August 4th, 2008
Pencil Rebel is one the interactive mixed media website that impressed me the most. Grzegorz Kozakiewicz, the designer of the site, built the whole set of the interactive interface by his skillful craftmanship. You will be impressed too when you finished the journey of in the site. Take a look at the making of the interface. Good job Grzegorz!
May 28th, 2008
The exotic Water Puppetry (”Roi Nuoc”) is one of Vietnam’s iconic cultural treasures. It’s a unique folk art farmers that originated during the Ly Dynasty, more than 1,000 years ago. Tourists from all over the world throng in to Vietnam annually to witness the Water Puppetry performances. It’s now in Malaysia, Bandar Botanic, Klang.
Date: 24 & 25 May (Sat & Sun), 31 May & 1 June (Sat & Sun)
Ticket: Free Admission! All tickets must be redeemed between 26-30 May @ Bandar Botanic Property Gallery.
Special thanks to Kenny.
The puppet is control by a white tube under the water with string to control the hand movement.
Voice talent at the side of the pool of water for voice or action sync.
March 18th, 2008
Nomint is a motion design studio founded in November 2006 by scenographer Yannis Konstantinidis and architect Christos Lefakis. They are one of the shortlisted among the Top 25 entries in the E4 Sting competition held by digital TV channel E4 and visual communication magazine Creative Review.
February 12th, 2008
Yeoh Guan Hong, a Malaysia Chinese who is currently setup a new company called Supernature with another two partner at Shanghai. He is also a co-founded of Hyperthesis Visual lab in NZ. Here is the latest works for his solo exhibition. http://www.hyperthesis.com/supernature/
Please do check out more of his company works here, http://www.hyperthesis.com as well as their design journal ’s blog, http://www.hyperthesis.com/blog/.
January 31st, 2008
King’s Seal Engraving gallery is located in Melaka, a historical town. It’s famous with creating wonderful seals. PingMag shows you in very detail, how craftsman Ze-King Tham, often called only King, actually makes these.
December 14th, 2007
‘guess who? the many faces of noma bar’ is a new book being released by mark batty publisher featuring acollection of illustrations by noma bar. the book is introduced by steven heller and features portraits of celebritiesand other public figures rendered in bar’s unique minimal illustration style. his work employs minimal elementsused in symbolic ways to capture the appearance and personality of subject. they skirt the line between caricature and social commentary, evoking our pre-conceived associations of the individual. via designboom
