ionoi

interesting cartoons, note the variation of thickness in the lines drawn

http://www.xmasresistance.org/cartoons

want to design a toy, a lampshade or a bridge? find the right materials using materialexplorer.

http://www.materialexplorer.com

a collection of the best webradiostreams

located in vienna (MQ) the site is full packed with on-demand-streams and always up-to-date.

www.play.fm

london based online-music-platform, in which the user can create a profile and is given recommendations on his music choice

www.Last.fm

essential mixes on radio one from the bbc are probably the most complete overview of state of the art electronic music in the past 10 years

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/dance/essentialmix/

11. – 13. November 2005

Universität Wien, Hauptgebäude
1010 Wien, Dr. Karl Lueger-Ring 1

http://www.univie.ac.at/hvf05/

http://feeds.feedburner.com/createdigitalmusic?m=867

http://www.createdigitalmusic.com/
index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=252&Itemid=44

http://www.createdigitalmusic.com/
index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=255&Itemid=44

http://gamestudy.org/eblog

quite useful, many many links:

http://www.gameblogs.org/

Greg Costikyan has many useful links to other game blogs on his site, among them the following:

Game Girl Advance
Jesper Juul
GameDevBlog
Terra Nova
Scott Miller
Phil Steinmeyer
Buzzcut
Curmudgeon Gamer
Grand Text Auto
Ludonauts
Jason Della Rocca
Videogame Media Watch
Intelligent Artifice
Jeux Sans Frontieres
Zen of Design
Games Are Art

you can all find them here:

http://www.costik.com/weblog/

i added the links section of the blog: http://dukenukem.typepad.com/game_matters/ which is also very useful:

this weblog contains the following categories:

# Video
# Games
# Roboting
# Literature
# Soundart
# Internet
# Artists+designers
# Exhibitions

sounds interesting, visit regularly!

http://www1.khib.no/weblogs/digit/

what should i say – not where to buy is the question – what to buy!?

http://www.digitalthread.com/webdesignlinks/designbooks/index.html

for years, k10k is a platform for young artist and designers which is constantly up do date. also issue nr. 133 is very beautiful and poetic. check it out.

http://media.k10k.net/issues/issue133/downloads/ForAllSeasons.zip

some nice flash – applications playing around with graphics. on the upper left you can control them with sliders.

http://www.knittingpixel.com

criticatv.com has some interesting short clips, which are a good aftereffects-showcase

http://www.criticatv.com

“vector scientists…perpetually sharpening the cutting edge.”

http://www.tokyoplastic.com

DMA is a online-learnin-platform of the art-university linz. it covers many topics such as 2D and 3D design and has very broad and deep tutorials online. highly recommendable!

• “Inhaltlich sind die Module in die Hauptbereiche 2D-Grafik, DTP, Video/Postproduction, Audio, 3D-Grafik und Animation, Internet/Web/Multimedia gegliedert und je nach Fragestellung über Zugänge wie Workshops, Übungen, Produktionsprozesse, Grundlagen, Soft- und Hardware abrufbar.”

http://www.dma.ufg.ac.at/

helpful for hacker as well as ghetto-slang

http://www.urbandictionary.com/

for a very long time, the computer game was the only medium in which advertising was banned. it seems, these times have come to an end. follow the link to find a commercial for coca – cola – drinking – world – of – warcraft – players.

http://media.putfile.com/coke_wow_commercial71

on http://sourceforge.net/ you can find a plugin called “streamripper”. it is available as standalone programme or as winamp-plugin. just open a audiostream (for example on http://www.play.fm ) and press “record”. The files are automaticly named and saved in seperate folders. NICE food for your mp3-player!

http://sourceforge.net/projects/streamripper

http://www.knife-party.net/flash/barry.html

* “An un-apologetic criticism of US foreign policy and The Project for the New American Century. Animation follows the dialogue, giving visual poignancy and weight to Barry’s words. The propoganda-esque style of the motion graphics further re-inforces the message. Is this a conspiracy theory? Far from it. “

Be warned: highly political!

many floral elements, shaking navigation

http://www.stardust.tv

nice short clip animation playing with 2D shapes and 3D animation

http://www.light-borne.com/work/video/FuelDailyHabit.mov

54 pages of street art, many stencils

http://100proof.tv/1percent2.pdf

interesting approach

http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/007230.php#trackbacks

find the answer here:

http://www.leichtlesbar.ch

• “Our Eyes Photography® is a customizable online publication to connect people, companies and services.
  More than a photo site for the photographers community.
  Visitors and users can find photographers by galleries, themes, locations or simply good taste.“

http://www.oureyes.net

this free pdf magazine is HUGE, crisp and, best of all: free. swiss graphic design at its best.

http://www.artstuebli.ch

issue no. 1 is also available for download

http://www.artstuebli.ch/uploads/artstuebli-01-2005.zip

art or what shoes are made for.

http://www.newmuseum.org/now_cur_brianjungen.htm

france and cars. *lol*

http://www.element-e.net/upload/file_4332ca067fdb5.mp4

10 rules for making eeeazy navigable content 

http://www.useit.com/alertbox/weblogs.html

Illustration Now!
Herausgegeben von Julius Wiedemann
Flexicover, 196 x 249 mm, 544 Seiten
ISBN 3-8228-4033-5 (englisch/deutsch/französisch)

http://www.taschen.com

netvibes is a free page managment system – check out its features!

http://www.netvibes.com

with typetester you can compare different fonts for screen display, quite useful.

http://typetester.maratz.com

cute characterdesign on flash-platform

www.rolitoland.com

http://www.glennferon.com/portfolio1/

In his portfolio, glenn feron shows a excellent showcase of what is possible with digital retouche and what´s left of reality.

Over 100,000 unique visitors today.. in one day. Incredible. The reason for this, I think, is due to some very big articles in some european newspapers, and on some big websites. I’ve been sent the links by loads of people so I’ll get those on the press page once I’ve had a chance to catch my breath.

http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com/ 

• “A 16×16 matrix of switches allows everyone to play music intuitively, ceating a visible music interface.”

http://www.global.yamaha.com/design/tenori-on/swf/index.html

archive for rss-feeds, viewable with news-readers like abilon

http://www.rss-portal.com/

amazingly detailed!

http://www.shortcourses.com

http://planetdoom.gamespy.com/brain/index.php

ok, this list is really huge, covering many many thing around the doom3 engine

http://www.doom3world.org/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=3017

generally focused on CTF (capture the flag, which is a gameplay-mode) but very interesting basics

Tim Willits’ CTF Tips
Level Design Process
CTF Level Design Tips
Geezer’s CTF Map Making Guide
Elements of CTF Style
CTF Gameplay Tutorial
Mapping for CTF
CTF Theory

from the offical unreal site, a good overview of mapping

http://udn.epicgames.com/Two/IntroToUnrealEd

step by step – no programming required

http://www.planetunreal.com/architectonic/first_level.html

downloadable .fla files for analyzing games built in flash

http://www.flashkit.com/tutorials/Games/

http://www.luminous-landscape.com

covering camera work, acting, lightning and many other aspects of film

http://www.knowledgehound.com/topics/film.htm

http://www.polykarbon.com/tutorials

another tutorial site – this link is on manga-eyes

http://www.tutorialguide.net/how_to_draw_manga_eyes_tutorial.html

interesting “workshop” category

http://www.conceptart.org/

interesting category: “filmpraxis”

http://www.slashcam.de/

tips on using type

http://www.allgraphicdesign.com/typotips.html