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The Third & The Seventh

· Jan Wieferich · Art Design Moving image

This really impressing video on vimeo should be viewed in fullscreen, because ... The Third & The Seventh from Alex Roman on Vimeo . ... it is fully generated by photorealistic computer graphics ! When I first had a look at it I just thought, okay. Just another DSLR HD movie functionality promotion. But ... …

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visual voltage workshop

· Walter Jenner · Announcements & Events Design

On 22nd till 23rd of January there will be an interesting workshop in berlin . It will take place at the Nordic Embassy and seems to be strongly connected to the Interactive Institute in Sweden. This Interactive Institute runs several branches all over Sweden, for example there is one with focus on Sound in Pitea, …

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Connoc.de - bachelor report by Stephan Scholdra (HfK).

· Jan Wieferich · Design Internals Programme Programme @ HfK Bremen Technology

I just stumpled upon Stephan Scholdra´s documentation of his bachelor report which he submitted recently to retrieve his bachelor degree. And I must commit that I´m really impressed so far! Just check the related website connoc.de for an teaser, the thesis download (in german) and even an simulator of the game (adobe flash 10 required) …

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Sagmeister at TED

· Andre Hoffmann · Culture Design · 2 comments

Smooth Zarathustra of Design Stefan Sagmeister held a brilliant note at TED recently. It's about his sabbaticals and funny and informative. This is the second fantastic video I saw today (actually the third, but the third one does not belong here).

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Art & Copy

· Andre Hoffmann · Culture Design Rant · 6 comments

Art & Copy is a cinematic documentary about advertisement. I would say - according to the trailer - it is one typical self-criticizing and at the same time self-adulating fast paced movie with the motivation of mystifying things more than they probably deserve to be. Maybe it's all of that not because it's just the …

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OpenCV Library for Processing

· Jan Wieferich · Design Technology · 2 comments

Did you ever ask yourself how to play around with your webcam ? Two years ago I started a small project to track a certain color range within the frames grabbed from my webcam using real-time image processing. So I came across the Open Computer Vision Library for C/C++, in short OpenCV , developed by …

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FontStruct

· Andre Hoffmann · Design

[caption id="attachment_106" align="aligncenter" width="300"] [/caption] There are a bunch of tools for creating Typefaces, but fontstruct is one of the easy to use ones. After registering you may easily create fonts out of a palette of predefined shapes, allowing a huge variety of results.

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neave.com

· Andre Hoffmann · Art Design

[caption id="attachment_93" align="aligncenter" width="300"] [/caption] A few years ago, when I dreamed of being a famous designer, one of the first great and inspiring websites I stumpled upon was neave's , an interaction designer from the UK. He had this funny Flash-frame which bended upon touching it with the mouse and wobbled back into its …

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interdisciplinary conference in Lübeck

· Katja Langeland · Announcements & Events Design Technology

Lübeck is quite close (north of Hamburg). This is the Homepage, unfortunately in German: http:// vielmehr .org/index. php Mensch & Computer 2008 DeLFI 2008 Cognitive Design 2008 Usability Professionals 2008 Interdisziplinäre Fachtagungen vom 7. bis 10. September 2008 auf dem Campus der Universität und der Fachhochschule in der Hansestadt Lübeck I do not know, if …

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ACT! Official web-site online

· Ricardo Cedeño Montaña · Design Programme @ HS Bremerhaven Theory

Finally, after some minor updates and refinements the official web site for the previous master project at Hochschule Bremerhaven (a.k.a University of applied sciences Bremerhaven) is ready. The Audiovisual Compendium of Film Terminology (ACT!) is an outcome of throughout research, compilation and presentation of film language terms that build the grounds of classical film-making. ACT! …

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Blogwatch: we make money not art

· Andre Hoffmann · Art Design

More than a blog – an institution – we make money not art writes about contemporary art for several years now. Their in-depth research and coverage does not only cover digital but also media art in general from places all over the world (right now they cover China). Be sure to check the blog regularly …

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Information Design Patterns

· Andre Hoffmann · Design Programme

Digital Media Bremen and Interface Design Potsdam graduate Christian Behrens recently finished his Master thesis at the University of applied sciences in Potsdam. He designed a compendium of dozens of information design patterns, such as treemaps, pie charts, thread arcs, etc. There is an online version available as well as a printed book (which is …

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Wanna play capitalism?

· Walter Jenner · Design · 1 comment

There's a new t-shirt shop out there! In the valderama shop you can buy t-shirts designed by me . Nevertheless this shop is open for other young designer and producers who want to sell their stuff . Of course I won't charge anything for it, my benefit is that this shop gets more attractive. So …

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