Ad Book by BFFA3AE

“Everything is a reality show. The only escape is advertising.” – Knight Landesman, from the introduction to AD BOOK 

The New York based collective BFFA3AE has created an AD BOOK which consists entirely of advertisements: for artists, galleries, publications, businesses, and anything arts related. It has 231 pages including 200 ads from emerging and established artists and institutions from New York, London, and elsewhere. The adds have been designed exclusively for this book, including also animated pieces.
 

"AD BOOK contributors purchased ad space based on a price determined by BFFA3AE’s own invented system of value. Each ad—like all great advertising—teeters at the edge of expression, promotion, and common sense. Taken as a whole, AD BOOK testifies to how perverse and diverse any self-respecting marketplace of ideas ought to be." See more;

BFFA3AE is; Daniel Chew, Micaela Durand, and Matt Gaffney. They formed in 2008 and their work exists on the internet and offline in the form of videos, performances, sculptures, and installations. 

Some of the Contributing Artists and Groups Include: 47 Canal, Amalia Ulman, American Medium, Billy Rennekamp, Contemporary Art Daily, DAS INSTITUT, Extreme Animals, Kim Asendorf, Light Industry, Mika Tajima, Nicolas Sassoon, Ooga Booga, Paul Slocum, Rhizome, Spectacle, Travess Smalley, Travis Hallenbeck, W.A.G.E., Pablo Braceli, Mika Tajima, Andreas Ervik, Daniel Leyva, Steven Downs LLC, Oso Press, Elizabeth Jaeger among others.

It costs only 3,99€, available for  iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. You can buy it here.

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V&A Ornaments by Karsten Schmidt

V&A Ornaments Installation, is the latest great project by Karsten Schmidt. The exhibition took place at Victoria & Albert Museum consisting in an interactive installation as part of their activities around the Cult Of Beauty Aestheticism exhibition. Like Karsten says, he keeps the William Morris as a loose source of inspiration, as well as addressing the museum's upcoming Power Of Making collaboration with the Crafts Council, Schmidt proposed to create a modern, stripped down interpretation of his pattern work mixed with classic islamic/indian geometric influences and then realised this project using different digital fabrication techniques. See more;

"The result is a Victorian-esque, ornamental, laser-cut, 2-panel room divider, covered in 620 hand folded paper cones, mounted on the front surface as projection canvas. Visitors can create their own pattern using an iPad hidden in a small table (also laser-cut) standing nearby.

The generated tiling pattern is based on a central octagon surrounded by other polygons (4,5,6,7-gons). It forms the guiding topology for both the panels and the table. I developed a number of small software tools to create the tessellations by dissecting these polygons into symmetrical smaller shapes. Using several levels of symmetry, only 18 unique shapes are needed to create the full pattern. These are then arranged, unfolded and used to generate the cut paths for both the paper elements as well as the MDF frames. The paper cones were designed in such way that their elevation varies with their distance from the centre of each parent polygon, thus creating a secondary superimposed pattern in the relief of the tessellation. All of the paper shapes were fabricated by myself using a Craft Robo cutting plotter (and 200+ sheets of paper).

The room divider was manufactured by Metropolitan Works on their large-scale laser cutter. All color palettes which can be interactively applied to the polygons via the iPad UI are sampled from Morris' original wallpaper designs."

 Music: Vessel by Jon Hopkins

Credits: concept, design and code: Karsten Schmidt
Commissioned by: Victoria & Albert Museum
Laser cutting by: Metropolitan Works & Cut-Laser-Cut
Photography: Giedre Kaubryte-Schmidt

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Making Future Magic: iPad light painting

Me parece increíble el proyecto que ha llevado acabo la agencia creativa de comunicación Dentsu London con la colaboración de BERG para "Making Future Magic". Un vídeo donde muestran como han combinado diferentes técnicas de fotografía y animación para elaborar objetos y tipografía en movimiento tridimensionales con la utilización de un iPad. Es una forma muy bonita y divertida de extruir formas de una forma virtual en ambientes oscuros. Mas info aquí. Ver vídeo e imágenes dentro del post;

Video and english info after the jump;

This film explores playful uses for the increasingly ubiquitous ‘glowing rectangles’ that inhabit the world. They use photographic and animation techniques that were developed to draw moving 3-dimensional typography and objects with an iPad. In dark environments, we play movies on the surface of the iPad that extrude 3-d light forms as they move through the exposure. Multiple exposures with slightly different movies make up the stop-frame animation. The projet was developed by Dentsu London a creative communications agency, collaborated with BERG. More info here.

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ColorCycle

Capturas de pantalla en una aplicación para iPhone y iPad creada por Lukasz Karluk. Ver más dentro del post;

Screen shots of an generative app for iphone and ipad.







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