If it was up to us, all the best design in the world would be posted within the Parfois Portfolio. But it's not up to us. Stumbling the web we often bump into things worth sharing. The world wide web is so full off great things that will never end up in our portfolio, but which we want the world to see. For this we created our blog. At this moment there are 4 of us blogging on a regular basis. Work, studies and social life makes that there are weeks with a lot of posts, and weeks without. But we'll do our best in bringing you the nicest shit on a acceptable basis.
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Cas
Conceptor and strategist at Design Is Dead, Interactive Art Direction graduate from Hyper Island, music lover, drummer, bass player, dancer.
Rome is the latest result from a collaboration between Aaron Koblin and Mr.doob. They partnered up with the people from Google Chrome, North Kingdom, Radical Media, Mirada and Oddball Animation to create a music for the song ‘Black’ on Danger Mouse & Daniel Luppi’s new album called Rome.
The movie starts of with plane video footage, nicely shot, but nothing new. Once you fall asleep, you enter a 3D dream world where you are in control of what you see and how you change the environment. From changing a city into a green environment, to letting dark bulls and spiders run through a vast and open landscape, the animation is mesmerizing, jaw dropping and intensely inspirational.
And if that is not enough, the film ends in an open landscape where you can add your own pieces of artwork. When the films ends, you can enter the editor and add new objects in a similar style as Mindcraft. Your object will be added in the sky or on the surface of the last landscape where you and your birds will fly over.
Follow thursday (March 24th, 2011), the famous Swedish school Hyper Island will host a meetup in Amsterdam at the offices of Sid Lee. The school added some new programs since last year, which they now promote around the world. The meetup covers an introduction to Hyper Island and which programs they offer and how you should apply. It will give you a sense how students work, and what kind of methodology they follow, and of course there will be plenty of time to asks questions to Hyper students and alumni.
So if you’re interested in Hyper Island, and want to learn more about the school, make sure you RSVP. The event is no recruitment event, so there’s no need for a portfolio or interviews. It’s more an introduction of Hyper Island to you.
Apart from Amsterdam, the tour will also pay a visit to São Paulo, Singapore, Malmö and Karlskrona (which includes a guided tour). For all necessary info on the school or programs, you can visit http://hyperisland.se/ and http://programs.hyperisland.se/
MIT Media Lab has a new logo based on an algorithm that can create 40,000 logo shapes in 12 different color combinations. The logo is designed by Brooklyn-based designers E Roon Kang and Richard The for MIT’s 25th anniversary. Each logo is made up of 3 spotlights, each symbolizing a single individual. “People come from many different backgrounds—they’re engineers, scientists, artists, designers— and have very different ways of thinking, seeing, and working,” The says. “At the lab these people cross paths, collaborate, and inspire each other, and that’s the magic of this place.”
This gives MIT enough personalized business cards to cover its personal for the following 25 years. They even developed a web-based platform where an MIT employee can choose their own logo for their personal business card.
This work is done by Peter Orntoft as a design project for The Danish Design School. These infographics deal with whether or not the Danes think its ethical to wear religious symbols in public professions. Peter uses real life people and object to display mathematical statistics. A different and more confronting way of showing measured data. View more of his intimidating infographics on his portfolio.
Steelcase teamed up with the critically acclaimed company IDEO to design a new chair called the Node Chair. IDEO is known for it qualitatif redesign of almost anything. They started in Palo Alto (California, US) in 1991. Today they are a global company with offices in San Francisco, Chicago, New York, Boston, London, Munich and Shanghai. They are pure problem solvers, and were one of the first to include collaborative brainstorm sessions, prototypes, research and storytelling into their workflows. All under the watching eye of Tim Brown. Steelcase on the other hand, is known for its well designed office furniture. Always very colorful, efficient and handy. Their cooperation with Steelcase thus didn’t came as a surprise.
The chair is aimed at students. It can rotate 360º, making it adaptable to any class set up, wether it is a circle, lines or small groups. The small desk attached to the chair, works well for both left and right handed people. It is large enough to hold books and notes, or your laptop. The whole bottom area can be used to store your bag, which is probably the most convenient solution of them all.
One of the things I always keep in mind when I decorate my room, is the screensaver and wallpaper of my Mac. I have a big screen + the screen of my Macbook that have a significant place on my desk. You can’t ignore it when you look at my room, let alone my desk. And instead of disgracefully looking at it like it’s a piece of junk, I find it the most interesting piece of furniture I have. Why? Cause I can change it anytime I want in whatever I want. It could give my room a complete new vibe or a new feeling by just changing the screensaver or the wallpaper.
A few weeks ago, I came across this piece of furniture, it’s a wall concept called ‘Change it!’, developed by Amirkhan Abdurakhmanov. The wall is build out of small squares the have can switch into 3 different colors. Look at it as if it were pixels. This piece of furniture does exactly the same as my screensaver and wallpaper, only on a much bigger scale. Imagine all the fun things you can do with this wall: goodmorning-messages, ‘don’t forget’ notifications, even a twitter feed during a party, or just awesome art from eBoy. You name it, possibilities are endless.
Remember the good old days when you could just write your poems, diary or letters without being disturbed by numerous notifications of unread tweets, feeds and mail? Do you remember when you could just take your paper and pencil and go sit outside, inspiring yourself by the sound and view of nature? Well those days have long been gone. We can’t think of writing without a computer anymore. Even worse, the first things that comes to mind when we want to work outside is “Do we have an extension power cord that reaches that far?”. Some people still like the old school way of writing, not disturbed by alerts or notifications, enjoying the beauty of your surroundings. The guys behind Ommwriter took this even further. They tried to take the peace and quietness of that atmosphere and bring it to the digital age by making an intuitive and relaxing editor. OmmWriter let’s you concentrate on your writing. Choose an appropriate background-sound, wallpaper and text-format, and of you go. The application fills your entire screen, so no popups nor alerts will disturb you. And when you’re done, you save your file in the most usable format ever: txt. So wether you’re a blogger, journalist, copywriter, poet or screenwriter, try it out. Perhaps you feel a little less “digital” as you want to.
We all know the New York Times has been one of the first when it comes to interactive news reporting. They always try to bring news to the user in a much more thorough and profounder way using experiences that new technologies today can offer. They were one of the first to bring their newspaper via a digital format to the user. They blew everybody’s mind when they introduced their Times Reader not so long ago. And while building all this awesome products, their newsposts were swarming with infographics, games and interactive user experiences. The NYT found the time to gather all their interactive work in their Innovation Portfolio.
The answer to the question what will happen with us in the coming ten years, is something we’d all like to hear. But not many succeed in bringing the right answer. Unless loads of research and a great and motivated team is behind the project, the future trends won’t be that accurate and acceptable. Making predictions is not a game, as they would say. Yet, Jane McGonigal, reasearcher at IFTF launched Superstruct, a massively multiplayer online role playing game (MMORPG) that outlined the world of the future, thanks to the ideas and the collaboration of hundreds of users. If I had known, I would have joined!
Chad Hage is a graphic designer based in¬†Minneapolis. A few days ago, he published his¬†Nonsensical Infographics serie. A set of 8 inforgraphics based on… no data. Still the use of colors and the way of displaying the imagined data is very well done.
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Cas
Conceptor and strategist at Design Is Dead, Interactive Art Direction graduate from Hyper Island, music lover, drummer, bass player, dancer.
