Yosuke Abe is an Art Director at THA, worked on Ffffound and others, the heroes of the web one could say. His own site also features some good thinking, have a look: www.sountain.com
Great news. Our Breaking Bad site has won the Communication Arts competition and is listed in this years annual:
“With the short attention span of most tv watchers, we decided to launch only 2.5 weeks before the pilot aired. We really wanted to keep the show top of mind. In that short amount of time, we had over 100,000 site hits and were posted on hundreds of blogs. Most of those bloggers became even more intrigued by the show after experiencing our site, which is exactly what we set out to do."
“We told a story — as random and weird as it was. We also captured the rawness of the series by shooting everything on camera to capture every little scratch and imperfection. Most importantly, we walked away from traditional methods of creating a trailer or show teaser and embraced a more experimental, more experiential approach. Part interactive trailer, part dream sequence, part moral dilemma, the site was designed to leave the audience with more questions than answers. And it did. And isn’t that what any good television series should do?"
Fantastic! The Japanese coding hero and Creative, Roxik, will start to work as well as Interactive Director for Unit9. His work is some of the best world wide. Have a look at this example: temp.roxik.com/datas/physics/
Dave Towey has sent a mail describing his latest work. It is a six meter long interactive table for the Australian Museum all about dangerous Australian animals.
Waiming just published an interview with cyber femme Sputniko for Shift Magazine. Read the interview here.
This project from tha, founded by digital hero Yugo Nakamura in Tokyo, is reflecting the life of the citizen of the Mitsui realestate. It's very similar to a project we're working on and again... a great inspiration: www.31life.com
Taking google maps and Swiss precision infatuation to a next level... On www.swisstrains.ch you can track all Swiss trains in real time.
"The visitors of the Brühl's Terrace (Dresden, Germany) are taken back in time to the night of the terrible air raid on 13th February 1945. In their role as a performer they put themselves into the place of the people who shut their ears away from the noise of the explosions. While leaning on the balustrade the sound of airplanes and explosions is transmitted from the swinging balustrade through their arm directly into into the inner ear (bone conduction)." Outstanding work by Markus Kison.
Via Today And Tomorrow.
Finally, after a long period of chaos, Fabrica has managed to pull out their new website: www.fabrica.it - and it was worth it, congratulations!
Some great stuff one can do with Photoshop. Thanks Alex.
Club Internet is a collection of interactive art works. Some are bad, some very good: www.clubinternet.org
Via Fabrica.
The arts school écal in Lausanne is probably the best one in Switzerland. I was just stumbling upon their showreel of the Interactive & Media Design class.