{"id":5278,"date":"2019-08-30T12:56:38","date_gmt":"2019-08-30T16:56:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ceros.com\/inspire\/?p=5278"},"modified":"2021-04-21T10:13:17","modified_gmt":"2021-04-21T14:13:17","slug":"the-best-things-we-saw-in-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ceros.com\/inspire\/originals\/the-best-things-we-saw-in-august\/","title":{"rendered":"The Best Things We Saw in August"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading Time: <\/span> 3<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>\n

August is a notoriously slow news month, as most of Europe escapes on holiday and America bundles up in over-air-conditioned offices. But somehow, the designs keep coming. Check out our favorite discoveries of the month. 
<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The New Fashion Plate<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Perhaps you\u2019ve been inspired by the inventive methods employed by Hong Kong protesters to evade facial recognition. Or maybe you just simply want to fuck with the man. The line of clothing from Adversarial Fashion<\/a> is designed to trigger and scramble Automated License Plate Readers, \u201cinjecting junk data into the systems used by the state and its contractors to monitor and track civilians and their locations.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Cancel Noise Cancelling<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Frog Design has been responsible for designing everything from the Apple IIc to the website for Vogue Italia. Now they\u2019ve take a stab at the ubiquitous (and lucrative) world of headphones, with a prototype wireless earbud that promises to be less isolating than the current line of headphones. As the designers explain to VentureBeat<\/a>, \u201cWith these on, people will still feel free to come up to you and ask you questions, or maybe you can talk to a cashier without having to take them off. It\u2019s a different use case if you have a headphone that you never have to take off.\u201d
<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Beyond the Border<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

There\u2019s a lot that gets cropped out of that 2\u201d x 2\u201d square photograph that adorns our passports. Photographer Max Siedentopf\u2019s series \u201cPassport Photos<\/a>\u201d takes a look at just what could be going on while you\u2019re sitting for your official document photo, infusing a bit of self-expression into an otherwise dead art. (Via Kottke)
<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Ridley Scott\u2019s Competition<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Future Punk has created an absolutely brilliant series of fake commercial spots<\/a> for iPhones as if they had been launched in 1984, modeled after the earliest Macintosh models. Best of all, you can get access to the 3D model files used to create the \u201cprototypes\u201d, so that you can print out your own retro iPhone, via Gumroad<\/a> or Patreon<\/a>. 
<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Representative Democracy<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Last month we shared with you Soffa Sans<\/a>, a typeface based on the silhouette of an Ikea couch. This month we\u2019re bringing you a more decidedly political font \u2014 The Gerry<\/a>. Anonymously designed, The Gerry creates letterforms out of America\u2019s most heavily gerrymandered Congressional districts. The result isn\u2019t all that attractive, but then again, the process of manipulating the popular vote isn\u2019t so pretty either.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A sociable makeover for those ubiquitous earbuds, the most retro Iphone ever, clothing that scrambles the surveillance state, and more.\n<\/div>\n

<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":91,"featured_media":5307,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nThe Best Things We Saw in August - Ceros Inspire<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Our monthly overview of the best branding, advertising, and creative innovations we saw in the design world during the month of August.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ceros.com\/inspire\/originals\/the-best-things-we-saw-in-august\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Best Things We Saw in August - Ceros Inspire\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Our monthly overview of the best branding, advertising, and creative innovations we saw in the design world during the month of August.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ceros.com\/inspire\/originals\/the-best-things-we-saw-in-august\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Ceros Inspire\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-08-30T16:56:38+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2021-04-21T14:13:17+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ceros.com\/inspire\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/08\/ezgif.com-optimize.gif\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\">\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Guy Cimbalo\">\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\">\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\">\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ceros.com\/inspire\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.ceros.com\/inspire\/\",\"name\":\"Ceros Inspire\",\"description\":\"Just another Ceros Sites site\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":\"https:\/\/www.ceros.com\/inspire\/?s={search_term_string}\",\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\"},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ceros.com\/inspire\/originals\/the-best-things-we-saw-in-august\/#primaryimage\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.ceros.com\/inspire\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/08\/ezgif.com-optimize.gif\",\"width\":667,\"height\":599},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ceros.com\/inspire\/originals\/the-best-things-we-saw-in-august\/#webpage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.ceros.com\/inspire\/originals\/the-best-things-we-saw-in-august\/\",\"name\":\"The Best Things We Saw in August - Ceros Inspire\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ceros.com\/inspire\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ceros.com\/inspire\/originals\/the-best-things-we-saw-in-august\/#primaryimage\"},\"datePublished\":\"2019-08-30T16:56:38+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-04-21T14:13:17+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ceros.com\/inspire\/#\/schema\/person\/894d1ef05d519585cd6856bf90f246d6\"},\"description\":\"Our monthly overview of the best branding, advertising, and creative innovations we saw in the design world during the month of August.\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.ceros.com\/inspire\/originals\/the-best-things-we-saw-in-august\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ceros.com\/inspire\/#\/schema\/person\/894d1ef05d519585cd6856bf90f246d6\",\"name\":\"Guy Cimbalo\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ceros.com\/inspire\/#personlogo\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/1c3b0ab6e33465e8127de523f87fff21?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Guy Cimbalo\"}}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ceros.com\/inspire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5278"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ceros.com\/inspire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ceros.com\/inspire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ceros.com\/inspire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/91"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ceros.com\/inspire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5278"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.ceros.com\/inspire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18252,"href":"https:\/\/www.ceros.com\/inspire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5278\/revisions\/18252"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ceros.com\/inspire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ceros.com\/inspire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ceros.com\/inspire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ceros.com\/inspire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}