Layer Tennis gets into animation. Cool.
Layer Tennis gets into animation. Cool.
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February 9, 2012 Stimulant has created LoopLoop, a visual musical sequencer that runs on the Sifteo cubes. LoopLoop uses an animated visual language as well as touch, motion, and placement of the cubes to create music. Very cool. Comments February 8, 2012 Istanbul creative agency Antilop created this audio-visual and interactive installation for Coca-Cola’s 125th Anniversary Exhibition’s Future Room concept for Turkish modern-art museum santralistanbul. Check out these five short, sweet and video-artsy pieces by Canadian motion designer Nicolas Ménard: Futile Devices.
February 7, 2012 Bold patterned designs on Gretel’s classy visual package for Vh1 Critics’ Choice Movie Awards 2012. February 6, 2012 John Whitney: Permutations Produced in 1966. Written in GRAF and FORTRAN, and recorded in black and white from the monitor of an IBM 360 mainframe. Color was added afterwards using an optical printer. February 5, 2012
February 4, 2012 February 3, 2012 London-based production studio Nearly Normal construct a brooding and introspective short film using papercraft models in The Wolf I Used To Be. Audiovisual design studio No-Domain put together this refreshing video piece titled Lullaby Crocodile. For the exhibition at the Royal Castle in Warsaw, Poland, Novinastudio created this animation to tell the story of the famed castle: The Royal Castle – from Destruction to Reconstruction. February 2, 2012 Herb Lubalin demystifies the process and opens up about the creation of his famed PBS logo. Straight from the AT&T vault, Saul Bass’s 26 Minute pitch video to AT&T, introducing the new look: the largest corporate identity design in American history, at the time. February 1, 2012 New shop on the block, Sebas and Clim, pop onto the scene with Tiny Story: a spiffy little motion piece to celebrate the launch of their official website. Animator Alasdair Willson hits a grand slam with a fresh, new website packed with big-name projects. Watch a five-year-old identify an array of corporate logos and offer insight into their brand in Fresh Impressions on Brandmarks (from my 5-year-old). Filmmaker Danny Cooke has documented the dying art of letterpress in a short film titled Upside Down, Left to Right: A Letterpress Film. January 31, 2012 Los Angeles-based designer Michael Lozada Tello shows a range of snazzy work on his website, HelloTello.com. January 30, 2012
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Layer Tennis gets into animation. Cool.
Nice new work over at Royal Pictures.
There’s something in the water
Robot High School is Xelor’s latest one-take music video.
After a year and a half in Sydney working at Engine, Patrick Da Cunha’s moved back to Melbourne to start full-time at Qube Konstrukt, and he’s taken the opportunity to update his site.
Crisp design, bold palettes and snappy animation give Pat’s work a sharpness that I dig. He’s not afraid to keep things simple—sometimes bordering on minimal—which buoys his whole portfolio with an unpretentious confidence.
New promo for Plastic Operator directed by Bitstate has several really nice moments
If you’re in the LA area any time between now and February 11th, you might want to check out the Takashi Murakami show.
Murakami is arguably Japan’s most popular and successful contemporary artist. He’s shown his work at prestigious museums and galleries around the world, including the Gagosian, the MoMA and the Pompidou. Murakami blends Japanese pop iconography, anime, sculpture, painting, toys, fashion and—of course—animation to create a vast array of cute, obscene and puzzling art projects.
He doesn’t just limit himself to the rarefied white cubes of art galleries, though. Here’s a (cruddy but watchable) music video Murakami recently directed for Kanye West’s “Graduation”:
Murakami is interesting (and relevant) to us because he’s managed to blend his artistic endeavors with his commercial projects. He can design purses for Louis Vuitton, make a music video for Kanye West and sell mass manufactured toys and bobbles without tarnishing his artistic integrity. If anything, his commercial success bolsters his artistic success—a feat that may be partially responsible for some declaring him “The Warhol of Japan.”
Here’s a decent introduction to Murakami created for BBC’s documentary series, Japanorama, that gets at some of what I’m talking about:
The website for Murakami’s MOCA show has several more videos that give you a good feel for the breadth of his work. If anyone’s been to the show, please tell us what you thought about it.
Thanks to our friend Shaun Collings for the tippage.