The Ad-O-Matic
This video comes our way via @pdxschroeder. Although from a different world, it strikes mildly close to home. Plus I dig the retro animation. Hit the jump to see me go on a rant. Read the rest of this entry »
10/9 Friday Awesomeness: Paper
It’s time once again for a break-neck tour around all the awesomeness Friday has to offer. Along for the ride is our usual companion: Vimeo. This weeks theme: videos involving paper in some way. Hit the jump for the rest of the videos.
Dead All Along A music video for Ceri Frost by Giles Timms. Done in After Effects using a pen-and-ink style. Interesting seeing something so tangible (paper cutouts) created in an intangible way.
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Facebook Should Redesign
This design has been making the rounds on the internet over the past couple days. I’ve got to say I really like it, and I wish Facebook would just pay Barton Smith and implement this right away. The design feels like what would possibly happen to Facebook if the design gurus at Virb had their way with it. He’s made some pretty smart moves between apparently making the news feed a CNN-esque ticker at the bottom, and making events into it’s own calendar.
However, I’ll tell you why Facebook will never output something this cool. 1) There isn’t enough space dedicated to ads for girls who are just DYING to meet you. 2) The news feed can’t display info from a million different vapid applications and quizzes. While I’m at it, let me step up on the soapbox and say how disgusting it’s been to watch people turn Facebook into MySpace with all their vapid quizzes and applications. The last point of hold-out against this virus is the fact that people can’t customize their profiles with songs and glitter graphics. And for that, Facebook should be applauded.
Tilt-shifting the Magic Kingdom
The new Disney Parks Blog posted this video last week. Tilt-shift is a technique that allows for selective focusing and makes photographs of normal places appear as if they were a super-detailed model of sorts. Disney has assembled another post about how the video was made. Therein also lies the revelation that commenters on the video last week claimed they were “moved to tears.” It’s hard to say if those tears were due to the video itself, or the fact they realized there were at a life stage where watching a tilt-shift video of Disney World made them cry.
Type Tuesday: Typographic Wallpapers
Blaberzine has compiled a list of 28 different typographic wallpapers to festively adorn your desktop with. 40+ more wallpapers come from Trip Wire Magazine (and a heckofalot better than the collection from Blaberzine. There’s some bleed-over between the two, but hopefully you will find at least one wallpaper to put on your desktop for at least one day.
Word Time: A Cool Clock for Monday
One enterprising Instructables user saw this rather chic word clock on Make and thought “hey, I could make that.” Creator drj113 has posted all the instructions for making one of these awesome clocks on Instructables. Pretty awesome idea, I would love to have one of these hanging on my wall. However, I have a good feeling that were I to attempt this this I would be left with a pile of broken, expensive wires and do-dads.
Friday Awesomeness: Modernist Videogame Covers
Yesterday’s post regarding minimalist videogame posters reminded me of a similar visual experiment from a couple month’s back started by Olly Moss and continued by the crew over at Something Awful. The task at hand was to imagine videogames as minimalist book covers of yesteryear. (Plus…one of them featured Mirror’s Edge, so I was on board.)
See Olly’s work here, and see the rest that followed here. Oh, and have a great weekend.
Minimalist Video Game Posters
Back in the beginning of August, a couple flickr users assembled a group aimed at recreating various movie posters using minimalist aesthetics. (An experiment I feel sort-of failed due to the rigid restriction to include a big ol’ circle in each one…but I digress..). Now, flickr user infinatecontinues has taken it upon himself to recreate a similar experiment using videogame characters. I feel some of them are a little hit-or-miss (Bowser, Master Chief), but some of them are pure moderist brilliance (Kirby, Vega, DK, etc.) Pop on over and check out his ever-growing collection.
Visionaire
Unofficially the most expensive magazine in the world, Visionaire is an incredibly unique tri-yearly (?) publication. Each “issue” is comprised of a different theme and format/medium; the video at the top shows issue #50 which included 10 sets of nesting toys created by various artists. Issues apparently retail starting at $120, but the value of many of the issues have sky-rocketed as they are sought after by collectors. Hit the jump for a better explanation of the publication along with some links to examples.
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Type Tuesday: A Very Special Cerebral Episode
Free fonts? Visual inspiration? Not this week. This week you’ll be getting some mental stimulation for Type Tuesday.
Typeface? Font? Do you know the difference. Well, you should. Shelby White has written up some food for thought over at Wanken after reading a post on ISO50. As we should all know, it all boils down to this:
A typeface is not a font, nor is a font a typeface. A typeface is a type family’s consistent visual appearance or design if you will. Much like we all have family names, type families have names. Take Helvetica Neue as an example. It’s type family name is “Helvetica Neue” and includes–as stated in the previous paragraph–light, thing, regular, medium, bold, heavy, extended and condensed fonts.
But don’t let that spoil the entire article. Pop over and read the rest for some more insights and delicious, Mrs. Eaves-set quotes that are good for tweeting or the occasional cryptic away message.
