Archive for 'Design'
Brett Murray’s piece…bombed
Posted on 22. May, 2012 by Jonathan Cherry.
Brett Murray’s iconic Bart Simpson sculpture in St George’s Mall, Cape Town got yarnbombed this morning, hours before his other work, that has been the focus of much of the news lately, saw its demise in Johannesburg.
More pics and credits via IsaBeauPeep
Pin Art
Posted on 21. May, 2012 by Jonathan Cherry.
Pin art says a whole lot without spelling it out. Using shadows and sunglasses photographer Philip Karlberg created a unique shoot for Plaza Magazine, sculpting famous faces by simply using carefully arranged wooden pins. Each piece is made up of 1200 pins arrange in the appropriate way.
DALeast street art in Cape Town
Posted on 08. May, 2012 by Jonathan Cherry.
Internationally renown street artist DALeast has left a few classic pieces around Cape Town recently. This one, of a herd of buck running through Woodstock, is incredible. The sense of movement that the work gets across is astounding. You can find it in William Street, Woodstock.
There’s more up in Vredehoek too.
More pics here and here and here
Here he is, in action with Cape Town’s own Faith47, in NYC.
via Wezzo
Vinyl record animation
Posted on 04. May, 2012 by Jonathan Cherry.
Part of the piece that is missing with digital music downloads is the visual artwork that goes along with the old-school album art. One of the reasons Iron Maiden was such a success was due to the artwork on the album covers and t-shirts. Today that function needs to be fulfilled my the video, which isn’t quiet as cool.
This is an album cover for the modern classical composer Allan Gravgaard Madsen. My idea was to translate Allan’s sensuous music to a visual experience with a element of senuality.
The album is separetet on the records two sides. There isn’t any A or B side, each contains a piece of Allan’s work Waves and Crystal Tapastry. Each has its own front page; Waves is a visualisation of the music performed by nine trompets in a line. I made it as simpel as posible with nine circels on a line. Crystal Tapestry is a pattern of crystals that has no front or back end, it refers to a crystal that merge into it self. Inside I made a visualisation that combines the two sides, a crystalized wave. On the record i made patterns that gives the design a visual sensuality. I made an analog animation with a 50 Hz strobe lamp and got it to interact with the music.
[For a (sort of) Friday] The art of film and TV title design
Posted on 26. Apr, 2012 by Jonathan Cherry.
Skateboarding is a crime
Posted on 18. Apr, 2012 by Jonathan Cherry.
Believe it or not, but skateboarding on a public street in South Africa is a crime. Just the same as if you sold tik to a kid or murdered your your wife’s secret lover – riding a skateboard will get you arrested and charged with an offence.
Like us, Gerhard Human thinks this is wrong and is doing something about it.
Talented designer/illustrator Gerhard Human , in collaboration with Woodies Ramps, is doing something about it. “Skateboarding is a Crime” is an exhibition of illustrations by Gerhard that opens on Thursday, 26 April at Clarke’s Bar and Dining Room on Bree Street and will run for a week after.
There will be 12 unique illustrations (30 each, hand printed, numbered and signed) for sale and all proceeds will go to the development of skateparks in South Africa. [via]
Cool idea.
Benetton’s Interactive shop window
Posted on 17. Apr, 2012 by Jonathan Cherry.
Go to a Canal Walk or Cavendish Square and you’ll quickly notice how cluttered the retail space has become. Brands inside shopping malls, paying astronomical amounts of money to have the space, are competing with each other just to be heard and hopefully get some kind of foot traffic through their doors.
It would therefore make perfect sense for these brands to invest in tools that can help secure that attention and foot traffic in a busy space.
Benetton have done just that and have an interactive shop window that dances along with people as they walk by. Designed by Angelo Semeraro, the immersive display is based on the illusion of playing with the forces of a physical environment. The application, developed using openframeworks and 2 dimensional physics simulator engine Box2d, features a digital textile that moves and twirls as people walk past Benetton’s window.
To us this kind of thing makes perfect sense – hence as a marketing company, we’ve dedicated a lot of time to discovering and packaging similar techniques and technologies for our clients. Expensive retail space shouldn’t just be there as a platform to sell stuff – that’s what the Internet is for – it should promote your brand in the most personal way possible.
via PSFK
If you’re crazy, you’ll be a designer
Posted on 13. Apr, 2012 by Jonathan Cherry.
Take some time to read this excerpt of the second chapter of Mike Monteiro’s Design is a Job.
The biggest lie in this book would be if I told you I don’t worry about where the next client is coming from. I could tell you that once you build up enough of a portfolio, or garner enough experience, or achieve a certain level of notoriety in the industry, this won’t be a concern anymore. I could tell you I sleep soundly, not bolting out of bed at 4 a.m. to run laps around the local high school track. I could tell you that I never worry about enough presents under the tree. I could tell you these things, but I’d be lying. And I don’t want to lie to you. Getting clients is the most petrifying and scary thing I can think of in the world. I’d rather wrestle lady Bengal tigers in heat with meat strapped to my genitals than look for new clients.
If putting in the work to get the kind of work you want to do sounds too daunting, then close this book right now. Walk away. Rethink your life choices and take up a less stressful craft, like cleaning out cobra pits. Do it. No one will think less of you. Cover yourself in sackcloth and pray to your god for penance.
Go!
For the rest – go here
If you’re a stupid crazy person and run a business as a ‘creative entrepreneur’ in South Africa – you’ll completely feel this piece.
Your future – according to Google
Posted on 10. Apr, 2012 by Jonathan Cherry.
We’ve often wondered how augmented reality will leap from being fun-for-kids to functional-for-adults. Google has the answer to that question with their Project Glass: Augmented reality glasses.
There’s Google’s video – and then a spoof of what it’ll probably end up being like:
If you thought people were staring a screens too much already, you ain’t seen nothing yet.
