For more prototypes of the project, see here and for sketches see here.
Augmented Shadow was created by Joon Y. Moon, a programmer, designer who is exploring the realm of interaction, generative code and motion design on a basis of visual communication design. The project is a thesis project at the Parsons The New School for Design - Download .doc.
Credits include Katherine Moriwaki, Louisa Campbell, Marko Tandefelt, Loretta Wolozin, Zachary Lieberman, Anezka Sebek, Nick Hardeman, Stephen Varga, Uros Otasevic, Jenny Tsai, Yongsub Song, Namsoo.
If there is something extreme, dangerous and challenging… then there’s Red Bull around. No matter if it’s a mountain bike downhill race, a motocross super stunt or the longest rally car jump. You always see the red rampant bull on the yellow sky as a sponsor of the event. Sometimes you might have the impression that Red Bull has unlimited cash to promote unique extreme sport events. The Stratos project with Felix Baumgartner is another example that Red Bull in this period of crisis looks to have more money that Nasa.
Where do we start, or better, when it all started? It was the 1959 and the United States and the Soviet Union were not exactly best friends. The race for space exploration was just began. So the USA came up with the Excelsior program, a research into high altitude bailouts.
After a series of three extreme altitude parachute jumps from an open gondola carried aloft by large helium balloons Joe Kittinger in 1960 (3 years after Laika, just 1 before Yuri Gagarin) set the record for the highest parachute jump: 102,800 feet (31,300 mt) free falling at 988 km/h.
After over 50 years no man has been able to break that record. Many have tried, sometimes loosing their lives in doing it.
Have a cup of tea and take a tour of redbullstratos.com no doubt that the website’s as cool as the mission.
I love packaging and I love designers working with in mind the environment.
I remember the project made by Newton shoes using an egg’s like paper to wrap their very special midfoot/forefoot running shoes. That was cool! But never came into production.
Read more about Newton’s packaging design on TreeHugger. If you’re curious about what exactly is forefoot running check out this. Or take a look at Newton’s YouTube channel.
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Another interesting project is “hello little clever bag” developed by the designer Yves Behar at fuseproject for Puma shoes.
It took 2.000 ideas, over 40 prototypes and 21 months of development to create this innovative shoe-box that reduces material and shipping costs.
The result is 65% less cardboard used saving 8500 tons of paper, 20 millions megajoules of electricity, 1 million liters of water and the carbon dioxide is reduced by 10 tons.
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Watch Puma’s presentation video of Clever Little Bag:
Guinnes World Record for Chris O’Connel? This is probably the First 1/500th Shutter Wireless Synced Flash (thanks PocketWizard) Sport Sequence RAW Photo with HDR background.
I really liked the concept when I first read about this contest on Vimeo. Every picture has a story beyond it and this is a great way to explore the idea behind a shot. This video is also another great example of photographers crossing the boundaries between pictures and movies.
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It’s the first ever user-generated HD Video Contest where photographers become filmmakers, and we all see beyond the still. Last month the contest kicked off when Canon asked photographer, Vincent Laforet, to interpret a still by telling the story that lived beyond it using the Canon EOS 7D. It was the first chapter of seven, ending with a still photograph of its own for the Vimeo community to then interpret. After 112 entries, Josh Thacker was chosen as the very first winner and now, once again the question is posed to you, what do you see beyond this still?
