Designer Creates 8-bit Posters of Star Wars
retro-lovily design. enjoy ;)
retro-lovily design. enjoy ;)
[via @grokstar]
...Creation is messy.
I love this as a metaphor for innovation. Check out http://www.joefig.com/ and his study of artists in their creative working environ "Inside the Painter's Studio".
Every once in a great while a person (or firm) comes along that inspires you with the ease they take technical information, data and technology to create beautiful things. Stamen Design, ManyEyes and Jonathan Harris come to mind. Certainly architects have been doing this for eons and digital developers create such feats in incremental (sometimes fearless) ways everday.
Some are bold about it. Check out Bestario. They look pretty fearless, if not visionary.
Here's the low-down on their latest project:
Bestiario, a Barcelona Spain based start-up, has been exploring and inventing new interactive visualization paradigms over the past 5 years. The result of this effort is the creation of IMPURE.
Impure is a visual programming language aimed to gather, process and visualize information. With impure is possible to obtain information from very different sources; from user owned data to diverse feeds in internet, including social media data, real time or historical financial information, images, news, search queries and many more. Impure is a tool to be in touch with data around internet, to deeply understand it. Within a modular logic interface you can quickly link information to operators, controls and visualization methods, bringing all the power of the comprehension of information and knowledge to the not programmers that want to work with information in a professional way.
"Lessons for next time: Where Gap went wrong." This is one of the best, artful explanations I've seen for the do's and don't of launching a new brand identity. Be wary folks, branding is more than pushing pixels. Kudos to Clinton Duncan for a well written thoughtful piece.
Great visualization (one of my favorites), mapping the green ecosystem. Now a book!
This is quite old, but one of my favorite infographics of all time from Wired Magazine tracing the technology lineage of the Star Wars films and the impact of Industrial Light and Magic's breakthroughs on multimedia, film and interactive technology.
...a surprising list eh? More over at Mashable.
(http://mashable.com/2010/05/18/social-media-company-employees/)
..nothing to think about. just listen ;)