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News & Updates
April 19, 2018
Low-cost Ghost AR headset promises MacOS multitasking on steroids
Ghost is a more affordable augmented reality (AR) headset allows you to create infinite MacOS windows that hover around you in virtual space. Get ready to take multitasking to the next level!
The post Low-cost Ghost AR headset promises MacOS multitasking on steroids appeared first on Digital Trends.
Source: Digital Trends VR
April 19, 2018
There’s an entire photo studio in your phone with this AR app
Ready to experiment with lights, or pre-visualize a shoot? Photo Studio AR is an augmented reality app, from a developer with both Hollywood and Snapchat experience, that allows users to place models, lights, and props into a scene.
The post There’s an entire photo studio in your phone with this AR app appeared first on Digital Trends.
Source: Digital Trends VR
April 19, 2018
A sensor-packed exosuit lets you fly a drone by pretending to be one
Researchers in Switzerland have developed a smart superhero-style exosuit which allows users to pilot a drone by pretending to be one. Let’s just hope you’re not too shy to use it in public!
The post A sensor-packed exosuit lets you fly a drone by pretending to be one appeared first on Digital Trends.
Source: Digital Trends VR
April 19, 2018
Ezra Klein on How To Break An Industry – Featured Session at SXSW 2018 [Video]
In How To Break An Industry, Vox co-founder and editor-at-large Ezra Klein discusses a common thread that links what is wrong in Congress to Silicon Valley and on Wall Street to the media and beyond. Klein looks at the wrongdoing found in each as the faults of individuals, but notes that individuals respond to the systems they’re part of, and it’s the systems that are broken. Klein explains how we’ve designed industries with incentives that make even good people act badly, and what we can do about it during his Featured Session at the 2018 SXSW Conference.
“I think we need to question some things that are pretty fundamental in the industries we’ve come to take for granted and even in the way we approach and interact with the world.”
Klein gets into the specifics when talking about why things operate they way the operate. With each new industry he gives us the problem at hand, the incentive, and the rationalization. “The intensity the audience feels towards something, becomes a measure of its importance.” As a member of the media, Klein’s insight into that particular industry was interesting to note. He states the following:
- The Problem: Clickbait, polarization, reactiveness, speed over depth
- The Incentive (in most digital cases): Traffic, engagement
- The Rationalization: Covering what shares vs covering what matters
During the closing session Q&A, an audience member asked, “Do you have any hope for the future?” Klein responded with, “Here’s the thing, it’s weird. Everything is terrible, an also it isn’t…” Klein mentioned he had been reading many books about democracy and how they say it’s worse now than ever before. “It’s not, even in this country it is not. It is not worse than it was fifty years ago. This country disenfranchised massive portions of the electorate for basically its whole history.” Klein went on to say, “So do I have hope for the future? I do. I actually think our system in many ways, though under a lot of stress right now, is getting better.”
Watch the video above for the full How To Break An Industry Featured Session with Ezra Klein. Browse more 2018 Keynotes, Featured Sessions, Red Carpets, and Q&A’s on our YouTube Channel.
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Photo by Chris Saucedo/Getty Images
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Source: SxSW Music
April 19, 2018
Christiane Amanpour and Kara Swisher on “Sex & Love Around the World” at SXSW 2018 [Video]
At SXSW 2018, CNN chief international correspondent Christiane Amanpour sat down with Recode Executive Editor Kara Swisher for a conversation on sex, love, travel, journalism, and the state of the media.
Now celebrating 35 years at CNN, Amanpour has built her career from the front lines of war-torn countries and the living rooms of world leaders. However, her talk at SXSW didn’t focus on her illustrious career but rather her new series, executive produced by Anthony Bourdain, Sex & Love Around the World. “I have done depressing all my career. It is nice to have a break and see a real slice of life that we often don’t focus on,” said Amanpour on-stage.
“Young people are bursting out of the confines of their culture, of their context, of their religious morays, particularly young women…while the #MeToo movement in the West is happening, it’s quietly been happening around the rest of the world. Not defined by #MeToo, but by education and economic empowerment. The future of these countries will be built on the backs of women. – Christiane Amanpour*
Amanpour’s series, Sex & Love Around the World, focuses on shifting landscapes of sex and love in its varied manifestations around the globe covering topics from bondage in Berlin and BDSM communities in India to the non-existent dating scene in Shanghai. During their conversation, Swisher prompts Amanpour to deep dive into some of the wildest stories from her world travels in creating the series and also extracts many perennial truths and takeaways.
“We as women are not going to have totally satisfied lives unless men are also on our side.”
During the Featured Session, Amanpour expresses her thoughts on freedom of the press around the globe, the #MeToo movement, and gender relations. She discusses how the current political climate inspired her series to focus on gender issues and global politics.
“We are in an existential moment right now. We are at peril and risk if we cannot tell the difference between truth and lies.”
Sex & Love Around the World highlights the inequality that exists between genders and encourages open dialogue on female sexuality internationally.
Watch the video above for the full Christiane Amanpour on Sex & Love Around the World Featured Session. Browse more 2018 Keynotes, Featured Sessions, Red Carpets, and Q&A’s on our YouTube Channel.
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Christiane Amanpour & Kara Swisher – Photo by Kaylin Balderrama
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Source: SxSW Music
April 19, 2018
Typographic Illustration for ESPN NEXT
Typographic Illustration for ESPN NEXT
Andrew Footit recently had the privilege to work with ESPN The Magazine on their NEXT Feature. The project included a typographic Intro Illustration a flat logotype of the Intro type and some custom letters which later turned into a font.
The feature is about up coming and young star athletes, the next stars of their specific sports. The intro piece needed to have a futuristic feel to it so we used 3D type with LED styled lighting inner strips.
The sports featured included Football, Baseball, Hockey and Basketball. I used line illustrations from each of the sports respective playing field/court to surround the type.
The custom font took its styling form the intro type, keeping the inline and geometric angles to tie the feature together nicely. The font is a case alternative font allowing the Inline version or the solid version to be used by lower case or uppercase.
Typographic Illustration
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abduzeedo
Apr 19, 2018
Source: Abduzeedo Illustration
April 18, 2018
Interface Design and Prototypes with InVision Studio
Interface Design and Prototypes with InVision Studio
It’s never been a better time for a interface designer than present day. There are so many amazing tools and resources available and many more to come. One of the highly anticipated tools is the InVision Studio, which has been surrounded by a big hype partially generated by the super selective inviting system. It seems that more and more people are getting access to this great tool including me. With it’s increased accessibility we’re starting to see what the tool is capable of on sites like Dribbble and Behance.
The beauty of InVision Studio is that it bridges the gap between UX/UI and Motion design. That has been a very time consuming effort for designers that relied on tools not created for UI/UX like After Effects or new tools that like Principle, which is a fantastic app, but the integration with other UI/UX tools are quite primitive. So will InVision Studio live up to its hype? Based on the examples below I think they might have already done it. The future will tell, especially with the super strong lineup of competitors.
So go to https://www.invisionapp.com/studio and try to grab an invite. If you are even more daring, I challenge you to design a mobile version of Abduzeedo and share with us :grinning: – maybe we can even get a little award for the best one.
Interface Design and Prototypes
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Apr 18, 2018
Source: Abduzeedo UI/UX
April 17, 2018
Sheppard’s Stunning Album Cover Design by Ars Thanea
Sheppard’s Stunning Album Cover Design by Ars Thanea
Ars Thanea is an award-winning creative studio based in Warsaw, they have been working and producing some of the best works we have ever seen on ABDZ. The most amazing thing is even after all these years, they still surprise us with their creativity and perseverance to push the limits. Let’s take a look at their album design for the indie pop band: Sheppard entitled: Watching The Sky. And as you can see they could have taken a simpler ride with CGI but decided to just hand-crafted. Props to everyone involved in the project.
The indie pop band “Sheppard” from Australia, known for the hits such as “Geronimo” or “Let me down easy” approached us to create a cover for the newest album titled “Watching The Sky”. This time we decided to use true glass as the essential material. As the result, we blew several dozen little bubbles to create a real glass cloud sculpture. And once again, hand-crafted work turned out to be the greatest choice!
Credits
- Client: Sheppard
- Creative Production Studio: Ars Thanea
- Executive Creative Director: Peter Jaworowski
- Art Director: Maciej Mizer
- Production Lead: Marta Król
- Producer: Magdalena Błocian
- Photographer: Szymon Świętochowski
- Mockup Artist: Jagody Studio
- Concept Artist: Piotr Rosłan
- Digital Artists: Tomasz Chrabołowski, Maciej Mizer
- Making of: Maciej Mizer
More Links
- Learn more about Ars Thanea
- Follow the work of Ars Thanea on Behance
Art Direction, Photography & Digital Art
Making Of Video
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Apr 17, 2018
Source: Abduzeedo Photography
April 15, 2018
‘A Quiet Place’: John Krasinski Reveals the Tricks Behind the Lantern Scene, Which Really Did Start a Fire — Watch
What little noise there is in “A Quiet Place” is all the more effective for its scarcity. One of the film’s tensest scenes comes early on, when the family of four led by John Krasinski and Emily Blunt’s characters are playing Monopoly and a lantern gets knocked over. Now Krasinski, who also directed the near-silent thriller, has broken down said scene for the delight of everyone watching at home. Watch below.
“Because it’s a movie about a family that needs to remain quiet, this is such a perfect atmosphere and one of the best scenes to tell the rules of how to remain quiet, what happens if you don’t,” Krasinski says in the video.
“We knew that sound would not only be a main character, but the character. It’s actually the thing that frames the entire movie together, but more than that, it became about adhering to rules — what sounds, literally, that the audience hears are too dangerous, which ones aren’t. It’s impossible to live silently, and we knew that, so we wanted to bring the audience through this idea of living as quietly as possible.”
“This is that old theory of loading a gun at the beginning of a scene to build tension,” he says, a reference to Chekhov’s gun. “This lantern will obviously become a huge part of the scene in that it is the first major noise you hear.”
Source: IndieWire film
April 15, 2018
Boris FX Adds New Features, Including 3D 360-Degree Support, in Latest Mocha VR Update
Stereo 3D 360-degree workflow support comes to Boris FX’s Mocha VR.
Mocha VR, which came out last year, is the award-winning 360 video plugin from Boris FX. With the release of VR 5.6, which we got to check out at NAB, users get stabilization improvements, 5 free Continuum VR filters, and support of stereo 3D 360-degree workflows for footage shot with 3D 360-degree cameras, like Vuze, Nokia Ozo, Google Jump, and Samsung Round. These new features only make the software’s Mocha planar tracking and native 360-degree optimized workflow even more powerful.
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Source: NoFilmSchool