design context,

27.1.11

Julian Zimmermann,
grid design.

I really like the description of this project posted on Julians website.. 'Cover designs for beef magazine issue 03/08 & 04/08 with the topic, grids and crisis. So the idea of the crisis-cover is a blue screen of death — worst case scenario.'

This use of the grid as image really works well, and the embossed black type on black adds a certain crispness to the design.

HAUS HOCH,

'HAU'S HOCH' is spectacular adaption of the ring–the–bell game, commonly found at fun fairs and carnivals. This interactive genius arose from the University of Mannheim in 2008, the project was led by Johannes Brückner & Bernhard Pompey.

18.1.11

Multi touch light table,
GERGWERK,

Senior Degree Project for the Kansas City Art Institute. DJ touch screen interface and gesture interaction concepts.

OK GO, Last Leaf,
Stopmotion music video,

Jason Tozer,
Website,

I came across Jason Tozers (photographer) website, although not overly keen on some of his works, I really like the impact the website has upon entry. It's almost on the verge of being too cluttered with the clash of typeface and ever changing point size but it does however, have an element of conformity with the colour scheme doing the design a lot of justice.

His 'Elements' projects did intrique me and I would recommend checking them out here.

'The Grid System...,

...the ultimate resource in grid systems'. A really useful website home to hundreds of grid templates, articles and numerous links. I'm sure this will become a very useful resource in the future and I look forward to understanding what it has to offer.

Collection 100,
Biro chandelier,

17.1.11

Collection 100,
Anatomy of the pen.

A few images I found relating to the pens anatomy. It's interesting to see how complex a pen can be. Probably the most complex is exhibited here, the fountain pen. I shall look at 'dissecting' other pens and replicating the one below in illustrator to hopefully produce some clean info-graphics.

16.1.11

Editorial design,
Experimental page layout.

Audiopad,

Although fairly old in terms of technology timescale, Audiopad is a composition and performance instrument for electronic music which tracks the positions of objects on a tabletop surface and converts their motion into music.

The video below captures Audiopad in use at the Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona as part of the Sonar 2003 Festival of Advanced Music and Multimedia Art.