Learning more about WPF and Silverlight
Posted in Reflecting On Design on Sep 7th, 2009
What do you get when you combine a Blink 182 song, a ambitious university student and a copy of Adobe After Effects? In this case you get a whirling kinetic animation that captures the punky energy of the song.
What’s your favorite part of the animation?
More about ‘Josie mp3′
Kinetic typography is a form [...]
Posted in Reflecting On Design on Mar 14th, 2009
Sometimes the best way to tell a story is with an animation. Melih Bilgil, a visual artist from Germany, show splendid usage of simple black icons on a white canvas in his ‘History of the Internet’ video.
Can you spot the subtle use of color in the video?
PICOL
Melih created a new Pictorial icon set (PICOL) which [...]
Posted in Reflecting On Design on Feb 20th, 2009
Kinetic typography is a form of animation that uses fonts and words as the main actors. This style of animation, also known as moving type, can create complex animations mostly on moving text.
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Posted in Reflecting On Design on Feb 19th, 2009
What do you do with a book? If you are like most people your answer is probably; “read it…”.
But if you are an artist you might look at a book as a treasure to be mined for its internal beauty. All you need is a scalpel and a fertile mind.
Brian Dettmer: Book Autopsies
Brian [...]
Posted in Reflecting On Design on Feb 18th, 2009
Nature is filled with interesting colors and juxtapositions. Sometimes an organic shot is better than anything you can dream up for using as a pattern.
Waterdrops on flower by Sophie
Macro photography gives a close-up, detailed look at the the hidden treasures which are all around us.
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Posted in Reflecting On Design on Feb 17th, 2009
Here’s an interesting idea. Create a picture using every possible RGB color.
The objective of allRGB is simple: To create images with one pixel for every rgb-color (16777216 to be exact); not one color missing, and not one color twice.
Working within these rules you could make some boring pictures, but as usual people are coming up [...]
Posted in Reflecting On Design on Feb 16th, 2009
What if you performed a color map of every frame of a film and built a conglomerate map with the results?
Alan Woo wrote a program to do just that and created a series of posters.
A program written in processing captures each frame of each movie and essentially creates a ‘pie chart’ of the colours contained [...]
Posted in Reflecting On Design on Feb 13th, 2009
More light painting photos. I especially like his portraits.
Some ‘not safe for work’ items on Patrick’s site.
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Posted in Reflecting On Design, Uncategorized on Feb 12th, 2009
Painting with light creates vivid images. Sometimes called ‘light graffiti’.
From Recycle Bean
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Posted in Reflecting On Design on Feb 11th, 2009
Walk around the Cardiff Bay locks and you see some unusual patterns in yellow paint.
But stand in just the right spot, and suddenly it all makes sense. This is known as an anamorphic illusion.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/6530989.stm
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