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Design anywhere digital culture NEWS // May 2005
Azul
de Corso 
is
an upcoming illustrator with a talent to watch for. Her personal signature
is still emerging but already shows polyvalence in projects she did
so far. The following, are two of her best work.
From Argentina with LUV.
“...at
the annual E3 video game convention in Los Angeles... reports on how
movies are having greater and greater influence over the video game industry.” Video
Gaming Goes Hollywood by Xeni Jardin.
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ndle1:
Why I am not surprised!? Grrr surely means on the way to retail outlets
more visual gory lethal violence to be produced and released as benign
amusement...
Get
ready for one of those exploratory sites where you interact with objects
moving on the screen. Island.8081 is oriented toward generating awareness
for our environment and how thoughts should be given to creating a sustainable
future via visuals simulation. Pretty intense resource wise. Some sections
are closed.
Areas that are functional are definitely worth the visit.
What
is Design Matters? It is a
community of diverse professionals impassioned by great design. Members
have a commitment to learning and sharing new design concepts, theories,
and techniques to better themselves, their businesses, and their communities.
Read the introduction to get an overall scope of their activities and
who should participate. From Japan with LUV!
Discovering
the work of this photographer and digital artist, Robert
ParkeHarrison is a pure delight. Although all pictures seems somewhat
gloomy and charged with negativism... I find them profoundly moving and
securing a high level of intelligence and near genius in conceptual value.
How do you go about being the 'subject' of the photograph and yet -
organizing all these props and snapping the picture.
I have no clue as to the how he does it. For certain, lots of thoughtfulness
goes into each and everyone... and for most - I do get 'it' when I read
the title.
Poetic translations? Copy pasting the struggles we face in our not so
bright every day, is a feat to pay attention to and celebrate.
Our humanity is loaded with intense capabilities for turning the intangible
into tangible far reaching messages.
Here is to one of the visionaries that uphelds our sense of responsibility
and ignite the desire to overcome to new heights.
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Excerpt from New York Times / Feb 4, 2000.
Review entitled "Everyman tries to Save the Earth, One Image at
a Time"
“He comes down on the side of lamentation but expresses it with
an unusual combination of poetic license, laboriously constructed props
and a wry and melancholy, vaguely allusive sense of myth.
He appears in every picture, in a black suit and white shirt with no
tie, a kind of Everyman or a minor employee of the universe, patiently,
dutifully doing a job that's too big for him.
That job is essentially to take care of a devastated Earth with inadequate
equipment. He works or performs obscure rituals in large and empty landscapes
beneath gray skies.
Perhaps this is one man's private way of saying that neither pollution,
global warming nor digitalization can entirely extinguish the hands-on
experience and human desire to create.”
Ventilate publishes
a mega issue #9... with 14 new topics!
Feed
your eyes! New sights to learn and portfolios to
be inspired from!
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Siedemzero excellent urban style print portfolio
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HelloBye is an art director who uses a unique kind of mix of writing
and line art to design with surprising results.
Brandingbranding is
all about... branding! That is an interesting task and and a repository
of this buzzword multiple levels of interpretation. Their mission? Helping
define it... So what do you think?
“The
realm of the *and* is a world marked by openness and difference ... Instead
of creating eternal values on their way to the museum, post-modern art-making
is an art of communicating ideas and emotions, often by provocative concepts
or irritating objects and installations. For the time being, the formalist
master perfecting his style in a lifetime is an exhausted model.
The new one is the artist capable of formally mastering an existential
message or situation at any moment of his or her life. That is why art
today has mainly an interventionist and temporary character and why,
indeed, it can happen anywhere. The studio of the post-modern artist
is the world.”
Excerpt from a talk titled Post-modern
Nomadism by Michael Haerdter / 1996.
Blogging
Beyond the Men's Club. Since anyone can write a Weblog, why is
the blogosphere dominated by white males? by Steven Levy
“So why, when millions of blogs are written by all sorts of people,
does the top rung look so homogeneous? It appears that some clubbiness
is involved.”
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ndle1:
No comments - must read article.
IBM
has decided to make Firefox an
officially supported browser company wide. Does this mark a beginning
for Firefox and the enterprise? IBM
moves in Firefox's direction by Eric Bangeman
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ndle1:
And we thought behemoths corporations could not see the light of day!
That's an hopeful step. When do car manufacturers (finally) announce
the launching date for their fully functional alternative energy cars?!?!?
A
brand new issue of Creative
Behavior is out with The Right logo and Working
with values (a must read article!) that puts the emphasis on why
choosing projects from an ethical standpoint matters.
“In the end, the global community is made up of nothing more than
individuals making small decisions every day, but its these decisions
that affect us all... As a designer you have a lot of power held in your
hands. You have the power to make almost anything seem desirable or even
essential, to change the way people see whats around them.
This may sound exaggerated, but... you should bear in mind the implications
your work has the potential to have.”
Published as well is an article I wrote in the style of an open letter
titled: Unassigned,
the Future Calls for Submissions. Written a little while back it
is, in fact, complementary to the presentation I did last night. It was
read while Till Nowak short film Delivery,
was playing in the background! I strongly urge you to look at it. It
will definitely highlight the words you read.
Just
back from doing my presentation What
neXt? The Future is Connected so? Thanks to: Héctor, Amy for
your warmth, Katia for being such a fantastic gal, Till for your talent,
Javier for your words. Hey Solina, Pedro gave me the gifts, hope you
guys like the eye candies!!!
There will be a special area where the summaries, research notes, book
references, URLs... the works will be available -- ... when I come back!
For now, how about the online
presentation? I warn you - this is a really FAT download!!!
For those interested in the how it was built: the pres is CSS driven
only (how cool is that! JF you're the man!) and was formatted to be best
visualized using Opera fullscreen capacity (press F11). (The pres is
NOW debugged for cross-browser seamlessness, yet). Navigate in Opera
fullscreen with CTRL+Arrow R or L or use the 'brackets'; middle link
starts pres again.
2 Hyperisland students
looking for internship. When I am a student this is how I want to be.
Good grief these are outstanding designers! Fetch them now!
Carl
Nyman aka Sixten
Jens
Nilsson aka Dancemade is a very
good graphic designer.
You've
gotta see Resses software interface
site and his 2005 reel! From Argentina with LUV.
Sleepless
in Barcelona! Wow! What a beautiful city. A quicky to let you know that
if you are attending OFFF - drop me a note
to let me know. I am excited at the prospect of seeing and meeting and
catching up with new and old friends.
Short
list of new illustration sites
in no particular order or flavor:
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Eduardo Bertone sense of play; check his graphic design / illos
and photo portfolio.
Hello!
He's Roy Holly. 70's illlustration
style mixed à la Warhol and (Roy)
Lichtenstein.
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fillypa is
Maria Isabel Arango, a dreamy illustrator
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Fernanda Cohen in
summary: unique! Different! Where details and drawing lines are dominant.
Destyler is
a *design/art/film/music news portal started by Ante Matijaca and Filip
Filkovic, both from Croatia. Relaunched site with new layout and more
options.
This
is what I say: cool out of the box navigation!
This is what they say: “dimaquina is
a design collective, created with the intention to make defying and stimulating
work. What we value the most is the creative process, rather than just
the plain result. Our clients, which includes companies from music to
fashion industry, take part in the design process, as co-authors.”
Infiltrate
NYC and get as great a site as the fab book.
Although the interviews are a bit hard to read due to layout - this
book won't disappoint in conveying what is considered NYC cutting edge
design. Some of the contributors you might know already, others, you
will discover. A bonus - is the accompanying website - if you click on
top mini-anims you will land on the designer's page complete with thumbnails
of work included in the book.
Now that's giving precedence to those who make it happen! The designers!
LUV the cover - line art of the southern tip part of Manhattan.
Excerpt that makes from good food for thought:
“Businesses are coming to understand the power and possibilities
of design. More than ever designers are being called upon to solve various
strategic and tactical problems, and in many cases design has become
an integral component of every business...
Unlimited opportunities for designers to participate, thrive, influence
and challenge every aspect of human life...
Attracting people with dreams, ambition and talent from all over the
world...
Individuals whose work and ideas don't fit established classifications,
the catalyst and inventors who take the initiative and always find their
own way -- whether there is a creative brief or not, for client or without
a client. They create stimulating work and always have something to say.”
Must have reference book!
If
that's what it takes to rekindle hope - then Nil:
A Land Beyond Belief it is! Now the site - soon the comic
book.
“Join fellow sufferer Proun
Nul on his quest to find meaning in a desolate world saturated
with angst and ennui. Foreman on a deconstruction ship that specializes
in demolishing belief outbreaks, Nul is prodded out of his complacency
by a false murder charge, and sets off on a journey that takes him
to the very brink of hope. A 232-page concoction of fiction and intrigue
that delves into the bleak and bitter philosophical brew of Nihilist
chic.”
Promising
talent on the rise - Jakob Stenqvist -
student at Hyper-Island is looking for an Autumn internship! Particularly
like his portraits shots!
You
may agree or disagree with the following statement and that's fine -
but if you need to document or assess what corporate identity is now
about - that would be a good starting point for research and documentation.
“Corporate identity is a matter of trust” says Robert Paulman
founder of Crossband and a fabulous
portal on CI which claims to be
the largest european website related to all aspects of corporate identity.
The News section holds a wealth of mini analysis enough to complete a
master degree on the topic. Complete with articles, books, URLs and PFDs
to corporate brand styling.
Available in Deutsch and beta in English.
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ndle1:
Excerpt thumbnail from a Vodafone campaign.
Have
a peek before pre-proliferation of the same. How Nikolaus Baumgarten
(concept
& organization) got a dozen of artists to agree to collaborate into
meshing each work into one - is already a feat since some elements needed
to be joined together...
On the technical side? Try it - you will understand. Wow! This is something
indeed. Quick travelling down a sometimes scary and stunning tunnel.
Click the little squares by artists name to view stills of their work!
Zoomquilt a must see!
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ndle1:
via AB
Great
news! Launching issue of WAG #0 which
claims to be an incubator of ideas, to document today what will be tomorrow:
evolutions, transormations, changes of every artistic and communicative
path that today is not yet codified. Congrats to all participants - some
making their online debut. Artist name highlights on the right or pick
an artist to view their specific contribution - a good way to give back!
Must admit there are tons of outstanding work! No known date for a second
issue... but if you ask - perhaps there will.
Even
if you don't speak or read for example and as is the case, Italian -
you kind of get what the site is about - somewhat related to print (it's
actually an advertising company). DeChiara
Grafica is a smooth operation with nice visual play on cmyk that
extends to the navigation.
The
Pixel Plant is having a mega pixel font give away! If you're like
me - you LUV fonts and more is always better!
To
all the product and industrial designers, Kellie Holt et al are covering
the Milan Design Week 05. Wheee check POL
OXYGEN Magazine for a dazzling in-depth coverage. There's enough
to disappear for a couple of weeks! Good work!
Check in every day for a stack of updates.
Do
you believe that public relations can grow your business?
Yes.. I've seen the results first hand - 67%
Maybe. I plan to incorporate public relations
in my communications strategies - 22%
No. Spending time on public relations takes
away from my time to create design - 14%
ndle1:
via Icograda.
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