miércoles, 31 de agosto de 2011

Wacom Inkling


Esta es una noticia que ha estado en boca de todos durante el día de hoy; se trata de un nuevo producto de la compañía alemana Wacom que promete revolucionar la forma en la que hacemos sketches y luego los pasamos a la computadora, su nombre es Inkling y consiste en un sensor que se coloca en una orilla del papel y un bolígrafo que registra y digitaliza cada uno de nuestros trazos.

Les recomiendo que vean el video, creo que con este podrán entender a la prefección de que se trata este nuevo dispositivo. La verdad creo que esta es una muy buena aproximación a lo que se podrá ver en un futuro no muy lejano, hay que tener en cuenta que este nuevo accesorio no sustituye a una tableta gráfica si no que la complementa hasta cierto punto, dependerá del uso y las necesidades y gustos de cada uno.

La fecha de lanzamiento de Inkling es el 1 de cotubre y su precio será de $200 dólares; ¿Ustedes que opinan de este nuevo producto?

Wacom Inkling

Un rompecabezas poco convencional

Un excelente trabajo de fotografíasen donde se muestra qué lo que hay dentro de tu bolso dice mucho de la persona que eres.

Para verlo completo:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jasontravis/sets/72157603258446753/

jueves, 25 de agosto de 2011

"The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore"

An Ex-Pixar Designer Creates Astounding Kids' Book On iPad

"The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore" is like a well-written bedtime story and an immersive animated movie at once.

E-books are already a fraught subject for many readers, writers, publishers and designers, but children's e-books are even more so. Is it rotting their minds? Is it as good as good ol' paper? Is it toointeractive for their own good? Obviously there are no practical answers to such questions, but at least one children's e-book/app/thingie (what do we call these things, again?) is doing it very, very right. It's called "The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore," and it's like a well-written bedtime story and an immersive animated movie at once -- without being "too much" of either.


Every page has some delightful, hidden feature embedded into it.

Part of why the book works so well is its top-shelf creative pedigree: authorWilliam Joyce is also an accomplished illustrator and animator who's published New Yorker covers, won a bunch of Emmys, created character designs for some of Pixar's first animated classics, and worked on many others for Dreamworks and Disney. With his cohorts at Moonbot Studios, he created an interactive book-app around the story and a standalone animated film -- so you can experience "The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore" however you like.

Designing interactive interfaces for kids is no mean feat, and the Moonbot team really made some great choices with "Morris Lessmore." When you open up the app, it doesn't waste your time with teaching-screens about how to interact with it -- it just smoothly enters the story. (A key feature, I imagine, when you want to get Junior to go the youknowwhat to sleep ASAP.) Gently animated cues surface in the lush visuals at just the right time, encouraging you to explore the app rather than slavishly plod through it: When a house gets picked up in a tornado, you can use your fingers to swipe and spin it around -- but you don't have to.

In fact, the interface design is so subtle it wasn't until I was about six pages in that I realized that every page of the app has some delightful feature embedded into it that you have to find for yourself. This is the key to a successful children's book -- inviting them to play and explore and be curious, not just jab buttons to activate cheesy visual effects. And mercifully, every gewgaw in the book has a button so you can toggle it on or off: For example, you can kill the voiceover so you can read to your kid in your own voice the way God intended, or silence the music and sound effects if you want to. But they're all just a tap away if you change your mind -- and the whole experience is so well-produced, you very well just might.

[Buy "The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore" in the iTunes App Store for $4.99]

Rediseño de Coca Cola Light por Turner Duckworth

Coca Cola le encargo al amo y señor del packaging Turner Duckworth que rediseñara la imagen de las latas de Coca Cola Light como parte de las celebraciones del 125 aniversario de esta marca. Esta edición solo se podrá conseguir dentro de los Estado Unidos durante un periodo de dos meses.

¿Qué les parece este rediseño? A mi en lo personal me agrada bastante!

Turner Duckworth

Moray McLaren - We Got Time

Excelente técnica uniendo cada fotograma con la rotación de un disco, muy buena edición de video, cada cambio de cuadros en el video se realizó manualmente y cortaron esas partes del video.

Lo máximo, buen trabajo.

George Harrison Living in The Material World

Martin Scorsese nos presenta su nueva película dedica al Beatles George Harrison

martes, 23 de agosto de 2011

Football Hooligans International

Documental acerca de las barras de Fútbol en distinto Países. Excelente el trabajo periodístico de Danny Dagger.

Argentina

Inglaterra

Turquía

Brasil

Italia


The Digital Playground of Sara Blake

Maravilloso trabajo de Sara Blake, una ilustradora neoyorquina con un estilo bastante característico que pone bastante énfasis en el trabajo manual (dibujo a lápiz y acuarela) y uno de sus temas mas recurrentes son los retratos; Sara ha trabajado para infinidad de clientes como Nike, TED, Marc Jacobs, Elle, etc, etc.

Si les gustó el trabajo de esta chica y quieren saber mas de ella les recomiendo que se lean la sección de preguntas frecuentes que encontrarán en su sitio.

The Digital Playground of Sara Blake