SUMDAY

About

SUMDAY is an illustration/video project, with phrases from the bible.

The meaning of this project is that people can see the visual from the phrases.

“Life is all about making choices and seeking for answers, until Sumday..”

Sumday stands for ‘Summary’ and ‘Sunday’.

We make simple visuals that summarise the message of the sunday sermon at Life Access (www.lifeaccess.nl) every week.

Creator

Wilsun Cheung

Rules/ Restriction

– phrases from the Bible

– visuals that relate to the phrases

Comments

Wilsun Cheung is a good friend of mine, he also studied at WDKA, Lifestyle and Design.

He has allot of projects, and as I knew him, he is always busy with the Bible, make it more fun. Or make it that people understand the Bible even more.

Links

WWW.UNTILSUMDAY.COM

BJÖRK – Biophilia

ABOUT

Biophilia is the eighth studio album by Björk. Billed as the first “app album”, Biophilia is a multimedia project released alongside a series of apps linking the album’s themes to musicology concepts. It was also followed by a series of educational workshops in four continents.
The Biophilia app consists of a series of 10 separate apps, one for each song, all included in a “mother app” which contains a menu made up by a three-dimensional constellation which the user can shift, zoom and orbit by swiping their fingers to open the apps. The first time the app is opened, an introduction by David Attenborough describes the application and the project itself.^[59] This introduction was also used to open the Biophilia Tour residency concerts.

CREATOR

The creator of the album is Icelandic singer-songwriter Björk. Music critics have consistently championed Björk’s work, praising her innovative approach to singing and composition, her pioneering use of electronic beats, her groundbreaking music videos, and, above all, her singular voice, describing her as “the most important and forward-looking musician of her generation” and “the best non-pop female vocalist of the last 30 years”.

RULES / RESTRICTIONS

The app is available on various devices and smartphone app stores. Every app is a subcategory of a ‘mother’ app and each represent a song of the Biophilia album. The apps are roughly divided into two kinds: the ones in which the user play a sort of games, and the other ones that work like a musical instrument. You can only use the screen and the options that are provided with every app song, however the user can already create very varying compositions with these tools.

COMMENTS

Awesome project. Björk truly knows how to innovate and keep the interest of the public.

TGAHP || THE GIRLS AT HOME PROJECT

ABOUT

Amsterdam based photographer Jaimie Peeters always comes up with new inspirations and started a new series called “The Girls at Home Project” where he shoots girls in their own homes. Jamie Peeters wanted the girls to feel comfortable in there own homes, and step out of the comfortzone.

CREATOR

Jamie Peeters

RULES || RESTRICTIONS

– no rules, just let the models have fun and come out of your comfortzone.

COMMENTS

I know Jamie myself and after this big project he stopped fashion photography, now he only walks around with his analog camera.

He also made this project into a book, the book is full of girls who aren’t afraid to show herself. And that is something i really love about this project, he capture the girls at the moment that makes every girl special. You can feel the vibe, how the girls are in real life, aren’t afraid to walk naked in there rooms, or only with underwear.

LINKS

http://www.c-heads.com/2013/04/18/room-for-2-by-jaimie-peeters-for-c-heads/

Print Isn’t Dead™

1) MEDIA

2) ABOUT:
Print Isn’t Dead (http://www.element003.com/ )™ is an ongoing quest to engage in conversation and debate about creativity and independent art, design and print practitioners. As you may have heard, our latest issue deals with the theme of personalisation. We are inviting you to personalise the front cover of your copy that is individually typeset by our award-winning designer James Lunn. After creating a huge collection of fantastic covers for Element 003.

3) CREATOR:
element003.com Launched this collaboration with award winning designer James Lunn a project where each person can made their own “piece of art” as a magazine cover. Each cover is one of as kind and all together it forms a collection.

4) RULES /RESTRICTIONS:
You have up to 250 characters to personalise your cover, either for yourself or as a gift
to someone else. HP® Indigo technology allows us to print high quality and unique covers, using the variable data from your submissions.

5) COMMENTS
I was surprised by the variarity of all the covers, It’s a free way to create something what’s really for own use, something to share and to give. As a collector of flyers & papers this is a really nice piece of art what’s just a one in a kind.

6) LINKS:
http://www.element003.com/
http://department-store.co/

3D-geprinte vogelnestjes gaan de wereld redden

1) MEDIA

2) ABOUT:
Printed Nests, een serie opensource ontwerpen voor futuristische vogelhuisjes maakten die je gratis zijn te downloaden. “Ons streven is om een voortdurende cyclus van nakomelingen, evolutie en uitbreidingen te garanderen,” licht de website van Printed Nests toe. Inmiddels hangen er al zo’n 88 nestjes in 66 verschillende steden, en de hoop is dat dat aantal de komende tijd flink zal uitbreiden.

We are team of architects & designers who explore and develop possibilities of 3D printing technology.

3D printing technology as a way of developing a product which is constantly evolving and being perfected based on errors of previous prototypes, much as living organisms are. Every product has its own charm as well as errors. It is not perfect and imperfections make it unique.

3) CREATOR:

4) RULES /RESTRICTIONS:
3D printed product/Urban development Feeding birds has never been easier. A opensource 3D object wich can be downloaded to make your own Bird feedhouse. you can adjust it or just print it in the colour of choice.

World wide community of people connected by a product
which means design, rapid prototyping, architecture, technology,
open-source, green thinking and more…

5) COMMENTS

6) LINKS:
http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:352464
http://www.printednest.com/

Longhand Publishers

1) MEDIA

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2) ABOUT:
A collaborative book making installation.

At Longhand Publishers visitors are being invited to design pages for the books we produce. They developed 3 design workstations with custom software and electronics on which people could design pages. Every book is completely unique, ‘printed’ on the spot by our home made drawing machine. Longhand Publishers is a game with a set of possibilities and a set of constraints. An open playground.

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3) CREATOR:
De Indianen – Antwerpen (http://www.indianen.be/) – Andreas Depauw, Steven Holsbeeks en Tim Knapen. Een trio vormgevers ‘pur sang’ die veel verder gaan dan opmaak van print, maar ook installaties opzetten die ambacht en technologie combineren.

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4) RULES /RESTRICTIONS:
De Indianen hebben een plotter gemaakt waar iedereen (de bediener) met een aantal regels een ontwerp kan maken en deze kan laten afdrukken. Deze afdrukken vormen een bundel van 6 beelden die per keer een boekje vormen. Elk boekje is uniek en samengesteld door verschilllende gebruikers.

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5) COMMENTS
I personaly tried this at the studio of the Indianen (http://www.indianen.be/) in Antwerp, In this case I used their machine for making a own collaborative design. I made a printing tool what turned out to be the “Blobbed Printer” and we used this to make a blob design piece.

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6) LINKS:
http://www.indianen.be/work/longhand-publishers
http://www.graphicdesignfestival.nl/nl/?sid=58f1e6ba7b7663ef1f1084ca8020c630
http://opensource.wdka.nl/wiki/User:Manoukvdk/Proces#Collective_Example

http://www.ondernemeninantwerpen.be/nieuws/indianen-met-een-eigen-taal-%E2%80%9Cwe-zijn-elkaars-klankbord-tijdens-het-ontwerpproces%E2%80%9D

A photo collection to depict unrealistic beauty standards

ABOUT – The artists created this collection to portray unrealistic beauty standards that are damaging young girls. The photos depict society’s expectations of women, which are so high that even things as naturally occurring as bodily fluids are often hidden. The glitter transforms “what may be considered unladylike,” according to Altman.

CREATOR – Hannah Altman

RESTRICTIONS – Has to be glitter and has to be female.

COMMENTS – I really enjoyed this collection as it promotes a good message, it’s done in a subtle way with a deeper concept, which I like.

LINKS – http://www.takepart.com/photos/glitter-beauty-expectations/why-glitter

PHOTOCHROMIA by Madison Maxey

ABOUT

Photochromia is a project from “The Crated” a design studio which Madison Maxey is a part of it. For this project she worked with a company called Print All Over ( digital printing partners) to create clothing that changes patterns in response to light. The trick: photochromatic inks, which are made up of molecules that turn transparent when exposed to sunlight. The technology has been around since the mid-1800s, yet it still feels futuristic when applied to clothing. The clothing line includes baseball caps, T-shirts, sweatshirts, sweatpants, backpacks, and more.

CREATOR

Madison Maxey is a around designer. She builds prototypes, writes codes and likes in generally to experiment at the intersection of design and technology. Her interests lie between 2nd generation wearable technology, additive manufacturing and computational design. Her main focus is The Crated a Innovation studio focused on developing 2nd generation wearable technology. They Believe that the key to productive wearable tech lies within the realm of fiber science. With this in mind, they focus on performance & responsive materials and soft circuitry.

RULES/RESTRICTIONS

One of the most important rule in this project is the fact that she could realize this project with the digital printing partners Print all over me. A Online platform where everybody is able to collaborate, create and produce in real world. Another rule is the fact that Photochromia’s technological abilities are pretty basic; disappearing ink doesn’t perform nearly as many sophisticated tasks as some of Maxey’s competitors, like Ralph Lauren’s Polo Tech Shirt, which tracks biometric data from the wearer. she thinks that opening up how we think of wearable tech with projects like hers and others will help prepare people for what wearables might look like in the future.

COMMENTS

This kind of Projects are very investing in the way the designers work with new technologies and processes to create new and new ideas for the future living. For me it is wonderful that we  live now in the beginning of a new post digital era where old knowledge, techniques can be combined with new never before seen technologies to create individual and innovative projects with we are able to continue through open sources and platforms.

Links

http://www.madisonmaxey.com

https://paom.com

alphabout

About
Alphabout is a website (tumblr) for type/handlettering lovers created by Eric Thomas and Chris Sham. Every week there is 1 selected letter (in alphabetical order). Everyone in the ‘community’ can upload their version of the letter to the site. Uploaded letters can be judged and commented on. At the end of the week there is 1 winner and that letter will be added to the ‘knock out’. There is 1 full alphabet created in the knock out section between june 2012 and october 2013 (they stopped after one full alphabet)

Creators
Eric Thomas is a director and makes brands and digital design. He is a strong believer in connection people, his passion is collaboration people to make things that move people. Although he is a digital designer, he says is not restricted to the digital platform. Together with Chris Sham, a webdesigner, they came up with the platform for typelovers. they were inspired by websites like AlphaBattle and Daily Drop Cap. They opened the submissions on tumblr with the goal of improving letteringskills of everyone that participates in the ‘challenge’.

Rules and restrictions
Rules of the website:
– start a new round every week (with a new letter every week)
– letters should be in alphabetical order
– after the week finishes, post the winning letter to ‘knock out’ (winning letter is the letter most voted for)

Rules for uploading:
– image should be 500x500px jpg
– the letter of the week has to be the main subject of the image

Comments
I like the idea of a website where you can upload your type and have a winner every week and that after 26 weeks there is a full alphabet created. It is too sad that they quit after one alphabet. A lot of the uploaded letters are not really to my taste, but it is cool that everyone can join in and upload their version (it does not matter if you are a professional designer or just doing it for fun)

Links
http://www.alphabout.com/
http://www.ericfthomas.com/
http://www.itsasham.com/

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Of Instruments and Archetypes by Studio Unfold

 

ABOUT

A range of wireless digital measuring instruments; a calliper, measuring tape and protractor. Measurements of physical objects are transferred in realtime to an on-screen digital 3d model on which it needs to fit. Through this project, measuring becomes something without numbers, but with accurate precision; measuring becomes making. These instruments can then be used in an application where archetypical, parametric objects can be customised with exact measurements and materialised by digital production techniques such as 3D printing.

CREATOR

Studio Unfold is a design studio from Antwerpen witch ask a lot about the future role of a designer and how is it changing in a time when design and manufacturing become increasingly more digitized? This question is key to understanding the work of design studio Unfold. The studio, founded in 2002 by Claire Warnier and Dries Verbruggen after they graduated from the Design Academy Eindhoven, develops projects that investigate new ways of creating, manufacturing, financing and distributing in a changing context.

RULES/RESTRICTIONS

One of the typical ways/ rules how unfold is working is the fact that they often collaborating with a vast network of kindred spirits and specialists, so the collaboration is the most important thing in there projects. The try to merging aspects of the pre-industrial craft economy with high tech industrial production methods and digital communication networks which makes them to a perfect example for a innovative and experimental open design office.

COMMENTS

I really like this project because they try to make a bridge between old craftsman tools from the past and new digital production ways like 3D printing. The Idea to create a digital measuring instruments; a calliper, measuring tape and protractor is really clever because in future we will need this kind of tools to manufacture our own products etc. Unfold  is also nominated with this project for the prestigious Designs of the Year award issued by Design Museum London!

LINKS

http://unfold.be