Danish designer Sebastian Campion has created The Urban Cursor project in an effort to get the public to explore the link between our physical and digital realms.

Behance is a company that organizes the creative world to make ideas happen. Every Wednesday, Behance shares 5 fresh art and design projects from their network with PSFK.

Behance is a company that organizes the creative world to make ideas happen. Every Wednesday, Behance shares 5 fresh art and design projects from their network with PSFK.

Oxfam International, a non-governmental group dedicated to the fight against poverty and social injustice, tapped Spanish design study Hey for a series of promotional shirts, posters, and other cause-worthy accoutrement. The studio’s designs use clever iconography, typography and vivid color for a look that is as visually arresting as the important issues behind them. More images from the commission can be seen at Hey’s project site.
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In Spain Pepsico’s Lay’s chips not only have a rather surprising Jamon flavor but also a rather surprising Bolsa de Suerte promotion. The “good luck bag” campaign dreamed up by Tiempo BBDO consists of little scratch cards in each of their bags of chips. With them you can either win a free bag of chips or cash. Pepsico are giving away 3,000,000 free bags of chips, which should say something about their margins on the stuff. The campaign, if my Spanish has not left me completely, aims at letting people who have never won anything win something. Free chips [...]

“Las Ramblas” in Barcelona is well known because of its tourist-packed beaches, Barrio Gótico, Raval—and for its Human statues. People flock to them for photos and amusement, to the extent that the city council wanted to oust the performers for causing too great a scene. This week Barcelona’s Comical Week took  place (La Semana Cómica de Barcelona.), and Christian Lopez performed his own “statue” supporting their cause.
Click below for footage of one of the ’statues’:

Written on the human statue’s board: “I’m a hyperactive kid, right now what I’m doing is praiseworthy.

High speed bullet trains are eclipsing airplanes as the preferred method of intercity travel in Spain. Traditionally, air travel was the way to traverse the long distances (typically 300 miles apart) between cities in the large country. Barcelona and Madrid are 410 miles apart, which previously helped create the busiest air travel route in the world. But in February of 2008 the new 220 mph train system linked up the two cities, and ridership has boomed. With a faster travel time, less delays and a lighter ecological footprint, more people are getting on board the train system.
Wired reports:
Airlines carried 72 [...]

The latest project from Spanish design company Luzinterruptus, Personal reading in public sites attempts to make passers-by rethink the usability of typically uninviting and hidden urban spaces.  Luzinterruptus’ ‘intervention’ was carried out on the particularly freezing night of January 5, installing twelve lamp and detective book combos throughout Madrid.
Hidden places in scaffoldings, a homeless sleeping-place, a box office of an old cinema which closed years ago, the emergency exit of a theater under construction, the interior of a small concrete container, a bus stop in a commercial street at night, a condom machine after it has been looted, an entrance [...]