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Infographics and stereotypes

Infographics and stereotypes

A tally of two cities, Based on Vahram Muratyan’s book, Paris vs New York, Edition Penguin Book.
Ice Angel

Ice Angel

It’s never too early in the season to make a snow angel, at least for visitors to the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. Ice Angel, an interactive exhibit by London-based Cinimod Studio, gives visitors their own wings – rendered in blinking LED lights. Cinimod says they used a 3D camera to create a display...
Touch the music with Noisy Jelly!

Touch the music with Noisy Jelly!

Noisy jelly is a game where the player has to cook and shape his own musical material, based on coloured jelly. With this noisy chemistry lab, the gamer will create his own jelly with water and a few grams of agar agar powder. After added different color, the mix is then pour in the molds....
Wonder Objects

Wonder Objects

Artist Gary Schott utilizes his skills as a Metalsmith to create playful and beautiful mechanized objects. This documentary was produced in association with Southwest School of Art. Learn more about their BFA program at swschool.org. Learn more about the artist at GarySchott.com. Learn more about the Filmmakers WalleyFilms.com. Music by Chris Zabriskie ChrisZabriskie.com.
Not Your Ordinary Book Light

Not Your Ordinary Book Light

Check out this inspiring do it yourself video to create your “illuminating book”….
Piano stairs

Piano stairs

The pivotal concept is simple but effective: fun can change behaviours. And this is the direct demonstration: “Piano Stairs” is an interactive playful musical stairway installation created into the Odenplan underground station of Stockholm to make people use stairs more often than elevator. The project was part of a Wolkswagen initiative called “The fun theory”...
An exciting new way of using manuals

An exciting new way of using manuals

Most phones come with flimsy manuals with complicated language and jargon. These books, which can live on a bookshelf actually contain the phone. Each page reveals the elements of the phone in the right order, helping the user to set up the sim card, the battery and even slide the case onto the phone. The second...
Dear photograph

Dear photograph

…there’s a visual means able to connect our memories (often so aetheral, sketchy and undefined) to our physical reality: photography. By means of our family archives of photographies, our past memories seems less past than they really are. And sometimes they simply end up overlapping with our present. Like in this brilliant web-based open project...
Light graffiti

Light graffiti

There’s a reason why photography has been called this way. The etimology is precise: φῶς, phôs, light and γραφή, graphè, writing or drawing. In few words: painting with light. A photographer knows it well: light is the pre-condition and starting point of each of his works. It is the matter of creation, his modelling clay,...
Still life?

Still life?

Check out this brilliant interactive project produced Süperfad with the aim of exploring the classic “still life”-style of paintings.   By simply shaking left and right a motion-sensitive frame (obtained from a standard TV screen), some “digitally”painted objects will come to life, falling by means of gravity force. Learn more about the project. This project...
Sensitive Brands

Sensitive Brands

Check out this outstanding motion graphics series of video concepts created for Intel and trying to give aesthetic form to various huge technological brand identities such as: HP, Samsung and Acer. Director: Danil Krivoruchko Made by MYSHLI for Sensetive Brands Intel Fashion Show | INTRO Intel Fashion Show | Samsung Intel Fashion Show | HP...
360 degrees perception

360 degrees perception

Have a look at these two videos made with a similar shooting technique: several different photos were taken at the same moment pointing to the same direction from different perspectives (specifically, several cameras positioned in circle and all pointing to the centre of the circle, where something had to happen). By juxtaposing the shots in...