Penguin Creative http://penguincreative.com Wed, 02 May 2012 14:46:17 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Ridiculously Imaginative Playgrounds http://penguincreative.com/2012/05/ridiculously-imaginative-playgrounds/ http://penguincreative.com/2012/05/ridiculously-imaginative-playgrounds/#comments Tue, 01 May 2012 19:31:24 +0000 Lee http://penguincreative.com/?p=3668 Continue reading →]]> Danish firm Monstrum, founded by Ole B. Nielsen and Christian Jensen, are responsible for some of the most brilliant playscapes I’ve ever seen. From life-size blue whales, giant serpents and wobbly castles, any one of these would have been a dream come true as a child. See many more examples in their project gallery.

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]]> http://penguincreative.com/2012/05/ridiculously-imaginative-playgrounds/feed/ 0 Extreme wide angle lens http://penguincreative.com/2012/04/extreme-wide-angle-lens/ http://penguincreative.com/2012/04/extreme-wide-angle-lens/#comments Thu, 26 Apr 2012 00:41:51 +0000 Lee http://penguincreative.com/?p=3657 Continue reading →]]> A rare fisheye Nikkor 6mm f/2.8 lens, which offers the “world’s most extreme wide-angle” and is worth £100,000, has gone on sale at Gray’s of Westminster in London

First introduced in 1970 at the Photokina trade show in Cologne, Germany, the Fisheye-Nikkor 6mm f/2.8 lens offers an angle of view of 220º making it, at the time, the “world’s most extreme wide-angle lens to cover an image area of 24x36mm.

Lens production started in March 1972, and was only made available to special order, says Gray Levett, a co-founder of Gray’s of Westminster. He and Tony Hurst spend “six month on the trail of this lens and finally located it overseas,” he says. “We were fortunate in securing it and it is now on sale for £100,000.”

The lens is in mint condition. It uses 12 glass elements in nine groups and weighs 5.2kg. It has a minimum focussing distance of 25cm and features a slip-on front lens cap and is delivered in a rugged metal case.

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]]> http://penguincreative.com/2012/04/extreme-wide-angle-lens/feed/ 0 Impossible Buildings http://penguincreative.com/2012/04/impossible-buildings/ http://penguincreative.com/2012/04/impossible-buildings/#comments Wed, 25 Apr 2012 16:58:09 +0000 Lee http://penguincreative.com/?p=3630 Continue reading →]]> Barcelona-based artist and photographer Victor Enrich created these intriguing works of art through a combination of photography and 3D digital rendering. With over a decade of professional experience in the 3D architectural visualization field, Victor is able to bring a true sense of photorealism to his ‘impossible’ buildings.

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]]> http://penguincreative.com/2012/04/impossible-buildings/feed/ 0 Double Story Posters http://penguincreative.com/2012/04/double-story-posters/ http://penguincreative.com/2012/04/double-story-posters/#comments Tue, 17 Apr 2012 19:59:03 +0000 Lee http://penguincreative.com/?p=3617 Continue reading →]]> Amazing Poster Series Campaign “Come with a Story and Leave with Another” by Bogota-based graphic design studio Lowe-SSP3. Can you decipher the two stories each poster mixes? Descriptions below..

Snow White and Sherlock Holmes

Harry Potter and Troy

Little Red Riding Hood and Moby Dick

]]> http://penguincreative.com/2012/04/double-story-posters/feed/ 0 Hipster Branding http://penguincreative.com/2012/04/hipster-branding/ http://penguincreative.com/2012/04/hipster-branding/#comments Thu, 12 Apr 2012 21:48:10 +0000 Lee http://penguincreative.com/?p=3576 Continue reading →]]> If your favorite brands were run by hipsters, would their logos wear skinny jeans?
Thanks to graphic artist Dave Spengeler and his Tumblog Hipster Branding, we now have some idea of what the logo of Red Bull or Adidas would look like if it was designed by someone with a square-framed glasses aesthetic.

Goldman Sachs gets the American Apparel treatment, while even mega-corporations like McDonald’s and Motorola suddenly seem like they were sprung straight out of hipster hotspots like Portland, Oregon or Brooklyn, New York.
























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]]> http://penguincreative.com/2012/03/flying-babies/feed/ 0 Dear Photograph http://penguincreative.com/2012/03/dear-photograph/ http://penguincreative.com/2012/03/dear-photograph/#comments Mon, 19 Mar 2012 16:39:42 +0000 Jeff Schuette http://penguincreative.com/?p=3492 Continue reading →]]> Finding myself in a nostalgic mood as I’m looking through the amazing collection of photos of old photographs at Dear Photograph. Memories are powerful. Reading some of the stories behind the photos made me tear up a little. Hope you enjoy the pictures below.


Dear Photograph, It’s been 50 years since I wore

Dear Photograph, This New Year, I wish they could

Dear Photograph, These are my parents after they

Dear Photograph, I’d travel any road that life

Dear Photograph, Those were the days, when Mom

Dear Photograph, over 25 years later, the house is

Dear Photograph, At the time it was not common

Dear Photograph, Grandma and her sister dug a


Dear Photograph, I wouldn’t be who I am today if

Dear Photograph, Twenty years later, I still look

Dear Photograph, I wish I could be sitting there

Dear Photograph, If only I could hop on my

Dear Photograph, I wish we could say goodbye to

Dear Photograph, If I could turn the corner in


Dear Photograph, Nan and Grandad were young at

Dear Photograph, I learned to walk on that

Dear Photograph, Some things never change

Dear Photograph, There’s a reason we had to

Dear Photograph, There has always been a little

]]> http://penguincreative.com/2012/03/dear-photograph/feed/ 0 Vinyl Desserts at 33 RPM http://penguincreative.com/2012/03/vinyl-desserts-at-33-rpm/ http://penguincreative.com/2012/03/vinyl-desserts-at-33-rpm/#comments Thu, 08 Mar 2012 09:30:48 +0000 Lee http://penguincreative.com/?p=3467 Continue reading →]]> This is what you get when you cross beautiful desserts spinning on records at 33rpm. Who would have thought candied pear with sweet red wine reduction would look so good spinning to ”Jolene” by Dolly Parton? A great collaboration between photographer Phillip Karlberg and Chef/Stylist Mattias Nyhlin. You can even listen to the playlist here on Spotify.

”Jolene” by Dolly Parton: Candied pear with sweet red wine reduction.

”If I had a heart” by Fever Ray: Raspberry sorbet, mint ice cream and fig.

”Where is my mind” by The Pixies: Pannacotta.

”You can call me Al” by Paul Simon: Fruit carpaccio.

”Nuthin but a ‘G’ thang” by Dr Dre feat. Snoop: Pancakes, chocolate mousse & cream.

”Don’t look back into the sun” by The Libertines: Sundae surprise.

”Here I go again” by Whitesnake: Cheese cake with jelly.

]]> http://penguincreative.com/2012/03/vinyl-desserts-at-33-rpm/feed/ 0 Fancy a Beer? http://penguincreative.com/2012/03/fancy-a-beer/ http://penguincreative.com/2012/03/fancy-a-beer/#comments Wed, 07 Mar 2012 15:43:02 +0000 Jeff Schuette http://penguincreative.com/?p=3443 Continue reading →]]> DeuS Brut de Flandres

DeuS Brut de Flandres – Belgium

Original 16

Original 16 – Canada

Grimm Brothers Hare’s Bride

Grimm Brothers Hare’s Bride – USA

McLaren Vale Beer Company

McLaren Vale Beer Company – Australia

<br /> Hilliard’s Beer

Hilliard’s Beer – USA

Brooklyn Black Ops

Brooklyn Black Ops – USA

Scotts Brewing Co.

Scotts Brewing Co. – New Zealand

Daas Organic Beer

Daas Organic Beer – Belgium

Braufactum

Braufactum – Germany

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