A dark, but very engaging video piece by Mischa Rozema and British graphic designer, Si Scott for OFFF Barcelona 2011. The film guides you through their vision of the future with the artists involved in this years OFFF festival’s names embedded throughout in a range of interesting ways. Varying from neon signs looming down from oppressive cityscapes to black letter tattoos being filled in they thread all of the artists names into their story seamlessly. Below is how they describe the piece on their Vimeo –
“The idea was to trick the audience into thinking they’re watching some kind of documentary. We basically follow a guy going home. Bit by bit his environment gets stranger and more uncomfortable to watch. Is he living in a war zone? Slowly the background takes over and the piece changes into an urban nightmare. And like a nightmare, the story/edit doesn’t always make sense but makes you feel really uncomfortable. I also wanted the viewer to experience the nightmare. That’s where the dark matter comes in. Dark matter is what I call the macro shot bits. Flashes that derail your train of thought like there’s something eating away at your brain as you try to make sense of the nightmare. I wanted the viewer to go nuts, alongside with the cast. Erase the line between nightmare and reality. The end result is something you won’t come across easily on your tv. And is also just another fun way to do titles.”
You can read about the video in full here
and visit the OFFF website here
The Bulmers iPhone App I worked on while at Exposure as part of the Bulmers ‘Experimenters Wanted’ Summer campaign. As well as having a pub finder and the usual goodies found inside brand apps it also has three experiments built in! Here’s how Exposure describe it on iTunes –
“To celebrate the launch of new Bulmers Nº17 cider, we’re running a series of experiments this summer and we want you to join in!
With this app, you can vote for the friendliest pub, help us build the world’s longest, virtual cider bench and see how many friends you can squeeze in a bottle. You’ll also find out more about our special summer events and can search for your nearest Cider Garden with our pub finder.”
And here’s a little bit about each of the built in experiments:
Experiment #7 – ‘Can we make the worlds longest cider bench?’
“We’re building the world’s longest, virtual cider bench and need your help… Just download the Bulmers app to your phone, take a picture of your friends sitting on a cider bench and upload the photo to our gallery. We’ll then connect all the photos to see if we can make the longest bench in the world! And at the end of the summer, we’ll display the latest results at the Bulmers Cider Garden v.1.
Experiment #3 – ‘How many friends can you squeeze in a bottle?’
Celebrate new Bulmers Nº17 with us! Just download the Bulmers app to your phone and capture as many of your friends inside the bottle as possible. We’ll then add your bottle to our gallery so it can be showcased in the Bulmers Cider Garden v.1 at the end of the summer…
Experiment #10 – ‘What type of Bulmers drinker are you?’
We’ve come up with a few unusual tests to expose your sociability status! Buy a bottle of any Bulmers cider and look out for the QR code printed on the label. You can either download the Bulmers app to your phone, or use your current QR reader to capture the code. Then take our latest Bulmers Cider-metric test and find out what type of Bulmers drinker you really are…
You can download it from the iTunes app store here
Lovely personal project by Ludvig Bruneau Rossow ( Bureau Bruneau ) a graphic designer from Oslo, Norway. A lot of ‘hand made’ and object based fonts manage to lose the craftsmanship of the characters, but every glyph has been beautifully formed into what could be quite a nice font even if the shapes were extracted from the tracks.
He describes it simply as a –
“Self-initiated typography experiment where I used an old train set, found in my grandmother’s basement as the basis for creating letters.”
Visit www.bureaubruneau.com to see more of his work.
Bulmers Metro newspaper takeover. You can see it here for a limited time only!
http://www.metro.co.uk/home/
Or read more about this project here –
http://www.tomwalshdesign.co.uk/blog/tag/bulmers/
A series of Facebook Apps I worked on while at Exposure as part of the Bulmers ‘Experimenters Wanted’ Summer campaign. They describe the campaign as –
“…celebrating the launch of new Bulmers Nº17 by running a series of experiments across the country all summer long…”
Experiments vary from Quick Polls to tweet powered robot races, you can check them all out here
Or read similar posts about my work on this campaign here
Wim Crouwel alarm clock app by Spin and Large Blue. It even has three Crouwel themed alarm messages!
“have a nice and well designed day”, “keep your grid straight today”, and “a grid today keeps the doctor away”.
It costs 59p and can be downloaded from the app store here
A fun (and pretty engaging) little Flash based game for Google Chrome’s latest release celebrating it’s new integration of Flash into the browser. Produced by BBH the game guides you through various timed tests in an obstacle course to try and achieve the fastest time, all using Googles API. There’s a ‘which mode of transport is quicker between A and B’, using Google maps, as well as tests requiring tweeting and using trending information. All in all a nice way to take a few mins out from work!
Have a go here
