technology
PressPausePlay
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During this weekend I finally found the time to see the documentary PressPausePlay, and strongly recommend you to do the same! PressPausePlay is about the digital revolution, and how this affect the creative industry. The documentary raises important questions about how the digital revolution has gives all of us the unlimited opportunities to become creators of our own music/movie/design – all you need is a computer and the right software to distribute it on a international scale (thanks to internet). But what will happen to the true talent when everyone is allowed to be a director? Will quantity of creativity and self expression be more important than quality? Is this the death of elitism? PressPausePlay is mainly focused around the music industry, but the subject can easily be adapted to other creative fields such as design, movie production, animation etc.
After seeing PressPausePlay I was left with more questions than answers, and with a bit of a concern for the creative future. I believe this movie is not only highlighting an important aspect of the time we are in, but I think we will look back at this movie in a couple of years as some kind of milestone to what will come. There is no doubt that the digital revolution has changed the way «ordinary» people are creative, but what is really interesting to me is how we as « creative professionals» will adapt and respond to this.
Under you can see the entire movie, and if you’d like more information ( or to see the interactive version) please visit www.presspauseplay.com
Digital trends in 2012
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As we are almost about done with the first month of 2012 it is time to start thinking about what this year might bring. The Norwegian design firm Jimmy Royal has for the last two years created their own reports on digital trends, and this year they predict more of collaborative consumption, communities and open sources. Their report shows that the use of mobile internet will, by 2014, be higher than internet users on regular PC. This shows that businesses really have to start thinking broader, an make sure that they are adapting and developing them selfs to fit to all digital formats. But in order to stand out, its not enough to simply adapt – you and your business have to embrace disruptive thinking and dear to be the first one to announce changes. After all – it is those that dear to think different that can change the way we use our phones, communicates with each other or live our lives. The video under is a good example of this – is this the future cellphone?
The report form Jimmy Royal is a great summery of some of the most important things happening in the digital world right now. I strongly recommend you take an hour to simply read through the article. Unfortunately the report is only in norwegian, but you can still learn a lot from all the movies and links.
What is being creative? from Kristian Ulrich Larsen on Vimeo.
Design + Technology = True
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I love design and I love technology and when you combine these you really make my day. Unfold studio and Physalias are doing exactly this. They have created some very interesting objects that are impressing. We now have so much technology and the task is to combine these two. These two studios even make their own machines. The equipment you need is available on the internet, and then by adding ingenuity and creativity you make the magic happen! Sign me up if you are in development of new cool machines.
Growing Data
> technology typography
Growing Data is a research project by Onformative and Christopher Warnow examining how real processes and structures can be used to create an alternative form of data visualization. The concept is a bit hard to explain in just a few lines here, but I recommend that you check out the projects page for Growing Data. To visualize the data from different big cities they have created a script alowing making a name of each city grow. Designer Craig Word also had the chance to play with the script creating Love Spread. See more of the beautiful and interesting words and letters under after the jump.
Lucy McRea for Robyn
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Its not only the music I love about the Swedish artist Robyn, but the cover art of her 3 CDs this year, is also avant-garde and trendsetting. I’ve been dying to find out who the artist behind the three Body Talks albums is, and now I’ve finally got the answer! Australian artist Lucy McRae is a great mind whom I’ve written about before. I am always amazed by her take on the human body, using textures and shapes that are strange, bold and so, so beautiful. She had the art directed on the three album covers as well as the video for Indestructible, and here you can see more pictures and behind the scenes material from «the making of»!