News: Dinosaur From PVC
This was designed and built by B. Rolph Kruse. He was the designer for all four of these projects, I just built the first three.
This was designed and built by B. Rolph Kruse. He was the designer for all four of these projects, I just built the first three.
This is just one example of how PVC can be used as a prototyping material for robot designers.
This video showcases a number of artists and designers who rely on open source programming languages like Open Frameworks, Processing and Pure data to create digital art. If you want to help turn this into 3 documentaries about open source, art, programming and innovation, contribute to their goal of $27k on Indiegogo.
In this episode of MindPower, Bryce teaches how to create a photo slideshow in Flash, using only Xara Web Designer 5 from Magix AG.
NYC graphic designer Ho-Mui Wong created this homage to Mad Men’s Don Draper for the FADER. To embody the legend, you will need: icy cold stares, ineffective fathering skills, an appetite for unsavory women, cold emotional stoniness, plenty of shameful secrets, advertising genius, and of course—whiskey neat on ice.
Here is a great article written by the designer of the Broadcast News Criterion Cover.
Try to describe a movie in 4 icons was Kyle Tezak's challenge to self in these promotional movie posters. Kyle is a visual designer for Swink in Madison Wisconsin.
Discount prices for designer apparel fabric. Seriously... Shetland Wool for $7.99/yd!??!
UK designers Fresh West's "Lazy Chair" is a prototype designed to collapse by lever, and then slowly, automatically stand back up.
All these tron posters and the following tron opening titles done Saul Bass style are from the
This is a fantastic interview with Harris Savides ASC. He really hammers home the primacy of the script and the subservience of the photography to the script. Perfect articulation of what cinematography ought to be.
Finally, gamers can do it in style. And by "it", yes, I mean IT. Graphic designer Ben Marsh has come up with a collection of awesome packaging for condoms, in the style of old Game Boy games. Don't miss the crudely fun "instruction sheet" at the bottom of the page.
Wish there were a way to combine the glitz of wax paper with the glamor and status of bacteria? Consider these singular, single-cellular garments by sartorial scientist Suzanne Lee, who grows clothes from cultures of yeast and bacterial cellulose.
Graphic designer Neil Caldwell has developed a process for dying bacon highly saturated, psychedelic rainbow colors (don't worry - it's still edible).
via WonderHowTo World, Cinematography: A friend of mine sent this site to me a year ago: Light Boner. And if it were updated more often, it'd be my home page. Designer/Developer Jarred Bishop curates this jaw-dropping collection of epic-light photos. Seriously, a lot of these photos look like stills from the most visually important films you've never seen. Here's a smattering:
Is that two men kissing? Man they need a new designer on those posters... yuck!
A friend of mine sent this site to me a year ago. And if it were updated more often, it'd be my home page. Designer/Developer Jarred Bishop curates this jaw-dropping collection of epic-light photos. Seriously, a lot of these photos look like stills from the most visually important films you've never seen. Here's a smattering: Light Boner
May have already been posted before, but this is a great, growing resource for title sequences. Many of them have interviews with the designers/artists as well.
Caravaggio-inspired poster by Aussie poster designer Jeremy Saunders. Check out the trailer here.
Check out these videos by P+S Technik, they are very informative about setup and the basics for using these unique type of dollies.
Jacques Pense is the designer behind this amazing award-winning stationery for 13th Street, a German horror network. Total and utter carnage. The punch hole impalings are truly awesome.
Norwegian designer Kristine Bjaadal flips the concept of accidental stains on its head. Her Underfull Table Cloth when "untouched" features a simple damask pattern. However, when a colored liquid is spilled on the textile, a secret butterfly pattern emerges. Previously, Malleable Wooden Textiles.
Interesting collection of works by designer Anatoly Zenkov. Zenkov's Flickr set shows several images created by "using a simple java applet to track his mouse while working, black circles are pointer stops (not clicks)".
Staking keeps your garden beautiful by keeping mature flowers from flopping under their own weight. Garden designer and author Tracy DiSabato-Aust will show you how to stake tall, slender flowers. Stake single stemmed flowers.
This video shows you how designers can use Bridge to find files and integrate them with In Design. Watch and learn how to search and group details of files, use Preview to examine high-resolution images, and use Compact mode to ease the process of dragging a file into another application. Check out this video created by Mordy Golding now! Use Bridge in a design workflow.
I'm not any good with Photoshop myself, but this article on Designer Daily has links to fifteen different steampunk-based Photoshop tutorials. Judging by the images of the finished products, they look really amazing!
Fashion designer Andreia Chaves of São Paulo has created some optically stunning, "invisible" shoes. Constructed with mirrors, the shoes blend into their environment, chameleon-style.
Created as an advertising campaign for fashion designer Adam Kimmel, filmmaker Ari Marcopoulos and friends dressed up total-skateboarder-nuts in Kimmel's spring line... and sent them barreling down a hill in Claremont, California.
Entitled "Venus", the "Natural Crystal Chair" is Japanese designer Tokujin Yoshioka's latest project.
This trick from Flash designer David Stiller will help users organize 3D assets in Flash CS4. In this project, David demonstrates how to create a clip of a rotating 3D book using movie clips and the 3D rotation tool. This is a great example of how to start using 3D space in Flash CS4 and really get comfortable with these new tools. Create a rotating 3D book in Flash CS4.
This week's review roundup is a diverse lot. They really only have two things in common—their indie origins and puzzle elements. Otherwise, they come from France, Spain and the U.S., a few from unknown designers and one by the guy who inspired Minecraft.
The indie game scene is constantly expanding, but in 2008, Minecraft, Braid and Angry Birds had not been released, along with all of the other indie games that established the financial viability of the format. Indie games were the all-but-exclusive purview of free Flash game sites and the proud users of TIGsource.com. The Independent Gaming Source is a massive forum for indie game developers to share their projects with like-minded individuals, while seeking help and approval of their games.
Adobe InDesign CS3 software is used to create compelling print layouts, immersive content for playback in the Adobe Flash Player runtime, and interactive PDF documents. It is built for graphic designers, prepress and production professionals, and print service providers who work for magazines, design firms, advertising agencies, newspapers, book publishers, and retail/catalog companies, as well as in corporate design, commercial printing, and other leading-edge publishing environments. Simply...
Adobe InDesign CS4 software is used to create compelling print layouts, immersive content for playback in the Adobe Flash® Player runtime, and interactive PDF documents. It is built for graphic designers, prepress and production professionals, and print service providers who work for magazines, design firms, advertising agencies, newspapers, book publishers, and retail/catalog companies, as well as in corporate design, commercial printing, and other leading-edge publishing environments. Simpl...
Adobe InDesign CS4 software is used to create compelling print layouts, immersive content for playback in the Adobe Flash® Player runtime, and interactive PDF documents. It is built for graphic designers, prepress and production professionals, and print service providers who work for magazines, design firms, advertising agencies, newspapers, book publishers, and retail/catalog companies, as well as in corporate design, commercial printing, and other leading-edge publishing environments. Simpl...
Adobe InDesign CS4 software is used to create compelling print layouts, immersive content for playback in the Adobe Flash® Player runtime, and interactive PDF documents. It is built for graphic designers, prepress and production professionals, and print service providers who work for magazines, design firms, advertising agencies, newspapers, book publishers, and retail/catalog companies, as well as in corporate design, commercial printing, and other leading-edge publishing environments. Simpl...
Adobe InDesign CS4 software is used to create compelling print layouts, immersive content for playback in the Adobe Flash® Player runtime, and interactive PDF documents. It is built for graphic designers, prepress and production professionals, and print service providers who work for magazines, design firms, advertising agencies, newspapers, book publishers, and retail/catalog companies, as well as in corporate design, commercial printing, and other leading-edge publishing environments. Simpl...
With Valentine's Day right around the corner, it's time for some heart-origami! In the video below, see how to fold a winged origami heart. General Information
Nick Campbell is the creative force behind GREYSCALEGORILLA, a blog of tutorials, ideas, news and inspiration for other creators. The Chicago-based motion graphics designer has worked on the graphics for Dexter, Target, Blackberry, and the Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien.
Just as Smule's ocarina app yields the gentle sounds of a woodwind instrument by simply blowing into an iPhone, Squeal promises to emit theremin-esque noises from the iPad with easy fingerplay. Developed as a collaboration between Hong Kong musician/producer/composer Gaybird Leung and interactive designer Henry Chu, the musical app is a work-in-progress for Henry's ongoing experimental music project Digital Hug.