http://folksonomy.org.uk/?rss=417 Folksonomy.org.uk is a structured repository of digital culture and creative practice. en-au Creative Commons License: (cc), Simon Perkins Wed, 14 Jul 2010 21:51:38 +1000 Wed, 14 Jul 2010 21:51:38 +1000 Constellations 2.0 http://folksonomy.org.uk/?member=2 60 http://folksonomy.org.uk/Folksonomy.gif http://folksonomy.org.uk/ http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1936 The Victoria Line that opened between 1968 and 1971 provided the opportunity to produce a new and consistent look across the whole line from the trains themselves to the stations and platforms All aspects of design were overseen by Misha Black the Design Consultant for London Transport 1964e1968 who previously had a similar role with British Rail He employed the talents of the The Design Research Unit DRU e a collective of designers artists and architects who designed all aspects of the VIctoria Line Each platform was designed with a very muted colour scheme described by some of the press at the time as the late lavatorial style 1 P58 The tiled designs in each seat recess provided much needed colour and decoration and gave each stop its own visual identity The results were a mixture of direct inspiration from the station name and references to historical details of the local area Ian Moore Design Assembly 3 May 2010 Fig 1 Stockwell by Abram Games - a semi-abstract swan representing the nearby pub of the same name http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1936 Wed, 14 Jul 2010 21:51:38 +1000 http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1930 xtranormal s mission is to bring movie-making to the people Everyone watches movies and we believe everyone can make movies Movie-making short and long online and on-screen private and public will be the most important communications process of the 21st century Our revolutionary approach to movie-making builds on an almost universally held skill-typing You type something we turn it into a movie On the web and on the desktop Xtranormal The Xtranormal Text-to-Movie authoring tool allows you to produce short films It does so through adding your typed dialogue in the form of text to speech to supplied animated character assets http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1930 Sun, 04 Jul 2010 17:32:33 +1000 http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1928 http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1928 Fri, 02 Jul 2010 15:14:38 +1000 http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1910 Welcome to monstermedia10 com here you can find out more about the 2010 Nottingham Trent Multimedia Summer Exhibition and it s graduates Jonathan Hearn has produced this fantastic time lapse video of multimedia students preparing the exhibition space Wil Thomas The 3 RGB monsters represent the Multimedia pathways of Moving Image red Interactive Media green and Virtual Environments blue http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1910 Mon, 07 Jun 2010 19:20:03 +1000 http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1908 For those companies willing to make the cultural commitment to the instantaneous praise and bashing served up 140 characters at a time on Twitter the rewards can be considerable Jeffrey Hayzlett Kodak s chief marketing officer said that he learned firsthand after the company originally debuted its Zi8 waterproof pocket-sized HD video camera earlier this year Most companies would either ignore the panning or perhaps send the product back to the sales and marketing gurus to come up with a better name Kodak didn t Instead this summer it took the naming process to the people via Twitter asking the great unwashed masses on the microblogging site to see if they could come up with something better The winner or winners as it turns out were promised a free trip to Vegas for this year s CES and will have their likeness displayed in some way on the product s packaging From the thousands of tweets received from the crowdsourcing experiment Kodak combined two fairly mundane suggestions Play and Sport to derive the new moniker PlaySport It s not rocket science but according to Hayzlett it s a damn sight better than Zi8 Larry Barrett 7 January 2010 http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1908 Tue, 01 Jun 2010 17:17:06 +1000 http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1887 H5 est l auteur de nombreux clips Alex Gopher Massive Attack R ouml yksopp et a eacute t eacute r eacute guli egrave rement expos eacute Nuit Blanche 2007 Beaubourg MoMA Avec Logorama H5 Fran ccedil ois Alaux Herv eacute de Cr eacute cy et Ludovic Houplain signe son 1er court m eacute trage 17 mn H5 http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1887 Wed, 12 May 2010 05:53:07 +1000 http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1870 We are a changing emerging state that no longer seeks inspiration from the present flag It is part of our history and the role that it has played can be respected We are moving from a predominantly bicultural society to one that now involves an important component of Pacific island people and also immigrants from Asia We must now seek inspiration visual excitement and stimulus to creativity and excellence from many directions and develop a flag that can be a source of pride to New Zealanders as we continue to impact strongly on the wider world in the many areas of commerce sport films literature tourism and creative thinking in which we have to strive to excel Ian Prior 27 February 2004 Fig 1 New Zealand National flag and state ensign Fig 2 Michael Smythe Koru after Gordon Walters Fig 3 Cameron Sanders Fig 4 Tino Rangatiratanga Fig 5 Kyle Lockwood http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1870 Sun, 25 Apr 2010 12:12:28 +1000 http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1864 http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1864 Fri, 23 Apr 2010 12:23:23 +1000 http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1852 By 2020 the UK must create a balanced and sustainable knowledge economy with design as a critical and central part There is no other option In 2010 as we emerge from one of the most severe economic crises of the last century it is clear that the balance of the economy must change The country brutally is going to have to work and innovate to make its living There are no more easy pickings off the back of a credit boom Britain is going to self-consciously create a national innovation ecosystem to drive new growth sectors and companies - and design must be a critical part of that effort Successful companies will be those which develop innovative products and processes so creating new markets and reputations for themselves New ways of intervening have to be found Public spending commitments or tax concessions - the traditional ways of achieving public policy goals - are going to be extremely constrained by the necessity to reduce Britainos budgetary deficit The quest is on for policy levers that can deliver changed behaviour as effectively but more cheaply Design is the bridge between the consumer questing for the experiential and the company trying to meet that appetite with an offer that presents the new in a user-friendly and innovative way Design Council UK http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1852 Tue, 13 Apr 2010 11:39:58 +1000 http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1850 Kea is New Zealand s global network Our mission is to connect New Zealand with the rest of the world by building a network of global citizens who take an active interest in the future of our country Kea s ultimate goal is for the home of the world s greatest travellers to become the world s leading nation without borders - for New Zealand to think act and engage more globally by utilising our offshore population of expatriates and honorary citizens While founded as the Kiwi Expat Association in 2001 Kea s activities are relevant to more than just Kiwi expats We are building a truly global network for New Zealand which is equally important to New Zealand based organisations and individuals who are pursuing global opportunities as well as citizens of other countries who have an affinity and interest in connecting with New Zealand Kea is especially committed to supporting organisations and individuals who help grow the New Zealand economy through international trade and investment or help build New Zealand s brand and reputation on the world stage Stephen Tindall http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1850 Sun, 11 Apr 2010 10:24:27 +1000 http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1837 The Blue Bell website featuring Tony Ward in an interactive undressing is exciting and ingenious You can control the legendary modelos every move right down to stripping off his shirt Using digital film and cinematic special effects to achieve an incomparable level of user interface AJANAKU Marco 9 February 2010 http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1837 Wed, 24 Mar 2010 23:03:19 +1000 http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1811 Jim Carrey described it as the psychedelic landscape of my brain and Jim Carrey Online members have called it amazing and fabulous the weirdest one on the web Jim s website has finally landed and you won t have seen anything like it before Nicola West 30 Oct 2009 http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1811 Sun, 28 Feb 2010 22:05:08 +1000 http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1810 United Airlines commercials have been created by artists from around the world including South Africa and India each of the six spots paints a picture of optimism and exploration using unique artistic forms such as shed bird feathers colored sand and plastic modeling clay on glass Custom scores of George Gershwin s Rhapsody in Blue were performed by members of the L A Philharmonic Symphony and in one of the ads Grammy award-winning American jazz legend Herbie Hancock and the classical world-renowned Chinese concert pianist Lang Lang who is performing live during the opening ceremonies played a piano duet The voiceover tag line is read by Robert Redford 1 Sea Orchestra 60 seconds e Sea Orchestra is a lively and visually rich commercial that introduces United s new international first and business class cabins In it a United airplane crosses the ocean and is serenaded by an orchestra of animated sea creatures that are playing a unique version of Rhapsody in Blue using tubas violins French horns and the Indonesian gamelan The score was created by Shy the Sun a South Africa-based directing team which used hand-drawn textures computer animation characters and photographs of water reefs and skies 2 Heart 60-seconds e Heart United s new brand ad portrays the connection between a husband and wife and United s role in reuniting them The commercial depicts a woman leaving her husband to fly to Europe for a business presentation As she says goodbye she leaves her heart behind as a symbol of her love The musical score for Heart is a piano duet of Rhapsody in Blue performed by Herbie Hancock and Lang Lang who recently performed Rhapsody in Blue together at the 2007 Grammy Awards Using stop-motion animation and paper puppetry California-based director Jamie Caliri and his team place dimensional cardboard puppets in miniature sets that were shot frame by frame 3 Two Worlds 60 seconds e Two Worlds is a celebration of color and beautiful images that portrays United s effect on international travelers In it a weary business traveler leaves a mundane monotonous black and white world and enters a fantasy of color representing United s new international first and business class service When he lands he is once again in a black and white world but has brought a bit of the magic of the new United experience with him The commercial combines two different and distinctive animation styles created by directors SSSR a Norwegian and Japanese team who was responsible for the monochromatic world that was mostly computer-generated with a hand-crafted feel and Gaelle Denis a French director who was responsible for the colorful fantasy world that uses using live action computer generation and matte paintings including textures such as Japanese rice paper 4 Moondust 60 seconds and 30 second e Moondust is a luminous dreamlike commercial with an artistic interpretation of flying in United s new international first and business class cabins The spot focuses on United s 180-degree flat-bed business class seats and is animated to a spare intimate interpretation of George Gershwin s Rhapsody in Blue Ishu Patel an Indian-born and Canadian-based animator used his world-renowned back-lit technique in which a thin layer of plastic modeling clay is applied to a glass plate that has a 1000-watt light positioned beneath it and an animation camera above it 5 Butterfly 30 seconds e Butterfly is a fluid animated commercial with an artistic interpretation of flying in United s new international first and business class cabins The spot focuses on United s 180-degree flat-bed business class seats and comes to life against a violin version of George Gershwin s Rhapsody in Blue In this spot the Polish director Aleksandra Korejwo manipulated colored salt using shed condor bird feathers on a black canvas positioned under a downward-facing camera United Airlines press release 8 August 2008 http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1810 Sun, 28 Feb 2010 21:40:02 +1000 http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1800 Take a look at Walt Disney s vision for the city of the future the Experimental Prototype Community Of Tomorrow or Epcot No city of today will serve as the guide for the city of tomorrow serves as a guiding principle as varied ideas from shopping mall living to freeways to pedestrian safety to high speed transit are considered Disney himself says the city of tomorrow must abandon the old cities and their problems and be built on virgin land from scratch From its cosmopolitan convention center to its theme-park shopping districts Disney envisioned his 50-acre city core completely enclosed and climate controlled like a shopping mall hermetically sealed from the natural world Outside of this air-conditioned environment of shops and offices apartments then parks and schools then suburban houses radiate in a fantasy of controlled zoning where every use is separated from every other use Despite being conceived as a modern utopia based around the automobile Epcot envisions a future of mass transit for the daily commute Freeways will not be EPCOT s major way of entering and leaving the city declares a confident narrator Instead an electrified monorail and people mover will connect the city and suburb radiating in all directions from the core It was envisioned that the primary use of the car would be for weekend pleasure trips Repeatedly the dangers of automobile traffic for pedestrians are cited The pedestrian is in fact declared king as transportation uses like Epcot s zoning are completely separated The pedestrian is free to walk and browse without fear of motorized vehicles Children and bikes have separate paths in the suburbs for walking or riding to school Electric vehicles travel on elevated roadway s through Epcot s downtown while underground transit carries workers in and out of the city Separate facilities for cars and trucks are provided further underground Disney did eventually build a prototype city but the end result was far from what was envisioned for Epcot The town of Celebration Florida chose not to abandon the cities of the past but to embrace the patterns that make them so interesting to experience New Urbanism has been brought in to create a mixed-use town center and compact living Celebration was just as carefully planned as the Epcot of old but the end result is quite different Branden Klayko 20 November 2009 Broken Sidewalk http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1800 Sat, 20 Feb 2010 16:04:15 +1000 http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1799 Alberto Cerrite ntilde o is a Mexican illustrator amp designer who is strongly inspired by urban vinyl toys alternative cartoons and the pop surrealism movement Alberto Cerrite ntilde o has developed his own very personal technique and style having always present a delicate hints of traditional Mexican artistic influences in his management of rich textures and decorative patterns These contrast strikingly with the blending of desaturated colours and ink sometimes featuring a vintage coffee finish Alberto Cerrite ntilde o http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1799 Sat, 20 Feb 2010 14:55:26 +1000