Webby Awards Bumpers from DK
by Bun Lee
Videos and Bumpers created by Digital Kitchen for the Webby Awards. See how they use visual and sound to represent Each Categories!!!
Canadian DMCA Comic Explains Why You Should Care
by Vinson Van Haaff
So I’ve been following the “made-in-usa” DMCA bill the Canadian Parliament have been trying to pass under the public radar for a few months now, and it’s been hard trying to explain why it’s such a big deal to people. Thankfully, Gordon Duggan of Appropriation Art has created an amazing comic chronicling the fight up until now. I recommend this read to anybody who has any sort of interest in digital media whether its recreationally or professionally (…ahem…). I mean, the Canadian/US border already has claimed the right to search all data storage that passes to the US (scary shit if you ask me). Get involved and check it out!
Link to Appropriation Art site
Also, on a interaction note, the fact that a comic can have external-linkable assets (or on any PDF for that matter) is a sweet design choice to keep in mind, especially with eBook readers on the fringe of the mainstream present, as well as the fact that they’ll soon be gobbled up by the cellphone just like everything else. Think about it. ttfn!
Bloom: peddling green
by Brad Ando
“The Bloom device is meant to be a subversive and inspirational tool for our concrete jungles. Similar to the tuft of a dandelion as the wind carries the seedling, we propose a way of dispersing seedlings with bubbles and bicycling.”
http://www.design21sdn.com/competitions/11/entries/3147/gallery/18797
Brush the ugly away
by Brett Forsyth
Wow. I didn’t realize they did this. A must watch. Click on the beauty reel.
Video Retouching @ room tv
Portfolio Review
by Iván Cruz
Hi Guys,
I know this is rushed but I just saw this and I thought it might be interesting for some of you, There’s going to be a Portfolio Review event tomorrow at TAXI, apparently it’s quite the event where you present your work to at least three creative directors from Vancouver, in a speed-dating kinda setup.
Check it out here, there’s only seven tickets left I believe.
http://portfolionight.com/aroundtheworld/vancouver
DK @ NAB
by Bun Lee
A quick walk thru on developing the Finish Line Shoes brand commercial you might have seen. Project involve camera tracking in 3D, then using 3D data to bring into After Effects for animation.
Matching Sound and Visual
by Bun Lee
We always talked about matching sound and visual. Syncing the motion with music. This is a perfect example:
MP4 or this YouTube version….
Bruce Sterling on the future of interaction design. sweet.
by Vinson Van Haaff
Here is as lively talk about the future of interaction design from cyberpunk author/legend Bruce Sterling. It was the closing lecture at the ‘Innovationsforum Interaktionsdesign’ conference in Potsdam, Germany. He painted a weird and wonderful vision of the future filled with biometrics and wireless money transfers. Probably one of the best futurist rants I’ve heard in a long time. He shoots down talking computers (think Mr. Clippy) and runs through a piece of the large list of technologies that were assimilated by the cell phone. Check it out, you’ll feel like a better person at the end. I swear.
p.s. - The ‘Innovationsforum Interaktionsdesign’ was one of the most important conferences on interaction design in 2007. All presentations from the conference are available as videos on the conference site (note that many of the lectures are in German).
Bruce Sterling from Innovationsforum on Vimeo.
Link.