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Archive for 18/01/2007

The Science of Sleep - A Michel Gondry Film

The Science of Sleep”, a playful romantic fantasy set inside the topsy-turvy brain of Stephane Miroux (Gael García Bernal), an eccentric young man whose dreams constantly invade his waking life.

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Iraq in Fragments

Iraq in Fragments, Dir James Longley, US 2006
19 Jan 2007 - 18 Feb 2007

 

Triple Award Winner at 2006 Sundance Film Festival: Best Directing, Editing and Cinematography (Documentary)

“A fascinating glimpse of an Iraq the mass media never shows us, the movie is a quiet revelation.” Newsweek

Screening with a new short from writer Hanif Kureishi, Weddings and Beheadings (Dir Amir Jamal, UK 2007, 10 mins)

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Create and share color themes with kuler

by Maxine Schur

The only color I don’t have is navy brown. —Yogi Berra

What do a fashionista, new apartment dweller, graphic designer, and website developer have in common? They can all use kuler, the free web-hosted application available from Adobe Labs.

With kuler, developed by the Emerging Markets & Technologies team (EM&T) at Adobe, anyone can create harmonious color themes of two to five colors based on scientific color formulas or use an interactive color wheel to create their own. The color themes can be created in RGB, CMYK, and LAB color spaces and can be represented as hexadecimal values for use on the web.

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Launch Kuler..

Heiwa Alpha

Site by Heiwa Alpha Inc. and Ryukyu Inc. and Granmuse

We’re staying in Japan as we enter this next site for a Tokyo-based animation studio. This virtual world captures the user’s attention immediately and combines brilliant visuals with complementary sound effects and ambient music, thus creating the perfect atmosphere for this type of site.

Click the moving city to enter another impressive 3D building, packed with numerous superb animations.

While this site is available only in Japanese, the quality of the animations leaves the visitor in no doubt of the stature of a company that can produce such work.

Once you have visited this website, you won’t forget it.

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UNIQLO

Site by tha ltd

I find the work coming out of Asia to be the most exciting on the web, with Japan and South Korea leading the way. This site from Yugo Nakamura’s company, tha ltd, is a prime example. It uses progressive levels of scripting and forward thinking to showcase a like-minded company in an innovative way.

Check out Experience Uniqlo Explorer for the most experimental part of the site and notice how a grid is built out of the clothes collection of this company. Now click one of the thumbnails and notice that the high-resolution image of that particular item is now visible. Click that item again to return to the grid and notice how the grid now forms the visual appearance of the clothing item you just viewed, built with thumbnails of the clothing line in matching colors.

This is advanced and intelligent design — maybe too advanced for some — but this type of creative thinking and experimental work has fuelled many web designers’ imaginations and earned Nakamura a place in web design history.

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http://www.uniqlo.com/us/

Notion Studio Take the Spotlight

New Birmingham based studio take the myspace route to fame and fortune with their amazing After Effects powered video production.

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Age Matters?

Does age discrimination exist in the creative space? 

New EU legislation has been introduced to put a stop to age discrimination in the workplace. Is this likely to have any effect in the creative space?

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Bringing the Nike Air Max site to life

by Ann Marsh

Long ago, I traded in my running shoes for a yoga mat. But if a website could lure me back to the pavement, it would be the new Nike Air Max site designed by Big Spaceship. Experiencing the site, I recalled my most sublime runner’s high (only this time set to an orchestral rock-and-roll track with swirling effects). I’m talking about the site’s Run on Air feature, in which you can view a female runner, decked out in Nike gear, sprinting through a motion graphics landscape set to music. And for you hoopsters, there’s Ball on Air, which features a male athlete adroitly dribbling a basketball through a similar motion graphics atmosphere. Hit a key, and you’ll send either athlete through a hail of illusions.
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