May 6 (15) 09:28 am
Michael Paul Young’s project Designgraphik helped to shape online design throughout the late 90s and early 00s, and earned him a Chrysler Design Award nomination at age 23.
He has won the Clio and the Cannes Gold Cyber Lion, and many other awards. He is a sought-after speaker at the world’s most renowned design festivals.
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Stunning digital art: 01052015
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Check this beautiful animation: 04112014
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He founded YouWorkForThem in 2001, where you can buy fonts, vectors and images. He is the creative director and sole owner.
March 30 (15) 08:07 am
FITC Tokyo 2015 consists of presentations from some of the most interesting and engaging digital creators from all around the world.
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Titles designed by Ash Thorp. View the process reel as well. Amazing.
February 25 (15) 08:05 am
You’ve never seen a remixes website such as Tonangeber – a project by Ani and Beda. They make playlists and share them for free. Stunning project using generative design.
And a as stunning collection of music.
A sample of the shapes.
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Remixes covers.
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LP vinyl covers.
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ndlr: TwoPoints.Net designed a flexible visual system which allows to design a new cover for each playlist. The visual system – the “Supertool” was custom-made with Processing.
View the video to see how it works.
February 25 (15) 06:51 am
Tom Beddard has a fascination with the aesthetics of detail and complexity that is the result of simple mathematical or algorithmic processes.
Check his Subblue collections: videos + photos stream.
November 5 (14) 10:50 am
Erik Söderberg is a cross-media artist working with auditory and visual aesthetics. Fractal Experiences consists of 25 pictures exploring the relations of geometry, nature and the human being.
September 11 (14) 17:44 pm
Featured on ND (circa 06) was Weird Fishes on Radiohead track. Have a listen.
Still a great experiment!
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Processing (founded by Ben Fry and Casey Reas) is a fascinating software and one of the first to explore the possibilities was Robert Hodgin (one of the co-founder of the Barbarian Group) – aka Flight 404.
Want to view more? 281 uploads + 16 appearances in his Vimeo profile.
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His dynamic visuals have backed musicians performing on tour like Peter Gabriel and Aphex Twin, and he designed the popular Magnetosphere music visualizer in Apple’s iTunes.
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While at Bloom Studio – he worked on the worked on the Planetary iPad app which was the first code acquisition by the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum.
Closeup of the Flashbulb planet ‘Red Extensions of Me’ which features a bright red album cover. The planet and its moons derive their surface patterns and colors from the album art.
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He is the foremost implementer of Cinder, a C++ graphics framework he co-created along with Andrew Bell and Hai Nguyen. He is engaged in constant investigations of emergent complexity in generative design.
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If you are interested in investigating further – I recommend looking up: Form+Code to which Robert has contributed to.
Check the ‘links‘ section to discover others working the field.
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And there is a book available.
August 20 (14) 09:53 am
Adam Ferriss experiments with all sorts of tools in making his algorithmic art, from Processing and other creative coding frameworks to real-time shaders and post-processing video effects.
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Sometimes he distorts photographs he finds, running them through a gauntlet of digital mutations until they’re something entirely new.
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Be ready to be blown away. Careful extreme animated visual permutations. Want to give it a try? Download his open-source files.
Don’t miss his about page for more links to artworks.
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via: Wired
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Rocking it since 2001.
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Illustration is probably the largest creative area to express (mostly without words) a message.
Previously: #1 - #2
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Moodboards #1 – Branding collaterals staged and served with conceptual brilliance.
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