Archive for the 'Art' Category

Animation: The old Man and the Sea

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This beautiful animation of Hemingway’s saga “The old man and the sea” has been completely hand painted – all 29,000 frames of it. It’s actually more an independent film created by Russian artist Alexander Petrov and Canadian Pascal Blais Productions that helped him to get the 21 minute film onto celluloid with IMAX technology.

It won a series of awards and received an Oscar nomination for Best Animation Short Film…

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Design: Packaging by Carlo Giovani

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Brazilian designer Carlo Giovani provides us with a fresh view into package design. Samples of his diverse work available on “his website” include box design for a MTV DVD or the band Turbo Trio and our favorite the Chinese Tea Box…

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Exhibition: Design and the Elastic Mind

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If you happen to be in New York this weekend you might want to visit this exceptional exhibition at the MoMa ranging across design, technology and science.

You can get a first taste and explore many of the exhibits on the “interactive MoMa web site” put up for the event and designed by “Yugo Nakamura”…

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Design: Skateboard Artwork

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These decks are stunning. Vancouver based artist Nathan Matthews aka Giant Human creates them for various skateboard labels.

Check out his work (he does snowboards too) at “his web site”.

We found some of his deck designs at the following shops/labels…

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Animation: Une Histoire Vertebrale

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A beautiful 9 minute short film by Jeremy Clapin. In calm pictures he shows us the emotional state of his main character – a lonely man – and his search for others. Brilliant work that won more than 10 awards…

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Design: Rafael Rozendaal’s web sites

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The subjects of Rafael Rozendaal’s web sites range from clouds to blood, from hands to farts, from hills to dollars, from doors to fire. They are interactive, some are like pieces of pop art, others a bit absurd.

His latest creation “colorflip.com” got quite some popularity on various forums the last days and…

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