Influencers

Great thoughts and comments on trends, influencers, and the current design culture.

I particularly like minutes 7-10 talking about the tipping point of new/trendy/cool to mainstream and the relevance of brands as influencers with the distance from a large brand to actual trending culture.

Object Architecture

Amazing video creating various architecture landmarks out of objects such as books, bowls, knives and even a wig. For any architecture lover, this is pretty great. Created by Luis Urculo.

Via Arch Daily & Veronica

It doesn't get much cute than this! Little Printer brought to us by BERG



Full article on FastCo

Freaker!

This is quite possibly the most brilliant Kickstarter video ever!! And he sells these in Union Square - how fun! Look for Zach Crain.



He's already reached his funding, so just enjoy this ridiculous video :)

New York Time Lapse

I love this city :) and this spectacular time lapse series by Josh Owens

Mindrelic - Manhattan in motion from Mindrelic on Vimeo.

BP Oil Spill

This is an interesting animation of the BP oil spill data called Oil'd by Chris Harmon. I'm a huge fan of infographic videos anyways, but I think this was does a really good job adding helpful context to these numbers.

Its one of Fast Co's Daily Infographics - an excellent source of high quality and content data visualizations.

Oil'd from Chris Harmon on Vimeo.

OFFF 2009 Main Titles

Main titles from Prologue for OFFF 2009
by Kyle Cooper, Ilya Abulhanov and Elizabeth Newman

Spectacular imagery paired with crazy sound and great vector animation

Similar aesthetics to the intro for Stranger Than Fiction with typography and vector imagery laid over video, just with the added elements of weirdness and suspense - love it

OFFF 2009 Main Titles from Prologue! from OFFF, let's feed the future on Vimeo.

Favorites of the Super Bowl Ads

Here's my favorites :)



Black Beetle Volkswagon
Love the concept and the song :)



Bridgestone Carma



Darth Vader Passat

BE VERSATILE

This is my video from last semester showing the making process of my letters for this poster. The idea was to create a self promotion piece showcase various techniques and visuals. The video is a super super high speed version of about 50 hours of video. It really is meant to serve as a form of transparency for the piece...proof theres no faking, photoshopping, etc. I wanted to try to blend my various experiences like architecture modeling, printmaking, packaging and now communications design all into one cohesive piece.

This will serve as a part of a self promotion piece Ill be mailing out for potential jobs after I graduate :)

Song: Where Damage Isn't Already Done by The Radio Dept
Thanks to Mike for helping get this small enough to get online!

REDU "Manifesto" Animation

LET'S REDU from Redu on Vimeo.

Umm I love this... I mean, really? Stop motion with WOOD! And such a great voiceover...love it :)

Also, I have a new obsession with Hunter Gatherer, the designers of this video, and you'll be seeing a LOT more from them :)

Here's how the company explains the video:
"REDU is an Education Reform destination resulting from a collaboration between CAA, Bing, Task Force and Good Magazine, among others.

The video is a 2-minute stop-motion animation explaining what REDU is all about. It was created almost entirely in-camera, and hand-made from literally thousands of individually cut blocks. Narration by Davis Guggenheim."

Buffalo Run Productions

I love when I have awesome friends doing awesome things!

Evan Bauxbaum's Buffalo Run Productions has put out some pretty cool short films and now a new feature length film called La Linea will be coming out soon. Its about the story of illegal immigrants crossing the Mexico/US border and looks awesome. Here's the trailor below:



Evan is the writer, director and producer all the films. Many of his short films have won awards at film festivals all over the country. Here's the trailer to one of his short films, "The Roofer" below.

The Roofer - Trailer from evan buxbaum on Vimeo.

If you like his work, or just like supporting talented people, check out his new Facebook fan page for updates on videos, awards and photos from the filming or follow him on Twitter.

Happy Turkey Day

A Thanksgiving Day video by my sisters and I :)
Music: Go Do by Jonsi

Happy Thanksgiving!