Really neat CGI “flythrough” by Cristobal Vila that depicts the construction of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater and provides some interesting views of the building. Even though its a digital rendering, its a pretty neat video.

Via Clusterflock

Make Your Franklin is a community creative project out of France where some folks redesigned the old “C” note. Some really interesting designs, including a few slightly NSFW. Clearly my personal favorite is the one above. :)

Via Designboom

For the 2012 NFL season, the league will be switching over from Reebok to Nike as the official uniform supplier/designers for the 32 NFL teams. I don’t know how legit these concepts are, but here are all sorts of uniform concepts/suggestions for each of the NFL teams from a user named Lil Phil on Flickr.

AFC East
National Football Conference (NFC)
Full Set of Photo Concepts

What I like about all of the uniforms is that there is a similar style or motif to each of the uniform designs, while still keeping the distinct and unique attributes of each of the team brands.

This is just brilliant. So simple.

tie tea cup.

You may have heard about The Gap’s recent inept attempt to redesign their logo. To demonstrate just how poor the decision making was there, the fine folks at ISO50 held a Gap Logo Redesign Contest, reaching out to the broader interweb design community to submit their own redesigns for the iconic logo. The results are, in my humble opinion, spectacular…with a couple of snarky designs thrown in for good measure! Just some amazing designs that reinforce just how bad the one that The Gap chose really is.

It appears that the geniuses at The Gap are now backpedaling on their decision making processes.

And for those few that really do like the new logo, you can generate a logo of your own right here.

In keeping with my post the other day about the compact kitchen, here is another all in one solution: a portable desk set made of EPS foam that includes a table, *two* chairs, lamp, storage and electricity. I can’t say this looks like a very comfortable workspace but the design and engineering behind it is pretty impressive.

Via designboom

Cool concept designs for Doritos packaging. It moves far away from the traditional bag and it would stand out big time on the vast store shelves of your local supermarket. I’d be curious how they would execute this for the smaller single serving packages, but that’s not my issue.

Via PSFK

Designer Fabio Novembre has installed fake fiberglass Fiats on the streets of Milan. Each fake car has a tree sticking out of it, thus contributing to reducing the carbon footprint.

Via PSFK

Then this week, Tropicana did an about face on a much more costlier change they made. Recently they released a new design platform for their brand and packaging and it was widely lambasted by critics and, most importantly, its customers. Today they announced that they would revert back to their more popular and pedestrian “orange with a straw in it” package design. On a side note, I don’t know who is advising or making the package design decisions over at Pepsi, but man, they are getting hammered.

These are again two very different but still clear demonstrations of how word of mouth and the power of customers coming together, rising up, and providing a big single fingered salute to companies will drive positive change.