Typography is Design
Typography is crucial in any design. What is Typography?  Typography (Etymology: typos—type, graphos—written) is the art and technique of arranging type, type design, and modifying type glyphs. Type glyphs are created and modified using a variety of illustration techniques. The arrangement ...
DIY Graffiti!
Do it yourself Graffiti? Yes, now you can create your own Graffiti online via The Graffiti Creator, its a Flash application that allow you to make your own graffiti-styled logotypes. Simply type in a word and outcomes a designed font ready for you to modify into beautiful art. Use different tools ...
Office War Weapons – Bring On The Fight
So every now and then we have a vendetta to get off our chests with a co-worker. We all do, that's just how it is. What better then to just get it all out in a little "Office War". Imagine having a trebuchet at your desk or a slingshot to shot your choice of ammunition at your co-worker to tell him/ ...
3 Fascinating Flash Mobs
I love flash mobs. I don’t know if it’s the creativity and talent or the element of surprise that gets me, but I’m completely fascinated by them. I have noticed a correlation between the popularity of flash mobs and the popularity of social media. I did not know that these two things offici ...
The Quest for Inspiration
This is kinda a HP advert I suppose for one of their new laptops - but its a great look into the mind set of how a creative, err, creates! Â Inspiration is something people really chase after but most of the time the best inspiration leaps out from the unexpected!
You will see in this wonderful ...
Unique Packaging
Its always a treat to find unusual package designs. Designing packages can be very tricky. It must convey the essence of the product and must also be visually enticing for consumers to actually look closer. There are so many cool and unusual packaging out there and these are just samples that ...
How to Cook Pancakes! or Not?!
What is your favorite breakfast food? Mine is pancakes. And just recently I have discovered lots of ways that people prepare them. Some are outrageous, others just downright funny.
Presenting the ChefStack Automatic Pancake Machine. Flapjack lovers, rejoice. Now you can make fresh, 97% fat-fr ...
Coca Cola Rockets – Awesomeness Defined!
Who doesn't like Coca Cola? Who doesn't need a Mentos every once in a while? Well, if you put them together you get what's called a "Coca Cola Rocket" and they are awesomeness defined. Never again do you have to be bored if you have a Coca Cola and a few Mentos and no movie to watch.
Take the two ...
Are You An Airline Geek?
I just learned about a new sub-species of geek this week. It is the classic airline geek.
According to the Washington Post, airline geeks are “…frequent fliers who chase inaugural flights because they adore airlines, airplanes, even airports. They seek to be part of airline milestones.†U ...
Edible Sculptures
A few years ago I sent my dad a book called "Play with your food." I love the creativity behind all of the funny creatures and characters that are revealed in this book, and since then, have evolved into collections of 'food sculptures.' They remind me of Michealangelo's comment about the sculpture ...
Lifesaver Bottle
During the twin tragedies of the Asian tsunami and Hurricane Katrina, Ipswich water-treatment expert Michael Pritchard winced helplessly at televised coverage of throngs of refugees waiting for days for a simple drink of clean water. Stricken by the chronic failure of aid agencies to surmount this b ...
Create Your Own Time Lapse Video
Mac World Video's Rob Griffith explain two ways of creating time-lapse videos, one easy and free, the other more complicated and time consuming. Here at bitrebels, we also want to give our readers the chance to do stuff on their own and now here are 2 videos with a step by step guide as to how you ...
What Happens? – Liquid Nitrogen & Dry Ice in Pool
Remember the scene in Terminator 2 when the liquid police officer (the bad guy) get caught up in liquid nitrogen and freezes and then breaks? Well, that was pretty cool but special effects can do so much right. So what happens in real life if you put Liquid Nitrogen and Dry Ice into places they don' ...
Beware: Fleshy Robot Hand
At the Tokyo International Food Machinery and Technology Exhibition in June, a very cool robot chef wowed the crowd. His name was “Chef Robot†(how creative). This robot, which was really more like just a robot hand, could even handle delicate sushi. Here’s the kicker, this robot had a very ...
Modern Architecture on an unexpected street.
Modern architecture has always fascinated me. I love the use of materials, textures and shapes, which I also consider in my own artwork as a designer and sculptor. A new 2300 sqft residence in Bangalore (India) recently caught my attention. The architects (Cadence) cast the street-facing walls in co ...