Archive for November, 2005

learning actionscript 3.0 : tips

Posted in categorized, flash, general, interactive design, tutorials on November 29th, 2005

many things changed since actionscript 2.0, learn more here:

http://labs.macromedia.com/wiki/index.php/ActionScript_3:Learning_Tips

media art: studying in vienna

Posted in art, categorized, general on November 25th, 2005

The university for applied arts vienna offers two studies focused on media and art:

http://www.digitalekunst.ac.at

http://transmedialekunst.com/

 

pic from: http://pb.attacksyour.net/crowds/ 

A design link portal: distinct styles

Posted in categorized, characterdesign, general, graphic design, interactive design, tutorials on November 23rd, 2005

in german, clean and well-structured

http://www.distinctstyles.com/

 

picture taken from:

http://www.formereignis.com

video: the art of keying

Posted in categorized, film/photography, general, motiondesign, tutorials on November 22nd, 2005

interesting article on the history of keying

http://www.fxguide.com/article314.html&mode=nested

a guide on graphic design at amazon

Posted in books, categorized, general, graphic design, tutorials on November 21st, 2005

many books, quite useful

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/guides/guide-display/
-/2UYW8XQWDQQMW/ref=cm_bg_guides/104-6945748-2325562

 

book on innovative animation

Posted in books, categorized, film/photography, general, graphic design, motiondesign on November 21st, 2005

Animation Unlimited: Innovative Short Films Since

https://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/1856693465/
qid%3D1132568783/302-7408637-3462424

 

new book from IdN

Posted in books, categorized, general, graphic design, motiondesign on November 21st, 2005

Idn books are always quite fresh!

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/9889706563/
ref=pd_ecc_rvi_f/202-0890407-3259023

 

magazine on game development (german)

Posted in categorized, games, general on November 12th, 2005

more than game tests, reports and analysis inside the gaming industry

http://www.gamestar.de/dev/

 

poetic application that produces graphics

Posted in art, general, interactive design, net/working on November 12th, 2005

enter a word or a string and this applications starts to draw!

http://www.solaas.com.ar/dreamlines/

 

online – learning: trainit

Posted in categorized, general, graphic design, net/working, perception theory, tutorials, typo on November 11th, 2005

the online-learning platform of the johanneum university

topics:

2D Pixel2D Vector 3D Colors Illusions Imaging Interfaces Typography

http://trainit.fh-joanneum.at/

 international:

 www.totaltraining.com

some machinima links – filmmaking with games

Posted in categorized, film/photography, games, general, motiondesign on November 11th, 2005

platform for machinima film

http://www.machinima.com/

archive.org tries to archive the internet. they also have a nice section on machinima and speedruns

http://www.archive.org/details/gamevideos

 

short flash movies for download

Posted in categorized, general, motiondesign on November 11th, 2005

huge archive for the genre “flash short animation”

http://flash-movies.4.freeonlinegames.com

 

flash kung fu – classic

Posted in categorized, general, motiondesign on November 11th, 2005

flash and kung fu

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view.php?id=15849

 

links on the history on graphic design

Posted in categorized, general, graphic design on November 9th, 2005

 

these links come via: http://www.allgraphicdesign.com/historyof-graphicdesign-arts.html

A Brief History of Type - It is difficult to cover all the developments and movements of typography in a short space. My separation of evolving technologies from the development of typefaces is an artificial one—designs and the technology used to create them are not truly separable—but perhaps it is conceptually useful.

ABC Typography – A virtual museum of Typography.

Book History – Time table of book design history

Deconstruction of Graphic Design – Since the surfacing of the term “deconstruction” in design journalism in the mid-1980s, the word has served to label architecture, graphic design, products, and fashion featuring chopped up, layered, and fragmented forms imbued with ambiguous futuristic overtones. This essay looks at the reception and use of deconstruction in the recent history of graphic design, where it has become the tag for yet another period style.

Design History Discussion List – Threads of the design history discussion list

The First Hundred Years of Printing in British North America: Printers and Collectors - This year marks the 350th anniversary of printing in what is now the United States. In the first century of that period the business of printing was in its infancy, confined to a handful of developing cities on the Atlantic seaboard and practiced by a small number of craftsmen. Even before the first century drew to a close in 1740, a historian, Thomas Prince, was attempting to collect the materials printed in the British colonies in North America.

Frank Granger’s “Printing’s Past” - Frank teaches printing technology and uses the history of printing as a teaching tool.

Graphic Arts – The Senate maintains a collection of over 900 historical prints and engravings. This collection contains a rich array of 19th and early 20th century images portraying the events, people, and settings of the U.S. Senate.

Graphic Design Archive Online - 20th Century Editorial Online Design Archive

Graphic Design Timeline: 1975-1995 – Important Dates in the Last 20 Years of Design

History of Books and Printing - Chronological History of Books and Printing

History of Graphic Design (1945-Present) – Graphic design is as old as civilization itself. The development of written languages, for example, entailed a lengthy process of graphic design, as scribes gradually agreed that certain symbols would represent specific words or sounds. Over the centuries, these symbols were refined, clarified, simplified, and standardized–generation after generation of anonymous design work.

History of Graphic Design – History of graphic design with Signs, Symbols and the orgins of Typography and The Graphic Revolution of the 19th Century

History of Graphic Design and Its Audience - To insist that, or to prescribe how, the history of graphic design need be taught in any particular way is to unnecessarily limit the field in both methodology and pedagogy. Since there is no consensus amongst historians of graphic design on what the history of graphic design is or what it should be, no scholar studying the subject should commit to any one way of researching, writing, and teaching.

History of Papermaking - The papermaking process has come a long way since 105 A.D. when Ts’ai Lun, a Chinese court official, invented paper. Paper as we know it today is what your are holding in your hand. In all likelihood, Ts’ai mixed mulberry bark, hemp and rags with water, mashed it into pulp, pressed out the liquid, and hung the thin mat to dry in the sun. Thus began humanity’s greatest revolution in communications.

Historical Timeline of Computer Graphics and Animation – History and timeline of graphics and animation.

History of Graphic Design Powerpoint Presentations – Downloadable Powerpoint Presentations on the History of Graphic Design

Letterpress Printing in the 1960’s – A compilation of information ‘deciphered’ from my old note books whilst an apprentice letterpress machinist at The Melbourne School of Printing & Graphic Arts, plus numerous old trade journals and books collected or ‘borrowed’ from employers over many years. I have had to exclude some drawings and diagrams of press settings and adjustments etc, due to their poor quality, but hope to rectify that problem some time soon!

Reading Design – My stomach dropped the first time I opened a copy of Warren Chappell’s A Short History of the Printed Word.

The Infancy of Printing - In 1639, Bernard von Mallinckordt of Munster Cathedral first associated the term “Incunabula” with books. The study of books printed during the first fifty years of printing illuminates the birth of the craft and the transition from the manuscript tradition to the print tradition.

Timeline for Graphic Design History - Design history, basic research theory, and the opportunity to experiment are essential for students to develop. The pressures of the workplace do not allow this higher development to occur on the job.

The Contributions to The History of Graphic Design PDF (1927-1942) – A thesis paper I found on the web, it might be useful to those looking for more abou the history of graphic design

Ad Classix - Vintage ads offer a fascinating glimpse of history and represent the archival documents of our consumer driven society. If you own a vintage or show vehicle, a print of its original publicity advertisement is the finishing touch to your investment.

American Sign Museum - The American Sign Museum was founded to inform and educate the general public as well as business and special interest groups of the history of the sign industry and its significant contribution to commerce and the American landscape.

Dr. Leslie and The Composing Room – 1934 – 1942 - An Important Historical Time In The Development Of American Graphic Design … An MFA Thesis Project

Design Archive Online – Review twentieth century magazine design and photography with biographical profiles of designers. A project of the Rochester Institute of Technology, the image archives have limited access.

Fine Printing – Fine printing is a very broad subject, but my aim at this Web site is relatively modest: to bring together some basic information that may be of interest to those who are fascinated by beautiful books and their histories.

Follow The Sun Australian Travel Poster History – Archival History of Australian Travel Posters 19302-1950s

Graphic Design from the 1920s and 1930s in Travel Ephemera – This is a virtual online gallery I’ve created to display and share the best items in my collection of 1920s and 1930s travel-related ephemera.

History of Swiss Posters – The Swiss Poster Collection: 1970 to the Present

History of Postscript – PostScript now exists for almost 20 years. It has made a profound impact on the publishing industry and even today remains as important as it was when the first LaserWriter printer became available.

Italian Futurist Book - This is an online exhibition of Italian Futurist books, famous for their innovative uses of typography and graphic design, from the years 1909-1944.

Kunst - The print collection contains prints and other art on paper, i.e. drawings, engravings, woodcuts within and relating to the subjects addressed by the Library.

Library of Congress Print Collections – Collections of prints

Medicine and Madison Avenue – This website explores the complex relationships between modern medicine and modern advertising, or “Madison Avenue,” as the latter is colloquially termed.

Media History Project – Promoting the study of media history from petroglyphs to pixels

Metal Type - Metal Type is the place for Printers and Typesetters who remember the old days of Letterpress Printing to come and reminisce.

NY Public Library – The New York Public Library encompasses a specialized reference collection of over 15,000 volumes on the history of prints and printmakers; artist clipping files; and a collection of close to 200,000 original prints

Old Ads – Old advertisements from the 60’s, 70’s, and 80’s

Posters American Style – At the present time, poster art is in a period of renaissance. Posters have come to be regarded as mysterious cultural objects, whose flatness and literalness only deepen their resonance, as well as inexhaustibly rich emblems of the society. . . . Posters have become one of the most ubiquitous kinds of cultural objects—prized partly because they are cheap, unpretentious, “popular” art

Posters American Style – View major posters from the last century. Learn about their design, printing and historical impact on culture. Includes audio. Collection by the Smithsonian American Art Museum.

Swiss Posters – Take a look through The Carnegie Mellon University’s Swiss Poster Collection exhibit

The Art of Poster – Contains 5000 images and descriptions of posters.

The Art of Persuasion - The history of American advertising in the early part of this century (and graphic design history more generally) is crucially in need of serious study. Only in the past fifteen years has this area of American history received any real scrutiny at all, and this has been scant.

University of Florida Rare Book Collections – The pages below are drawn from the holdings in the rare book section of the Dept. of Special Collections. They are to give you some idea as to what we have that can be used in the study of the history of typography and book design. The images of the printed material can be quite large; all sizes are given below the thumbnail.

World of Spectrum - The official world archive for the Sinclair ZX Spectrum and the largest on-line gaming center on the Internet

directors label: music videos by director DVDs

Posted in audio/music, categorized, general, graphic design, motiondesign on November 9th, 2005

a collection of DVDs from the best directors of video clips. a lot of material behind the scenes and making ofs are also available

Anton Corbijn

http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000A6C23W/
qid=1131532920/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_10_1/028-2849079-3029350

Jonathan Glazer

http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000A6C246/
qid=1131532979/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_10_1/028-2849079-3029350

Mark Romanek

http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000A6C24G/
qid=1131533025/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_10_1/028-2849079-3029350

Stephane Sednaoui

http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000A6C24Q/
qid=1131533063/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_2_1/028-2849079-3029350

Spike Jonze

http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000DK4ON/
qid=1131533101/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_11_1/028-2849079-3029350

Chris Cunningham

http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000DK4OP/
qid=1131533136/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_11_1/028-2849079-3029350

Michel Gondry

http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000DK4OO/
qid=1131533199/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_11_1/028-2849079-3029350

 

the sequel to epic 2014

Posted in art, categorized, general, interactive design, net/working on November 9th, 2005

with an alternative ending!

http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/epic

here is the old one:

http://mccd.udc.es/orihuela/epic/

 also available in german now:

http://media.aperto.de/google_epic2015_de.html 

political activism and grafitti

Posted in art, categorized, general, street art on November 8th, 2005

these liks come via: http://www.banksy.co.uk/links/index.html

www.freewayblogger.com – this one is a bit special

www.adbusters.org – not as good as the magazine but still worth it

www.woostercollective.com – street art site staffed by workaholics

www.davidshrigley.com – funny bloke

www.picturesofwalls.com – pictures of walls

www.space-invaders.com – recently managed to sticker the french president

www.popaganda.com – contains one really good picture of mickey mouse

www.artcrimes.com – the encyclopedia of world graffiti

www.stencilrevolution.com – for people who think stencils are a good thing

www.akayism.org – for the traffic island alone

 

the intersection of art, technology, science and culture

Posted in art, books, categorized, general, net/working on November 7th, 2005

http://online.sfsu.edu/~infoarts/links/wilson.artlinks.org.html

here you can get the book:

http://userwww.sfsu.edu/%7Eswilson/book/infoartsbook.html

 

video, music, dance, performance, film and literature: thekitchen.org

Posted in art, categorized, general on November 7th, 2005

http://www.thekitchen.org

  • Low-fi art, or dirt style, distills the old from new media, casting a nostalgic and sometimes skeptical glance on the rapid obsolescence of new technologies. Take Paul Slocum’s dot matrix printer turned synthesizer, or Cory Arcangel’s hacked Nintendo cartridges: both pay homage to somewhat outdated technologies while, at the same time, breaking them down and de-mystifying them technically.

via: http://rhizome.org

 

HUGE linksection on styles and photography

Posted in categorized, general, street art on November 7th, 2005

big.

http://www.ekosystem.org/Links.php3

 

links section to many design studios

Posted in categorized, general on November 7th, 2005

check out the links section on bottom of the page:

http://www.newwebpick.com

 

meta RSS search engine

Posted in categorized, general, net/working, web 2.0 on November 5th, 2005
  • Using KBCafe search is easy, simply enter a keyword in the input control and click on the Search button to find results. KBCafe search is a meta RSS search engine, that is, it queries many other search engines by using their RSS interface and presents the results from these search engines in one common interface. This allows the user to quickly view all the results of various search engines. You can also use KBCafe search to easily subscribe to results of the searches, so you can stay on top of your favorite subjects without having to remember to come back to KBCafe search.

http://www.kbcafe.com

amazing use of video and flash: billyharveymusic.com

Posted in categorized, general, graphic design, interactive design on November 5th, 2005

video and flash CAN make sense:

http://www.billyharveymusic.com

 

showcase of what web can be: styleboost

Posted in categorized, general, graphic design, interactive design, motiondesign on November 5th, 2005
  • For four years, since January 2001, Styleboost has been about showcasing the most beautiful links on the web. Focusing on my own subjective experience and taste instead of trying to stay entirely objective has been an integral part of shaping Styleboost into what it is today. As a student and designer myself, I started the project with the intention of learning about good web design.

http://www.styleboost.com

 

crisp graffiti sites

Posted in categorized, general, street art on November 5th, 2005

some link recommendations from mike orduna

http://www.defumo.org

http://www.missvan.com/

http://www.evanhecox.com/

http://www.123klan.com //very nice stickers

via: http://www.nervousroom.com/interrogation/012/main.php

 

pdf on art and visual perception

Posted in categorized, general, graphic design, perception theory on November 4th, 2005

a theoretical approach

http://www.lems.brown.edu/vision/people/
leymarie/Refs/VisualArt/Arnheim/ArtVisualPercept.pdf

http://www.lems.brown.edu/vision/people/
leymarie/Refs/VisualArt/Arnheim/ArnheimEntropy.pdf

 

pdf: mastering ad design

Posted in categorized, general, graphic design, perception theory on November 4th, 2005

a 60 pages pdf on whats important when designing ads

http://www.patsula.com/books/gb60.pdf

how to structure text

Posted in categorized, general, graphic design, typo on November 4th, 2005

a nice pdf on text design:

http://www.english.udel.edu/sab/documents/design2.pdf

 

typography tutorial

Posted in categorized, general, perception theory, tutorials, typo on November 4th, 2005

covering various topics, this site is quite complete:

http://www.typography-1st.com/

 

basic principles of graphic design

Posted in categorized, general, graphic design, perception theory, tutorials on November 4th, 2005

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Principles_of_Design_(Graphic_design)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_literacy

also interesting:

http://www.asu.edu/lib/archives/benedict/index.html 

pixel graphics: lovepixel

Posted in categorized, characterdesign, general, graphic design on November 3rd, 2005

cute site, the sweet little sister of eboy

http://www.lovepixel.idv.tw

 

online learning: schule des sehens

Posted in categorized, general, perception theory, tutorials on November 3rd, 2005

this platform makes it possible to make several courses on art and the basics of perception online without being registered on an university

http://www.schule-des-sehens.de/

the topics are continously updated, for now, these topics are to choose:

Einführung in die antike Mythologie (Katharina Krause, Lutz Heusinger)

Einführung in die politische Ikonographie (Martin Warnke)

Einführung in die Architektur der Renaissance und des Barock (Ulrich Fürst)

Einführung in die Filmanalyse (Heinz-Bernd Heller)

 

article on social net – working

Posted in audio/music, categorized, general, net/working on November 3rd, 2005

the site myspace.com hosts many band websites, read its history

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.11/
myspace.html?pg=1&topic=myspace&topic_set=

perception basics: color theory

Posted in categorized, general, perception theory on November 2nd, 2005

personal on color theory, from goethe to pantone

http://www.worqx.com/color/index.htm

 

proportion: le corbusier: modulor

Posted in categorized, general, perception theory on November 2nd, 2005

human proportion in architecture, as well as design use this modulor proportions

http://www.tu-harburg.de/b/kuehn/lec4.html

 

proportion and numbers: fibonacci

Posted in categorized, general, perception theory on November 2nd, 2005

an online exibithion

http://www.ethbib.ethz.ch/exhibit/fibonacci/

 

proportion: DIN formats

Posted in categorized, general, perception theory on November 2nd, 2005

A4, A3 and so on, but where does this proportion come from? read more here:

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papierformat

 

proportion: the golden section

Posted in categorized, general, perception theory on November 2nd, 2005

detailed info on the golden section in german

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldener_Schnitt

 

60 optical illusions in flash

Posted in categorized, general, perception theory on November 2nd, 2005

many of the illusions have sliders to control them

http://www.michaelbach.de/ot/

 

optical illusion: only a green dot?

Posted in categorized, general on November 2nd, 2005

http://www.patmedia.net/marklevinson/cool/cool_illusion.html

kumawar – games, reality and war

Posted in categorized, games, general, net/working on November 2nd, 2005

Playable re-creations of real war events
released weeks after they occur.
Accurate missions developed in advanced
war game and distributed free
online.

http://www.kumawar.com/

 

interesting source for festivals on media and art

Posted in categorized, dates, general, net/working on November 2nd, 2005

http://wickie.vis-med.ac.at/festivals/

a list of pdf mags

Posted in categorized, film/photography, general, graphic design, pdf and flash mags on November 2nd, 2005

mostly via: http://www.manuelbieh.de/www/blog/category/design/pdf-mags/

pdf – mag on photography

Posted in categorized, film/photography, general, graphic design, pdf and flash mags on November 2nd, 2005

clean and simple

http://www.manuelbieh.de/pdf-mag

 

flash – mags – the sequel to pdf – mags

Posted in categorized, general, interactive design, net/working, pdf and flash mags on November 2nd, 2005

pdf-mags are static; flash mags are online magazines, with flippable pages like real mags

http://www.magwerk.com/

http://www.spoonfork.de

http://www.ideafixa.com/      edit: this ones new, it´s really great, so be sure to check it!

PDF: how to use weblogs for scientific networking

Posted in categorized, general, net/working, web 2.0 on November 2nd, 2005

build your news and science network today

http://www.realitylab.at/pdf/weblogs.pdf

RSS – what is it?

Posted in categorized, general, interactive design, net/working, web 2.0 on November 2nd, 2005

a good summary what RSS is:

http://www.rss-verzeichnis.de/was-ist-rss.php

evolution of the web: what is web 2.0 ?

Posted in categorized, general, interactive design, net/working, web 2.0 on November 2nd, 2005

explore the evolution of the web

http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/tim/news/2005/09/30/what-is-web-20.html