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Archive for Design
Justice meets Threadless
The new video for Justice’s “D.A.N.C.E.” capitalizes on the crazy designer T’s trend. Features some sick typography and After Effects work.
mii and you and everyone wii know
… will be turned into mii’s eventually. or that’s the objective behind ‘wii are the world’. so get with it. go here and make a mii, take a screenshot and submit it to this flickr group. or email it to me.
pizzatime’s doing it down in LA.
As is K Chan…
keempoo the OG is reppin’ Amsterdam.
Wii are the World
We begin this project by wiifying the fine folks at Publicis Seattle.
Someone made a mii configurator in Flash here. Don’t like it as much as the proper wii version, but it’ll do for when I make mii’s away from home.
Reminds you of something you’ve never seen before
From Newstoday, a preview of a documentary on Syd Mead, visual futurist, who worked on _Aliens_, _TRON_ and _Blade Runner_.
Live motion kozyndan
Stumbled upon this going through kozyndan’s blog. It’s a collaborative video piece with Motion Theory that shows you what would happen if this incredible husband-and-wife illustrator team’s artwork came to real life. Used as a promo for Resfest.
Also, am not thrilled by the execution but a great idea nonetheless… an interactive version of kozyndan’s art where you can create your own panorama.
TED redesigns and posts more talks
Method redesigns the site for TED, an annual conference dedicated to technology, entertainment and design. One of the best things about it is the easy access to the talks, 20-minute presentations by some of the world’s most interesting minds (e.g., Al Gore, Bono, Goran Levin, Nicholas Negroponte, Julia Sweeney, and many many more). Here is the talk by Harvard psychologist Dan Gilbert on the synthesis of happiness.
And this vid of Stefan Sagmeister about designing for happiness is worth a looksy as well.
Shrigley’s photos
You may be familiar with David Shrigley’s illustrations and cartoons but have you seen his photographs? They’re really funny and quite charming, and reflect the thoroughly unique vision he has on all things ordinary, un- and extra-.
Oh and if you haven’t witnessed his wicked pen-and-ink technique, check out this video he did for Blur. The last 45 seconds or so are f*ing brilliant.
Make art not war
Join other pixel pushers on this compulsively creative site where you can collaborate on multi-user, real-time art projects. You can be a buddy by helping with an image or you can be a royal dick by pushing stuff out of the way. Entertaining to see how people behave in groups.
W+K go all dot com (and Visual Thesaurus-y)
From my ACD re: wk.com
is it just me, or are those branches a little TOO deep? I clicked on one of the subjects, and after the third level down of exploding menus (leaving at least 100 choices hovering out there) I gave up trying to actually see work…
I prefer the BBDO approach (even though it takes FOREVER to load), similar idea, but you get to see little pictures of the content and the depth levels are grounded by the background map …
My Response:
ye of little attention span.
timeline navigation allows you to explore by topic and links that take you to work appear in red with a little “open” tag next to it.
if you want to be less adventurous, navigate by client.
i think while you’re right, the volume of links/work is almost overwhelming (they’ve done HOW MANY jordan basketball spots?), one thing you get is that w+k didn’t just make a couple ads, they big-banged a universe of work that’s drawn from and infiltrated culture ranging from Air Force 1s to Daisuke Shimada.
the other amazing thing is that an agency can have 25 YEARS of work indexed and viewable on their site. that’s marrying an understanding of what can be done with current technology with a philosophy on how to express who you are (you are the work).
bbdo’s site is great. in fact, it’s a classic (it’s been around for 3 years which online is like dog years, meaning it’s practically an antique)… but wk’s taken that idea and taken it about 100 steps further by cataloging and, in a way, opensourcing their archive (how legal let them show all those TV spots online is beyond me) and by allowing you to navigate through the work based on talent and thematic tags (a la YouTube).
will it be that cool a year or two from now? probably not. will it be frustrating to some visitors? sure. will it be rewarding to others? hell, yea. does it sound like something w+k would be willing to live with — to make something cool that doesn’t necessarily please everyone? of course.
there you go. a site that tells me very clearly who the agency is.
Karaoke Smackdown 2006
Karaoke contest we held at the agency for the holidays. Much Flash animation wackiness.
Threadless is having a sale
For three days (until June 15), threadless is selling t-shirts for $10 a pop. That’s a pretty damn good deal for some swanky T’s.
