First time we post GIF’s on parfois.

Bram Kinsbergen, creative mind and good friend of parfois made these gif-files based on the work of Eadweard Muybridge.

He’s curious on what other people think about them, so don’t hesitate if you have any comments!

Even when you close this page, they keep on going…

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.

Rome is one of the first good examples of what interactive experiences without Flash look like. It is mostly build in WebGL, a component that works inside HTML5′s canvas element and which enables hardware-accelerated 3D graphics. Apart from using this technology to its fullest, it uses Three.js for 3D generation and reflection and Processing.js as a simpler language to control the graphics. These are all open standards, which you can use yourself. Check out their Tech-page to learn more.

The film may not work in most browsers, nor on many computer, but it promises and exciting future for animation and rich interactive experiences on the web. For me it’s both an example and an inspiration for what is possible. And I hope many agree.

I have really enjoyed this video series” Ikea-the art of cooking”  from Carl Kleiner. Click more to see more of those as well as an older collaboration of Carl Kleiner and IKEA,  the IKEA Cookbook “Hembakat är Bäst”.

Images © Carl Kleiner

Some nice graphical work from Astronaut design. There is not much information to be found about him, but from what we can read on his website, his name is Slava and he is based in Almaty, Kazakhstan. He makes some nice and clean graphics and his work was published in “The Modernist” by gestalten. I took some random work from his website at read more

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.

We have  posted some foldable’s in the past (search for readymech) but since we like it so much we have a new one for you. For the release of a new 10″ vinyl from Graf Orlock, this very unique sleeve was made. Enclosed in the flat record sleeve are instructions to fold it into a boombox. Whether the music is good or not (we’ll leave that for your judgement,I think its metal), the package is great anyway.

In our days databases are growing fast and the visualization of them is becoming an issue. The upcoming discipline of information design (or data visualization) converts boring numbers of very complex phenomena into interesting-to-read graphics. Density Design is a research group in the design department (INDACO) of the Politecnico di Milano, which focuses on the visual representation of complex social, organizational and urban phenomena. Visit their website and flickr page to discover more.

poster name: How do you feel Italy?/ Health

2009: A job Odissey/ Work

All hope abandon ye who enter here / Personal Security

Housing & Poverty

I am always glad to spread projects which introduce a questioning about waste disposal. Moreover I really like this poster that treats plastic bags as sculpted elements that become graphical. Created by by xiao dong li and yang xiao, is one of the shortlisted projects from  the ‘endangered species‘ graphic design competition, organized by designboom in collaboration with tokyo designers week 2010. Found in designboom.