a source of creative visual and aural inspiration.
The ill-studio is a French group of collaborators devoted to fine arts and their goal is to bring ten individuals together, working in various artistic areas such as graphic design, photography, typography, illustration, video, motion design.
They also make a bunch of shirts for the stupendous clothing company Sixpack (more French stuff soon).
The Olympic Games in Beijing may have recieved critical acclaim in the media and press but as this potent advert by TBWA points out, China has still got much to prove to the rest of the world. Created for Amnesty International it features an excellent use of the Olympic environment with a twist.
Great little video about an American vinyl collector and archiver. Does get a little emotional towards the end.
The reactable is awesome. It’s a collaborative electronic music instrument with a tabletop tangible multi-touch interface. Several simultaneous performers share complete control over the instrument by moving and rotating physical objects on a luminous round table surface. By moving and relating these objects, representing components of a classic modular synthesizer, users can create complex and dynamic sonic topologies, with generators, filters and modulators, in a kind of tangible modular synthesizer or graspable flow-controlled programming language.
The instrument was developed by a team of digital luthiers (Sergi Jordà, Martin Kaltenbrunner, Günter Geiger and Marcos Alonso), working in the Music Technology Group within the Audiovisual Institute at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona Spain.
For those of you who know me it will come as no surprise that I have a love for motion work and especially that which features sound reactive graphics. This video was created using Processing and is one of many that feature in Universal Everything’s Advanced Beauty. Advanced Beauty is an ongoing exploration of digital artworks born and influenced by sound, an ever-growing collaboration between programmers, artists, musicians, animators and architects.
I first came across Moscow based designer sBss when I happened to land on his Flickr account. The 21 year old has created some lovely prints whilst applying an interesting choice of colour.
Check out this well crafted promotional material for GRANTPIRRIE Gallery by Ivana Martinovic.
Excellent identity and promotional material created by Stockholm based 25ah.
Douglas Lee is a graphic and motion designer from NY. Some great retro graphics and colours on display and he recently art directed and designed some fashion pages for hipster French magazine WAD
As well as this he also records as Lee Douglas and produced one of my favourite disco-esque tracks in A New York Story which is monumental.
Alter from Melbourne Australia is the design duo Jonathan Wallace and Dan Whitford (Dan is in the Modular Records band Cut/Copy. They do all the Modular artwork amongst other things
Also if you head over to Modular artists The Presets page, you can download their Get Off The Beach Mix (email registration to download). Get down (under)
Check out this video of an entertaining Mac virus created by Troika art and design studio.
“Village Green is a design studio set up by Seb Marling (Blue Source) and Jonathon Cooke (Love). It is a workshop as much as a studio – a place for ideas and a place for industry. Our new path will take us through fields young and old – nurturing our engagement in original design through print, interactive media and moving image.”
Some amazing Fabric London posters
Amsterdam’s Our Machine have some great record sleeves in their portfolio, mainly for one of my favourite (French) electronic labels Versatile (who have incidentally handed design duties over to La Boca.)
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