from the video: Robyn with Kleerup - With Every Heartbeat which draws inspiration from Oskar Fischinger's Composition in Blue. Fischinger also invented a "lumigraph" or color organ which could be operated by two people to produce visuals to music but it never ...Read More
happiness in business versus limitations in business i will spare you the motivational gobbledygook (which i view with a suspicious eye!) which could accompany this (not always gobbledygook, at the heart of this it is about survival and not going bonkers before ...Read More
"Microsoft Sustainablity" from Motionographer: "For those of you that have made it past the headline, congratulations: I now grant you access to the future!" the future of interactive design/technology as articulated so well in the video by oh hello for microsoft. ...Read More
Retrofuturistic Opening logos General Motors Futurama videos (1939) Read More
drew a design factory island today (for work). my colleague reckons that's what the inside of my head looks like. oh no i suppose it must be the stupid coffee machine in head which gives me the fidgets real bad. can't ...Read More
generated with the guilloche explorer which was made by the fine folks at subblue graphical explorations for the mathematically challenged: apparently the proper name for those silly spiral pattern rulers with the little roulettes with holes into which you insert the nib ...Read More
japan ministry of agriculture video - "ensuring the future of food" halfby animations by groovisions Read More
this "infographic" animation style was brought to my attention at work today and it made me realise (1) how much i like this clean textbook style (in the same way i like boards of canada) and (2) its possible to ...Read More
noticed a small but interesting rainbow distortion on a gradient shape when i zoomed in close in flash cs3. this rainbow changed when i zoomed in even more - changing into an arc. must be a fluke of on-screen colour ...Read More
from icosahedral symmetry: "icosahedral symmetry allows for the lowest-energy configuration of particles interacting isotropically on the surface of a sphere" seems like there are many different ways in which photorealism is achieved in 3d graphics and there's some maths behind ...Read More
last night i dreamt i was in a place that resembled Kazimierz, the jewish quarter in Krakow, but minus the snow. it was evening and everything was tinted yellow by the setting sun, and i had gone to a talk ...Read More
"From the lenticular cover that changes with the angle of your hands all the way to the Z, ABC3D is as much a work of art as it is a pop-up book. Each of the 26 three-dimensional letters move and ...Read More
i was not having much luck with saving psds into pdfs today. either the words got mashed up when resized or they looked like this rainbow grid. which obliquely reminds me of an idea... long ago i found a picture on ...Read More