Effective Info-VideoArt: "Turn It Off"

 

Turn it Off from Nigel Upchurch on Vimeo.

Visiting Artist Peter Sarkisian Tomorrow: Thursday May 19th, MR2 #124

Peter Sarkisian, a video artist who is on campus installing his work at JSMA, will meet with digital art students to share his new media art projects and creative process. 1-2:30pm, MR1 #124, Thursday May 19th.

dynamic and modular identity graphic system

bruce mau design: new OCAD identity

 

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Food and Art

manga plates by mika tsutai

'manga plates' is the graduate project of mika tsutai studying at the kyoto institute of technology in japan. each plate from the collection features various black and white drawings, which take on the personality of a frame from a manga anime. when food is arranged in a certain way among the plates, an animated visual is created.
by placing these dishes in a particular manner you can transform your dinner table into a story, just like that of a page from a japanese comic.

 

Amazing Natural Ads Printed in Sand, Snow, and Grass

More often than not, advertising campaigns are wasteful endeavors that leave our urban environment plastered with billboards and banners, but the UK startup Curb Media hits all the right notes with their innovative and sustainable ad installations. Curb Media is not a design agency -- instead the group specializes in the production of eco-friendly advertising mediums. Using completely natural materials, they have developed communication methods that will turn heads with an ultra-low carbon footprint. If you have never heard of terms like sea tagging, logrow, or rake ads, take a look after the jump to see some of these incredible installations.

 One painstaking piece that really grabbed our attention was this image created on wood of President Obama. As an example of what their artisans can create, the team made this very large graphic using only a sheet of wood and a magnifying glass! The stunning work took 85 hours to complete, but the effort paid off. Curb Media told Inhabitat that the senate says this piece is hanging in the White House. That is what we call some fantastic exposure!

-by Lea Bogdan

Read more: Amazing Natural Ads Printed in Sand, Snow, and Grass | Inhabitat - Green Design Will Save the World

CURB: The natural media company

Eat Local Calendars

Artist: Maria Schoettler
Her ‘Eat Local Food Calendar’ was born out of her own valiant, almost obsessive efforts to buy all of her produce locally from her neighborhood farmer’s market, a place where she feels very inspired by the colors and the tastes that surround her. To Maria, the weekly ritual of attending the farmer’s market is something she can feel good about, because it represents how even our small, seemingly simple efforts can enliven local economies and support a huge environmentally conscious cause. Maria is enthusiastic about the homespun, the handmade, family dinners, storytelling and connecting with people over the table and through her artwork and theirs. Maria is always looking for projects that will connect her with her immediate community or even new contingents in far-off places.  
http://www.mariaschoettler.com/eat_local_calendar.html

Zero-Waste Vegetable Packaging You Can Also Plant

 

Are you tired of going to the store for veggies, only to come back home to find yourself with a load of useless un-eco-packaging? Overwhelmed by the wasteful nature at his local market, Ben Huttly, a Visual Communication student at the Arts University College at Bournemouth (UK), took matters into his own hands and came up with an inspired zero-waste packaging system for fruits and vegetables. Not only is Huttly’s design delightfully modern and minimal, but its is also biodegradable and can even be planted!  (by Ana Lisa Alperovich )

http://www.benhuttly.co.uk/work3.html

The Color Green is Toxic to People, Contaminates Recycling

 

Green is the color of nature, the environment and sustainability, but ironically the pigments used to create the color are not all that healthy or environmentally friendly. Many green pigments are actually quite toxic and even with modern dyes and pigments, green is still problematic. Michael Braungart, co-author of Cradle-To-Cradle and famous chemist, says, “The color green can never be green, because of the way it is made. It’s impossible to dye plastic green or to print green ink on paper without contaminating them.” So what are we to do with the chosen mascot color for sustainability and eco-friendliness?

Historically, green has been a difficult color to create – it often faded, degraded, and even burned holes through canvas. In the 18th and 19th century, green wallpapers and paints contained arsenic, which off-gassed toxic fumes and led to many deaths — possibly including Napoleon Bonaparte’s in 1821. Emerald green, also known as Paris green, was incredibly toxic and was at one point used to kill rats in Parisian sewers.
Many of the super toxic green pigments have been banned, but even the modern pigments are still environmentally unsafe. As Alex Rawsthorn of the NYTimes reports, Pigment 7, one of the most common shades of green used in plastic and paper, contains chlorine, which can cause cancer and birth defects. Pigment 36 contains potentially hazardous bromide atoms as well as chlorine, and Pigment Green 50, which is inorganic, contains a “noxious cocktail of cobalt, titanium, nickel and zinc oxide”. So having direct contact with the pigments is unsafe, and on top of that, the pigments make green plastics and paper difficult to recycle or compost, because they contaminate everything else. If what Braungart says is true, then perhaps it’s time to choose new team colors.

Read more: The Color Green is Toxic to People, Contaminates Recycling Toxic Green Dye – Inhabitat - Green Design Will Save the World 

Brilliant Paper Chair Transforms With the Turn of a Page

Yes, Stefan Sagmeister also designed a chair -

 

 

“Darwin Chair” designed by new york-based graphic designer Stefan Sagmeister. The chair consists of a cantilever base topped with a pad of 200 different sheets of printed tyvek “paper”. The chair “evolves” each time someone decides to either turn over the top sheet, showcasing the fresh sheet underneath. As the layers are turned over, the chair will begin to provide an added headrest, and once sheets are soiled they can be torn off for recycling.

One of the most wasteful aspects of human nature is our need to express ourselves through material possessions. We can become bored of the same object and find ourselves wanting to replace it with something new even sooner than our wallets will permit. The ‘Darwin Chair’ allows one to change their surroundings without having to buy something completely new — and if there’s feelings of remorse, one can just as easily flip the paper back again.

‘Dawin Chair’s’ layers are designed with abstracted patterns based on the evolution of the planet printed on sheets of Tyvek. The paper-like fabric made by Dupont, is known for its lightweight and durable properties and is recyclable through DuPont’s Waste Management Recycling Kit.

Read more: Brilliant Paper Chair Transforms With the Turn of a Page Droog's "Darwin Chair" by Stefan Sagmeister – Inhabitat - Green Design Will Save the World

Cool thing to do with wasted paper...

Nava Lubelski roll up tax returns, rejection letters, and a variety of other old paperwork that can’t be tossed just yet, and turns them into what looks like paper molecules.

R. Luck BuBois: A More Perfect Union

 

A More Perfect Union
National Maps
These are national cloropleth maps showing the use of a single word in dating profiles across U.S. Congressional Districts, divided by gender as selected by members of dating sites used in the census. Red represents women, blue represents men. Brighter colors mean more singles using that word in their dating profiles.

©2008-2011 R. Luke DuBois. All rights reserved.

R. Luke DuBois is a composer and visual artist in New York City. His creative output builds on notions of cultural and romantic memory, exploring how information can be accelerated for emotional impact.

AUGMENTING THE ROLE OF PATTERN IN GRAPHIC DESIGN THROUGH TACTILE EXPLORATION

Pattern Matters is a graphic design-based project inquiring on possible ways to augment the role of pattern by looking into the design process and tactile exploration through pattern making. It demonstrates the way of how this design element of pattern can be adopted differently on various platforms in graphic design. The main objective of this project is to inspire designers to look at pattern in every possible angles. Pattern Matters also aims to demonstrate that pattern is a crucial form of design element in graphic design which eventually evident that pattern is not merely a decorating tool.

With a little help from a friend: A Shower Calendar to save water

People wish to change their behaviour in many contexts: Eating less chocolate, taking the bike instead of the car or  consuming fewer resources. But reaching those goals is often not easy, as people lack self-control or more broadly motivation.
Design can help to overcome barrriers and to motivate people to achieve their aims. Transformational Products try to help people to achieve self set goals. We understand them as “materialized arguments” – dialog partners and mediators and not educators or watchdogs. Thus, their general design assumes that people have an “inner wish” to change, that is, to transform themselves.

The Shower Calendar is a “persuasive” concept for reducing the consumption of water for showering. It offers a way to foster awareness of water consumption and communication among family members. This ultimately has the potential to result in behavioral change.

 

 

Jonathan Harris: Today

"A simple ritual of taking one photo each day and posting it online, along with a short story, beginning the day I turned 30."

 

A gentle creature dies, and gentle creatures cry.

----Something to think about this case above - content and meaning are the results of well defined perimeter and defined context. More examples such as "24-hour Global Flickr Project," from online photo sharing to printed books; "One Day," a novel by David Nicholls and made in many versions of  the film at different locations.

Interactive Colours in Culture

A dynamic data driven Adobe Flash ActionScript based interactive adaptation of David McCandless’ iconic “Colours in Culture” data visualisation, created by Zoho:Lab.
Grid Version
Wheel Version 

99designs Receives $35 Million in Venture Capital Funding

99 designs
"Our team of design professionals compete to produce a unique design for you. Post a contest, review the designs and pick a winner, it's that easy."

Book and website: World Changing

Change your thinking.

Paper Animation

Cut paper animation

Martha Colburn imagines Diana Wagman: An Electric Literature Single Sentence Animation (Fixed) 

Folded paper animation

By Andersen M Studio

 By Eleanor Stewart