Take it to the next level
This isn’t really a motion graphic spot, but I was thoroughly entertained by this ad for Nike directed by Guy Richie. This feels more like a short rather than an advertisement (I guess that is the point right) that whips through the glory, grit and girls of a professional football player in true Guy Richie fashion.
The editing work done on this spot is something to behold, and if that is not enough for you it is also glittered with the superstars of the football world like Fabregas, Ronaldo and Wenger.
Want to Remember Everything You’ll Ever Learn? Surrender to This Algorithm
“Twenty years ago, Wozniak realized that computers could easily calculate the moment of forgetting if he could discover the right algorithm. SuperMemo is the result of his research. It predicts the future state of a person’s memory and schedules information reviews at the optimal time. The effect is striking. Users can seal huge quantities of vocabulary into their brains. But for Wozniak, 46, helping people learn a foreign language fast is just the tiniest part of his goal. As we plan the days, weeks, even years of our lives, he would have us rely not merely on our traditional sources of self-knowledge — introspection, intuition, and conscious thought — but also on something new: predictions about ourselves encoded in machines.”
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The Corporation
THE CORPORATION explores the nature and spectacular rise of the dominant institution of our time. Footage from pop culture, advertising, TV … all » news, and corporate propaganda, illuminates the corporation’s grip on our lives. Taking its legal status as a “person” to its logical conclusion, the film puts the corporation on the psychiatrist’s couch to ask “What kind of person is it?” Provoking, witty, sweepingly informative, The Corporation includes forty interviews with corporate insiders and critics - including Milton Friedman, Noam Chomsky, Naomi Klein, and Michael Moore - plus true confessions, case studies and strategies for change.
Winner of 24 INTERNATIONAL AWARDS, 10 of them AUDIENCE CHOICE AWARDS including the AUDIENCE AWARD for DOCUMENTARY in WORLD CINEMA at the 2004 SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL. The long-awaited DVD, available now in Australia and coming in March to North America, contains over 8 hour of additional footage.
The film is based on the book The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power by Joel Bakan.
This summer I will mostly be wearing …
So GANT thinks that we should be wearing the following at the beach this summer .. a bow tie, a wooly cardigan, a shirt, and swimming shorts. Nice.
Harmonica + Beatbox: Final Cut
Yuri Lane performs beatbox harmonica in this short video directed by Marty Nowak.
Helvetica
Helvetica is a feature-length independent film about typography, graphic design and global visual culture.
AIDS awarness - Sidaction: The Hourglass
Advertising Agency: Leo Burnett, Paris, France
Creative Director: Stephan Ferens
Art Director: Stéphane Santana, Edward Capelle
Copywriter: Edward Capelle, Stéphane Santana
Production Company: Marcassin, Paris
Film Director: Dimitri Daniloff
Production Company Producer: Jérémie Morichon
Agency Producers: Gabriel Duforesto, Bertrand Ayache Anguenot
Post Production : Nova Prod, Mikros Image, Wam
THE FUTURE OF APPLE IS IN 1960S BRAUN
Text taken from http://gizmodo.com/343641/1960s-braun-products-hold-the-secrets-to-apples-future/
The year 2008 marks the 10th Anniversary of the iMac, the computer that changed everything at Apple, hailing a new design era spearheaded by design genius Jonathan Ive. What most people don’t know is that there’s another man whose products are at the heart of Ive’s design philosophy, an influence that permeates every single product at Apple, from hardware to user-interface design. That man is Dieter Rams, and his old designs for Braun during the ’50s and ’60s hold all the clues not only for past and present Apple products, but their future as well:
When you look at the Braun products by Dieter Rams—many of them at New York’s MoMA—and compare them to Ive’s work at Apple, you can clearly see the similarities in their philosophies way beyond the sparse use of color, the selection of materials and how the products are shaped around the function with no artificial design, keeping the design “honest.”
This passion for “simplicity” and “honest design” that is always declared by Ive whenever he’s interviewed or appears in a promo video, is at the core of Dieter Rams’ 10 principles for good design:
• Good design is innovative.
• Good design makes a product useful.
• Good design is aesthetic.
• Good design helps us to understand a product.
• Good design is unobtrusive.
• Good design is honest.
• Good design is durable.
• Good design is consequent to the last detail.
• Good design is concerned with the environment.
• Good design is as little design as possible.
Ive’s inspiration on Rams’ design principles goes beyond the philosophy and gets straight into a direct homage to real products created decades ago. Amazing pieces of industrial design that still today remain fresh, true classics that have survived the test of time.
The similarities between products from Braun and Apple are sometimes uncanny, others more subtle, but there’s always a common root that provides the new Apple objects not only with a beautiful simplicity but also with a close familiarity.
Richard Hammond presents Bloody Omaha (the graphics)
And it was made with G5 Macs and it is all composited in After effects , with all obsticles/objects created in Maya.
Trenchcoat - Whatcha got!?
Music video for the band Trenchcoat created by the animator Roger Wieland with the use of more than 10,000 cut-out elements to do the stop-motion. Superb and original technique!
Island Built on drink bottles
If you can’t afford to buy your own tropical island paradise, why not build your own? That is exactly what Richie Sowa did back in 1998, from over a quarter-million plastic bottles.
Flight404 - MAGNETOSPHERE: AUDIO BY TRENTEMOLLER
Magnetosphere: Audio by Trentemoller
Uploaded by flight404
HelloColor!
Lovely work as always from Polish freelance graphic / web designer & illustrator: Pawel Nolbert - http://www.hellocolor.com/
Jose Ortiz
Wow, this guy is so good .. kinda shits on everything I have done, hope he shits on he too. http://www.joseortiz.tv/