form of advertising, i guess. It would drive around with super loud music on, although it would have displays around it with the track title and artist on, and a simplified link to download it on iTunes. This way if people hear the music and think, that's quite nice, then they can check out more songs by that artist and download the album. Maybe have a bluetooth message sending it out too?

That looking down on life feeling

Do you ever get that feeling where you actually think about life and being a human and what it's all about? I just got it for the first time in a long time. It's quite a nice feeling. I get it when I read philosophy books. I guess philosophy makes you take a non anthropocentric point of view of the world. It also means you can learn long clever sounding words like that one. Gettng that feeling makes you get more done too because you take a less sentimental, emotional look on life. Haha this is a rather deep post...

I've had an idea recently, I'll post it up in a bit



-- Post From My iPhone

Placement

I'm doing a placement this week at Zag, in house branding agency at BBH, but due to a 3 page confidentiality agreement this message will be edited in part.

The first few days have been so ■■■■■■! It's been a really ■■■■ experience. It's definitely the first time I have ■■■■■■'d a ■■■■, although I plan on doing it again at uni. In fact to be ■■■■■■ I've tried a lot of new ■■■■s. Some quite ■■■■■■. I felt slightly uncomfortable when I was asked to ■■■■ in front of the whole team but when they ■■■■ the ■■■■■■ it didn't ■■■■ so much. Tell my family I ■■■■ them and I am being treated ■■■■.

D■N