Lyrois

Special Ed.: Purple on Purple

We've had it before. The White-on-White edition was delicate, subtle -- yet still all Lyrois. In the spirit of continuous refinement and improvement, striving to achieve ultimate perfection, today, we're releasing the most elaborate creation yet --

Because black on black has gotten old somehow.

Labels: 2008, announcement, april+fools, art, decoration, lyrois, special+edition

Translating High-Res to Low-Res Graphics

From very high-res vector graphics to low-res pixels in favicons.

Let's see how much we have to remove until the bare minimum, the essence, is left and exposed. Let's see how much we can remove. Let's see what we have to sacrifice on the way.

Check this out: 16 × 16px --

This is the original pic in 320 × 320px --

While the subject of this post is to announce the new favicon -- the little icon that is displayed in your browser's address bar, to the left of this page's URL and in your browser's bookmark list -- it brings along the beauty of simplification.

Here is the 16 × 16px version again, this time enlarged to 320 × 320px --

Now, please go back as far as your room allows and compare the two.

The design of the reduced version of that shape interpretes and translates the characteristics and lines of the original vector graphic. The original flow must survive the reduction in order to recognize the high-res fluid strokes beyond the hard and purposefully not anti-aliased 16 × 16 pixel-grid.

Does it work for you?

Labels: announcement, favicon, lyrois, making+of, miniatures, pixel+art

Introducing the Lyrois S/S 2008 Stylebook

A partial menu for the year 2008, with spring and summer hints on design, fashion, and art projects, as well as signposts pointing to other things yet to come, explore, and create.

Lyrois: The Stylebook Spring/Summer 2008.

A printable PDF-file is available upon request. Here are the pics --

1. The colors: Purple × Black × White (× Aluminum × Vinyl...)
2. Exploring space: Wall decals in human sizes and wallpapers featuring miniature patterns. Big-size shapes mounted to the edges of rooms, tiny ones on the planes of small objects.
3. Speed: Urban, Streets, Raw, Asphalt, Concrete, Light, Motion.
4. Fabrics: Purple patterns printed on white and black fleece.
5. Luxury: Temple, Marble, Gloss, Stairs, Circles.
6. Cropped and square: Shapes in purple, white, and black on exquisite, white aluminum. Special editions in white on white.
7. Custom: Corporate art exclusively featuring this year's colorways.
8. Finite art: Signature-colored miniature shapes on black vinyl.
9. Innocence: Plants, Leaves, Nature, Organic, Delicacy, Moderation.
10. Decoration and store furniture: Vinyl decals and 3-dimensionally laser-cut shapes in colored acrylic glass.
11. Excess: Gargoyles, Creatures, Stone, Spirits, Weird, Strange.
12. Tees and limited edition prints: 3-color-graphics and one-of-a-kind shirts featuring the dancer's logo.

Enjoy and consider yourself teased...

Labels: 2008ss, aluminum, announcement, architecture, art, decals, decoration, fashion, interior+design, lyrois, stickers, stylebook, vinyl, wallpaper