Apartment Applied Visual Arts

Wow again,, last night I watched Be Kind Rewind which was possibly the most beautiful new release movie I have seen this year (apart from Pan’s Labyrinth, but that was DVD rental).

Then the zZz video, mentioned in the previous post.

And now The Rumpus Room! Wow :)

Check out the amazing film on their homepage:

We made this because we are excited about the future opportunities of creating hybrid filmic environments, where the relationship between its layers, and the layers themselves can be dynamic. We wanted to explore the cross over between a film and generative/interactive work. We set out to blur the line between the linear and the non linear world. We planned and executed the shoot so that all the elements could be separated later, and then recomposited. The piece combines generative (driven by live events such as time and sound input and live online information) as well interactive elements (things the user can manipulate), without ever breaking the illusion that it is a filmic piece.

The piece was shot in our new London office, programmed by our friend Francois Naude in Cape Town SA, directed by Jeff Wood and Wade Shotter and music by Gerald Phillips from Auckland NZ.

More about The Rumpus Room.

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Sway keeps popping all around these days,, and they so deserve it! Their designs is so simple and border on the whimsical decorative.
They also take simple objects and turn them into naively beautiful design,, I love it!

They were exhibiting at the Design Indaba Expo and I unfortunately missed them,, but checking their site out I’m kicking myself even more,,
So here are a few more items on my wishlist from Sway in South Africa,,

The singer from Freshly Ground is sporting a Sway top in one of their videos, haven’t had a chance to figure out which one yet so if anybody knows…

Sway

Update
The lovely Petra from Sway mailed me to confirm that: “our vest is featured in the ‘potbelly’ video - it’s green with a peg print and she wears it in the scene where she starts hanging up the washing.”

Here is the video

Here is the teeshirt (imagine it in green)

And here are a few of screenshots of the Peg Teeshirt scene :)

Thank you so much for the message Petra, can’t wait to meet you guys and get some Sway in my ever expanding South African wardrobe!

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Since I have returned to the pleasures of Mac and their niceness,, I have been feeding Mail with some RSS feeds,,

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Future Perfect
Future Perfect is about the collision of people, society and technology, drawing on issues related to the design research that I conduct on behalf of my employer - Nokia.
(More about Jan here).

Time capsules

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Behaviours encouraged

Going to explore some more but there is so far, a great deal of information design related stuff there, very yummy bits of culture.

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Liam Lynch’s Photo Blog

Photographic genius! He’s done some black n white portrait of Max Normal, Blaise Janichon, Inge Beckmann and more,,, absolutely fabulously ackward. He captures something more than just the human shape. And I don’t think everybody can claim this!

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ELLE Decoration - ZA

Elle Decoration SA is now online, so you can keep topped-up with trends, news, inspiring ideas, people to watch and snippets that don’t make it to press in time, right here on our blog.

Gregor Jenkin’s Infrastructures series

Willowlamp chandeliers by TeamTwo

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MyBrandedLife(TM) is so pertinent whilst Stroke the Hyrax is politically sharp.

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NOTCOT

A visual filtration of ideas + aesthetics + amusement

iHole

Prada and James Jean spring campaign

Angus Hutcheson Chrysalises

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Then last but not least

Boxes and Arrows

Boxes and Arrows is devoted to the practice, innovation, and discussion of design; including graphic design, interaction design, information architecture and the design of business.

Awesomely good articles in there.
My favourite right now: Blasting the Myth of the Fold

We use it quite a lot in client meetings,,

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Let the feeding frenzy begin!