Category: Arts & Craft

I might be getting old and repeating myself, but there is some inspiring stuff: Simplicity, an experimental research program at the MIT Media Lab, focused on developing technologies for design—designs that are simpler to understand, easier to use, and, ultimately, more enjoyable. MIT prof. John Maeda’s blog, some nice ecards (oh my, ‘ecards’ does sound… Continue reading Maeda’s blog

New website, y’était comme temps. Illustrations soignées, un site élégant mais encore pauvre en contenu. I seriously miss them, let’s hope they’ll be back soon.

I told you about how genius the pocketmod was, but as the internet is a networked thing – ideas get generated one after another by people sharing their projects online – the pocketmod idea has alreay evolved into something else. From the pocketmod is born the printable CEO. Check it out!

I posted about this artist last year, she has some really neat stuff on…

Uh oh! here it is! Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire movie trailer (Quicktime format). As the rumors said, Jarvis Cocker (Pulp) and Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood will make a special appearance in the upcoming movie. Cocker was also approached to provide the sndtrack for the fourth HP movie.

Ils ont sans aucun doute les plus belles bébelles en ville (je craque particulièrement pour Murdoc, Friends with you et Amos’s Punk is not dead) et ils viennent de lancer PaperJam 5ième édition.

‘Artivistic is an international transdisciplinary event on the interPlay between art, information and activism that will take place September 22 to 24, 2005, in Montreal’ I should be attending on saturday, of course depending of the time i get to bed on friday nite: Who is Allowed to Communicate? A question on communications and media,… Continue reading Artivistic

c’est le sujet d’un courriel reçu plutôt cette semaine et ca parlait d’eux. Made in mtl – designers aux âmes sensibles, veuillez attacher vos tuques.

NY loves you too.

f***g genius – after my memo pod i will now switch to the pocketmod. I own a powebook but still love to write things down by hand and always carry something to write on, but in some case a book or agenda is still too much to carry with me. Here comes the pocketMod, a… Continue reading PocketMod

Some more to feed your eyes with, work of digital artist Danny Franzreb.

UK based creative studio Hi-ReS! now have a blog.

Il pleut et c’est gris. Je vous refile un secret bien gardé : * MoCo Loco – Modern contemporary design & architecture J’sais pas pour vous, mais moi quand je vois que quelqun a pensé à changer le pattern traditionnel de la clôture de métal pour y faire vivre un motif floral (qui n’est pas… Continue reading Modern contemporary design & architecture

Neale is putting up an interesting project about a misconceptions map and is asking for montrealers out there to help him out. Here are the infos.

Wonderfull work by California based studio Motion Theory. Check out their work for HP, they even put up their sketches, what i like most. Also a must see – REM’s Animal video: An eclipse enables a man (played by R.E.M.’s Michael Stipe) to see the invisible forces of life – emotion, connection, humanity – in… Continue reading Motion Theory

Commercial art – how i like it: * Nokia Nseries website.

Immer so gut – * P I T A R U

Has the Earth we know by the satellite photograph ever synchronized with the ground under our feet ? We can’t feel the round Earth though we live on the Earth that is globe. This installation makes it possible to feel the round Earth in one’s sense. The special experience – pointing the world through the… Continue reading Global Bearing

A really impressive listing of music videos – mostly all new order videos are there!

Beautiful artwork – * You Are So Last Year

‘We live in, arguably, a fantastic time to be in the design profession. The pages of STEP, Wallpaper, ID and HOW simply drip with hot, new, young influential designers who do cool stuff. They thrill us with their revolutionary aesthetics, impress us with their multimillion-dollar design/snowboarding/music businesses, and how they just won a plum contract… Continue reading So You Want To Be A Design Superstar?

Falling for chicken? Then you might want to adopt one –

“Rubber Johnny, Chris Cunningham’s new short film is six minutes and ten seconds of fucked up terror that fuses the music of Aphex Twin with his own unique visual style (see our review here). (…) Chris himself plays the part of Johnny and the film itself became a kind of side project that evolved out… Continue reading Chris Cunningham new short film

whew whew whew – shouldn’t i be drawing? * Stina Persson Beautiful fashion illustration, check out in the portfolio section.

on scene 360: Where do you find most of your inspiration, when do ideas come to you? Usually on my way to meetings or in meetings. I seem to work really well under pressure. I am hopeless when I sit down and ‚Äútry to have an idea‚Äù… it’s really when I least expect it, in… Continue reading An interview with Hi-Res!

Did you know about them? Toronto based animation agency CUPPA COFFEE is doing lots of nice stuff.. check out their reel and the studio visit in the contact section – nice space…

This guy has got one of the nicest picture of Jarvis Cocker i’ve seen. Actually many brilliant picts over there.

The work of illustrator Paul Bruty. And now, i feel like drawing faces. All day long.

Check out Beck’s Black tambourine video. (via shift blog)

I have created a flickr group in an attemp to have other people than i doing art with their cellphones. This group is public, anyone can join. * Flickr: Montreal Moblog Art

Thinking i might drop the idea of going to the blog conference in paris to go to OFFF, festival of digital art and electronic music, in barcelona in may – or both two?

Le vernissage aura lieu ce jeudi, et voici un petit preview de tout ça : un combo entrevue audio avec Mélanie Baillargé, celle qui se cache derrière M. et Mme Edgar, l’album photo de l’atelier ainsi que des préparatifs. Téléchargez l’entrevue audio ici, et il y a des photos pour vos yeux ici. Aussi, je… Continue reading Paper Bag l’expo – Entrevue audio et visite photo

Internet Anagram Server: Anagrams for my name gives ‘A TELECAMERA TURNING OH’ – nice! via eric.

I have been reading a bunch of books about the creative process over the last years, one of them being The Artist Way. I was talking with a friend tonight about the book but i just couldn’t find the words to describe how much it influenced the person i am today. And i know it… Continue reading The Artist Way