The Ark is an ephemeral, site specific installation built around the cacti that line the Aljibe, at the heart of the Ethnobotanical Garden of Oaxaca.
Posts of Inspiration.
Adobe Remixed
Outstanding visuals from GMunk for the Adobe Remixed project.
Plaid – Tether
Tether is an interactive web application created by @jonobr1 in collaboration with Plaid. The track is accompanied by a series of graphic shapes that gradually evolve as the music progresses.
https://github.com/warprecords/tether
Poster on Behance
Box – Bot & Dolly
Box explores the synthesis of real and digital space through projection-mapping onto moving surfaces. The short film documents a live performance, captured entirely in camera. botndolly.com/box
Tesseract / HyperCube – An ever-evolving state of shape and space
Tesseract – also known as the HyperCube, is the latest installation by the Paris based collective 1024 Architecture comprised of a 3d sculptural cube equipped with moving light, where the audience is invited to walk in.
CYMATICS
Susi Sie is an award winning director, DoP, editor and artist, whose work moves between the fields of art and science.
In conjunction with CypherAudio, this short clip titled Cymatics shows what happens when when lycopodium powder sits on top of a vibrating stereo speaker.
All scenes were filmed by using lycopodium powder, 50 Hz, a Canon 5D and a 100mm macro lens.
Popular Lies About Graphic Design
A new addition to the studio bookcase.
Multi award-winning designer, typographer and TED speaker, Craig Ward, presents his first self-authored book – Popular Lies About Graphic Design. An attempt to debunk the various misconceptions, half truths and, in some cases, outright lies which permeate the industry of design.
Lovingly designed and written both passionately and irreverently, Ward pulls from his ten years of experience to tackle lighter subjects such as design fetishists, Helvetica’s neutrality and urgent briefs, alongside discussions on more worthy topics such as the validity of design education, the supposed death of print, client relationships and pitch planning. In addition, the book features contributions and insights from more than a dozen other established practitioners such as Milton Glaser, Stefan Sagmeister, Christoph Niemann and David Carson making it a must for students, recent graduates and seasoned practitioners alike.
Hort – Marc Romboy & Ken Ishi
Anyone familiar with the work of Eike Konig’s brilliant Berlin-based studio HORT knows they’re up there with the best of them. But even by their own sky-high standards this art direction for the first collaboration between techno musicians Marc Romboy and Ken Ishii is fantastic. Working across a special edition vinyl box set, CD, digital releases, a poster and apparel, HORT worked with photographer Michael Kohls to produce this striking visual language.
HORT said: “Our creative direction nods to music’s physical medium and the techniques involved in its production. Die-cuts make the LP and CD visible, through this method the missing piece becomes a key graphic element.”
El Santos
Designed in late 2011, by fellow Leeds designer Si Billam. El Santos is a beautifully simple yet elegant typeface. Perfect ellipses contrast narrow uprights creating a unique decorative equilibrium within words, sentences and paragraphs.
Anti VJ – Paleodictyon
One of the most inspirational projection mapping projects I have seen for a while by Anti VJ.
Originally a video mapping installation created for the singular architecture of the Centre Pompidou Metz museum, Paleodictyon The App is its digital counterpart.
Developed by Simon Geilfus, who co-directed the original piece, the application makes use of the same video mapping technique, however here it is instead transposed to a digital space, where virtual projectors give light to a 3D model of the museum. A digital replica.
More information about the Paleodictyon installation can be found here.
OFFF 2013 Cincinnati Opening Titles
Inspiring motion design from Onur Senturk for OFFF Cincinnati. The video uses a verity of techniques from computer graphics to live action, macro photography to photocopy art.
OFFF 2013 Cincinnati Opening Titles from Onur Senturk on Vimeo.
Suprb Type Collection
This collection of fonts covers many areas of type design; clean sans-serif designs, fashionable thin weights, heavy slabs and abstract pattern making fonts. Designed by the prestigious and creative design studio Suprb.
Includes: Capset, Myld, Wyld, ASCA-D, ASCA, CLOUD.DOT.TWO, Quick 16, Quart, Swem.