2010-02-06T19:00:03+00:00 crazy psychedelic fun 227 0 1 1 0 0 2010-03-11T20:52:21+00:00 21 77 http://bestiario.org/research/eyecandy/ Design Museum Ross Phillips / SHOWstudio 2009-06-05T09:23:59+00:00 dynamo london regular contributor, Ross Phillips, has a great new installation in the Super Contemporary exhibition that has just opened at the Design Museum. For this interactive installation, four pods around London take short videos of the heads, bodies or legs of the people standing in front. It's like those flip books you had as a kid where you could mix and match different body parts from policemen, bakers, firemen etc, only this is with video and it's real people. The website records the people captured to date. Very Ross Phillips. Very cool. I really like interactive stuff that doesn't need, keyboards, touch screens, or elaborate arrays of expensive displays. This is all good fun. 213 0 Ross Phillips 0 0 0 0 2010-03-11T20:50:22+00:00 21 477 http://www.designmuseum.org/headtotoe/ idée 2008-12-03T10:13:27+00:00 A fun way to search for reference images by their colour content. It selects from over 10 million images on Flickr according to the colours you select from a handy little palette. Then of course you can link directly to any picture you see. It doesn't give you any rights to use the images you find, but if nothing else it's delightful, therapeutic toy. 187 0 1 1 2 0 2010-03-11T08:59:06+00:00 21 587 http://labs.ideeinc.com/multicolr/ Eye Magazine Esterson Associates 2008-08-05T12:46:09+00:00 Eye Magazine, still the finest looking and finest reading graphic design magazine in the world, has just launched its own blog. Now you can look and learn, and read and write back... I'm particularly pleased to see that the facility to book a lunch date with Paul Davis (from the Copyright Davis site) is accessible directly from the home page. :-) See also: <http://www.dynamolondon.org/projects/79> 173 0 0 0 0 0 2010-03-11T07:00:37+00:00 21 806 http://blog.eyemagazine.com/ Self Initiated Yuri Ono, Miranda July & Harrell Fletcher 2008-04-04T10:33:17+00:00 This site has been running for 6 years. The site is conceived by two artists, Miranda July and Harrell Fletcher. The basic idea is to set 'assignments' to anyone, anywhere who wishes to participate. The site has become a gallery space which people use to display their work. Some people (American people) have even held exhibitions of their assignments. With assignments like 'Take a picture of your parents kissing' or 'Describe your ideal government' the solutions range from beautiful & touching to naff & stupid. On the whole the site is worth a roam. I think the concept is really admirable, and I'm impressed that over 5000 people have participated in the project, but something tells me that this idea just wouldn't capture the imagination of a European audience. A book has just been published by Prestel about the project. The book is a bit unnecessary. Why do people feel the need to convert a inherently web-based project in to a printed hardback coffee tabe book? 141 0 Yuri Ono 0 1 1 0 2010-03-10T20:52:25+00:00 165 702 http://learningtoloveyoumore.com/ Lovely Lovely Fabric Interface 2008-03-10T12:10:48+00:00 I love this site. It appeals to the girly-designery-want-to-spend-money side of me. I think it is rare that a website captures that feeling of wandering around a quiet little boutique. When I visit lovelylovely.co.uk I feel like browsing / contemplating / touching / choosing / spending. I like the candy-striped navigation bar. The price tags that appear on hover-over are a nice touch too. I think this is a nice example of a simple & easy-to-use site being made 'special' by great design. 135 0 Mike Stains and team. 0 0 0 0 2010-03-09T11:24:11+00:00 165 700 http://www.lovelylovely.co.uk Orange Poke 2008-02-19T11:30:17+00:00 Another really impressive project from those guys at Poke. Yes the Unlimited Orange page really is seemingly unlimited. It scrolls forever. Ross Phillips nominated this at the Designs of the Year exhibition currently at the Design Museum. I can see why. Read some more comments at http://www.dynamolondon.org/topics/32#comments 131 0 Nic Roope 1 1 0 0 2010-03-11T17:09:30+00:00 21 945 http://unlimited.orange.co.uk/ Fabrica/Benetton Fabrica Development Team 2008-02-05T11:56:13+00:00 I felt I should draw attention to the new Fabrica website. Strangely, the new site was NOT designed by the Fabrica Interactive team, headed by Andy Cameron. Apparently this new site has been designed by the newfangled 'Fabrica Development Team'. Perhaps Daniel Hirschmann (ex Fabrica webmaster, and co-founder of Fabricanti.com) can tell us more. Briefly, for those of you who don't know. Fabrica is a Creative Design Think-Tank in Treviso, Italy. It offers year-long fellowships to a selection of young artists from around the world. It was founded by Luciano Benetton and Oliviero Toscani in 1996 and it is part of the Benetton company. The new website is radically different from what was before. As with any organisation's web re-design, I know there has been some controversial internal reactions to the changes. Both Helder Araújo and Juliana Loh (ex-Fabrica members) drew my attention to the new website, when they both commented on it in our mailing list correspondence. I'd love it if they, or others, would like to offer their opinions publicly here. As part of the Fabrica "alumni" myself, I quite like the new site. Selfishly, I like it because it offers me the opportunity to keep my profile updated and keep in contact with people. Whereas the old site offered no such facilities. The network of Fabrica is maturing and growing and it feels more and more important to recognize and connect each generation. Which, is a philosophy behind many of today's most-used sites (facebook springs to mind). I suspect a lot of what keeps the site dynamic, is user-generated content from spin-off sites such as www.fabricanti.com and fabricanti.com/wiki/index.php. (But perhaps I'm mistaken, please do correct me if I'm wrong). The interface can be tricky to grasp at first. However, my bet, is that this is intentional. The 'Projects Section' impressively opens it's own browser inside the site. This is initially a bit disorientating, but it is a system which I quickly understood (although I doubt someone less web-savvy, like say, my Mum would have the aptitude or patience for). Concerning the navigation, interestingly, each box that opens from the main menu stays open. So you have multiple boxes open at one time. This fills the otherwise odd amount of blank white space on the home page, and leaves a nice visual history of all the info you've encountered. This wouldn't work for all types of site, but Fabrica has kept all text short and to-the-point. It is like site made of a bullet points. This minimal design is brave and it has an ethos I can sympathize with, but it does seam to leave out a lot of the substance that makes Fabrica famous. The site could feel slightly shallow, and I'm left wanting to see more work, more projects, more photographs. Fabrica (and Benetton) have always been image driven brands. It is a pity there isn't more images on this site. There is a valid argument that says: Fabrica has produced stunning work over the last 10 years, and it should show it off. But then again, I'm tempted to argue: why should Fabrica's website be condemned to a role of archiving and displaying? It isn't a glass exhibition cabinet. On a personal note, I'm going to see how I feel about this site when its been around a bit longer. I think it might be a grower. 128 0 1 0 0 2 2010-03-10T20:33:32+00:00 165 1449 http://www.fabrica.it/ Moving Brands 2008-01-04T03:32:17+00:00 I've worked off and on over the years for Moving Brands, and at Christmas they sent me a scarf - which is lovely - but the way it was made is pretty exciting: it was co-created by the Moving Brands ecosystem (ie. them and everyone they know). I've copied and pasted the blurb from the Weare website - explains it better than I could: 'Last Christmas Moving Brands set up a screen made of fairy lights in the Moving Brands window. We then invited people to send messages and drawings, via a simple web-interface, to be shown in sequence in the window. The window was captured by webcam and broadcast live to the internet. We stored everything sent to the window in a gallery, and the full sequence has been used to create this scarf.' If you go to the website you can create icons for whatever they make next. I really didn't think I'd get sucked in, thought it might be a bit gimmicky, but, I have to confess, I submitted loads of occult sigils and random filth (I guess that's just the kind of guy I am) and now I'm kinda excited to get my hands on scarf v2. Moving Brands also plans to offer the Weare technology to designers and creators around the world - which would be an interesting social experiment in itself, just to see the contrast between what some football team's ecosystem plasters over themselves compared to, I dunno, Alexander McQueen's ecosystem. Co-created fashion indeed. 122 0 2 2 2 0 2010-03-10T06:53:42+00:00 278 978 http://weare.movingbrands.com/ Nonsense Nonsense 2007-10-25T09:22:39+00:00 The website that is not a website, or more accurately almost a website. It is a simple proposition: vote for the website idea you like the most and Nonsense will build it. No nonsense, I guess. I have those nice people at Moving Brands to thank for alerting me to this one - it was mentioned in their own Newsletter this morning. 114 0 1 1 1 0 2010-03-11T07:17:56+00:00 21 842 http://www.hightimewehadawebsite.co.uk/