Geometry Daily
added on Sunday, Jan 01, 2012 20:10 pm
I start something new today.
In 2012, I‘m going to channel my enthusiasm for simple graphics in a new on-going personal design project. Starting today I will publish a new graphic artwork each and every day. Each piece will be based on simple geometric shapes and composed in a rather minimal style. I set up a new tumble log dedicated to this project. It‘s called Geometry Daily, the URL is geometrydaily.tumblr.com.
Let‘s see where this will take us and how long I can hold that up! I‘m excited. See you over there. ¬ Comments
Triangles Wallpaper
added on Tuesday, Dec 06, 2011 20:32 pm
Triangles, lots and lots of triangles, in so many different colors! Download the wallpaper for your favorite device: Desktop (HD 1920 × 1080 px), iPhone, iPad ¬ Full Entry
Novastructura.Stone Fields
added on Saturday, Jun 25, 2011 20:52 pm
Giuseppe Randazzo generated these stones digitally and the arranged them by size. Hits a very beautiful spot between generated art, scultpure and nature. See more on his site.
Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP
added on Wednesday, Apr 20, 2011 9:26 am
Yes, I am one of those thousands of people who played Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP on the iPad. And all the good things you here about it, they are all true: This really is a milestone for independent gaming and for touchscreen interfaces as well. On Thursday, April 21 (yes, tomorrow!) this game will be published for iPhones, the system it was originally designed for. If you do not know what I talk about, see the Sword & Sworcery site, or this review by Rob Dubbin.
There is already a lot of people saying smart things about this game. I only would like to pick some points:
The Art
The audiovisual style is the center piece of the whole phenomenon. Pixels and 8-Bit graphics are nothing new, but Superbrothers brought it to a new level: They dared to combine blocky pixels with smooth vectors and gradients. Most of the game world and the characters are pixelish, but the moon, interface graphics etc. are high-res. Beautiful graphics, sounds and music throughout create a very special atmosphere.
The Hype
Superbrothers not only produced a wonderful game. In fact, the release of the actual game for iPad has just happened some weeks ago. But they managed to stir a hype for over a year before, and thereby create an excited and growing audience. They did that by giving out snippets of artwork, video, music together with their own style of writing and linking to video game related material. They used Twitter and Facebook to the fully extent and they published an awesome HTML newsletter called Teletext. The later is especially a work of art of its own and the only newsletter I can remember ever looking forward to.
The Team
Sword & Sworcery EP is an independent effort, far different from the usual video game industry big names with hundreds of people involved. This game is the work of only three or four people. One art director and designer, one programmer, one musician and sound artist. It is a result of the vision of only a few people. You can see it in the consistency of the art. The game and its ecosphere is so coherent, it all feels like one voice. This is why following Superbrothers was and is such a pleasant experience. This is something special and I can think of no other game that feels like this.
Get it
The bottom line: If you are even vaguely interested in independent gaming at all and have one of Apple‘s touch devices, get this game. It‘s history in the making. ¬ Comments
Water Sculptures by Shinichi Maruyama
added on Saturday, Jan 22, 2011 22:16 pm
Mr Maruyama throws water into the air and takes photos of it with extremely short shutter speeds. So simple, yet so beautiful.
Beautifully textured paintings/sculptures by Richard Pearse
added on Saturday, Jan 22, 2011 13:50 pm
These great compositions of geometric shapes and colors are mostly done by cutting and arranging rugged wood and other materials. That is why they have this distinctive 3D shape. See his website for more awesomeness.
Liu Bolin – Hiding in the City
added on Tuesday, Dec 14, 2010 21:28 pm
Chinese artist Liu Bolin gets himself painted until he melts into the background and is almost invisible. Look closer!
Advent calendar 2010
added on Saturday, Dec 04, 2010 22:20 pm
It became a family tradition that in the days before December 1 I get busy at my desk and create a little advent calendar for my wife. (BTW, here are the editions of 2009 and 2008). It always feels got to do something with my hands, non-digitally.
This year I ordered a bunch of little cardboard boxes from Kartonfritze.de, painted or stamped them with acrylics and stacked them to a little tower. Finally, a little christmas-y decoration here and there. Some more detail shots here: ¬ Full Entry
Ai Weiwei at Tate Modern
added on Saturday, Oct 16, 2010 21:47 pm
Another awesome work of art is shown now at the famous turbine hall at the Tate Modern in London. Ai Weiwei poured over 100 million sunflower seeds into the enormous space. Not real seeds but replicas in porcelain, each single one made by hand! Not only is the number gigantic and the effort mind-blowing, it's also a beautiful, simple and poetic piece of sculpture. I wish I could go and see it live.
Harrier and Jaguar by Fiona Banner
added on Wednesday, Jun 30, 2010 20:59 pm
Sometimes the simple ideas are the most awesome: Artist Fiona Banner just took two military jets to the Tate Britain. One hung vertically, one lying on the back. The contrast between the artwork and its surrounding creates a lot of tension and in a weird way the huge objects become beautiful sculptures.
Fiona Banner has been working with the theme of war and the icon of the fighter jetplane in particular for a long time.
"I remember long sublime walks in the Welsh mountains with my father, when suddenly a fighter plane would rip through the sky, and shatter everything. It was so exciting, loud and overwhelming; it would literally take our breath away. The sound would arrive from nowhere, all you would see was a shadow and then the plane was gone.
At the time harrier jump jets were at the cutting edge of technology but to me they were like dinosaurs, prehistoric, from a time before words." – Fiona Banner
Sculptural works by Richard Sweeney
added on Sunday, May 30, 2010 19:49 pm
Richard Sweeney has some terribly beautiful pieces of sculpture on his website. He works with paper (!) and other materials and creates simple, abstract flowing three-dimensional pieces. I especially recommend the Somerset House piece above and his paper forms, more on his Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/richardsweeney/sets/72057594105588057/.>
Ephemicropolis by Peter Root
added on Tuesday, Apr 27, 2010 8:31 am
Artist Peter Root made this gorgeous miniature cities from stacks of staples and then photographed them. The making-of video contains some sweet time-lapse shots. Also check the other works on his site, some great ideas there!
Vortex flash animation
added on Wednesday, Apr 14, 2010 4:18 am
Click here for another simple animation by whitevinyldesign. Possibly scripted. Very beautiful.
SolarBeat musical animation
added on Tuesday, Apr 13, 2010 21:47 pm
From whitevinyldesign.com: Simple but sweet animation of our solar system that triggers rhythmic sound effects. Nearly music, but not quite. And beautiful. Leave it running for a few minutes!
