Graphic Design  

Graphic designer and illustrator YoAz has created “Electro Animals,” a collection of colorful animal illustrations made of geometric, electric circuit-like designs.

French graphic designer and illustrator YoAz has created “Electro Animals,” a collection of colorful animal illustrations made of geometric, electric circuit-like designs. More of the awesome designs as well as detailed closeups of the work can be viewed at YoAz’s Behance portfolio.

It was Philip K. Dick who asked Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? and while Yo Az doesn’t appear to be robot. the artist dreams up electric creatures from a few slightly different species.

 Animation  

Check out this wonderful series of Disney cartoon scenes superimposed on their real life models.

T his series of images features some of the classic Disney cartoon scenes superimposed on their real life model that were used. It is not clear if the actors' movements were used for rotoscoping, but the actors clearly influence the animation.









SOURCE  Retronaut

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 Design  

Carl de Smet has developed a concept for self-assembling furniture that’s just as cool to watch. Once removed from the box, his block of smart foam quickly unfolds and stretches into a perfectly useable chair.

The armchair up top was created Belgian designer Carl de Smet. The furniture is made of a smart polymer that "remembers" its shape, even after being compressed down into a tiny little box.

The technology arrives at a dynamic moment in materials design. With 3D printing becoming affordable enough to use for more than just prototypes, other designers, entrepreneurs, and researchers are either reviving older techniques that the 3D printing craze has overshadowed or introducing even newer concepts, like 4D Printing another smart materials concept rolled out at TED last month.
The trick to the polymer's shape-memory is heat, which de Smet demonstrates in the BBC video below by warming the material to 158 degrees Fahrenheit. "The material is the mechanism," he says. "Finally, the material is doing the work."—


SOURCE  Fast Company Co.Exist

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  Open Source Design  

Industrial designer Tom Dixon and Dassault Systèmes have teamed up to create the first open design competition based on a modular concept. Dixon will give participants access to the design files of new products, and challenge them to re-configure and remix into different functional objects.

Industrial designer Tom Dixon and Dassault Systèmes have teamed up to create the first open design competition based on a modular concept.

In a bold move, Dixon will give participants access to the design files of new products, and challenge them to re-configure and remix into different functional objects.

This new modular rapid manufacture concept leverages 3D printing technology to create junctions, which will then be combined and assembled with aluminum tubes to complete truss-like structures.

3D printing, which was previously limited to small parts, can now be used to create real life products - such as furnitures for instance. This concept will lead to unique and innovative objects.

Tom Dixon

"Disrupt being the theme of the MOST Salone 2013, this design hacking contest is a natural way to go! Thanks to online social 3D Experiences, anyone can be a designer today and express creativity," said Dixon.


The concept is also relying on the fact that the various parts and "joints", may be 3D printed to give life to the final creation. The contest will start on April, 8th and we will accept submissions until June, 30. The winner will be chosen by the jury on July, 31st. —

The winning entry, chosen by a jury including Tom Dixon, will receive an iPad, his concept 3D printed and assembled and featured at the Maison & Object trade show in Paris.


SOURCE  Disrupt Design

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 Film  

Plot Point Productions has strung together classic and iconic shots where the actor has his or her back to the camera in the center of the frame.

In a stunning edit of Hollywood films, Plot Point Productions has strung together classic and iconic shots where the actor has his or her back to the camera in the center of the frame.

After seeing this inspiring video, you will understand the power of the shot.

Jason Silva says of the piece, "This is just DRIPPING WITH AWE."

The music used in the piece is, "God Moving Over the Face of the Waters" by Moby.

The movies are:

00:05 - The Aviator
00:10 - The Legend of 1900
00:12 - Synecdoche, NY
00:15 - The Shining
00:17 - Beyond the Black Rainbow
00:19 - Once Upon A Time In Anatolia
00:22 - Baraka
00:24 - Walk The Line
00:25 - The Runaways
00:26 - The Fifth Element
00:28 - Dark City
00:29 - Hamlet
00:30 - Network
00:31 - Black Swan
00:34 - Lenny
00:35 - Dennis Leary: No Cure For Cancer
00:36 - Bronson
00:37 - Fantasia
00:38 - Southland Tales
00:40 - The Iron Lady
00:41 - Hugo
00:43 - The Searchers
00:45 - Prometheus
00:48 - Event Horizon
00:50 - The Fifth Element
00:53 - Doctor Who: S01E02
00:55 - Sunshine
00:57 - Tron Legacy
01:00 - Stargate
01:02 - Starman
01:04 - Kundun
01:07 - Enter The Void
01:09 - Inglorious Basterds
01:11 - Watchmen
01:14 - Sin City
01:16 - Gangster No. 1
01:18 - L.A. Confidential
01:21 - Christine
01:23 - Hero
01:26 - House of Flying Daggers
01:28 - Akira Kurosawa's Dreams
01:31 - Predators
01:33 - Alexander
01:35 - Kingdom of Heaven
01:37 - There Will Be Blood
01:40 - The Cell
01:42 - Valhalla Rising
01:45 - Snow White and the Huntsman
01:47 - Alexander
01:49 - Immortals
01:52 - John Carter
01:54 - Troy
01:57 - Thor
01:59 - The Matrix Revolutions
02:04 - The Abyss
02:08 - Event Horizon
02:13 - Watchmen
02:18 - Another Earth
02:23 - Take Shelter
02:27 - Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
02:32 - Constantine
02:37 - War of the Worlds
02:46 - Close Encounters of the Third Kind
02:48 - Knowing
02:51 - Hero
02:53 - 300
02:56 - Take Shelter
03:01 - Beasts of the Southern Wild
03:03 - The Proposition
03:06 - Snow White and the Hunstman
03:08 - Interview with the Vampire
03:10 - Alice in Wonderland
03:13 - Heat
03:15 - Rendezvous with Rama (Vancouver Film School trailer)
03:17 - Star Trek Generations
03:19 - Minority Report
03:22 - Skyline
03:25 - Inception
03:27 - X-Men: First Class
03:30 - Carrie (2002)
03:32 - The Day the Earth Stood Still
03:34 - Hamlet
03:36 - Valhalla Rising
03:39 - Jericho S01E01
03:41 - The Divide
03:44 - Dark City
03:46 - The Day the Earth Stood Still
03:48 - Mission to Mars
03:51 - Life of Pi
03:52 - The Fountain
03:58 - Fight Club
04:03 - Pan's Labyrinth
04:07 - The Empire Strikes Back
04:12 - Gone with the Wind
04:22 - What Dreams May Come


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 Graphic Design  

Tasty Placement's infographic provides some good food for thought if you’ve hit a roadblock on your latest logo design.

Tasty Placement took a look at the world’s top 100 brands to determine which fonts, colors and formats were the most popular choices.

Their infographic provides some good food for thought if you’ve hit a roadblock on your latest logo design.


Tasty Placement based their research on the latest Forbes list of the world’s most powerful brands. Since brands frequently change or update their logos, our study reflects only the logos featured on the list. The color white was not included as a design feature if other colors were present. Apple’s white logo was the only exception.

The team found that most brands opt for a blue logo featuring the world’s most popular sans-serif font, Helvetica. Serif fonts ended up being the least used typeface, although it hasn’t stopped Google from being listed as the #5 top brand in the world.

 

SOURCE  Tasty Placement

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 Books  

Timothy Samara's book, Design Elements: A Graphic Style Manual, available in print and on Kindle is simply the most compact and lucid handbook available outlining the basic design principles of layout, typography, color usage, and space.

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 Design  

Design visionaries Peter Diamandis, Cameron Sinclair, Eve Blossom, Christine Furstoss, Brian David Johnson, and Mickey McManus give their thoughts on the role of designers in creating a better world.

Design visionaries Peter Diamandis, Cameron Sinclair, Eve Blossom, Christine Furstoss, Brian David Johnson, and Mickey McManus give their thoughts on the role of designers in creating a better world.

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  Casey Reas  

Artist Casey Reas uses software code to express his thoughts—starting with a sketch, composing it in code, and witnessing the imagery that it ultimately creates. Using the software he helped to create, Reas uses color to convey emotion and movement.

F or Casey Reas, software is the most natural medium to work with. He uses code to express his thoughts—starting with a sketch, composing it in code, and witnessing the imagery that it ultimately creates.

In the video above, Reas is at work his studio where he uses color to convey emotion with his programming language Processing. —

Together with Ben Fry, he created the software while at MIT, and it is now used by thousands of artists and designers worldwide.

A former student of John Maeda, Reas is an artist whose conceptual and minimal works explore ideas through the contemporary lens of software. Reas’s software and images derive from short text instructions explaining processes that define networks.

Reas attributes his involvement in the creation of the programming language Processing to Maeda’s book, Design by Numbers however while Maeda tends to be considered a “digital” designer, he has consistently explored the boundaries—and possibilities—of varying expressive modes, from pencils to computers, and his reputation, until recently, was built on his penchant for innovative thinking and an insistence on making computation accessible to all.

 Takahiro Iwasaki  

The artwork of artist Takahiro Iwasaki consists of small buildings and electrical towers that are excruciatingly small and delicate. The Japanese artist creates sculptures from the unexpected materials like electrical tapes, toothbrush bristles or towels and displays them alongside their source materials.

The artwork of Japanese artist Takahiro Iwasaki may be overlooked if you are not careful.  Not only are his small buildings and electrical towers excruciatingly small and delicate, but they also rest on absurdly mundane objects: rolls of tape, a haphazardly wrinkled towel, or from the bristles of a discarded toothbrush.

Only on close inspection do the small details come into focus, faint hints of urbanization sprouting from disorder.

Some of his pieces are topographical maps that have been carefully cut from thick rolls of gray and blue electrical tape. Many of these objects were on view as part of the Constellations show at Cornerhouse in Manchester back in 2011 and at C24 Gallery last year.

Iwasaki currently has a new collection of much larger works at the 7th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art at GOMA in Queensland, Australia.

  Augmented Reality  

Recently, Jinha Lee, posted a video showing a potential augmented reality retail application for the set-up: Called WYCIWYW, for "What You Click is What You Wear," the interface would allow the user to virtually try on wristwatches and jewelry. —

J inha Lee is an interaction designer, engineer, and researcher working at the boundary of physical and digital world. He is currently on leave from his Ph.D. studies at MIT Media Lab's Tangible Media Group, and working on next generation TV interfaces at Samsung Electronics as an alternative service for the national military duty of Korea.

Last week Lee, posted a video showing a potential augmented reality retail application for the set-up: Called WYCIWYW, for "What You Click is What You Wear," the interface would allow the user to virtually try on wristwatches and jewelry. —



The applications for Lee's interface extend beyond watches. While the current thinking is that augmented reality will consist of roaming users wearing devices, as with Google Project Glass, tethered systems like Lee's, limited though their functionality may be, will also have their place.

Having a hardwired WYCIWYW monitor will simplify power and connectivity, for instance, and provide retail outlets with a measure of control they will want.

  Patrick LaMontagne  

Alberta-based artist Patrick LaMontagne received a compliment on his portrait of Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield from up on the International Space Station. "Thanks Patrick - what skill!" tweeted Hadfield.

Alberta-based artist Patrick LaMontagne received a compliment on his portrait of Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield from up on the International Space Station.

Hadfield, who is aboard the ISS on a five-month stay, was tagged in a mention on Twitter about a portrait of him and he wrote back.

"Thanks Patrick - what skill! I wish you could be up here to see and be inspired by what we can see," he said.

The Canadian Space Agency wrote to LaMontagne on Twitter saying, "Well done! Nice blog entry too!"

According to LaMontagne,

There is no better legacy than to inspire those around you and the next generation to believe in the possibilities before them. I can’t imagine how many children are now considering futures in the space program because of Hadfield’s example. Whether they’ll remain on the ground as part of the team that sends us further into space or actually get to be one of the few who go, will be up to them.

LaMontagne painted the portrait to commemorate Hadfield taking over as commander of the ISS on March 13th. In a blog post, he says he was inspired by the images and videos Hadfield has been sharing from space.

The portrait was digitally painted in Photoshop CS6 Extended with a Wacom Cintiq 24HD. Final file dimensions are 32″X24″ at 300ppi.

The reference was a screen capture from the YouTube video that according to LaMontagne, "Meant the quality wasn’t great, but I muddled through. Photos are never used as part of the painting, all was painted from scratch. I wanted desperately to put stars in those windows, but they just wouldn’t be visible in real life, so I kept that urge in check."

  Advertising  

Designed to light up fantasy fans’ pleasure centers, a clever Game of Thrones advertising campaign features what looks unmistakably like the shadow of one of Khaleesi’s dragons, cast across a series of newspaper articles, buildings and buses. The show will be returning to HBO for a third season on March 31st.

In what's got to be one of the cleverest advertising campaigns we've seen a very long time, HBO's hit show Game of Thrones has used a clever a dragon casting its shadow over buildings, newspaper spreads and buses.

The "make you do a double-take" ad gives its viewers a taste of what's to come, as Khaleesi Daenerys Targaryen's dragons are sure to be central players of the new season.

Game of Thrones, the series based on the A Song of Ice and Fire books by George R. R. Martin is entering its third season.

 
 Film  

The film "Choros" directed by Michael Langan and Terah Maher modernizes the visual echo technique developed for scientific study in the 1880's pioneered by Eadweard Muybridge.

The experimental film "Choros" directed by Michael Langan and Terah Maher modernizes the visual echo technique developed for scientific study in the 1880s.

In the late nineteenth century, a photographic technique called "chronophotography" began to develop, whereby multiple photographs would be taken in rapid succession to study the movement of a given subject.

Eadweard Muybridge famously filmed a horse in motion in 1878, providing the world with its first taste of motion pictures when the images were displayed on a spinning zoetrope.

Several years later, the French physicist Etienne-Jules Marey developed a stunning variation of this technique when he captured multiple poses of a subject over time onto a single frame of film, rendering a kind of visual echo.