Mia Doi Todd’s Open Your Heart directed by Michel Gondry, the master of making absolutely joyous videos using sublimely simple ideas.
(Via Coudal)
Tag: design
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Mia Doi Todds Open Your Heart Directed by Michel
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BBC Winter Olympics animation by Studio AKA
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A very nice animated spot for the BBC coverage of the Winter Olympics directed by Studio AKA’s Marc Craste, co-directed by Jon Klassen (aka Burst of Beaden, where you can read more about the video). I wish our tv spots looked more like this.
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The Proprietary 8 Bit Processors That Powered
The proprietary 8-bit processors that powered Atari’s home consoles are being resurrected by the Atari History Museum’s Curt Vendel. He’s rebuilding each chip from the fabrication specification data detailed in the original tape-outs he has in his possession, and hopes to be able to crank out brand new replacement chips (the originals have been unavailable to the enthusiast market for years). This looks to my non-engineer eyes like an impressive feat of reverse engineering and history gathering! If nothing else, one can appreciate the high-res circuit scans he’s posted in the discussion thread.
(Via GameSetWatch)
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From a Flickr Set of Soviet Arcade Game Posters
From a Flickr set of Soviet arcade game posters. The image of the Russian pinball table Ну, погоди! is interesting to look at from a pinball design history perspective, much better looking than this scary clown table (though still very utilitarian)!
(Via GameSetWatch and countless other blogs)
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Japanese Bromide Baseball Card Prints
Besuboru Bromides, John Gall’s beautiful collection of Japanese baseball card bromide prints (ブロマイド). The full set can be found on his Flickr account, along with a billion other great graphic arts images. I think I need to trawl through his whole photoset now, and pick up his book Sayonara Home Run!…
(Via Monoscope)
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Dreaming the Industrial Body
Dreaming the Industrial Body. I’m not sure that I’m following the info that they’re trying to convey about the sun’s effects on our bodies, but it’s definitely an eye-catching image as far as medical literature goes. From Der mensch gesund und krank [The Healthy and Sick Human], menschenkunde 1940 … . Vol. 2, displayed as part of the National Library of Medicine’s Dream Anatomy exhibit. Speaking of which, check out their cool children’s art page!
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15 Pixel Video Game Minimalism
Clever 15-pixel video game minimalism, courtesy of the London-based design and animation concern Alaskan Military School.
(Via GameSetWatch)
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dpBestflow: Digital Photography Best Practices
The American Society of Media Photographers has a new resource up for people working with digital images: dpBestflow rounds up the best practices and workflows for digital photography, in neat, easy-to-digest pieces, with tips on subjects ranging from camera file formats to desktop hardware to room lighting. If you look at their handy Quick Reference overview, be sure to note that each bullet point links to a more in-depth piece if you’re interesting in drilling down for more info…
(Via John Nack)
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Oh My Yes the Firefox Team Has an Experimental
Oh my, yes. The Firefox team has an experimental specification for making use of the advanced features of OpenType and AAT, possibly through the CSS @font-variant property. This could get hairy rather quickly and I have to imagine it’d be tricky to write out the full description by hand, but the typographical goodness would be hard to pass up. Be sure to check out the hack.mozilla.org page about this to see some nice preview images.
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Miha’s Sub-pixel Typography
Typophile user Miha is doing some awesome sub-pixel typography experimentation for making tiny text sharper (at least on LCD screens with RGB ordering – sorry CRT holdouts!). It’s this kind of hand-rendering and tailoring that makes this work craft, in the best sense of the word. Drawing out a legible, full alphabet with an x-height of 3 pixels? Impressive.