Contrary to what those of us who were raised in Industrial Culture have been conditioned to believe, there are many worlds, actual and accessible, other than the incoherent, fragmented, and divided one continuously displayed in the majority of print and electronic media forms. It is expanding and life-affirming to one’s own existence, and all one touches and relates to, to be congnizant of more of these.

also read: exploration into the meaning of the word “meaning”

Empty Art: The question for this work was «Where and/or what ist the Content? Where we search and what we tell?» (2006)

Intriguing uses of material and playful stuff, make sure you check out the two T-shirts!!

Want to give the woman who really loves (or really hates) design the best Valentine’s Day gift ever?

(Of course you do.)

Luckily, the fine design purveyors over at Citizen Citizen heard your cries for assistance.

Did I mention they’re silent and waterproof? Bling.

That human life is expendable as a matter of course, that we are mortal, that life comes thus blighted as a matter of fact, as a matter of hideously brutal fact, is antithetical to any ethics putting the highest value of all on the preserving of life. An ethics that fails to take a stand against what counters it must be seen to have been subverted by it. It is illogical (and arguably unethical) for an ethical system that values life not to see mortality as fundamentally unethical. In thus arguing it would seem that you wish to make a mockery of our ethics, a critic might reply. There is death and then there is death. That life must not be extinguished, yes, that is our teaching. But when it comes to mortality itself, to try to uphold that standard would be equivalent to trying to stop a flood with a finger in the dam. No, no, one must give up on that score. And so, most ethical codes simply put to one side the issue of mortality and proceed to go on, we put it to you, quite unrealistically from there, starting off on the thither side of the crucial fact, and so, going along always to one side of the facts as they stand.

An ethics that permits no category of event, not even mortality, to be set apart for special treatment, and that considers there to be nothing more unethical than that we are required to be mortal shall be called a crisis ethics.

In 2003 Mike stopped working for clients and began his own graphic line “Humans” (www.humans.jp) which includes fabrics, shirts, posters and ribbons. Based in Tokyo, Humans has been exhibited at clothing stores and galleries such as Nieves in Zurich, Trip in Milan and Cow Books in Tokyo.

12 is an experiment disguised as an advertising school housed in the W+K Headquarters in Portland…

watch the others campaign videos on youtube.

http://www.saizenmedia.com/nightwish/interface.html

Damn good work. I like her simple website, but her work is quite thoughtful. I approve. haha

Universal Everythingwould like to invite you to the collaborative animation project Nokia Global Animation.  

Everyone is invited to take part in a collaborative animation with 1000s of people worldwide. Heres how it works :

1. 1000s of people hold blank frames
2. Universal Everything draws cell animation onto each frame
3. We all become part of an animation which crosses the globe
4. The process continues with public submissions, creating an infinite global animation

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It will be an ever-growing social piece of video art, shown on the video walls in selected Nokia Stores and related public displays.

Snapmania’s Tourist Remover is a free online service that takes your pics (you must provide a few identical shots) of the tourist-ridden subject, usually some kind of landmark, then pieces together a flawless composite.

Romanian New Media Artist Alex Dragulescu uses ASCII values and various patterns, keywords and rhythms found in the text of spam mail to generate 3-D gestures of Spam Architecture and Spam Plants.

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He came to speak at my senior project class! Exit-level designer currently giving lectures and “bad” paintings.

Click to see a whole ton more works including his sketchbooks!

“when in doubt, make it big. If still in doubt, make it red”

http://www.designfeast.com/thoughts/default.htm

check this out too http://www.981festival.com/ and check out “Pornstar Script” on his site.

I’m posting this for Kaupert’s class.
Fav Candy and photo that has struck you.

Haha reminds me of ur animation.

http://www.mydamnchannel.com/channel.aspx?episode=379

interesting typographic approach to the spam words you can see in your daily spam feed.

Every year, in the design blogs, magazines, books, and podcasts we hear about the social activism projects of designers and their influence on the design community. Every time I come across one of these articles I read over it and ponder what the end means of the designer are. I believe that we as designers must be ethical in our practices because we shape the end meaning of client’s messages. I believe that we hold this power and we should use it responsibly, however I do not see why we have this intrinsic duty to support activist causes. I believe that to be a good designer I must meet the needs of my clients, and also remain skilled in delivering their messages. However, according to the design press this is not all that I should be doing. I should also be seeking opportunities to raise awareness for all of our nation’s largest problems.

A numerical value is assigned to every letter of the alphabet. Adding the values of all letters, one gets a number that represents the overall word. Using this system, an entire poem is arranged on a circular path. The diameter of the circle is based on the length of the poem.

Data visualizations are methods for creating images, diagrams, or animations to communicate specific messages—representational or absctract. These visualizations provide us with a way to understand a specific part of reality better, or at least see it in a different way.

Visualization of personal music listening history by Lee Byron

You can download this cool utility called GrandPerspective that analyzes the contents of your harddrive and creates a visual representation of all the files according to their size. Then you can color code them in different ways. I have it color coded by file extensions. The big red ones are video files.