iPhones can now play Flash content via Frash app that works within Safari browser. Currently only works on phones that have been Jailbroken. Now legal in USA but still resisted by Apple who say it voids your warranty. Maybe this will weaken their resolve to work with Adobe on Flash support.
Sure you have all seen homestarrunner by the Chapman brothers that the demo uses to display flash based content.
Phonetikana is a project by Johnson Banks to create a font that embeds the phonetic sound into the font to allow tourists in Japan to pronounce the words in Japanese properly. It is based around the Japanese typographic style ‘Katakana’ which is essentially phonetic.
Photographer Joel Sternfeld talks about his project documenting the Highline in New York. The HIghline has recently been reclaimed from being a disused elevated railway to being developed as a park in the middle of Manhattan. You can find out more about the project here. Or follow the project on the blog here. It has also become the focus for arts related projects in NYC.
Apartamento is an Interiors magaazine that looks for inspiration from everyday environments and the objects people choose to surround themselves with rather than an idealised aspirational model of traditional interiors magazines.
TBWA created a campaign for The Zimbabwean Newspaper which had been forced out of the country for criticising Mugabe and enforced a 55% tax on the newspaper as a luxury tax. The campaign uses the currency as a symbol for regime’s policies bankrupting the country by printing the campaign on Zimbabwean Trillion Dollar notes. Flyers were also printed on the notes as below.
Jim Naughten’s Re-Enactors is a personal project capturing a series of portraits of military re-enactors and their battles. Colour plays a big part in portraying the portraits as echos of the original events in time. It plays off his own childhood re-enactment with plastic toy soldiers.
You can view a series of spreads from the book here.
BBC 4 Produced an excellent documentary on the Political Satire maps of Fred Rose here.
The Foundation for Children’s Welfare Stamps in the Netherlands promoted their stamps with this animation from Paul Postma. The theme of the animation is ‘Let Children Learn’ and comes from the foundation’s belief that every child has the right to education. The animation focuses on learning through play to solve problems.
Music: ‘Brother John’ by Clutchy Hopkins & Lord Kenjamin
Sound: Jasper Boeke
Animation: Paul Postma
DP Review have posted a review of the Medium Format DSLR here.
Joshua Davis interview by Hillman Curtis posted here. For more of Joshua Davis’s work you can visit his site here. Josh has also been working on Hype with Brendan Dawes, a means to make experimenting with code in Actionscript a little more accessible. You can dowload the Hype plugin from the HYPE site here. If you really want to get into this you can also attend a day workshop in Paris in June where Joshua Davis will be presenting at OFFF conference and a 2 day workshop a few days later in Barcelona.
Happy Birthday to Ronald Searle illustrator!
Rethink Scholarship at Langara 2010 Call for Entries from Rory O’Sullivan and Simon Bruyn on Vimeo.
If you are interested there is a scholarship competition to study for 2 years at Langara college in Vancouver. It also includes a placement at Rethink Studio in Vancouver as well.
If you like the pop up book format of the video you might like this video by shit disco produced a few years ago by illustration grad Jan Lun Lee.
Apple have confirmed with a release to press that they will make an announcement on the 27th January. Expectations are it will be a tablet computer, mixture of tablet, netbook, Amazon Kindle, iPhone and a few new stuff I am sure. Indications from New York Times and other sources is you will be able to subscribe to magazines and newspapers via the device.
Time Inc recently posted a demo of an upcoming version of Sports Illustrated. This supports rumours that a mac tablet will be due early in 2010 to compete with netbooks and Kindle. Also promotes touch screen technology in main stream technologies beyond the iPhone.
Will be taking part in the annual post-it note art exhibition at Giant Robot 2 in Los Angles. Curated by Mark Todd and Esther Pearl Watson. 125+ artists will send in art on post it notes to sell for a nominal fee of $20. The exhibition will take place between 5th December and 13th January 2010.
Missed David McKendricks talk at GSA (Art Director of Esquire, previously AD of Wallpaper). Wallpaper is part of Winkreative run by Tyler Brülé (FT writer) who also produce one of my favourite magazines Monocle. Definitely worth a look.
Monocle website
Two links with post it notes. The first is a stop frame animation and the second is a link to the Post-it Note exhibition at Giant Robot in LA. Art sells for $20. Post-it 4 is currently underway with art submissions for the 26th November.
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