Partitura 001 by Abstract Birds

Realtime sound visualisation made with custom software "Partitura"
Sound by Telefon Tel Aviv

An ongoing collaboration between Abstract Birds and Quayola


Here is a link to the full description and info.




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Before - After - FXs Set 5

This was done for a Bulova Ad shot by Timothy Saccenti. It's alway great to work with a photographer  who has a clear vision of what he and the agency want and knows how to shoot relevant pieces to make the end result shine.

Before - After - FXs Set 4

This was an interesting challenge. We were given this stock hand shot and given instructions to make is look like water was flowing into the hand and forming an apple made out of water. We went through a number of iterations to get to the final result. I could have worked on this for another month but deadlines are deadlines. Let me know what you think.

Before - After - FXs Set 2

This was a fun experiment I did of a friend. The original photo was just begging to be pushed over the top. First I vectorized it but kept some of the original details for added depth. I liked it so much I kept going. In the end it turned out really well. Not bad for some quick fun in Photoshop.

Flipboard is a must have iPad App

Flipboard is my new favorite iPad app. It is my personal eMagazine filled with the stuff I'm interested in from the people I'm interested in. It's beautifully thought out and designed to take advantage of the iPad's touch interface. This is the best way to view media, anywhere.

Try it out. It's Free and it will change the way you consume content.

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Century 21 BusWraps NYC

We worked on this campaign for a few months back and forth with creative and the client. Now they have finally put them on buswraps all over NYC. If you've seen them drop me a comment. There were a number of challenges getting such simple images to work beautifully when they are mirrored against themselves. Client: Century 21 / Creative: Modco / Retouching: Q Studios Inc.

More after the jump.

How Pixar Built Toy Story 3

Link to the Wired story


This is a great article written about all the work and process that goes into making a Pixar film. Who doesn't love Pixar. What a great job to come to everyday.


It's impressive how long they take in the process and how everyone is involved and has input in  making the greatest animated films better . Every film they have made is such a treasure. How can they keep this up for so many years?


Process, order, unity, variety, contrast, symmetry, asymmetry, rhythm, harmony, dissonance, rhyme, interval, regularity, coherence, tension, balance, proportion, scale, weight, texture, line, mass, space, shape, light, shade, and color.


We can all learn a lesson from this.

Written by Jonah Lehrer

ENVISION : Step into the sensory box

Check out their Vimeo Pages

Steve Jobs talks about Paul Rand

One of the most influential artist/designer in modern times. Paul Rand's work was more then just design, there was emotion and caring and thinking behind it all that really showed through. I remember first studying his work in school and looking and looking and looking at one of his logos over and over and over again. They just seemed to draw you in and make you think and question and learn. Talent like that really inspires me.


Gizmodo

Penguin Books vision of iPad Books.

The world of static books will never be the same again. Media rich, interactive, and up to date content that you touch. This is the future of publishing.

Evolve the language, and you will evolve the reality.

http://synapticstimuli.com/language-of-reality/

Ronald Kurniawan

Really nice work check it out

Tim Burton @ the MOMA

November 22, 2009–April 26, 2010


Taking inspiration from popular culture, Tim Burton (American, b. 1958) has reinvented Hollywood genre filmmaking as an expression of personal vision, garnering for himself an international audience of fans and influencing a generation of young artists working in film, video, and graphics. This exhibition explores the full range of his creative work, tracing the current of his visual imagination from early childhood drawings through his mature work in film. It brings together over seven hundred examples of rarely or never-before-seen drawings, paintings, photographs, moving image works, concept art, storyboards, puppets, maquettes, costumes, and cinematic ephemera from such films as Edward Scissorhands, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Batman, Mars Attacks!, Ed Wood, and Beetlejuice,and from unrealized and little-known personal projects that reveal his talent as an artist, illustrator, photographer, and writer working in the spirit of Pop Surrealism. The gallery exhibition is accompanied by a complete retrospective of Burton’s theatrical features and shorts, as well as a lavishly illustrated publication.

Is this the Future of Magazines or the Web????!?!!

CHIP KIDD TALKS WITH MILTON GLASER

"I always say you can tell by the amount of dog shit in the street."


If graphic design has a grand master, then Milton Glaser is Michelangelo. The Dylan poster. The oh-so-ripped-off “I ‘Heart’ NY” logo. The image for Angels in America. New Yorkmagazine. Everything else.

Glaser has worked nonstop for over forty-five years, co-founding the revolutionary Pushpin Studios in 1954, launching New York magazine with Clay Felker in 1968, establishing Milton Glaser, Inc. in 1974, and teaming with Walter Bernard in 1983 to form the publication design firm WBMG. Throughout his career, Glaser has created hundreds of posters and prints, and his artwork has been featured in exhibits worldwide, including one-man shows at both the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris and the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

In 1973 he published what is widely regarded as the first graphic design monograph, Milton Glaser: Graphic Design, and in 2000 he published Art Is Work—essentially “Episode II” of his professional life.

We talked on a stifling July afternoon in the small conference room of his adorable, toylike brownstone in the Murray Hill section of Manhattan. Fun fact: Throughout the interview Mr. Glaser held in either hand (and occasionally waved) a bright piggy-pink colored pencil.

—Chip Kidd


Check out the whole interview.

Studio KXX

Check out the Great work by designer/illustrator Krzysztof Domaradzki

Flydende Lava

Beautiful Art direction & Graphic design

M.I.T. Center for Advanced Visual Studies

Taming Light by Stanley Kubrick

Taming Light is a group exhibition of new painting, photography and illustration paying tribute to one of the pre-eminent filmmakers of the 20th Century, Stanley Kubrick.

New Nike China AW77 Website

Take a look at the New Nike China AW77 Campaign. Really nice work. They are working on uploading more sequences over the next few days, so make sure you check back again in a few days.

Shot in China by Timothy Saccenti in the middle of September and retouched / composited over the last month and a half by Us (Q Studios Inc.). Really interesting and challenging project to work on because of the time difference between NYC and China. Overall we think the project worked our really well and are very happy with the results.

Photography/Direction by Timothy Saccenti

Retouching/Compositing by Q Studios Inc.