Concept/ Design/ Animation: Marcus Wendt
Sound Design: Philipp Teister
Compositing/ Visual Tweaks: Martin Böttger
The festival starts tomorrow and the trailer for our audio/visual concert lounge just got finished, hurrah!
I’ll post some more complete documentation when i recovered from this. There are still a few ambient animated particle wallpaper videos waiting to be rendered …
Recently i have been sketching a typographic design with a new particle system. I have been commissioned by the 24th Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival to create the identity for their Audiovisual Performance lounge to be held in November. The idea is to use a generative design across different media; posters, flyers, motion graphics and an interactive wallpaper for the specific location. Black and white typographic layouts are converted into flow fields which influence the particles. We hope this generative identity will reflect the procedural nature of many of the invited artists work. Vera will keep you posted.
See the sketches on Flickr: TypeOne TypeTwo TypeTwoOne
The artwork and packaging for Disco Four, a collection of remixes by the Pet Shop Boys (featuring songs by The Killers, David Bowie and Yoko Ono) has been designed and art directed by Farrow, employing the photographic talents of John Ross. The album cover features a number “4″ made with four fluorescent lighting units.
Stunning type/ poster design by Seth Ferris !
lovely typographic poster by Matthew Wahl found on flickr
documentating the graphical process of will saul’s space between album.
by Neue
In June 2005, Kai Bernau, a student at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts (KABK) in The Hague, asked us (among some other designers) to participate in Neutral, a graduation project that was both a neutral typeface, and a statement about neutrality. Apart from contributing to an e-mail discussion on the subject of neutrality, he also asked the invited designers to create a poster displaying the Neutral typeface. These posters were shown during Kai’s graduating exhibition. More about this project can be seen at Letterlabor
Thinking about the idea of introducing a new sans serif typeface, we suddenly remembered a quote about Stanley Kubrick, a quote that has been posted on a lot of (typo)graphic forums. It’s a quote pulled from an article in The Guardian, describing Kubrick’s obsession with the typeface Futura: “It was Stanley’s favourite typeface. It’s sans serif. He liked Helvetica and Univers too. Clean and elegant”.
We used this quote as a starting point for our poster. Since Kubrick was supposedly so interested in sans serif type, we figured that the best context to show a new typeface would be a poster for one of Kubrick’s movies; the ultimate testing environment for a sans serif. Also, a movie poster is a very recognisable format, so we thought it would fit quite naturally in Kai’s series of posters.
While we were thinking about this plan (to design a completely typographic poster, as a sort of hybrid between a film poster and a type specimen), we suddenly had another idea. We realised that the most ‘neutral’ letter of a sans serif alphabet would be the ‘I’, as it is just a black vertical bar: it could be either a capital ‘i’ or an undercast ‘L’. In fact, it is the context (the word in which the letter is placed) that decides whether the ‘I’ is an ‘i’ or an ‘L’. At that point, we made the connection between this neutral ‘I’, and the black monolith that plays a central role in Kubrick’s ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’.
From the screenplay of ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ (1965), by Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clark:
Dr. Heywood R. Floyd: Any clue as to what it is?
Dr. Bill Michaels: Not really. It’s completely inert. No sound or energy sources have been detected. The surface is made of something incredibly hard and we’ve been barely able to scratch it.
Floyd: But you don’t have any idea as to what it is?
Michaels: Tomb, shrine, survey-marker, spare part… take your choice.
So that is, in short, the idea behind the poster. The neutral sans serif ‘I’, shown as black monolith, in the form of a film poster.
graphic design for the sonic acts festival in amsterdam, 2006 by coup graphic design collective - the most beautiful printed design piece i have seen this year. unfortunately it got lost when moving back from rotterdam to kassel… =/
