The ABC of Architects

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Those where the days I spent standing near the drawing-board doing architects studies in uni and keeping all that mies-van-der-rohe-feat-le-corbusier things in asleepy state. Seems Federico Gonzalez can understand my feelings because of his awesome but yet short animation "The ABC of Architects" featuring all that guys that in our hipster age seem like a personified gods. For me the Architect is still the most men's and true profession in the world.

http://vimeo.com/56974716

Pool Party with 65,000 ping-pong balls

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UrbanDaddy challenged Red Paper Heart to create a memorable interactive experience in water. "Our desire was to create animations that partygoers could swim through. Initially we had no idea how to make this a reality."

We reacted as any normal person would, and promptly put in an order for 65,000 ping pong balls, enough to cover the entire surface of the pool. To go with our new screen, we created an application which mapped to the pool and displayed a floating river of graphics, pulled by an invisible tide. Audio reactive visuals bumped along with the various dj’s and musical acts taking place poolside. The tactile quality of swimming through ping pong balls, combined with animated colors and light created an interactive event worth telling stories about.

http://www.behance.net/gallery/Pool-Party/6682759

http://vimeo.com/57724355

CHANEL Spring-Summer 2013 Haute Couture show

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We follow the fashion industry even has not that much coverage on a blog as for example our friend and author of Fashioncollector does on her personal blog. Here is a full video from the latest CHANEL Haute Couture show featuring tamed deers models in artificial forest built inside Paris's Grand Palais. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XqTkOpVuI4

Lettering: Inspiration set #2

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Be Yourself at the Chalkboard

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"Belgian studio Soon has made a promotional stop-motion video for Twixl media. The clip is an interesting watch because it is fully typographic and illustrated with chalk by Kelly De Ceuninck, and Pieter Vanhoutte. Additionally, it has been creatively directed by Jim Van Raemdonck, and typography and art direction by Lee Skinner." via Illusion Scene 360

http://vimeo.com/56277909

DCMAG 2 Cover - Sara Blake vs Oleg Dou

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Designcollector is happy to present a new cover for its upcoming print magazine DCMAG 2.Arseny Vesnin, editor of Designcollector Magazine was lucky to ask Sara Blake to come up with a cover version on Oleg Dou's artwork. We were psyched to use their collaboration for the DCMAG 2 Cover as its open a new series of "Artist Vs Artist" battles revealed inside this 80 pages colourful portfolio magazine featuring 25 cherry-picked artists.

Estimated release of DCMAG 2 - 22/25 January Price: 18$ + worldwide delivery Size: A4 Pages: 80 Artists: 25

+iPad version

Read more on Sara Blake thoughts over the collaboration with "behind the scene" images on http://www.behance.net/gallery/DCMAG-2-Cover-Sara-Blake-vs-Oleg-Dou/6685815

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Anamorphic sculptures Jonty Hurwitz

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You may remember Dali worked with anamorphic images that were recreated on a glossy surface of a metal tube (also the huge one sculpture in Figueres city featuring Dali's face). As for Salvador Dali he did pictures and all mathematics by himself, as for modern figurative sculptor Jonty Hurwitz, computing is a first thing before he begins to create complex anamorphic sculptures. That's clear the process cannot rely only on hands and an eye. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=W3SIEt37FjI

For the anamorphic pieces its an algorithmic thing, distorting the original sculptures in 3D space using 2πr or πr3 (cubed). Much of it is mathematical, relying on processing power. There is also a lot of hand manipulation to make it all work properly too as spacial transformation have a subtle sweet spot which can only be found by eye. Generally I will 3D scan my subject in a lab and then work the model using Mathematica or a range of 3D software tools. I think the π factor is really important in these pieces. We all know about this irrational number but the anamorphic pieces really are a distortion of a “normal” sculpture onto an imaginary sphere with its centre at the heart of the cylinder.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3hAojDjNhA&feature=player_embedded&list=UUsJTahxI36FEd4dKjOdZdpQ

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Living Spaces Inspiration Set 3

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