August 25th, 2007
Bluetooth Citylight
Imagine yourself sitting at the bus stop, missing buses and busy creating digital graffiti with your mobile phone. It’s a working citylight by Mark Ecko. via engadget
Now I Feel
A self expression website which you can logon to create an artwork expressing your current mood. Put it for a vonting session and win prizes. Cool huh. But I’m pretty surprised with the stable backend of the program. Neat.
Ai Interactive Media
One of the pretty advanced flash site from the east I’ve came across. What’s good and amazed me is the amount of details are put into the transitions and 3d environment, it’s a wholesome dynamism.I wonder if I’ll have the chance to stumble across them in Taiwan. Yes, they’re from there. or only one person?
Jackass: The Movie rip 
Envy New Media
Coming from Taiwan as well, Envy New Media is an interactive agency which works on various interactive websites that are highly refined and motion graphics as well. But I guess they’re worth to be checked out. Especially I feel in love with their Shu-Uemura official company profile.
Designer Slash Model
Are you beautiful? Design can change the world? Definitely. Upload your headshot to their gallery.
August 25th, 2007
image courtesy of : *dans
banner image by : Jacques Chiang
Some latest happening on inside DE
1. We’ll be taking a short break from 27th of August 2007 till 1st of September 2007. We’ll be dropping by Taiwan for a run of fun! Until then, you can always keep us updated with any latest happening around you to info at
designenterprise dot com
Interested to also know what we’ll be doing during our trip to Taiwan? Catch us LIVE on our Twitter page!
You can now also add us as friend on Friendster!
Happy Independence Day! Merdeka!
Walk of Love, Celebrating Women
August 23rd, 2007
To commemorate Hari Wanita 2007, WAO and The Body Shop are organizing
‘Walk of Love, Celebrating Women” to generate awareness on violence against women and raise funds for WAO’s Refuge
Date:
25th August 2007 (Saturday)
Time:
6. 00 pm
Venue:
The Curve, Mutiara Damansara
The event begins with a light walk-a-thon around The Curve; culminating in a celebration:
Concert at The Piazza area of The Curve where celebrities will be performing.
How to Participate
Open to men and women of all ages. Tickets are priced RM30.00 per person. Tickets are available in all The Body Shop stores in Klang Valley. Please retain your tickets to claim your Body Shop Walk of Love T-shirt from the registration counter on the day of the walk. For more information, please feel free to call Annie/Didie at 79575636 / 79570636.
August 22nd, 2007
Highest Escalator In The World
I wonder what will happen if there’s power outage while being in the middle of the escalator? What can you do with old magazines. Some illusion perhaps? Ever thought to search for your information, in a weird way Twin Rivers ipod ?
August 22nd, 2007
Innovative Moving Ads
Time for some juicy inspiration to spice up the mid of the week. via iblog.
BYODP – Build Your Own Death Project
Though not being generally health-concious of promoting cigarette box customisation. BYODP is calling for creative submission. via iblog.
shikisai
[shikisai] is an exploration of colourfulness between the black on white shirt design. I am utterly impressed. via iblog.
Without a Clue hd
How to become an authority blogger
Upon browsing randomly, I came across an article on how we might able to practice one of few tips inside this article. Interesting read on how people react to a people presenting/blogging in the front row.
Tafiti
If anyone could ever remember Microsoft came up with a solution to fight against Flash, Silverlight is the name. But I guess none of us has really seen the program itself in action, but upon browsing Webware, a really interesting site that keeps track of the latest web application news, comes Tafiti which powered by Live search and Silverlight Rookie of the Year release . Will it live up to the expectation? According to the site, it has pretty nifty interface for you to fiddle around.
There are only 12 Types of Ads in the world
Interesting insight from Donald Gunn which determined that there will always be a pre-defined style in a TV ads. Worth read for inspiration. Thanks Oswald.
Twitter : Bravia
If there is any web application that would boiling the hot soup now, I guess I would nominate Twitter in the line. You may always let your friend to keep track of your presense with the web application, and this time around, the Sony Bravia ad team utilize this application to its benefit of creating publicity and promotion for the ads itself. Being rather successful for its previous two commercial “colour” and “paint”, I wonder what will turn up this time around. Putting that aside, I would like to emphasize that there might be a big “Boom!” from the public of Twitter’s usage soon. Right now, even from webware itself, I saw MTV has even endorsed it for MTV VIDEO MUSIC AWARDS itself as well! Whoa, I smell of aquisition.
August 22nd, 2007
An adventurous being by nature, James has always strived to improve himself in any means necessary while to share his passion and knowledge on music and sound with people around him.
Written by : ManMeng
Veritas, Prince of Truth release
Photography by : Kenny / ManMeng
Published : 22nd August 2007
Venue : Endah Parade, Sri Petaling, KL
DE : Design Enterprise
J : James
VOICES #6 : Action Valley
Head up the jump for a full coverage of this exclusive!
August 22nd, 2007
Following from the previous post in DE :
A Makan-Meetup Date . Finally, more of the details are confirmed.
You are cordially invited to {MEDIA MANIAC POTLUCK} @ The Annexe Gallery, Central Market.
MEDIA MANIAC POTLUCK
Media Maniac Potluck provides educators and practitioners in the arts and
technology field an opportunity to network with one another and discuss
issues surrounding new media education, exhibition and its presence in our
culture. Participants will have a chance to network with colleagues
possessing similar interests and/or educational goals. In addition, the
group gathers for the opportunity to exchange ideas in the area of media
arts development. We would like to extend our invitation to a diverse
group of educators from academia to the practitioners and thinkers of
media industry, art institutions and beyond for an exposure to networks
within the art and technology community.
Also,guest speaker – Nisar Keshvani will share insight into the Leonardo
Electronic Almanac (MIT Press). Jointly produced by Leonardo, the
International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology (ISAST), and
published by MIT Press, is an electronic journal dedicated to providing a
forum for those who are interested in the realm where art, science and
technology converge.
Date:
24th August 2007 (Friday)
Time:
7:00pm
Venue:
The Annexe Gallery @ Central Market
Admission :
Free
*All you have to bring along is food to share with everyone*
*Media Artists/producers/activists, Designers, Curators, Thinkers, Art
lovers…all are Welcomed!*
About Nisar Keshvani:
Singaporean Nisar Keshvani is a consultant, Internet journalist, web
developer, filmmaker, curator, educator and new media specialist. In the
last decade, he has worked across five continents (Asia, Africa, Europe,
North America and Australia/Oceania). He is Director of Leonardo (Asia
Pacific), editor-in-chief of the Leonardo Electronic Almanac
(http://leoalmanac.org) and International Co-Editor of fineArt forum
(http://www.fineartforum.org) – one of the Internet’s longest running arts
publications.
About LEA:
Established in 1993, Leonardo Electronic Almanac (ISSN No: 1071-4391) is
the electronic arm of the pioneer art journal, Leonardo – Journal of Art,
Science & Technology.
For over a decade, LEA has thrived as an *international peer reviewed
electronic journal *and web archive covering the interaction of the arts,
sciences, and technology. *On average 5 – 10% of manuscripts received are
eventually published. *LEA emphasizes rapid publication of recent work and
critical discussion on topics of current excitement with a slant on
shorter, less academic texts. Many contributors are younger scholars,
artists, scientists, educators and developers of new technological
resources in the media arts.
Hope to see everyone there!!!
August 21st, 2007
Bumblebee in…paper
That is really some die hard fan will do if I tell you that it’s made of KFC boxes? via engadget
The Super Chick Sisters
To talk about KFC, this is one has a hell of a refined graphics inside the whole game. Though not being entirely original, it sure does try its best in conveying the horror of the story.
Condomnism
Though this might be something different. It does suggests something about recycling.
Uni
Without a Clue rip
This is certainly a cool concept from Richard Choi where we would always had frustation on upgrading our computer parts by tearing up the casing apart and risking destroying other parts in the process. This one plugs new one in as time goes. via engadget
Conceptual Yoga Mat
Conceptualized by designer Hui-Zong Chen, I guess it’s rather a good try to see if the idea would work but personally it does contradict probably on what is yoga normally does to the user? Isn’t the person are into meditation where they would want more peace than distractions? Perhaps I still couldn’t imagine a person watching a 2-hour Transformers videos while doing Yoga. Hm. via engadget
Singapore’s Floating Tower
Still a concept, but it will be fascinating to create it.
DHTML Demos Gallery
And if you’re looking for some cool stuff to fiddle around, here is one site to look at, Dynamic HTML. Which uses Javascript to move text on screen around, in a cool way. No it’s not Flash. Thanks tuckloong.
Blanka – 50 Years of Helvetica
A pure coincidence or just beauty just bound to happen at the same time? To some of our beloved Helvetica typeface are celebrating its 50th birthday this year. Did I mention that our country’s independence is 50th this year as well? Beautiful posters for sale.
August 21st, 2007
Mimos & The Egg
Right almost a month ago, a good friend of mine, Julian has completed his final year project which is a 2D animation. Worth a watch! Good one I would say.
Synopsis
Poor Mimos is sort of a prehistoric Wile E. Coyote. Except that he likes eggs best. Not that this will change anything for him. Mimos & The Egg is a short animated movie by Kok Joon Wen. He did all the elements in the movie, during the course of 7 months.
On Exposure
Great collection of model photography. Thanks Necrisque.
3 Million Yen to be won. Any design. Thanks tuckloong.
Rabbits In Different Form
Explore them in a whole different form. via digg
How the whole shapes up differently
It is interesting to see visually, how one country can be drastically contrasting from other in all different manner. Shown on the picture are the HIV prevalence globally. Africa it seems are the most affected badly based from the statistics. via digg
Recalling back the articles about black background browsing, there are some sites that claiming it might be a big myth Afterall, you may interested to read it up. via digg
Bar Code Art Deja Vu the movie
A very interesting read on how it may help you in the future project dealing with barcodes. Detailed explainations on different barcodes are included. Interested to create some barcode for yourself? via digg
Cassette Tape Culture
Fruitful and inspiring post from design boom which covered on the cassette tape culture which was almost the part of the 80’s and 90’s teenagers life. And now it’s obsolete and nowhere to be found on the mass market. But of course it has certainly grown to a stage it’s an antique? But there are more to be seen as a collectible item. Head on to the article for very unexpected design items inspired from the cassettes. Great one. Mixtape anyone? It’s a living culture last time where an empty cassette has a compilation of pop songs recorded by a person and shared to friend, just like an iPod which stores a huge amount of song. It has also even lived up to another form. A website. A shirt. via digg
August 17th, 2007
10 Websites With Great Photography
That is said, using images or photography in your website would greatly affect your visitor’s impression. Be it breaking it really bad or creating a long lasting impression. TutorialBlog has a list of 10 great websites that use great photograph on a right channel. via digg
Sony Bravia Bunny
Sony Bravia TV Ads has always been well known for its large-scaled ads which looks impossible to do on a 10 man studio alone. Up until the recent ads, which still strongly bears the concept of colour like no other, it’s normal for us to expect thousands of objects flying across the street. This time around, it’s rabbit. In colour. via digg
Motion Portrait
If it is something freaky you are looking within this month, look no further from both this puppy and lady. That follows your cursor with their eyeball. What’s stunning about this is the technology behind is that its using only one single portrait image from the user, regardless of the quality itself, it will automate the process of generating a 3D image of it.
Color Inspiration : Hawaii
Set of beautiful palletes which is grabbed from the heavenly Big Island, Hawaii. via digg
Review : The new iMac
Though it might seem out of place for a design site to feature an article of a hardware release, but I’d strongly feel in love with the new iMac that has the stylish new look which resembles the iPhone (wow), new slim keyboard and more powerful hardware. And lower price! How could these would be possible? Would you consider upgrading your workstation any sooner? via digg
Vintage Ads
A more organized page for some vintage ads browsing. Some are shockingly disturbing. via digg
August 17th, 2007
Walk2web
Once pretty advance visualisation tool for your website, knowing how and where your website go, who links to you. But what really sets the bar high is the narrative voice pronounciation for the site title. I’m still scratching my head wondering how does the author pulled the trick. Imagine delicious+stumbleupon+digg+googleanalytics all in one.
August 17th, 2007
IDN -UNIVERSE Design Wanted
WE ARE ALL CONNECTED
We are all connected, whether we like it or not. As an international design magazine called International designers’ Network, this fact is our raison d’etre. So in celebrating our 15th anniversary, we pondered long and hard on how we could bring the whole wide and varied world of design and designers even closer together.
From there, we have launched a regular column “15 degrees” in IdN magazine, derived from the famous six degree of separation that is supposed to join everyone in the world with everyone else. And besides, we are holding a series of competitions which has now already come to the 3rd episode – Universe.
Submission Guidelines – Themes
Black & White – finished
Fifteen – deadline is 31 AUG
Universe – deadline is 01 DEC
What & How to Submit
Raster: 300 dpi / Jpeg / min width of 150mm
Vector: AI / EPS format outlined
Details: Name and website(if any)
Email your entries (3 maximum) to 15@idnworld.com
Guidelines
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Do not infringe the right of any third party like copyright, logos, trademark & tradenames.
All entries can be expressed in the form of drawings, motion graphics, installations, animations, illustrations, typography, photography…
via pipit
Osiris Posters
Wholesome of posters. Thanks TeckYew.
Current.TV : 60 Seconds To Save The Earth Contest
Motion graphic designers unite! Save the world with your 60 seconds of talent.
Make a :15, :30 or :60 second ecospot about:
TAKING ACTION:
Showcase how you, or someone you know, is taking action to alleviate the climate crisis in their own small or big way
OR…
MOTIVATING CHANGE:
Create an original, persuasive message that will open eyes, inspire change and empower your audience
Contest only open to US, UK and Republic of Ireland residents.
Some inspirational site to start with, Climate Protect. And Live Earth.
via motionographer
