Stunning creative work on Björk's wanderlust video

The Wanderlust Video:


The making of the Wanderlust video:

Beijing Logo Design Process

I got this in an email that is going around, so I do not have a proper source to credit. But I thought it was powerful to share it with you anyway.

Web pages have 'come alive and started breeding [Via Telegraph.co.uk]

Interesting article on the english newspaper The Telegraph's website about artificial intelligence & web design.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&xml=/earth/2008/04/16/sciweb116.xml

Excerpt:
For two decades, computer scientists have played around with evolutionary software that can gradually evolve and mutate to carry out a task efficiently, or hone the design of a wing, robot or whatever, without the need for a programmer to get involved.
Web pages have 'come alive and started breeding'
A grouping of some of the sites with human controlled design properties or genetic design evolution

Now these techniques are being used to allow web sites to keep themselves up to date and to adapt to the latest fads and fashion, reports New Scientist.

Not only are they quicker to evolve than possible with human intervention, they offer the chance to come up with new ways to organise material in the web that work best for users.

The Young Illustrators Award 2008 Exhibition in Zürich, Switzerland

[Press Release]
The Young Illustrators Award
can’t wait to be hold by the most ambitious hands.
In 2008, the „Illustrative“, the worldwide biggest art exhibition, exclusively dealing with illustration, proclaims, in collaboration with Swatch, a competition illustration, book art, comic, concept art or animation branch out into the field of art. The section of exhibition which is showing the laureates of the Young Illustration Award reveals the most imminent tendencies of the genre and is a thrilling seismograph for new development in the field.



Young Illustrators Award
In the sphere of the art festival „Illustrative“, which is going to take place in Switzerland, the organizers proclaim, in collaboration with Swatch, a competition
again this year, which addresses young illustrators. Young talents between 20 and 40 years are invited, to register and post their works in the field of graphics, illustration, animation, book art and audiovisual illustration.



Required are up to 8 freelance works, showing an “illustrative character”, which means: being in the broadest sense graphical or drawn. This includes freelance drawings, digital works, printgraphic, animation, book objects or graphical installations. Analog as well as digital works can be handed in. Artistic quality and originality are essential for the jury’s assessment. The international jury is represented by publishers or well known artists.

Young @ Heart, moves.

Here's a film that caught me completely off guard. It's about the Young @ Heart Chorus from Northhampton, Massachusetts. I had no expectations going in and did indeed come away with "a new lease on life" as the movie's website, advertises.

The trailer is at the end of this post, but if you do nothing else see Mr. Fred Knittle's rendition of Coldplay's Fix You:



Trailer:

Thank You, Design from Copenhagen

Check out "Transistor" by Copenhagen based design studio Thank You for a lovely MTV ID made up out of animated beads.

Fashion Of The Future - Clothing in The Year 2000

The male of the year 2000 will have a mobile telephone, and a belt pocket with candy for cuties!