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If you’ve been under a rock for the last decade and you haven’t heard of Tomato UK that’s all the more reason to go to this event. Tomato UK is an Art / Design / Music collective consisting of many members including Karl Hyde and Rick Smith, of Underworld who all but created the sound track of the nineties.
Tomato members Michael Horsham, Dylan Kendle, and John Warwicker will cross a continent and an ocean to share their secrets on all aspects of art ranging from commercial print to music and sound to architectural design. This is a once in a lifetime opportunity to meet and gain insight from an amazing group with valuable experience with cross-platform art. Horsham will present a general selection of work, Kendle will present film work and Warwicker will discuss process – Tomato’s philosophy and approach to making work.
It’s amazing to look at the height of analog technology back in the 1970s. While the graphic styles of this 1972 election coverage video are a bit kitschy by todays standards, they are extremely well done.
Our guess is this work was done largely by the late great Lou Dorfsman who was Creative Director at CBS through the seventies. We wonder if the graphics produced by CBS today will hold up as well in forty years. If you are looking for good retro inspiration, look no further.
Thanks to Johnathan Jarvis for this animated piece on how the credit crisis evolved. This is about the quickest and easiest explanation we’ve seen to date, and it’s very nicely animated to boot.
A friend of ours at G4 sent us a link to this the other day as they debated its authenticity. As it turns out it takes a tremendous amount of work to make something that looks this “real” and of course its anything but. While every agency tries to jump on the viral video bandwagon this Bike Hero video directed by Jaron Albertin actually pulls it off by making a slightly too produced to be real adventure through suburbia that’s fun and quirky enough to be send to a friend worthy.
BTW- You can count the number of punk bands worth listening to these days on one hand, but you have to reserve at least one finger (you can guess which one) for The Living End featured in the video above.
If Haute Couture is the height of style and Legos are the building blocks of pop culture it’s only surprising that this hasn’t come sooner. After all if you can make Lego Star Wars and Lego Raiders of the Lost Ark, why not have a Lego Fashion Show.
This would be more of a joke than a piece of art if it wasn’t coming from pop fashion legend Jean-Charles de Castelbajac. His collaboration with Lego and French visual and music production crew Four-H make for a playful and innovative look at something where people often take themselves oh-so-seriously.
If you’re a film title fan like us, chances are you’ve visited sites like Art of the Title and are hungry for more. The book has over 300 pages filled with frames and comes with a DVD. Order it here for just $35. This is a MUST HAVE for anyone moderately interested in film titles. Read the rest of this entry »
If you want to get get an idea of what the French are up to, Parisian studio Hello Hikimori just relaunched there site and it is rather impressive. In a city with this much art history and culture, you’d expect to find the “next thing” in design and these guys look like they are pushing the envelope on all fronts.
German visual artist Sebastian Onufszak focuses mainly on vibrant print projects, engaging interactive media and swirling motion graphics. Since 2002 he has been working as an art director and freelancer for an international range of high-end clients, such as, SonyEricsson, Mercedes, Congstar, Red Bull, & Jeep. His own creation/portfolio, In Graphics We Trust, is true display of this man’s talent. Many projects include different type styles dancing along side an immense amount of photographs and repeated graphics in an array of gorgeous colors that bounce at your face. Much of this work is featured in numerous publications and exhibitions worldwide. Currently he is living in Duesseldorf, Germany and working for Parasol Island, an animation and design studio.
Brazilian director Marcelo Garcia directed this fantastic promo piece for Max Haus, a modular loft producer. The result is a freeform piece exploring habitat, diversity, living, and taste. Production credit goes to Molho, a studio based in Sao Paulo. The piece was made over a month and a half using several types of animation techniques and styles executed by Molho’s 2d and 3d teams.
We’re fanatics about film titles. So imagine our delight when we came across a site cataloging them. Art of the Title has about eighty title sequences on the site and growing. They cover TV and film and old school figures like Saul Bass to contemporaries like Thomas Cobb. Best of all there are links to high res stills and the videos (h264 – sweet) so you won’t miss a frame. Read the rest of this entry »
for just $35. This is a MUST HAVE for anyone moderately interested in film titles.
