Archive for January, 2007
a collection of websites from famous comic artists
Posted in manga and cartoon on January 31st, 2007Very different in style, very different in humor:
Scott McCloud // you have to see that one!

Kyle Baker:

Robert Crumb:
http://www.zubeworld.com/crumbmuseum/

Mary Fleener:
http://www.maryfleener.com/home.html

Jim Woodring:

Peter Kuper:

Paul Pope:

Tom Gauld:

Chris Ware:
http://www.hammergallery.com/Artists/Ware/ware_chris.htm

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motion design technique: rotoscoping
Posted in animation, motiondesign, vj-ing and footage on January 31st, 2007a very interesting article on rotoscoping, a technique to generate drawn film from prerecorded footage
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotoscoping

Generally, the entry for traditional animation sums it up quite pretty:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traditional_animation
Here the method of “cell animation” is explained

online game: fastr
Posted in games, interactive design, web 2.0 on January 31st, 2007fastr is an online game where you can guess for the tag of photos, these come from flickr, if your fast you get more points
http://randomchaos.com/games/fastr/

a fine list of graphic design books
Posted in graphic design, typo on January 29th, 2007a fine list of graphic design books, typo mainly
http://www.pingmag.jp/2007/01/22/toward-design-literacy/
*thanks rainer*

photography: tool for creating mosaics
Posted in film/photography, graphic design on January 29th, 2007a simple software for creating mosaics out of many single pictures
edit:
here is an online application for mosaics too:
http://www.adelaider.com/image-mosaic/

tutorials for motiondesign
Posted in motiondesign on January 29th, 2007you can find some interesting tutorials for expanding your software skills here:
free image search: yotophoto.com
Posted in film/photography, vj-ing and footage on January 23rd, 2007a search engine which searches various image databases for free pictures
*thanks mario*

ebay and graphic design books
Posted in books on January 20th, 2007if you are lucky you can find many expensive books on ebay,too
there are several bookstores within ebay:
http://stores.ebay.de/koppmedien
you can also buy whole collections of books:
perception theory: online ressource
Posted in perception theory on January 17th, 2007a very interesting ressource for symmetry and art from the darthmouth college
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~matc/math5.geometry/unit1/INTRO.html
http://www.math.dartmouth.edu/~matc/eBookshelf/index.html

video with vector style
Posted in audio/music, motiondesign on January 16th, 2007the song “shoot the runner” from “kasabian” has a neat vector style:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFcHuT-2sAw

graphic design: the history of playing cards
Posted in general, graphic design, paper engineering on January 16th, 2007creative commons media from wikipedia
Posted in film/photography, vj-ing and footage, web 2.0 on January 16th, 2007a huge ressource of media material, anyone can contribute:
http://commons.wikimedia.org

quote: pablo picasso
Posted in perception theory on January 9th, 2007“Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.” – Pablo Picasso
*thanks sonja*

visual design: information visualized
Posted in algorithmic, blogs, interactive design on January 5th, 2007a blog offering links to sites which show statistics and information in a thrilling way:
a visual interpretation of news (of the google news headers) :
http://www.marumushi.com/apps/newsmap/newsmap.cfm

http://eagereyes.org/ has also very many posts on the visual representation of information








