Asics Stop Motion Animation

DAK Stop Motion Animation

Intervelometer from Kunal Sen on Vimeo.

This is by Team DAK, it's called Intervelometer and won Best Picture at the 2nd Annual Trick 17 Stop Motion Animation Contest.
Their final animation is quite surreal, which is what I really like about it. Especially the section where a man is drawn on a clear sheet and is animated to run through the city. The concept is really simple, using an A4 piece of paper and constantly rotating it to make an image on both sides to appear as one, and is done really well and they have put a lot of thought in to the accompanying music, which adds to the surreal atmosphere.

The Inside Light

These are from a project called 'Inside Light' which is a collaboration between Cinco and Chris Hornbecker. They photographed creative people who had to define their inspiration in one word, they then transformed the words into light boxes and then flashed so they would leave a reflection in the photos.
I really like the final photographs for this project, especially the first, which has 'thief' reflected in his eyes, its a really subtle inclusion of the text and fits with the overall look of the photo. I also think the concept is really good and makes the photos more interesting as the words reflected mean something, which is personal to those in the photos.
Also the flash website for the project is nicely designed, using a book format and illuminating the words reflected in the photos

You can see it here-- http://cincodesign.com/CO/TheInsideLight.html

I Love You, But

This is a project by artists Alex Holder and Ross Neil, which is hand drawn illustrations and messages which follow the structure "I love you, but..."

The inspiration was the moment in a relationship when you don't love someone completely.

The site is really simply designed and lets the illustrations speak for themselves, the navigation is through a small thumbnail and takes you to the full page illustration with the message. The result is a mix of funny and sad messages of the reasons they aren't completely in love any more. My personal favourite is this, "I love you but, you wear sunglasses indoors"

The illustrations look amazing and compliment the text perfectly.

This is a simple idea and kept simple in the design, which works very well and doesn't detract from the underlying message.

Look at more here-- http://www.loveyoubut.com/

Sweet Gifs

This is a really simple website, which is just pages of animated gifs. The backgrounds are tiled with the gifs and has a really simply design navigation in the top left, which doesn't detract from the gifs.
Some of them look a little rushed, but there are some really good ones if you look through the pages, especially this one on page 18.

The pages themselves would look really nice as backgrounds for websites, they'd create a bold first impression and would catch the viewers attention straight away.

More here-- http://www.sweetgifs.com/
Page 18-- http://www.sweetgifs.com/?pg=18

Questionnable Characters website

This is by Frank Chimero and Ben Barry, who set up this resource of questions they've been asked by they're students. You can also ask your own question.
This is a helpful resource and clever on the designers part.

Here is the link-- http://www.questionablecharacters.com/

Inga Sempe Moustache Plates

These are plate designs by Inga Sempe, a french designer.
I particularly like these for the simple fact they have moustaches! But they are really nicely illustrated to capture all the separate hairs on the moustache and the eyelashes. They're really simple but have a clean and fresh feel.
The only thing I don't like is the hair around the edge of the plate, it seems a little unnecessary.

Still, I would gladly eat my dinner off them!

More of her work here-- http://www.ingasempe.fr/

Xerox Art- Doreen Lindsay

These are examples of Doreen Lindsay's Xerox Art.

These were achieved with a Xerox 6500, which has given them a really nice quality, as the colour isn't quite right and when you look closely you can see how the photocopier has built up the colour leaving blurred pixels of colour to make up the print. There is also a lot of tonal values in them, with really strong shadows to show the 3D quality of the heads and hands and gives a really effective texture on the fabric and hair.

Although these are static images they are still very lively due to the colours and grainy lines left by the photocopier.

You can see more of her work here-- http://www.ccca.ca/artists/artist_work.html?languagePref=en&link_id=352&artist=Doreen+Lindsay&startRec=1&cnt=65&ord=asc

Xerox Art- Joan Jyons

These are two examples of Joan Lyons work, they are made from multiple transfers on large sheets of paper using a Haloid Xerox medium, which makes a carbon based image on paper.
I think these work really well, I especially like how they appear ghostly and faded. She has also achieve a double exposed effect and layered imagery on top of each other, making the images appear more photographic than photocopied. I also like how she has drawn onto the images as well, with the second one where she has scribbled a circle, which adds to the distressed look of the photocopy.
They have a slight movement to them, as they are not completely in focus and the woman in the first image looks as if she has been captured in the middle of a movement and the hands at the bottom of the image are really blurred and appear to be moving as the were captured.

You can see more here-- http://www.joanlyons.com/xerox.htm

Audio Visual Xerox Art Project

These are some experiments for our new brief, to create a series of photocopy's that show movement.
For these I looked at moving the object to elongate and distort it, which I think works very well, especially for the 'S' as it has completely changed the shape.
I also looked at achieving multiple images of one object on the photocopy, I used my head and slowly turned it as I was photocopying, which made the image of my face repeat three times.
I feel these have worked really well as small experiments, I will be developing these ideas for the final pieces and explore how else to convey movement.

You can see more here-- http://www.flickr.com/photos/louiselawlor/