Archive for February, 2007

motiondesign: spoofs of famous ads

Posted in motiondesign on February 25th, 2007

http://www.tuffsheet.com/

visual design exchange: gasbook

Posted in books, graphic design, illustration on February 24th, 2007

fascinating books, yet, you will have to bring some cash, too:

http://www.hellogas.com/gasbook/index_e.html

graphic design: Genevieve Gauckler

Posted in characterdesign, graphic design on February 24th, 2007

Minimal and stunning!

http://www.g2works.com

motiondesign: pleix

Posted in motiondesign on February 24th, 2007

wicked films; french based artists:

http://www.pleix.net/films.html

pop up paper and graphic design

Posted in art, paper engineering on February 24th, 2007

A very interesting series of artworks on paperengineering, pop-ups and art:

Foley Gallery

*thanks rainer*

movie: “berlin – die sinfonie der grosstadt”

Posted in film/photography on February 22nd, 2007

you can download this movie for free here:

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

motiondesign: shadow puppets

Posted in animation, motiondesign on February 22nd, 2007

http://www.chilloutzone.de/files/07020601.html

*thanks dave*

graffitti with a laser pointer

Posted in interactive design, street art on February 21st, 2007

awesome! via a laser pointer the user is able to draw on skyscrapers:

http://graffitiresearchlab.com/?page_id=76#video

here is how it works:

http://muonics.net/blog/index.php?postid=15

via boingboing

bodypainting: t-shirts on flesh

Posted in graphic design, illustration, street art on February 20th, 2007

this one is really awesome! a guy painting 30 drawings on his body:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=zRVts7TFw-Y

photoshop contest: cartoon vs. art

Posted in art, characterdesign, manga and cartoon on February 19th, 2007

comics and famous artwork mashed up:

http://www.worth1000.com/cache/contest/contestcache.asp
?contest_id=14079&display=photoshop#entries

Illustration: Kids vs. Adults: DrawerGeeks

Posted in illustration, perception theory on February 19th, 2007

Kids paint something (a monster for example) and adult illustrators word the concept out

http://drawergeeks.com/Kid_Creatures/Kid_Creatures.html

*thanks global*

Video: Slow motion compilation

Posted in motiondesign on February 9th, 2007

YouTube – Slow motion high FPS compilation

via elduomegapixel.blogspot.com

Motiondesign: Videos with pixelstyle

Posted in animation, motiondesign, nerd on February 9th, 2007

an ad using eboy-style:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nu4n8NAcO2A&eurl

another, longer vid in eboy pixel style

YouTube – Love game
*thanks rainer*

search for audio through singing: midomi

Posted in audio/music, interactive design, web 2.0 on February 9th, 2007

with the flash players microphone features, you can sing and search for songs

midomi.com

*thanks julian*

interactive design: nodebox

Posted in algorithmic, graphic design, interactive design on February 9th, 2007

only for mac, Create visual output with Python programming code:

http://nodebox.net/

audio: reactable auido RT interface

Posted in audio/music on February 6th, 2007

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
0h-RhyopUmc&mode=related&search=

*thanks michael*

audio: how to use real time audio proper

Posted in audio/music on February 6th, 2007

http://www.ableton.com/_common/downloads/
pages2/artist_kid_beyond/kid-beyond.mov

concept and design: a bundle of laws from john maeda

Posted in algorithmic, interactive design on February 2nd, 2007

the laws of simplicity can be useful for almost any design-process

http://www.lawsofsimplicity.com/

a list of online university ressources

Posted in net/working, perception theory on February 1st, 2007

http://bernhardfalk.com/blog/?p=100

read the full article here:

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/
2007-01-04-mit-for-free_x.htm 

linkpool: creative links

Posted in graphic design, interactive design, portfolios on February 1st, 2007

take some time

http://creativelinks.blogspot.com/

interesting blog on characterdesign

Posted in characterdesign on February 1st, 2007

http://characterdesign.blogspot.com/

tutorial: creating game textures in photoshop

Posted in games, tutorials on February 1st, 2007

quite simple, but very fundamental ideas and concepts for creating textures

http://www.gamasutra.com/features/20060622/ahearn_01.shtml

the wohle category “visual art” is interesting on this site, so see the artist´s portfolios too

http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/article_display.php?category=8