28 Aralık 2011 Çarşamba

Gidisat - Holiday/Gift Project

Some ideas for the upcoming holiday/gift project of the imaginary companies we were designing. To sum up, Gidişat is a bar/cafe with a target audience aged between 20-30 mostly, but obviously is also welcoming to anyone who are in for a drink. Anyway, I decided on making 50x70 Pixel-art posters, which can be sent in A3 envelopes. Take a look;






 P.S: Happy new year, also Blip-Blop for the masses.

A Sneak Preview from my CD Cover Project

Nothing much yet, but here is some work in progress. A CD cover illustration project for the musician Tomas Dvorak's (aka. Floex) excellent work. The cover is for one specific track only, which I love the most from all of his works, named "The Castle".



21 Aralık 2011 Çarşamba

Cool Business Cards

I been still thinking about the greeting cards, while at it. I couldn't keep myself from checking the business cards again, the approach I took for my project was... sort of mainstream in my opinion.. I'm sure thats how everyone started.. Anyway, here are several very different card designs;

You need to scratch for the info, on this one.. I suppose, the person must be important.. or nobody would probably bother doing it. Risky.

If the place is hard to find. Why not?

Hand-writing and paper-craft. Feels very sincere, to be honest. But maybe a bit too cute.
Spoof a famous logo? Oh wow.. haha.

Very minimal.

I adore these little 3D games, but I suppose it's too costly.
Too easy to be lost or forgotten.

A more unique shape. But it must fit in pockets or the wallet.
Haha.. not sure. I would love to use it but.. too humorous perhaps.
 Goin retro.


Very elegant.

Playful.
Nice, humorous.
Broken pottery, as cards?




14 Aralık 2011 Çarşamba

Happy Holidays.

A few fun ideas for the "Holiday" cards project. I'm not very pleased with the last two. I really like the bit-style graphics, thought it might suit the holiday mood, as it always reminds me of games and fun stuff.... I surmise.




7 Aralık 2011 Çarşamba

Maurice Benayoun

Maurice Benayoun  is a French pioneer new-media artist and theorist. Most of his work resolve around the use of artistic ideals with interactive media, science and the virtual world. Born in Mascara, ,he directed video installations and short films about contemporary artists, including Daniel Buren, Jean Tinguely, Sol LeWitt and Martial Raysse. In 1987 he co-founded Z-A, a computer graphics and Virtual Reality private lab. Between 1990 and 1993, Benayoun collaborated with Belgian graphic novelist François Schuiten on Quarxs, a computer graphics world that explores variant worlds with alternate physical laws. 
Here are a few displays from his works;

Quarxs - One of the very first 3D Computer graphics animation series




"First of all, the QUARXS are characters in a series of twelve computer animated films of three minutes each. Each one presents itself as a program of popularized science: the narrator, a scientist (a researcher in "comparative cryptobiology"), takes us through the evolution of his research about the Quarxs. In parodying popular science programs, this series constitutes a new frontier in 3D computer graphics animation, serving as a true screenplay and not merely as a demonstration using computer graphics."
  
To watch: http://www.benayoun.com/projet.php?id=89 


Cosmopolis - Giant interactive installation


"Cosmopolis endeavours to examine urban realities through people's eyes. It is an artistic, and scientific interpretation of urbanization, making a visit a physical and intellectual experience.The visitor enters a big, moving panorama of a constantly changing city. Twelve observation binoculars, much like those found at scenic lookout points, allow one to be surrounded 360° by twelve urban environments. Only later does the visitor realize that his or her viewpoint through the VR binocular is “captured” and used to create the big panorama of Cosmopolis –the permanently mutating World City- at the centre of the exhibition. Little by little, a surprising city is built, both strange and familiar, the fruit of visitors' intersecting gazes and visual experiences."

 The Tunnel under the Atlantic - Tele-virtual installation 1995


"The Tunnel Under the Atlantic, televirtual art installation, established a link between Montreal and Paris, two towns physically distant by thousands of miles. The Tunnel enabled hundreds of people from both sides to meet. From each side, a two-meter-diameter tube, made us think of a linear crossing of our planet, as if it were dug under the ground, shouting up in the middle of the Contemporary Art Museum in Montreal on one side, and in the lower floor of the Pompidou Centre in Paris. The route that lies between the two spots is no simulation of the ocean underground, it is a block of symbolic matter in which the geological strata leave the place to iconographic strata. They are layers of pictures taken in the history of the two cultures that everybody can reveal each time they dig. The collective exploration uncovers fragments of rare or familiar pictures, which are as may opportunities to wake up the collective memory of the participants. Helping us to loitering and talking to people, these remains transform everybody's digging route into a unique experience, into a personal assemblage made up of sounds and pictures amidst a three dimensional space architectured through their moves. While digging, the visitors can talk with their partners across the Atlantic Ocean. The sounds of their voices are anchored in space and they enable everyone to find out the directions where to meet the other. It takes six days to built and pave the symbolic space before the de visu meeting of the two-continent diggers."

To watch: http://www.benayoun.com/projet.php?id=14

I personally find Benayoun's contributions to the virtual 3D world to be highly vital. They are indeed the seeds of a vast virtual reality.

You can find more of his works at: http://www.benayoun.com/




30 Kasım 2011 Çarşamba

Interactive Bar Tables

I been searching for interactive arts for a while, even though nothing much worthy came up. I thought, I'd share this piece anyway. Here is a project with the purpose of making bar-tables interactive, done by Ars Electronica Futurelab. While the idea doesn't sound much interesting to me, the installation looks fun and appropriate for a bar. I suppose, nobody would mind seeing and experiencing more of these little interactive art projects.



Watch: http://vimeo.com/2377926

23 Kasım 2011 Çarşamba

Julius Popp

During my search, I stumbled upon Julius Popp's highly interactive work. Julius Popp is a German artist who collaborate arts with science. Thus, creating highly interactive and creative pieces. The remarkable aspect of his work definetly lies in the concept of using technology in such a method with art that it becomes fully interactive with the audience. Here is several examples from his work, including the bit.fall and the bit.code


17 Kasım 2011 Perşembe

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Henri Cartier-Bresson, was a well known French photographer who had great contributions in the area of cultivating "street photography". He was particulary fascinated by a photojournalist called Munkacsi, which later made him quit painting and influenced him to become a photographer. Since he was already interested in surrealism, during his painting career, he started to capture moments which seemed not possible or simply great. Much of his work is based upon "decisive moments", where a character or an element is captured while making a sudden movement or a gesture. Bresson, definetly has an impressive work and influence on the field of photography, and also very much inspiring. Thus, that is something worth sharing.