Design and digital culture NEWS // November 2007
Designing
Design by Kenya Hara
In this 474-page, fully illustrated hardcover work, Kenya
Hara, one of the Japanese design community's most comprehensive
thinkers and prolific designers, explains his work in the context of
changing global power structures, the prank of postmodernism,
and historical changes in design and production. Easily approachable
as a designer and writer, Hara is at once inspirational and lucid.
The table of contents will give you an idea of the topics covered, all
of which are adding up to an encyclopedic review of this master design
genius mind:
Re Design - Daily Products in the 21st Century
Haptic - Awakening the Sense
Senseware - Medium that Intrigues Man
White
Muji - Nothing, Yet Everything
Viewing the World From the Tip of Asia
Exformation - A New Information Format
What is Design?
Pages after pages you will not cease being amazed and drawn in the simple
yet compellingly profound assertions made. Travel inside the peculiar
and unique point of views that lead to staggering conclusions and results.
My gosh, I am humbled by the starlight quality of his opinions and directions.
This is THE book of the year, that you absolutely need
to curl up with it's thick and one that you don't shuffle through. By
reading it, you are affording yourself an agrandized view of what design
is about.
Conquering
the Mountain is an emotive guide for new students on how
best to approach a degree in graphic design at Central St Martins
created by James Musgrave.
Read the manifesto - inspiring!
“In
a time of deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” — George
Orwell
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via I<3PLASMOSIS where
you can loads more food for thought.
Jesse
Hora is all about design and has designed some pretty rad illustrations.
Designboom
presents a snapshot round up of Tokyo
Designers Week 2007..
Absolutely
amazing graphic design and illustrations by Guilherme
Marconi! Worth visiting from top to bottom. Luv the clean line arts
and dynamic feel of his compositions.
thehappycorp is
a young, successful, and energetic creative studio looking for a talented
Video Apprentice to work at their new location.
Slimotion is
into? Slick motion graphics and Slimane Aniss has got the reel to prove
it! Much talent at work here.
PepperMelon has
finally LAUNCHED! Be dazzled, check their reel, more fantasy
and imagination every second. Welcome aboard a motion graphics company
based in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Fubiz (daily
dose of inspiration) relaunches after a cosmetic facelift! cool new logo!
Being
Creative is not a Job is a presentation I will be doing at Central
Saint Martins. Here's the poster I designed, ready for download.
Upcoming: London, November 12
Stephanie
Levy 
is
all about mix media highly textured collaged with overdrawn illustrations.
Unique style and pretty good drawings.
On
Friday 19 between 8 and 10am local time, groups of creative thinkers
gathered at Likemind coffee mornings
across the globe - from Jakarta to Stockholm and discussed a topic suggested
by our New Orleans Likemind:
“If
you were to rebuild your city from scratch, how would you build it
differently and what would you keep the same?”
Sabrina
Tibourtine is
a german illustrator who's hoping to rock the designer's and illustrators
scene.
Hello
everyone from Brighton, UK. Just about getting ready for my presentation at
FOTB and before wanna give you a quick update. I've been out of Internet
connection.. hence no updates.
Here's the .pdf of
my presentation. Enjoy!
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The Chillin UK will take place this Friday, starting at 5h30 pm at the dreambagsjaguarshoes
34-36 Kingsland Road
Hoxton
Invite friends and colleagues, that should be fun!
inpholio is
an international platform for professional photography that is free to
visit and free from advertisements. inpholio offers everyone professionally
involved in photography a network to present their work to clients at
less expense and to greater effect.
High end work displayed! Check the blog.
Welcome
to the inner childlike worlds of Garciacity .
If just to see the cute animation on the index.
WOW10?
You need to explore to find out what it is. It's been a while since I
haven't seen such an explorative navigation.
From Japan with luv.
The
absolutely mesmerizing and outstanding illustration work of Tadashi
Ura. To visit from top to bottom.
James
(Jim) Flora is best-known for his wild jazz and classical album
covers for Columbia Records (late 1940s) and RCA Victor (1950s).
Always room to learn from the pioneering illustrators. As you will see,
his influence is still felt in today's illustration scene.
Reminescent
of another age and era isn't it? Check Pattern.tv retro
website, a studio specializing in motion graphics.
From Argentina with luv.
The Behance
Network represents your work professionally. Build a dynamic portfolio
of your latest projects, open to all or shared selectively.
Selected
works for the SHIFT Dotmov Festival 2007 are available for viewing: EN + JP
StudioK is
ready to take orders! Nice starting in the business portfolio website
for Krzysztof Domaradzki.
Oh
the lovelies! VAX is a new
company who has developed an I N C R E D I B L E collection of laptop
bags.
From Barcelona with luv!
Angel
Souto is a veteran digital artist who has just released Zession,
his art direction, graphic design, photography, branding and interactive
portfolio. Yepp, and he has managed for years now, to be good at all
these medias.
Want more? See his wallpaper design at MAXALOT
Gallery and his early work gallery Atmosphere.
Discover one of Spain shiny design star.
If
there was a Dummy award show this entry would win!
Oh my gosh! Make my
Logo Bigger is a parody about some of the most recurring complaints
from clients.. and that movie is just the right antidote for these.
Size, colors, negative space and emotional design all packaged in this
hilarious movie.
Go ahead, it's good to have a good laugh!
KOKOKAKA is
rocking the design scene with loads of award winning design projects!
They're prolific and behind some of the stunning websites by IKEA and
recently Telenor.
Branislav
Kropilak who is one of the best composition photographer that can
make the ordinary pop-up, has updated his portfolio!
You
gotta see this installation that took place in NY. Lose
the Deja Vu was part of a tourism campaign done for my hometown,
Montreal.
Pick a topic and step on it to see the projections.
It's
been a while in the making but the creative broadcaster that is Heavy
Backpack is proud to present Volume
2 of Motion+61 DVD. Included on this convention breaking DVD is a
collection of work from some of today’s leading creative talent
in broadcast, motion graphics, animation, film and effects; all working
in the Australian industry.
TAXI
Design Network seeks a fully-qualified editor to lead and expand
the editorial team for the world's leading online design media. Location:
Singapore.
Brace
yourself for the ride of your life! XPO
reel 2007 is the best reel I've seen this year. Furiously fast and
timed perfectly on the music (an oldie remixed theme Hawaii 5-0).
Handywork of xtra talented Marc Fouchard, a film & art director.
Must see!
His lates project is an informercial for Brand
Advocate and if you can read French, pretty smart pitch! One word
for it: WOW! Wouldn't be surprised, if in the future who would direct
a full feature movie.
Sharon
Lee came
up with the idea and did some googling and 99.99% of the stuff for babies/kids
were pink/blue fluffy.. ans so is born the first issue Astro
Punks created to bring contemporary art to kids and their design-savvy
parents.
Awesome
photo portfolio for Alessandro Rocchi filled
with color saturation and brilliant staging pictures.
That's
a really unusual color for the background design portfolio website for Letters & Numbers and
so is the navigation.
Nice work by Steve Rura!
FARB is
FAB!!! They are a 80m2 graphic
design studio, based in Maastricht, The Netherlands.
“Our love lies in the exploration of new ways in creating compelling
visual communication products, in conceptual terms as well as design
approaches, without limiting ourselves to a specific medium... and having
a blast while at it!”
You
have got to see this: Framebox
Edges! An installation movie whereas the motion graphics follows
the angles of a room!
A
mix-media photographic essay by Jan
Mueller-Wiefel! There are stunning juxtapositions of street posters,
tags and more.
Studio
Dialog specializes in motion and design and was founded by Steve
Seeley and Rob Thompson in 2005. Have a look at their work - inspiring!
Pretty cool flash website too!
The
new Sony Ericsson website b+d
new media realised for the MTV Europe Music Awards 2007 sponsorship
is available for 33 countries and in 16 languages! Nice!
Fore more flash goodness visit the Flashware directory.
Photoshop
has now got a new logo. Or should I say, has now got a logo. If you want
to see other renditions,
if you want to read what
John Nack says and ensuing comments about it.
And Compaq logo
went through a facelift.. you like or not?
What do you think? Good no good?
“When
Alexander the Great visited Diogenes and asked whether he could do
anything for the famed teacher, Diogenes replied, "Only stand out of
my light." Perhaps some day we shall know how to heighten creativity.
Until then, one of the best things we can do for creative men and women
is to stand out of their light.”
-- John W. Gardner
Brad
Briggs informs me he's looking for an experienced and passionate
Flash developer (3-5 years experience) for a robust Web application.
This is a complex, feature rich app with a strong balance of complex
functions and user experience.
Marcela
Restrepo simple
retro styled illustrations!
Designboom presents
a snapshot round up of the london design festival 2007.
Jody
Morris is the winner of the 2007 WSSF Pro Photographer Showdown.
He cumulates 15 years of award winning photography skateboarding, music
and lifestyle.
Shift
2008 Calendar Competition received 1793 graphic entries from 45
countries. We have now finally selected 12 works to appear in
the SHIFT 2008 CALENDAR to be released on November 10.
Hire
an illustrator is not just a portfolio portal. We contact art directors
and companies directly via the telephone to promote individuals. We
collect samples (postcards or other promotional material) from profiled
members to be included in targeted mail shot packs, and a bi-monthly
email newsletter is sent out to promote our clients.
Sampled works, excellent and growing selection of illustrators.
DELIVERY is
a 3D animation short film written and produced by Till Nowak in 2005.
When a hermit living in an industrial wasteland receives a mysterious
package, he dicovers how it would change his life and the world around
him.
This fantastic story and surrealistic visuals accompanied by the score
by Andreas and Matthias Hornschuh have been screened at more than 100
film festivals worldwide and won more than 30 international awards.
Guess
what they're having for breakfast?
Jon Huck goes a long way to document this photographic excercise and
the reveal of the people and what they eat.
Intriguing and revealing.
Not
only do they like playing with colours, they are good doing it! Meet
a new illustrators' collaborative project approprietly called: The
Team Colours.
Much talented assembled!
Just
found a promising designer and illustrator from Argentina named Gianluca
Fallone who likes both type and design. Wait till you see his illustrations...
oh my!
I was actually blown away by his hyper-realism capabilities. Reminds
me of the signature style of master artists working at Walt Dysney studio
in the early years.
If
only for the behind the scenes and live action motion fx, have a look
at The
Essence of Brizo movie. The underwater scenes are what was recognized
as being a top cinematic achievement.
And
this year Webcuts winners are?
Fantastic, I lived on the Moon, that we had featured a couple
of months back, won the Best Film category.
Shane
Gramer studios just completed one of his largest and most diverse
themed environment projects to date! For the love of kids! Pick the
Children Environment area to view the mock-ups and the final projects.
Wish I was a kid again :))
They're
back! Dream
Kitchen for everyone continues in the vein of previous online campaigns
with extraordinarily pieced together different stages bursting with still
life... literally... which you visit using the mouse commands they provide.
Go slow forward, backward and turn around... and discover all that his
hidden.
Anybody know who is the agency behind?
Phenomenally imaginative!
Presenting
the Lovemarks company, Saatchi & Saatchi agency
in Poland! cool flash website!
desres is
a design and consultancy studio and are active in a wide range of projects
across a growing variety of media.
Their projects feature concept, design, illustration, interactive
design, typography, and art direction along with experience in film,
installation, and moving image.
One outstanding project they've complete is Bucovina an
animated flash-site for Shantels internationally known music project.
Check it out!
And
the Nobel
Peace Price 2007 goes to?
“for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge
about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures
that are needed to counteract such change.”
Congratulations to the Former
Next President Al Gore and Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
(IPCC)
Sound
The Alarm (STA) says: “Bringing the song’s meaning to life
with the visual had to be done in just the right way. Says Colin, “When
we wrote ‘Suffocating,’ there
was uncertainty as to where we would be in the upcoming months.
The pressure of graduation and going to college right away, or pursuing
music, was overwhelming, and we were being pulled in all sorts of directions
about what to do next.”
Not only is a very good song, I like the final message:
“Never give up!”
Beautiful
line art animation for Matthew Herberts music video remix Brother
where are you. Idea, direction, filming, animation, editing, post
production by Lumapuma.
For more fascinating animations, motion graphics and videos drill down
the Reel*Shorts.
It's
making news all over: Radiohead's
In Rainbows: A Look at Anti-Marketing in the Music Industry
Upon releasing their latest album,
they've offered it as a pay as you can model.. and reaping a
huge success in doing so!
SuitSupply is
a men fashion website that packs quite a few good interactive tricks,
thanks to flash, such as wonderful background images and slick transitions
to show the different pieces of the collection.
From Netherlands with luv.
For more flash goodness, visit the Flashware directory.
Still
art and motion available at Morevision.
Stunning typographic and visual explorations. Andrew Morev, definitely
someone to watch for.
From Russia with luv.
They
come in colors everywhere! Cheering up for the new Bravia3 campaign
made with play-doh... yes, hand molded!!! Incredibly luscious, delicious
and visually beautiful.
Oustanding technical feat!
Byroglyphics jumps
right at you! Look at this perspective on the opening page! His portraiture
illustrations are bold and strong with strong characters personality
underlined and put forth.
He
lives in Okayama-city, Japan and he is an illustrator, named PEANUTS
TASTE and he uses strikingly contrasted colors!
Did
you know that? São
Paulo: The City That Said No To Advertising by Patrick Burgoyne
“The Clean City law passed last year by the populist mayor, Gilberto
Kassab, stripped the Brazilian city of all advertising. So how's it looking
now?
A city stripped of advertising. No Posters. No flyers. No ads on buses.
No ads on trains. No Adshels, no 48-sheets, no nothing.
It sounds like an Adbusters editorial:
an activist's dream.”
Don't miss reading page
2 of article.
“In a lot of places, Piqueira says, this has led to the removal
of posters but not the structures on which they were displayed. "It's
a kind of 'billboard cemetery'.”
Collection of pictures on flickr São
Paulo No Logo
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via Karen Lacroix, MA student at the Royal College
of Art
If
you could design anything to improve the way we live – what
would it be? Our world is in a state of constant flux. Whether it's
transformations in climate, technology or attitudes our lives are transforming
more rapidly than ever before.
In response to this, 12 top flight illustrators and designers have
been asked to take a step back from their hectic day to day lives to
consider their situation and how it could be improved.
Each publication is launched
alongside an exhibition, showing every single contribution received,
meaning nobody's work goes unseen.
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