12 Sunday May 2013
Posted in art and design
Tags
colourful design, craft, embroidery, embroidery art, embroidery logo, illustration, joy, MaricorMaricar
Oh Joy! by MaricorMaricar:
Love the design and colours on this embroidered logo!
Wishing all of you great joy this Mother’s Day weekend!
05 Friday Oct 2012
Posted in art and design, books, illustration
Art by Jay Fleck:
Simply love the story telling and imagination that’s reflected off from these illustrations. Just great fun to look at. They would be awesome if they were to come alive in storybooks!
31 Friday Aug 2012
Posted in art and design
Polota by Yao Yao:
(a cell phone game art concept)
Looks like it’d be a really neat cell phone game. I always appreciate the ones with really good graphics.
11 Saturday Aug 2012
Posted in art and design, graphic design, illustration
Cosmos by Dric:
This guy is standing in his super hero pose – ready to save the planet!
This one looks like a HUGE potato!
24 Sunday Jun 2012
Posted in art and design, fashion
Tags
clothes, dress, Emily Steel, fashion, fashion and technology, fashion design, interaction design, LED dress, little black dress, little slide dress, slide film
Little Slide Dress by Emily Steel:
This is really clever; I can picture clothes of the future being something similar to this but probably of feather-like weight. It would be so cool for the people involved to be a part of this when the dress was lit for the first time. This reminds me of the clothes (or rather body hugging suits) from the film Tron, which would light up once the characters were in combat. So much technology is involved with these designs!
“The Little Slide Dress is a modern take on the classic Little Black Dress. It uses modern technology and blends it with a 100-year-old medium, film. The Dress draws inspiration from classic movies and the ‘magic of film’ to create a wearable piece of technology and art. With film light is so important in the creation and viewing of images and this was one of the driving forces behind the dress’s creation. With film only see what really going on once the lights go out. For this to work there needs to be a balance of projected and ambient light something the Little Slide Dress tries to emulate.
The dress is constructed out of individual slide film images that are backed with LED’s. An Arduino Lilypad connected to a light sensor controls the brightness of the LED’s. The sensor reads the how much ambient light there is and uses this value to determine if the LED’s will be off or on. When there is lots of light the LED’s are off and it looks like a shiny black dress with small hints that something else is going on. Once the sensor determines there is the right amount of light for LED’s to be seen in their full brightness it turns them on. When the dress is on the lights slowly pulse and the images on the dress come alive.”
