Through Open Eyes

Happens all too often.
Ideas need time to be massaged and allowed to percolate to become great. Blue sky thinking is where great ideas come from.. not living w/in restraints :P

Taiwan’s EVA Airways now has two Hello Kitty branded Airbus A330-200 for domestic flights. Wow, they're really pushing the Sanrio cuteness with themed food, bath products, and other graphics like boarding pass and menu. I wonder if flight attendants and pilots dress in Hello Kitty uniforms for these short, domestic flights...?

I recently flew EVA Air from HKG to TPE. The short 2 hour flight was a comfortable, seamless experience :)

To raise awareness of the dependency on rainwater for drinking in the dry region of Northwest China, the Lotus Light Charity Society together with Grey Hong Kong designed an umbrella bag that (as it fills with water) illustrates how much water is needed to fill a single, small cup.

Three different messages were printed on the bags to emphasis the effect of the cup filling up on the bottom:

• It takes half a day for people in China’s arid regions to get this amount of clean water.
• People living in China’s arid regions call this pure water.
• In China’s arid regions, a child gets less water than this a day.

hilarious! and awesome :)

What a brilliant use of packaging to create something so much more than the product itself:

"I created this spaghetti packaging for a university project last year. The brief was to package one of 5 difficult items i.e. eggs, a rose, custard powder, spaghetti or marbles. I chose spaghetti. The spaghetti sits on a 3d model of the chrysler building that was modelled on CAD by my friend Ben Thorpe. And then modelled out of high density foam at uni. Creating a spaghetti model of the Chrysler building!"

Designed by Alex Creamer, a student at the University of Central Lancashire in the UK. Two more images after the jump.

Jer Thorp's new project, "Good Morning!" visualized 24 hours of "Good Morning" tweets across the globe.

Each of the tweets has been color-coded by time--green tweets are early morning, local time; orange occurs somewhere around 9am; red tweets are late morning; and black represents Tweets that are "out of time," meaning that they don't correspond with actual morning hours.

"Computer art by German artist Eno Henze" http://www.enohenze.de/
Love the fluidity and the colors...Computer art looks like fabric!

Danish Designer Lene has created a capsule collection of patterns that can be used together to softly transition one print to another seamlessly within a room. It is quite unlike anything I have seen before and I think the ability to define interior spaces with a merging pattern {rather than two entirely different ones} is a fantastic and unique idea, especially with so many people living in open-plan housing and apartments these days!

Beautiful concept for wallpaper to transition from 1 space to the next! Simply lovely.