Category Archives: Inspiration

12th Independent Games Festival

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Limbo, from Playdead, Copenhagen, Denmark
The 12th Independent Games Festival kicks off in San Francisco next week. It’s an event that unfortunately doesn’t get a lot of main stream media coverage but I think showcases innovative ideas in interaction, game design and art. A lot of independent games are created by small, tightly knit teams that aren’t driven by commercial [...]

Album covers — made in London

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Dan Tobin Smith is a London based still life photographer than has some beautiful work in his portfolio. This piece was created for an album called The Blueprint 3, by Jay Z. It was inspired from some of his earlier work with Nicola Yeoman, a London based set designer and interior stylist. These are two letters [...]

Light and texture

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Dancing light, transformation, distortion, animation, blending tangible with digital, all these things fascinate me about projection — I especially love projected type. Recently I’ve come across a few inspirational examples of projection and also some really lovely wallpapers. The amazing projection projects created by UrbanScreen. Hirzberger Events: Digital Wallpaper. Tobias Battenberg’s projected Akzidenz Grotesk. Watermarks Project: Projecting Future Water Levels [...]

25 years of cyberpunk

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It began with a fascination with the Commodore 64, an interface in to virtual worlds, that lead to my passion for cyberpunk culture — literature, games, art and music. Over the years the interface evolved, a lot more rapidly as I got older and had money to spend on hardware. I developed a strong [...]

Visions of hell

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Hell has always be a source of fascination — it exists in most cultures and religions. Many artists, designers and writers take inspiration from Dante’s Divine Comedy when referencing hell in their work — in fact it’s surprising how much influence the Italian poem has had on modern culture. I’ve been exploring visual executions of [...]