I love this! It's an amazing platform for animated GIFs, commissioned by Elisava School of Design, under the creative direction of Soon in Tokyo. It's an entire wall of animations, all around the theme of non-stop design workers! You can even upload your own. Check it out!
The new Skittles site is pretty fun! It's an infinitely scrolling rainbow chocked full of funny graphics and videos! It took me a while to realize that it keeps compounding on the existing page, and to my knowledge, you'll never find the end of the rainbow. Bwah haw haw! Check it out!
Check out this beautiful bridge between animation and sound by Renaud Hallée! What I especially love is the visual system that's been set up to notify the viewer as to when the next tone will be played. Simple but elegant!
Kit Webster is amazing at understanding sensory experiences, utilizing space and optical illusions to craft an immersive and observatory environment. Enigmatica is a line of experimentation where he positions illuminated displays that allow the space to "freely shift from order to disconnection." I luuuuuuurrrrrvvv it!
Here's an amazing concept Julia Tsao has developed for her thesis at the Art Center College of Design. It utilizes half-inch pixel mini-robots that are aware of each other's position, yet independent in their reaction. Watch as the display shifts around the room, transforming our idea of relevant video!
Neurosonics Audiomedical Laboratories, was a film originally released in August, directed by Chris Cairns in collaboration with a group of DJs. The film was fantastic, because it utilized post production to composite human heads atop instruments (turntables, drums) mimicking the sounds produced by them.
What's fantastic is that they decided to reproduce this effect-but live! Teaming up with Beardyman and holographic projectionists Musion, they were able to sync video with each sound. I love this piece because it treats video as separate objects, specific for the context. Although cross platform content is great, there is still a lot of design and craft decisions that have to be considered when changing the vehicle in which you are presenting the material. I've heard people say crazy things like, "Oh, let's just take a commercial and reuse it for our in store video displays!" I understand that we're at point where we often have to cut as many corners as possible these days to satisfy a budget. But, there also comes a moment when designing an experience where video content loses its effect/messaging when trying to repurpose.
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