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Inky fingers

provokateur — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 10:51:04 +0000

You can now take all those blogs you’ve been meaning to read for ages onto the bus (without the aid of any kind of smart-device) Bookleteer lets you create shareable paper booklets from anything you want. With their Diffusion Generator you’ll be able to create a whole host of papery things from short stories, poems, instruction manuals, lesson plans to mini-portfolios and notebooks and diaries. It’s still in the testing stage but if you email them and ask nicely then they’ll send you some login details. We’re dusting off the skapels and rulers as we speak.

Gif this a look

provokateur — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 11:08:10 +0000

After having great fun creating the pumping badge machine animation we are doffing our caps to this brilliant use of a much mis-understood file type. Commissioned by ELISAVA design school in Barcelona and pulled together by a studio made up of ex-students and teachers from the school this animation knocked our socks off and had us screwing on our thinking caps as they’re going to open it up to submissions soon… Nice and simple, that’s the we like it.

Keeping track of your mouse, without the cat

provokateur — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 11:54:55 +0000

IO Graph is a great little application that tracks the path of your mouse as you go about your daily computer-based business. It’ll then output a PNG image exactly the same size as your screen, making it ideal material for a desktop background… Really nice use of data visualisation, we’re thinking they’d make lovely prints too! The image above show one of our designers photoshop work for 3.5 hours, wonder what the big black dot means, looks ominous…

Decoding the V&A

provokateur — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 13:00:23 +0000

The team have been sneaking all over London over the last few months attending all sorts of creative happenings but Decode took the crown for 2009, with everyone’s creative and inspiration juices in full flow by the time we retired to a local pub to chew over what we’d seen.

For those of you that either haven’t made it down there yet or haven’t even heard about the exhibition, here’s what the V&A’s own website says to describe it:

Decode: Digital Design Sensations showcases the latest developments in digital and interactive design, from small, screen-based, graphics to large-scale interactive installations. The exhibition includes works by established international artists and designers such as Daniel Brown, Golan Levin, Daniel Rozin, Troika and Karsten Schmidt. The exhibition features both existing works and new commissions created especially for the exhibition.

From interactive electronic reeds that lit up as you walked past to creating colourscapes by waving your arms in the air, the exhibition has more than enough to keep anyone enthralled for hours. There was of course the usual exhibits that seemed to be broken, but with that much technology crammed into one exhibition we weren’t too disappointed.

The exhibition was well worth the trip, it’s been fascinating to see the rise of digital ‘art’ and how these pieces are fitting into, or not as the case may be, the standard format of the museum. It’s a real reflection of the prominence of digital design that it is now showcased in places like the V&A alongside other works of inspiration and creativity. The V&A is certainly setting a good example with their digital commissions, exhibitions and now their solely digital artist-in-residence Christian Kerrigan. We’re going to be keeping our eyes peeled on what he cooks up now he’s surrounded by arguably the world’s greatest museum dedicated to art and design with over 3000 years of artefacts. Should be interesting.

Above: A videowall where users could record a short clip and see it appear on the wall, there was a queue for this one.

Above: This was the favourite exhibit for a lot of the team. Daniel Rozin’s Weave Mirror, he used 768 motorized c-shaped prints which go from light to dark. The user stands in front of a screen: the shadow they cast behind them is then translated into a ghostly portrait on the Weave Mirror. Sounds complicated but it works beautifully.

What rotters!

provokateur — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 14:28:51 +0000

Which is why we recommend you visit the Harry Potter Enlightenment Project to buy a t-shirt – oops, we mean, register your fiercest indignation.

And if we get our hands on the ones responsible, why we oughtta rip them a new Hogwarts.

London 2012

provokateur — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 15:40:06 +0000

Now, we aren't the kind of agency that likes to widdle on another agency's work. But when we were sent this, well, we couldn't resist posting it here. Other than that, we reserve the right to keep schtum on what we think about the whole 2012 hoo-hah.

When evil men plot

provokateur — Mon, 14 May 2007 16:11:52 +0000

The problem with looking for the *right* quotation is that, in the process, you come across so many other great lines. Not quite 'what you're after', but amazing nonetheless. So, following from the previous post, here's a fantastic quotation from Martin Luther King JR.

Seven sins

provokateur — Mon, 14 May 2007 15:16:17 +0000

There are seven sins in the world: Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without character, Commerce without morality, Science without humanity, Worship without sacrifice and politics without principle.

Crikey that’s good!