This is sand
thisissand.com is a website for play. It changes the pixels on the screen into digital sand. Once finished with your creation, you can submit it to the gallery.
Behind the Blind
Apart from Blind being a first class production company, they also have fantastic “making of” pages on their site that give a rare insight into the process of their work.
Love Song by Non-Format
Let me take this time to gush over with praise this new book by Non-Format. I’ve featured the studio several times before and mentioned them as an ever-green favourite, but to have a printed collection of their work in my hot little hands, well, happy days.
Non-Format is a London based design studio that has garnered a reputation for creating stunning design and illustration work. Much of which has been in the music industry for sleeve design and magazine design such as The Wire. They have a simple and clear aesthetic where the house style seems to be striking visual ideas that penetrates through the average.
In addition to their best project work for clients from the music, fashion and advertising industries as well as for culture and the arts, Non-Format also contains original work that was created exclusively for the book.
Comments · Posted in: Presenting · Aug 3
Radiohead / House of Cards
Radiohead just released a new video for its song “House of Cards” from the album “In Rainbows”.
No cameras or lights were used. Instead two technologies were used to capture 3D images. In this video, 64 lasers rotating and shooting in a 360 degree radius 900 times per minute produced all the exterior scenes.
Watch the making-of video to learn about how the video was made and the various technologies that were used to capture and render 3D data.
Non-Format updates
New site for my ever-green favourites Non-Format
Steven Harrington Our Mountain Video
Steven Harrington shares a behind the scenes video of his latest exhibition ‘Our Mountain’
What is Plurk?
I’ve been trying out Plurk for about a month now and thought I’d report how I’ve found it so far. Well, I’ve found it very sticky. I seemed to keep returning when I have nothing better to do, more-so than any other platform I’ve joined of late. So what is Plurk?
To the uninitiated, Plurk is a social micro-blogging platform much like twitter where you can post information as long as it’s under 140 characters (micro) on whatever topic you like (blogging) including your current status, what you’re doing, asking questions, making comments, etc. You then hook up with other users to follow their postings and leave comments (social).
Comments (2) · Posted in: General · Jul 9
Area 2
Area 2 follows on from the success and format of the first book Area. This design resource has been collated by 10 of the worlds top designers and critics with each selecting 10 influential graphic designers, to in total feature 100 contemporary graphic designers from around the world. Before even opening, the book cover is noticeably tactile. You just want to cradle it in your lap and caress the firmly bound material overlay. But after opening the cover it becomes clear that the quality book design itself is a statement to the collection of quality works contained within. The one hundred designers have been organised alphabetically, and each one was given four pages to showcase their work. The book’s grid-less, open layout lets the images speak for themselves. It’s a cornerstone book to any graphic designers library collection.
Comments (1) · Posted in: Presenting · Jul 2
Sébastien Cannone
His name is Sébastien Cannone. He’s a french Art Director with wonderful graphic infused action in the showreel.
Brosmind Studio
Brosmind Studio is brothers Alejandro and Juan Mingarro from Spain have a great collection of illustration and design works
Upcoming Redesign Concepts
What is Upcoming?
Upcoming is a community for discovering and sharing events. It can help you find stuff to do, discover what your friends are doing, or let you keep private events online for your own reference.
Project Background
I was first approached to redesign Upcoming by founder Andy Baio (Waxy) back in June 2007. Andy was made aware of my work via a CNN redesign article I had written. Andy’s initial brief to me was concise and informed. He gave me an open brief, to use all the existing content on Upcoming, and redesign the site how I saw fit. Now this is the type of brief I like, because for a client to approach with this attitude means they have an understanding and respect for my design ability (usually demonstrated by past projects). Although this, by no means, means that I do whatever I feel like doing, it means I have a brief which is open enough to do what I believe is best for the website or brand. There is a difference.
Comments (5) · Posted in: Articles · Jun 15
Jesper Bentzen ANOVA
Jesper Bentzen is behind ANOVA, a one man design studio who has just moved into the field of motion.
(Up)Rising Sonz
This book is a visual feast of the creative lives of a skater community that started in the streets of Japan. It’s images are raw and unrefined, but gives you a sense of energy defined by the urban landscape and the effects of the skaters within it. It’s a photo documentary of the free flowing creativity that has spawned from these skaters lives, which includes graff, tatts, illustration, light tags, and of course, skate boarding. The crew seems aptly summed up by the phrase on one page that reads “Beer, Friends, Retards, Love…”. The book is a collection of photos that serves as an interesting flip book inspirational view from a Japanese street level.
Comments · Posted in: Presenting · Jun 9
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