2007 Adobe Design Achievement Awards winners review
Presenting the Adobe Design Achievement Awards 2007 winners.
I recommend viewing all finalists work as well.. Be inspired and I encourage you to participate next year. For non-students: serious butt kicking work ahead, that should keep us on our toes for a couple of weeks!
See why they blew our minds away!
\ Fische und Schiffe by Axel Broetje // Animation
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“Fische und Schiffe” is an animated silhouette film for children. I wrote the story myself. It is about a ship accident in which four main characters interact in different roles. The characters are a small boy, a cook, a fisherman and a greedy predator fish.
The film is without speech but the story is accompanied by piano music.
\ Trusted Computing by Benjamin Stephan, Lutz Vogel // Motion Graphics
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This documentary explains what the term trust has in common with Trusted Computing, where you will meet this so-called technology in the near future.
The documentary questions the computer industry’ interpretation of the term 'TRUST'.
\ SEEK Volume 01: Iceland by Sarah Cooper, Nina Gorfer // Print Design Multipage
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SEEK Volume 01, a book of nine visual short stories from Iceland, is an investigation into myths and parallel worlds of ghosts, elves, and the hidden people of daily Icelandic life.
The project plays on an enhancement of mood through design methods focusing on tales never before written down and gathers them in a chronicle of visual short stories. It is a visual narrative that reveals the dichotomies and secrets of country or place: It is an invitation to imagine.
\ Research Calendar by Jörg Block // Digital Illustration
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The illustrations were created for the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences research calendar. Each month illustrates a different project to demonstrate the variety of the university’s research activities for the general public.
I used striking, funny, or droll images to inspire spontaneous interest in the featured research subjects. I intended the images to stimulate viewer curiosity about the concrete research activities referenced on the back of each calendar page and hope the viewer reads the detailed information there.
The illustration subjects include marketing bio food, logistics systems, anesthesia technology, joining technology, bio diesel, and packaging.
\ True Character by Sean Teegarden // Digital Photography
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It is said that the masters of old would paint in the flaws on their subjects as a finishing touch, a method of making paintings real.
In this series, I made true characteristics of these people blatantly apparent. I wanted viewers to see every little detail that many would call flaws—I see them as True Character.
\ You think therefore I am by Po-Yun Jack Wang // Environmental Graphics and Packaging
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Existence is at once familiar and elusive. We have no problem using the word “exists,“ but what is it like to exist, and how do we exist?
Before you see me, my existence is not something that I can express to you. I intend to prove that our existence is based on each other. You think, therefore I am.
I have created an installation 50" x 182", with paper cutouts and nine books to illustrate the entity Jack Wang which your perception of me creates.
\ Generative Engine by Kyle Phillips // Interactive and Web Design
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Generative Engine is the culmination of a year-long project in algorithmic artwork. The application generates compositions that combine supplied assets, user settings, aesthetic rules, and a level of chaos to instantaneously create infinite artwork.
My work often utilizes new media to create collaborative toolsets in which users have the ability to directly take part in my work, involving them on a variable level of authorship and allowing for the open-ended evolution of continuous live projects.
\ Vulnerant Omnes Ultima Necat by Sean Dekkers // Live Action
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“Vulnerant Omnes, Ultima Necat” is a psychological narrative poem inspired by my mother’s and younger sister’s recent onset of schizophrenia. It supports a unique visual style and poetic glimpse into the last days of a woman coping with her lost inner self.
My objective for this film was to take the audience into a place they have not been. I wanted to experiment with visual style, filmic barriers and alternative storytelling.
\ Car Color Timeline by Aaron Kapor // Print Design Multi-page
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The objective behind this piece was to come up with a method to organize information as simple as the color of cars in the most effective and interesting way. Using a timeline system, I visually organized the structure of Art Center’s Hillside parking lot in step-by-step panels.
The timeline starts with raw data taken from photos and information gathered from each individual car. The data is then broken down into abstract shapes and optical mixing giving the viewer various choices depending on their personal visual preference. At the end the data is compiled in a fairly generic information graphic.
\ Part of my life by Soo Jin An // Print Design Single page
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Various kinds of expressions exist on an object's face, just as on human faces. While humans create objects, they do not create their expressions.
The face, formed accidentally from an object in everyday life, claims its own existence. As we discover an object’s facial image it evolves into another image through analysis and recomposition. Enjoy the infinite possibilities!
ndlr: Don't miss the Judges in action video. Get a sneak preview of the gallery, how it went about and some of the comments from each of us. Thanks to Eric Finkelman (2003 ADAA winner) and team for compiling this cool video.
