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Formula for LomoChrome Purple 400 film reworked

25 May

LomoChrome Purple 400 – first announced in 2013 – has been reformulated and should now have improved sensitivity at ISO 400, a more refined grain and better rendering of red hues. Inspired by classic infrared film, it uses C41 processing, making it an accessible way for analog shooters to try their hands at this style of photography.

Are these improvements to LomoChrome Purple 400 related to an overall increase in market demand for film? It’s hard to say. The good new is Purple 400 is now better than ever and will still shift your blues to green, greens to purple and yellows to pink.

Bad by Design: Everyday Objects Reworked to Frustrate Users

03 Sep

[ By WebUrbanist in Design & Products & Packaging. ]

frustrating watering can redesign

They say great design is in the details, so what would happen if you were to twist a key element here or tweak a core feature there? As it turns out, rendering an item relatively frustrating (but still functional) is quite easy and at times fairly humorous as well.

stacked fork frustrating design

sideways key

handled pot

backward borom

In an ongoing series dubbed The Uncomfortable, Katerina Kamprani “decided to create and design for all the wrong reasons. The goal is to redesign useful objects making them uncomfortable but usable and maintain the semiotics of the original item. Vindictive and nasty? Or a helpful study of everyday objects?”

distorted seat

frustrating seatback design idea

bent chair sloped seat

Much of her work deals with the most common items we use everyday, from tableware and cookware to keys and chairs, each recognizable but distorted, usable but difficult.

concrete umbrella

chain fork useless plate

hinged silverware functionless design

wine glass shape design

frustrating mug

Adding hinges and chains to spoons, forks and knives readily defeats their purpose, as does bending the handle on a mug or adding a nose-bumping extrusion to a wine glass. While the works are conceptual renderings, some are for sale as art prints and many others could be 3D printed as gag gifts, too.