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Artist Liz West Captures a Rainbow Inside the Bristol Biennial

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WATCH: Paint, Oil, Milk, and Honey Mix in this Surreal Macro Video of Swirling Liquids by Thomas Blanchard (video)

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FITC Tokyo Title Sequence

These stills are taken from the fantastically rich and glitchy title sequence for the Tokyo design and technology festival. Director Ash Thorp and a host of collaborators from around the world worked on this piece. 

View here  https://vimeo.com/118919656

As well as the title sequence there's also a fascinating process wheel  https://vimeo.com/118998266

And it doesn't stop there, over at Motionographer there's an in-depth article discussing title sequence and its many collaborators  http://motionographer.com/2015/02/10/superteam-proves-power-of-collaboration-in-title-sequence-for-fitc-tokyo/ 

Finally, The Collective Podcast is well worth checking out if you work in the creative industries. It regularly features many of the collaborators on FITC Tokyo  http://www.thecollectivepodcast.com/

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Procedural Water Colours

Stills from the gorgeous audio-visual experiment 'Lilium'. Created by Kynd in collaboration with Tokyo BRDG this watercolour simulation reacts to the music of Yaporigami/Yu Miyashita.

See the full video here: https://vimeo.com/117162623

More information can be found here: http://www.creativeapplications.net/openframeworks/brdg020-lilium-kenichi-yoneda-kynd-in-collaboration-with-brdg/

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Bergen International Festival

Excellent event branding from Anti who have featured a few times here now. This is a great example of why we love their work so much. Clever, bold and versatile.

With content spanning from accessible street performances through traditional classical symphonies to the avant garde our challenge was to create a visual language that could speak for them all but still speak with one unified voice.

http://anti.as/projects/festspillene-i-bergen

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New Warp Records Website

Till Wiedeck and HelloMe have produced a stylish new Warp Records website, the first in 6 years since the 2009 Universal Everything de-design.

HelloMe created an adaptive identity system including a completely overhauled typographic concept and the redefinition of the iconic Purple that’s been synonymous with the brand for the last two and a half decades. A simple set of typographic rules, based on the customized typeface „Favorit“ perfectly compliments the aesthetic development of the label. It is nested within a flexible grid system designed to beautifully host content of varying complexity and applications from billboard to iPhone while acknowledging Warp’s historical design aesthetic.

Read more about the project here View the site  http://warp.net/

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This could have kept me very quiet over Christmas. itscolossal:

A 1,000-piece CMYK Color Gamut Jigsaw Puzzle by Clemens Habicht

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"Media Tube is an art organization in China, Shanghai. Founded in 2012 April, it is an independent art gallery that exhibits and present contemporary media artists within a progressive curatorial framework. Media Tube also publishes a booklet which shares the art news and critic of international movie and media art pieces. The design used the art of broadcast as the main visual, and tailor made official typeface for its publication use. "

Not Available (NA) is established in 2009 by kitcheuk, jerrychow and sungbilly, which is a multi-disciplinary studio focus on branding, design strategy, art direction, interactive media, space design. NA is pleased and honored to serve innovative and creative ones who love to play unexpected twists on everyday simplicity. They believe that staying in the same old groove would not be interesting enough to fulfill your tasks. Their philosophy is NOT following a set routine AVAILABLE in the market, they dare to be different.

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Table Topography: Wood Furniture Embedded with Glass Rivers and Lakes by Greg Klassen

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Universal Everything is 10

Has it been 10 whole years since Matt Pyke founded Universal Everything? Apparently so. Take a look back at some of their exceptional work.

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Sivert Høyem Website and Visual Identity

Visual Identities don't get more contemporary than this! Having said that, this is a wonderful example of many current design trends combined. Created by Anti

View the Høyem website here

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Oblivion Interface Design

Whilst this work is quite old now I still find myself coming back to it for inspiration. Unlike most futuristic HUD/UI which attempts to communicate advanced technologies through ever increasing visual complexity, the UI in Oblivion choses to communicate the same concepts through a sense of refinment and reduction. Whilst for cinematic perposes the UI is still busy at times, it also has an understaded tone, helped by a muted palette and good choice of font. The overall result being one of the more convincing efforts to suggest the future aestetics of user interfaces, should we ever need to use screens at all.

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Permission to Explode

Artwork for the latest Si Begg album created by Atyp

Our approach was to utilise animation techniques and repurpose these into a highly limited edition run of 100 sleeves, all numbered and signed for by Si. We love the idea of the classic, iconic portrait of the artist on a record sleeve and wanted to play with this from a visual point of view. Our portrait was generated using a dynamic script which generates a simulation of an explosion at random. We built a custom shader that colours polygons according to path lengths and wraps the head with random contours. We hit go and the rest was left to chance… which is exactly what you take when purchasing one, as all copies are sold online and sent out at random.

http://www.atyp.co.uk/portfolio-item/permission-to-explode-album/

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Recent Non-Format work

Selected  work from Non-Format

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UsTwo Pixel Perfect Precision Guide

UsTwo have released the latest iteration of their Pixel Perfect Precision Guide. If you are involved in design for any type of device this is well worth your time checking out. And best of all, it's free. FormFiftyFive have an interview with Matt Gypps about PPP3 http://www.formfiftyfive.com/2014/02/pixel-perfect-precision-guide/

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Plastic Bag Landscapes by Vilde Rolfson

Ongoing project, where I use light and colored background to make plastic bags look magical. Creating a landscape within the plastic bag. Plastic bags are a huge contributor to the landfill waste, and are extremely harmful for our oceans and the creatures living there. Do not say yes to a plastic bag when shopping. These plastic bags were found in the street.

http://vilderolfsen.com/PLASTIC-BAG-LANDSCAPES

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Interesting project from Google and Barbican Center London.

DevArt is a new type of art. It is made with code, by developers that push the possibilities of creativity and technology.

https://devart.withgoogle.com/