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Gary Hustwit, the director that bought us the film Helvetica, is working on a new film - Objectified. Described as ”a feature-length independent documentary about industrial design,” it is due for release in March, 2009. As part of this film, the director gained access to Apple’s exclusive design facility to interview Jonathan Ive as well as interviewing designers [...]

While not stating a political opinion one way or the other, a viral campaign video for Barack Obama that utilizes variable data has caught our attention. Produced by MoveOn.org, the video employs techniques found in print and website personalization but embeds the name of the recipient into a mock news video segment. Whatever your political affiliation, it [...]

This animation by BluBlu is pretty amazing. I have tons of questions about the process of making something at this scale but maybe it’s better appreciated without knowing how it was done. Like an artsy magic trick.

MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo.

 
I found this film while researching another post. Firstly, it is simply fascinating to watch the calligraphy of Dutch artist, typographer and designer, Job Wouters. But it is really fun watching his nephew try to replicate the painted letterforms.

Two websites (only two?!) have caught my eye this week.
The first is for Elbow, one of my favorite bands. I spend a fair amount of my life examining music marketing and I know for a fact that most bands Elbow’s size have much more starkly designed sites…if you’re lucky enough to get a site at [...]

Last week Rusha and I attended the AIGA lecture on “Navigating the New Media Frontier” held at the new WGBH building. The lecture had a panel of new media designers show some of their amazing work and talk about what is new media. “So what is new media?” asked the moderator David Small. New media [...]

Can’t believe this has not been posted yet. We all need to see this. ok.

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AIGA Boston is bringing Stephan Sagmeister to our neck of the woods on April 25th. There will be a few kor groupers in attendance. If you find us stop and say hi. In the meantime, here is a little video to hold us over.

Every last Friday of the month kor group does beers and ideas as a way to share anything that inspires us. This past Friday we were all talking about how we present our research findings to a client in a fluid way and that is less two dimensional. It would be great if we could [...]