Red Pepper Flakes. A blog by Imelda Suriato

Ping: Social Networking Garment

Yes, Ping is a social networking garment concept developed by Electricfoxy. It connects to your Facebook account wirelessly and from anywhere so you can stay connected to your friends and groups of friends simply by performing natural gestures that are built into the mechanics of the garments we wear.

“The concept prototype was built on the Arduino Lilypad platform and used a variety of sensors including flexible sensing and conductive threads that are flexible, sewable and washable. The wireless capability was built using the Lylipad Xbee.”

Wearable technology is pretty cool. Maybe a little TMI. What would you call the activity? “Styling” as oppose to “texting”? It could bring back vogue-ing. 🙂

“Look, mom… no Flash!” 04.15.10

Beautiful site from Mike Matas who was a designer at Apple. Super simple yet the fact that it’s not Flash made it stunning. Take a look at this video explaining the interface of the new site.

BokicaBo‘s website shows smooth implementation of sliding background and a nice progressive image preloading. Homepage is kinda blah but the slickness of the navigation and detail layover offset any inkling of disappointment I have over some of the design elements.

I really appreciate this Appear site. Super nice preloading, rollover/expand/close toggle, font replacement… A little chugging here and there, but seriously, kudos to the guys at Appear.

PUMA’s Clever Little Bag

First, my favorite sneakers brand Puma ditched their shoe box. It took 21 months, 2000 ideas and 40-plus packaging prototypes to pore over for the perfect replacement: Clever Little Bag,  a new sustainable packaging system for Puma sneakers designed by Yves Béhar and his team at fuseproject. Read more on this clever and earth-friendly initiative plus some estimate stats  on Clever Little Bag’s impact.

Clever Little Bag is part of puma.safe, one of the three programs within the brand’s social and green-themed initiative PUMAVision: Because a better world in PUMA’s vision would be safer, more peaceful, and more creative than the world we know today.

PUMA believes that its position as the creative leader in Sportlifestyle gives it the opportunity and the responsibility to contribute to a better world for the generations to come and I’m glad it’s not just green or benefit/aid channels — puma.creative is to support artist and creative organizations. Check it out.

Fun Retro Web

Check out this animated gif galore at I’m Not An Artist. I remember the days I had to make many animated gifs.

It was back in 1999 and they’re these teeny-tiny animated-gif stamps for Eastern Mountain Sports’ e-card campaign. These mini banner ads are to be placed on the corner of  send-to-friend email templates and I had to actually come up with banner concepts and copy. Oh, and there’s one for every sports they cater to: snow-shoeing, mountain-climbing, skiing, kayaking… The list didn’t seem to end. I was really sick of animated gifs after that.

On the other hand, Love Creative site is a throwback to Powerpoint 97. Remember those cool wipe-out or dissolve transitions that used to make you go “ooohhh!” because you thought those are dope? They have all of them. Very retro indeed.

The Heads of State’s Travel Posters

Nice travel poster series from the talented duo The Heads of States. I like a lot of their work, like the hypothetical Legal Weed packaging assignment from Print Magazine and the many book cover designs.