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we’ve just completed a new line-up poster for the ‘sugar factory’ and have started working on a poster & campaign for a new client this week: a rather controversial foreign theater production taking place later this year in amsterdam, of which more news later this year…

m / 11-06-2012 08:32 - tags: , , ,  

infogymnastics

it’s possibly one of the healthiest ways to practice graphic design and apparently even an aspiring olympic sport… one of the latest figures is the statue of liberty and much like any other trend figure running even has its own ‘app’

m / 10-06-2012 16:04 - tags: , , , , ,  

forms (excerpt)

wow… when you have seen that one, shown here below is the explanatory ‘process’ film and… possibly an even more fascinating visual experience to watch than the excerpt from the finished piece above…

(excellent tip via mister ‘uwe’)

m / 10-06-2012 12:20 - tags: , , , ,  

the nutcracker suite

…18 life-size interactive sculptures of women surrounding a pedestal holding one ton of Texas pecans. Each prefabricated female mannequin is mounted on her side in an odalisque position and has been retooled to function as a nutcracker. Visitors interact with each sculpture by placing a pecan in the mannequin’s inner thigh, then pushing down the upper leg to crack open the nut so they may eat it in the gallery…

fascinating installation from american artist jennifer rubell (via ‘uwe’)

m / 09-06-2012 15:24 - tags:  

computer vision

…while the visitor keeps their eyes shut, a moving platform guides a pen in their hand to draw a self-portrait, using computer vision to track their face and generate a line drawing. The result is a machine-aided drawing, a self-portrait you could never draw… (via uwe)

m / 08-06-2012 09:26 - tags: , , ,