The Poool: OFFF founder Héctor Ayuso calls for a creative revolution

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The Poool is a dynamic project brought to you by OFFF (Buy tickets now! Spend awesome 15-16-17 of May) that changes every year; offering exclusive elements, interviews and features by the most talented beings out there. The magazine this year will be taken on a personal level, a piece that the Poool Team hope to offer to people as something that they want to keep forever. Packed with interviews with Casey Neistat, Patrick Clair and Oliver Jeffers and features by Studio Blup, Bartholot, Conrad Roset and many more. The magazine’s cover will be designed exclusively by Si Scott and will come with a poster designed by Noelia Lozano.

via FFF

Read Computer Arts' Julia Sagar speaks to the organisers of Barcelona's biggest design fiesta as they launch The Poool website.

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Bam! OFFF 2014 Teaser

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"The wait is over ladies and gentleman, OFFF 2014 teaser is finally here! We know you're excited to see what OFFF has for you this year, so Atelier's 2014 students aka Lorem Ipsum had fun teasing you a little bit more. You can now watch it here and plan your schedule because our OFFF 2014 schedule is up! So, get ready and buy your tickets for one of the most exciting Festivals of the year!"

http://vimeo.com/84451337

OFFF Mexico 2013 Titles

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After three consecutive days of creativity, inspiration and hardcore talent; OFFF México has once again been a massive success this year. Starting with the touching speech by the brilliance of Héctor Ayuso, Josué Ibáñez and Alejandro Machorro, the audience experienced an endless journey shared with the dreamy work by Sougwen, the endless inspiration by Jessica Walsh, the experimental work by Julien Vallée and if we must say, the master of title sequences Kyle Cooper. Along with many other talented speakers, the audience ended their journey eager for another one in the next OFFF México in 2014. Naturally, the OFFF experience includes brilliant main titles and this time OFFF México introduced us to Jorinna Scherle; a young director and designer known for her unique style of work. Causing the beautiful audience to request to play it more than once, the main titles this year were new and experimental along with the collaboration of Ben Lukas Boysen with his remarkable work.

http://vimeo.com/72709628

OFFF13 and The Digital Decade Exhibition

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Designcollector celebrated its 10 years by setting a contest for Graphic designers to come up with their view on the past Digital Decade. The exhibition of 15 finalists took place at OFFF Festival in Barcelona this June with the help of the sponsor Depositphotos. We were happy to meet there one of the finalist Nicolas Monin-Baroille and a member of our jury multi-talented Sara Blake that has a speech at OFFF and mentioned our collaborations few times from the scene!

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OFFF 2013 Open Titles

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"As always at OFFF, and trying to find new ways of inspiration, we decided to do the Open Titles to present everyone who makes possible this amazing monster which is OFFF!An of course including ALL our attendees, a VERY important part of this festival, so enjoy them and find yourself..."

http://vimeo.com/67798936

A Film By Ms.Take bymstake.com lawebdelatelier.com

OFFF 2013 Main Titles

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We are back from another amazing year at OFFF Festival that brought us a lot of new creative power, faces and joyousness. With no doubt, one of the most magical moments we lived at OFFF so far. Here you have the amazing Main Titles by From Form. http://vimeo.com/68024871

Concept, direction and screenplay
 Ashley Govers, Jurjen Versteeg and Wouter Keijzer Edit
 Wouter Keijzer Color correction and visual effects
 Jurjen Versteeg Set design
 Ashley Govers Music and sound design 
Ben Lukas Boysen Cello Performed by 
 Cordula Grolle Recorded by 
 Jochen Mader At Audionerve Drawings Jan-Maarten Nachtegeller Narrator
 Nick Smith Actor
 Caspari de Geus fromform.nl hecq.de partofsomething.nl

Designcollector at OFFF Festival 2013 @offfest #offf13

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Designcollector is visiting OFFF 2013 Festival this week (6-8 June) and happy to announce that The Digital Decade exhibition (15 selected posters from Designcollector's Ten Years competition) will happen there in DHUB Venue during the opening hours. We will try to cover OFFF2013 Live through our Instagram account @designcollector. Follow us and meet some of you there!Many thanks to Depositphotos - the sponsor of The Digital Decade that make things happen with printing posters and winners happy! And great wave to OFFF Festival to let us exhibit at DHUB this year! This is our 5th Year covering OFFF as a Media Partner!

P.s. We are not going to update our blog till Monday 10th.

[box]OFFF, is the International Festival of digital culture and design born in 2000 in Barcelona. After 13 years of extensive experience has become the largest gathering of digital creativity in the world with the presence of the best artists of each discipline.[/box]

The event will take place in the Disseny Hub Barcelona, the next June 6 7 and 8. It repeats scenario in Barcelona to stay indefinitely to enhance the valuable talent of the city. The rest of the year OFFF travells around the world spreading inspiration under the name OFFF on Tour.

The festival's hallmark is its format. Through a careful program of conferences the artists not only expose the Side A of their projects, but they reveal the secrets of their creative processes to make known the way they reach the final piece. In this way the creations and techniques these innovators expose in each edition represent the basis on which creative and graphic lines are drawn, from which early adopters of these fields take to become new trends.

OFFF get ahead to reveal all is about to come in the near future in advertising, film, music, television and editorial art. So anyone who wants to keep abreast of the most vibrant and transgressive creativity knows OFFF is a must. For this reason, trend scouts, professional and non-expert professionals come to soak and discover innovators in most avant-garde creativity.

Exhibition area

Behance exhibition Creatives around the world use Behance to showcase their creative work, find inspiration, get found, and get hired. Don't miss this unique opportunity to visit the Interactive Video Gallery at OFFF and learn how you can make the most out of Behance. Attendee will be able to enter a draw to win 5 free annual Adobe Creative Cloud suscriptions.

[box]The Digital Decade by designcollector Together with DepositPhotos and OFFF Festival, Designcollector started a Graphic Design competition called "The Digital Decade". Artists were invited to use images from Depositphotos to produce graphic works of art related to the topic "the Digital Decade." Winners selected by a qualified Jury, the best 15 works will exhibit at OFFF 2013 Venue. [/box]

Show us your type: SHOW US YOUR TYPE is an online magazine about typography and cities. At OFFF Barcelona they are presenting a special edition.They have invited designers around the world and the same Offf Fest speakers to design a poster that contain aside 4 words OFFF, Showusyourtype, BARCELONA and 2013. Of the nearly 200 proposals received, they have made ​​a selection of about 40 pieces to be exhibited during the festival.

The Digital Decade: Winners

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We are happy to announce the winners of The Digital Decade competition organized by Designcollector with such a great sponsors as Depositphotos and partners at OFFF Festival. The best 15 artworks will be exhibited at OFFF Festival this June. The professional Jury board has already selected 3 winners and a Special prize.

And the winners are..

1st Place: Vladimir Tomin

Prize: Wacom Cintiq 13HD DepositPhotos 1 Month Subscription (5 daily images) Designcollector Magazine - Front Cover

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2nd Place - Xavier Bourdil (France)

Prize: Apple iPad Mini DepositPhotos 1 Month Subscription (5 daily images) Designcollector Magazine - Back Cover

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3rd Place - DINES (UK)

Prize: a Wacom Bamboo Capture DepositPhotos 1 Month Subscription (5 daily images) Designcollector Magazine - Inner Cover

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Special Place: Zakharia Mesropov

DepositPhotos 3 Month Subscription (5 daily images)

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See all 26 works and appreciate them on http://www.behance.net/gallery/The-Digital-Decade/8338333

http://digitaldecade.net/

OFFF Rebranding

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OFFF Festival got a new rebranding made with LOVE by the guys at Crowd Studio. Don't forget to buy your tickets for OFFF2013 to take a place in Barcelona, 6-7-8 June. Meet you there as usual :)

http://vimeo.com/57653884

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П.с По инсайдерской информации однодневный оффф-на-выезде возможно будет в Питере этим летом. Будем держать вас в курсе.

OFFF Mexico 2012 Main Titles

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As you may know our favourite festival OFFF just took a place in Mexico for Day Tour revealing awesome artist public speeches and presentation. Along with this gifted director Rob Chiu shoot the Main Titles of the festival... Six friends, coming of age at the end of the world...

http://vimeo.com/48065893

OFFF 2012 Main Titles

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Designcollector was a Media Partner for OFFF2012 festival this year and was the only online media that tried to make a life visual report from the fields with the help of Alexander Kalachev. Also we will try to make a full report this week with festival photos send us by our friends. BUT for now please watch Official Festival Titles created by Brosmind and UpperFirst. Brosmind and Upper First redefined the format, mixing cinema, illustration and 2D/3D animation with paper, adding to their highly anticipated video a double-feature comic book that was given for free, alongside plastic masks with the face of the characters, to a crowd that enjoyed all the presentation feeling that they were the real protagonists of the party.

http://vimeo.com/42614184

Also check OFFF2012 Bumpers directed by Jellycubes

http://vimeo.com/41738224

OFFF Istanbul 2012 - Main Titles by HKI

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Our friends from Paris design band Hellohikimori presented official titles for OFFF On Tour Istanbul festival happened on March 4th. Directed with Red Epic camera, shows awesome design for participants names (that's why it called Titles), movie captivates with its simple story and video narration. http://vimeo.com/38017093

OFFF Istanbul trailer

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OFFF festival is on Tour to Istanbul on 2-3 March http://www.offfistanbul.com/ Here is an offficial trailer directed by Güneş Akyürek.

P.s. Note that Designcollector (Arseny Vesnin) may have a speech about Russian Motion and Sound on another festival hence in Istanbul this April. More details later.

http://vimeo.com/37254816

The Spinner OFFF 2012 Unofficial

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Interaction design students from Moscow based British Higher School of Art and Design strikes again in a tutor's challenge inspired by the upcoming OFFF 2012 festival. The brief is "Take OFFF". "We decide to risk and make an ambitious project - the Offf titles. But the following titles do not include credits of artists from the festival. They serve as a reminder of designers who are no longer with us, but each of whom has left their influence in different design fields. artistry designed long go, we think, forms the base for the design of today and weaves the a thread through tomorrow. The main character of our video-story is a spinner, ancient Slavic goddess Makoš who rules over destiny of gods and men. Connected with fertility, reproduction and weaving, she equals to the Greek goddesses of fate Moirai, who spun the thread of life; and Norse Norns. This archetype can be found in the epos of every culture. She spins her own hair. As hair is the symbol of life, of strength, of sexual and creative energy. The symbol belongs to the goddess of fertility, who also represents Mother Earth that inspired cultural and agricultural ethics."

This is a BHSAD project, by one assigned student group, with additional help and consultation. new.britishdesign.ru/?lang=eng

http://vimeo.com/37118375

Credits: Concept: Anastasiya Vasukhina, Yana Mironova, Tim Raiter Photography: Yana Mironova, Tim Raiter, Pavel Anisimov Post-production: Yana Mironova, Tim Raiter Model: Natalya Shevchenko Costume: Rotobor.com Location: Natalya Fedorova Linguistics: Stacey Wilenkin

Tutors: Dmitry Karpov Anton Yarusov

Supervisors: Stepan Burlakov (freeger.com) Arseny Vesnin (designcollector.net) Oleg Sharabanov

Music: Nine Inch Nails "Ghost 35"

See also "Alchemy OFFF 2012" and first DCN+BSHAD Students Challenge

Alchemy OFFF 2012

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Enjoy the Unofficial OFFF 2012 motion piece made in Moscow based British Higher School of Art and Design by students Artem Shchuyko and Anna Seslavinskaya.

Their tutor Dmitry Karpov released a brief "Take OFFF" Brief. The task was to create a visually reach short for OFFF 2012 event. We think about old alchemy culture, about making participation and interaction feel post-digital; making the tech less techy. We see this approach is reflected back in the freshest creative and cultural work of the near future.

Students: Artem Shchuyko Anna Seslavinskaya

Tutors: Dmitry Karpov Anton Yarusov

Model: Anna Maksimenko

Supervisors: Stepan Burlakov (freeger.com) Arseny Vesnin (designcollector.net) Oleg Sharabanov

BHSAD http://new.britishdesign.ru/?lang=eng

Appreciate on Behance

http://vimeo.com/36755127