I already loved Arcade Fire and their new album ‘The Suburbs‘ before I stumbled upon this brilliant interactive video by Chris Milk and I love them even more now! Incorporating the viewers own home town imagery with the Arcade Fire track ‘We Used To Wait’ playing over the top really makes the subject matter and lyrics much more relevant. Visit: http://www.thewildernessdowntown.com/ to see what I’m on about.
Zeitguised - Peripetics from Blink on Vimeo.
Crazy weird and beautifull video commisioned by the Swiss Zirkel Gallery, “Peripetics“is a great exporation into computer graphics as art.
Illuminating Hadrian’s Wall from IHW on Vimeo.
Yesterday (13th March 2010) a line of light was created along the remains of Hadrians Wall to mark the 1600th anniversary of Roman rule in Britain. 500 lights were placed 250m apart along the 135km long path of Hadrians wall. Although I didn’t go to see the event I had thought it quite a magical idea really. A great way to promote tourism for British Tourism Week.
Thompson Brand Partners, just down the road from me developed a culturally relevant but friendly brand for the project. See more about the project here: www.illuminatinghadrianswall.com
A fun musical interactive experiment to try and get people to use the stairs more often.
A nice little story: A North Wales mountain has been renamed after a Welsh princess ‘Gwenllian’ who was captured as a child around 1282 and imprisoned in England for the rest of her life. One of the reasons for the renaming is because the surrounding mountains are named after her mother, father and uncle. Her father Llywelyn ap Gruffydd was the last ruling prince of Wales and was killed in battle with Edward 1. Hence why Gwenllian as the only heir was captured as a child and imprisoned. So this renaming ceremony is like bringing back Gwenllian to join her family.
The above photo is not the mentioned mountain just one taken in Snowdonia whilst on the photoshoot with David Ferrrard.
Read the full story here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/north_west/8275729.stm
Artwork by nousvous.eu
Last night I went to a private view held by http://www.projectspaceleeds.org.uk, it was brilliant! A group of Leeds based artists had been brought together to exhibit work for the theme ‘Morphic Resonance’. The main question driving the exhibition was: ‘How is there space for artists in our cultural landscape?’. Being quite new to Leeds I was chuffed to discover so many proffessional artists attending the event and contributing. A piece of work which has really stuck in my mind involved a video of a whole room slowly filling up with water, which was somehow transfixing. The video was very slow, but somehow this made it feel all the more interesting as though you were being given a private insight into something very unusual and something your not likely to see again. As that piece suggests, there was a lot of work relating to space and how modern artists interact and percieve this space. Nous Vous produced the promotional artwork for the event and also exhibited. Their work never ceases to impress espcecialy their impeccable typography.
Yep it makes sense to me, if we have to buy water in containers why do we buy them in environmentaly harmfull plastic bottles? I can understand that bottles are see through and thus seem more honest and astheticaly pleasing as far their contents are concerned. However if we are to believe the recent hype about recyceling plastic bags then it seems a little strange that companys insist on selling something very basic and essential in a harmfull container rather than other environmentaly friendly options. This is turning into a bit of a rant but its just something this project has made me think… but of course there is always tap water! You can view the project by ‘
Boxed Water is better LLC’ here: http://boxedwaterisbetter.com/hello/
This is a 'Design blog', well kind of! I use the term loosely as not all the posts are design related, apart from being posted by me, a designer! Some posts are my work but most will be work by others discovered by endless searching of the web. Anyway hopefully you will find a feast of visualy exciting links and posts here. my email is: info@jeffreyshield.co.uk
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