Cinescape + Filmography 2011

Two awesome video compilations by Matt Shapiro, “2011: The Cinescape” and from Anschluss Genrocks “Filmography 2011" recap the year in motion movies. Perfectly mixed and sound made both videos please.

The Cinescape 2011 “2011: The Cinescape recaps the year in film with some outstanding editing as well as excellent voiceover placement, making this one of that you just have to watch”

Filmography 2011 “A 230-film retrospective that celebrates this year’s movies and their amazing capacity to transport us through the boundaries of space, time, and identity.”

Zeitgeist 2011: Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish!

Google just released an awesome video compilation (hence it's sad through smiling) of their Zeitgeist 2011. Another crazy speedy controversial and inspiring year... and yes, stay hungry, stay foolish as Jobs said.

Music: "Sooner or Later" by Mat Kearney Directed by Scott Chan Produced by Whirled Creative

P.s. We are busy preparing Designcollector's Top 100 2011 :) Stay tuned and meanwhile rewind to 2010 and check posts that we loved 2 years ago!

WE MAKE CARPETS

They really make carpets but post-modernist using daily basis objects like buttons, matches, pegs, bricks, pasta etc reflecting 21 century by old traditions. WE MAKE CARPETS, consisting of Marcia Nolte, Stijn van der Vleuten and Bob Waardenburg, mix traditional skills and a critical view of the consumer society in unusual carpets.

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Alexander Safonov photography

Wild nature photographer Alexander Safonov recently won a competition held by Behance Network and Blurb books - Bring Your Photography to Life. Check his "Bait Ball Symphony" project featuring sardine dance during migration - an amazing underwater photography.

[button size=big link=http://www.behance.net/pats0n target=blank]Alexander on Behance Network[/button]

Zach Johnsen illustration

Portland based artist and illustrator Zach Johnsen famous for his Zenvironments project where he releases inner or whatever beauty hand drawn monsters on paper. But speaking about his portfolio we dig a series of "Acid over Easy" illustrations.. really blowing a head off.

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Google Currents

Okay, Google official came to curating industry bringing on Google Currents a new application for the iPad, iPhone and Android devices that allows you to subscribe to your favorite websites and view the content in a lovely magazine-like format.

But we still love mighty creative curation applications Flud, Plethora, Design Scene and a lot more.

Update: Application is available in US App Store only, such a Google proprietary behaviour :D

[button size=big link=http://www.google.com/producer/currents target=blank]Google Currents[/button]

TOMATDESIGN

Moscow based design studio TOMAT specializes in branding and graphic design. We fave their series of dynamic experimental identity based on four simple fours that creates myriad of brand's graphic presentation.

[button size=big link=http://tomatdesign.com/ target=blank]TOMAT Design[/button]

[button size=big link=http://www.behance.net/TOMAT_DESIGN target=blank]TOMAT on Behance[/button]

People People design

Sweden products designers are not creating new bicycles, they understand people needs and enhance products. All of their work is conceptual product design but I believe they will find a decent partners and make people happier. Now check their latest project of transparent sound system. How they designed it for people. "The transparent design lets the speaker blend in to any living room out there. The size can be big enough to offer a good sound quality, yet the speaker takes little visible space. The box is transparent, but the sound creating components are clearly emphasized."

Other products:

[button size=big link=http://peoplepeople.se target=blank]People People[/button]

Mark Mawson photography

Photographer Mark Mawson has shared a beautiful series of underwater ink photographs named "Aqueous Fluoreau". Check them as well as other similar series on his Behance profile or personal website under the cut.

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The Bicycle Animation

Katy Beveridge presents her student dissertation as a part of proto animation research. She proves that all simple ideas are awesome. As she added "This is more like a phenakistoscope which uses the shutter speed of the camera to create the strobe effect instead of the slits." Watch the video under the cut.

[button size=big link=http://www.katybeveridge.com/ target=blank]Katy Beveridge[/button]

Sagaki Keita

Sagaki Keita ruins the famous saying "Less is more" by creating illustrations of classic Ancient Greek sculpture by using a small drawing objects mostly cartoons and Japanese characters. This is kind of patient perfectionist sitting inside him.

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