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Le Gouffre is short film produced and directed by Lightning Boy Studio team from Montreal. This is the story of two travelers who come across wide chasm and decided to build a bridge to cross it…
Digital Face Hacking in real time.
Extreme Body Painting Turns Humans into Animals
RONE is a street artist best known for his stylised images of women’s faces originated from spearheading Melbourne’s fledgling stencil art movement in the early 2000s. As a member of the Everfresh crew, to being a celebrated fixture on the international street art scene emblazoned on walls from New York, Paris, Tokyo, London, Christchurch, Santo Domingo, Port Villa…
Sketching product design Presentation by Koos Eissen and Roselien Steur
Aaron Draplin from Portland and an advocate of “blue collar” design takes the logo design challenge, creating a dozen iterations of a logo for a fictional construction company. Along the way he is providing tips for freelancing, finding inspiration, and providing clients context for logos. [start@ 1:30min]
BPG is brand new image format developed by French programmer Fabrice Bellar.
PROS:
BPG (Better Portable Graphics) produces compelling quality improvement over JPG when images are heavily compressed. Its images demonstrate a lot less color banding and aliasing along the edges, plus unlike JPEG – BPG can handle transparency.
CONS:
Currently, BPG files require a 55 kilobyte Javascript decoder to be embedded in a website before they can be displayed. Since BPG is based on HEVC video compression technology patented by MPEG LA, its owners could charge royalties = making it a risky for popular web browsers to support the format. [info]
…just think, in two-three years your console games will flow with this level of details.
Astonishing 3D Tattoos That Most Would Consider Taboo
Norway passport redesign for more security includes surprise design feature on the inside..
Logo design: 60 pro tips.