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Monthly Archives for January 2010

It was a very good month. Dig in. Every entry is a classic.

Core 77 Design Challenge – Hottest Product of 2020

Core77 ran a one hour design challenge that I was inspired by the other week.
Unfortunately, they closed the contest due to lack of participants before I submitted the final rendering of my idea.
So as not to let my one hour go to waste I’m posting it here for my own amusement. If you find this, [...]

MOMA Presents Bauhaus – workshops in modernity

Bauhaus has always served as a personal inspiration and this exhibit helped to put it into perspective. While I still very much respect and admire the work, by seeing it in person I was reminded that they are just like you and me – and inspired to be able to reach the same level of design as they did. Given our current technology and manufacturing techniques it’s really amazing to see how society has and still can build upon their foundations. At least that’s what I took away from this exhibit personally at the time.
Exhibit ends this week – be sure to catch it if you can.

Lady Gaga Monster Ball Tour

Creative
Haus of Gaga

Aside from making me feel really old in comparison to the high school aged audience, it was an amazing show and was all that I thought it would be.

Electro Opera – The Knife’s Darwin based ‘Tomorrow, in a Year’

Last year, The Knife coupled with Hotel Pro Forma to produce an electro opera based on Charles Darwin’s Origin of Species entitled, Tomorrow, in a Year. The opera incorporated various visual electronic displays that provided a unique take on traditional opera asthetic. A video of the performance can be seen below and a complete [...]

Processing – scrunch flower generator by mitchell whitelaw

My favorite generative piece of art work to date.
Scrunch flower generator by Mitchell Whitelaw

Multidimensional Storytelling – HBO Imagine

HBO created an multidimensional storytelling experience to show how HBO content and perspective can bring more to the viewing experience. The marketing product explores how we take in and interpret information given different perspectives on situations. It can be considered a sort of a immersive game for voyeurists.
The campaign consisted of two parts.
In the [...]