Mar 2009

OnLive

onlive

The Game Developers Conference is on this week in San Francisco. One of the more interesting announcements has come from startup company OnLive — their website will feature a big announcement tonight at 2.15am UK time (7.15pm pacific time). They have developed an on-demand gaming streaming service, which essentially means you can play games running […]

Mar 2009

Glitchy fashionable effects

Chairlift

An interesting observation came up a number of years ago in one of my typography tutorials at the National Institute of Design while I was presenting some work. The T-shirt I was wearing featured deteriorated type on the sleeve. The print was worn, faded and some of the letters were even beginning to fall off, […]

Mar 2009

Interactive public art

Cinimod are a London-based design studio involved in the creation of public interaction design pieces. I saw Beacon at the Kinetica Art fair last weekend. I thought it would make a really nice entrance piece for a bar or club. Beacon is a kinetic light installation with a mind of its own. An array of emergency […]

Mar 2009

Investing in digital media technology

NASA MMO

NASA is planning to release an MMO in 2010 titled Astronaut: Moon, Mars and Beyond. It looks like it will be primarily based on exploration and designed to get people interested in what NASA hope to achieve in the near future, which has the potential to help with recruitment but also acts as a powerful […]

Mar 2009

Kinetic art

Pony

Some really inspiring work was on display at the Kinetica Art Fair in London the past few days, the exhibition comes to a close today. The fair is described as showcasing carnivorous art, man-animal-machine hybrids, mechanical drawing machines, subliminal installations, pole dancing robots, light sculptures and cybernetics. If you’re at all interested in digital art, […]

Feb 2009

3D animation in games

Dante's Inferno

I‘ve been inspired today by the art direction from two games, Dante’s Inferno and Prince of Persia. Not only do these animations bring in some beautiful illustration (Prince of Persia), but they also include some really nice type (Dante’s Inferno) and stunning visual effects. The first is from an upcoming game called Dante’s Inferno, based on […]