It’s nice that
It’s Nice That is a daily creative blog launched in April 2007 by designers Will Hudson and Jez Burrows to locate, collect and share ‘nice things’ within the creative world.
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Tags: Advertising, Animation, Architecture, ARt, blog, Books, Events, Exhibitions, fashion, film, graphic design, Illustration, Jez Burrows, Music, Photography, product design, Publications, Sculpture, Web, Will Hudson, Writing
Christophe Agou
Christophe Agou (France, 1969) moved to New York in 1992, where he developed a love for the city and an uncanny feel for the look of the ordinary in people, places and objects.
Bridging the worlds of documentary and fine art photography, Christophe works in extended series, both in color and black and white. Often quite different from each another in form, he always integrates the presence of people. His intimate images haunt and intrigue us, creating an intensely rich, layered visual language that triggers many thoughts and emotions.
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Tags: new york, street photography, Photography, contemporary photography, portraits, Documentary photography
***Spamflet***
Spam messages are considered annoying or just plain evil. Most mail servers have installed some kind of protection to filter out the spam messages before they reach their loyal costumers. But these measures couldn’t discourage the spammers. They started to think of ways to avoid being rejected by the mailservers filter. In stead of using very explicit words they use metaphors to get the message across. Some of there metaphors and hidden messages are really quite clever and creative. Some of the sentences are hilarious and every now and then a spam message is very poetic and beautiful.
For the graphic design festival Breda 2008, Lenneke Heeren and Martijn Maas each were selected to contribute to a poster project. They decided to make typographical posters about these spam messages. They used grammatical rules to give the different words a visual identity. Two posters were selected for their contribution to the Graphic Design festival. By exposing the posters the private spam messages were made public.
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Tags: Breda, graphic design festival, Netherlands, posters, spam, typography
vi.sualize.us
vi.sualize.us is a social bookmarking website for visual contents. It allows you to remember your favorite images around the web, and share them with everyone.
Sometimes, you are looking through pictures and one of them catches your eye. You know you want to remember it and been able to look at it again in the future, but it’s not that easy: downloading to your hard disk is as useless as bookmarking the website in the usual way.
This is where vi.sualize.us changes the rules. Within two clicks, you can quote the image reference in your account, and easily look at it whenever you want to, just as your new favorite picture deserves. All without thinking about what computer you stored it in: always online, always available.
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Tags: bookmark, pictures, social bookmarking, social networking
TagR.tv
TagR.tv is a festival video blog that multiplexes documenting of all kinds of digital and media arts events, and lets you experience festivals from anywhere in close to real-time.
The Contenproducers are a network of editors, external bloggers and artists, who have the possibility to present their work to the public.
Compact recording-devices like mobile phones, compact-cams, mp3recorders and mobile media processing make it in combination with user-generated content platforms like flickr or youtube possible to create new information channels that allow active networking.
Because of these mobile tools it’s possible to easily check out the festival and tell the world about it. All of these tools are out there and already in use, it just needs a platform to that collects and bundles the information.
This way tagr.tv acts as unique medium for documentation of media-art events of all kind that connect internationally dislocated artwork. This linkage of several events leads to the creation of a contextual meta-level, that provides an survey about current discourse
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Tags: ARt, digital art events, festival, media art events, video blog
Joel Meyerowitz
Joel Meyerowitz is an award-winning photographer whose work has appeared in over 350 exhibitions in museums and galleries around the world. He was born in New York in 1938. He began photographing in 1962. He is a “street photographer” in the tradition of Henri Cartier-Bresson and Robert Frank, although he works exclusively in color. As an early advocate of color photography (mid-60’s), Meyerowitz was instrumental in changing the attitude toward the use of color photography from one of resistance to nearly universal acceptance.
Meyerowitz is a Guggenheim fellow and a recipient of both the NEA and NEH awards. His work is in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art and many others.
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Tags: Photography, street photography
Eboy
Mixing popular culture and commercial icons into their wild imaginary worlds, eBoy the “Godfathers of pixel” build three-dimensional illustrations filled with robots, cars, guns and girls, working from offices in Berlin and New York. Their unique style has gained them a cult following among graphic designers worldwide, as well as a long list of commercial clients. EbOY is Steffen Sauerteig, Svend Smital and Kai Vermehr. They create re-usable pixel objects and take them to build complex and extensible artwork. They express their art as an extension of their childhood. Their influences come from: “Pop culture… shopping, supermarkets, TV, toy commercials, LEGO, computer games, the news, magazines…” Kai was the only one who grew up with Nintendo to inspire him, the rest of the eBoys lived in East Germany where video games didn’t exist. Mostly their designs are printed today and not used for computer screens only any more, allowing images to get more complex with details. “If we don’t work on other projects at the same time it takes about six to eight weeks to finish a very detailed cityscape, three eBoy’s working on it, nearly full time. But, if we have to do it in our spare time, which happens often, it could take years to finish a picture since we can’t spend so much time on it.” Their unique style has gained them a cult following among graphic designers worldwide, as well as a long list of commercial clients. Their latest project are their toys. Peecol with Kidrobot, and soon a new line of wooden toys are to be produced under their own label.
eBoy has worked with named brands and companies such as Adobe, Coca-Cola, MTV, VH1, Adidas, and Honda. They have also worked in creating the album cover for Groove Armada’s 2007 studio album Soundboy Rock.
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Tags: ARt, illustrations, graphic design, pixel, Germany, Berlin, pixelart
Maxalot
Maxalot brings together graphic design, iconography, street art and all the hybrids in between to create exhibitions and creative projects related to the art of image-making. The gallery showcases graphic design as a contemporary art-form inviting industry leaders, pioneers of graphic style and technique to exhibit in shows which are free from the boundaries of their client-work. Since its debut in 2003, Maxalot has set course to become an influential force in the global graphic and design community and now incorporates a gallery and online boutique offering unique objets d’art, limited edition giclée prints and graphic wallscapes created by the cream of graphic society.
http://www.maxalot.com
(Best viewed in internet explorer; doesn’t work very well in Firefox)
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Tags: ARt, illustrations, wallscaping, graphic design, digital wallpaper
Made in Queens
Last summer in a cramped, rented garage on the outskirts of Queens, NY something incredible was happening. Nicholas Ragbir, an imaginative tinkerer from Trinidad was working late into the nights creating something nobody had ever seen: enormously powerful stereo PA systems jerry rigged onto ordinary bmx bikes. It wasn’t long before Nick assembled a small crew of like-minded riders. Traveling together, each behind the handlebars of his or her own massive homemade creation, they treat the neighborhood to an outrageous impromptu music and dance party on wheels.
Not since Rize has a documentary so expertly captured the imagination and authenticity of underground expression in urban America. Existing only a half-hour from the media-saturated landscape of Manhattan the authentic human sentiment behind MADE IN QUEENS feels a world apart.
Directed by Nicolas Randall and Joe Stevens, MADE IN QUEENS is a visually groundbreaking documentary celebrating the beauty these imaginative young people have brought to their adopted home.
“In this age of obsessive video sharing and social networking nearly every action is designed and packaged for public consumption. Especially with young people,” says director Joe Stevens. “The immediate charm of Nick and his crew is that they’re the exact opposite of all that. There is nothing calculated or self-conscious about who they are. They’re just a group of friends doing something to challenge themselves and have some laughs. It’s a story which would have never come from kids who were born here.”
http://www.madeinqueensfilm.com/
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Tags: BMX, documentary, film, movie, NY, Queens, urban
The 192 Loudspeaker Experience
Forget what you know about music. Forget what you know about sound. Forget what you know about space. And listen again…
Since the eighties of the last century TU / Delft works on a whole new audio principle called Wave Field Synthesis (WFS). Recently, Fraunhofer Institute (known from the MP3) converted this principle to a well-functioning audio system. The Game of Life goes a step further. With the help of the most prominent experts, The Game of Life designed a WFS system to focus on both software and hardware for the musicians of today . This makes it possible to have - for the first time in the history of audio - effective environmental audio positioning.
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Tags: environmental audio positioning, Fraunhofer, Music, sound, The game of live, Wave Field Synthesis, WFS
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