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August 31, 2017
Top 5 Tips for Applying to the SXSW Interactive Innovation Awards
The SXSW Interactive Innovation Awards is an annual competition that recognizes the most forward-looking tech developments in the connected world, launched or released in the 2017 calendar-year. The Awards showcase some of the most exciting tech projects in categories ranging from AI and digital design, to health technology and beyond. If you’re working on a cutting-edge project in one of the featured categories, read on and learn 5 pro-tips for applying.
Learn about the 13 award categories and 6 special honors that will be recognized at the 2018 Innovation Awards.
Top 5 Tips for Entry Success
Include additional resources. Links to photos, demos, social accounts, marketing material, schematics, one-sheets, case studies, etc., all build a stronger case for why your project should be selected.
Include a video. There’s no better way to convey a thorough sense of your project than through a demo or case-study video.
Always link to additional resources. Keep in mind that all additional resources like photos, videos, or pdfs, must live online and be accessed via URL link. If the additional content is password protected, don’t forget to include the username and password!
Tell us what’s different about your entry. How does it work? Why should people be excited about it? Describe the project with the following 4 grading criteria in mind: Creativity, Form, Function, and Overall Experience.
Deadlines are final. Your project doesn’t have to be fully launched as of right now. It’s okay to submit an application for a project that is in the works. Regardless of what stage of completion your project is in, you must submit your application for the Innovation Awards before the final deadline of November 10.
The Awards are open to any project, product, creative endeavor, scientific discovery, or student project that will launch or has launched between January 1 – December 31, 2017.
Please note that discounts for students, researchers, and academics for the Student Innovation and SciFi No Longer categories are available upon request.
Deadlines to Enter
Early Entry: Monday, June 26 – Friday, Sept. 22 — $75 fee
Regular Entry: Saturday, Sept. 23 – Friday, Nov. 10 — $150 fee
Final Entry Deadline: Friday, November 10, 2017
Join us for SXSW 2018 – register to attend by Friday, September 8 for the biggest savings of the season. Make your hotel reservations through SXSW Housing & Travel for the best available rates.
Photo by Aaron Rogosin
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August 31, 2017
Lenovo Explorer aims for low-cost Windows Mixed Reality performance
Lenovo joined the party by announcing at IFA 2017 its own Windows Mixed Reality headset, the Lenovo Explorer, which will be available in October for $349 stand-alone version and $449 with Motion Controllers.
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Source: Digital Trends VR
August 31, 2017
Step into the world of virtual reality with our top 4 VR headset deals
Virtual reality is here to stay, and of you’re curious about stepping into the wide world of VR then now is the perfect time: We rounded up a selection of VR headset deals on top-rated models – including DT’s all-time favorite.
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Source: Digital Trends VR
August 31, 2017
Illustration & Brand Identity: Brand Refresh for Mutual Attraction
Illustration & Brand Identity: Brand Refresh for Mutual Attraction
About a week ago, we’ve featured the latest work from Radim Malinic with the branding project for Inhere. This week, he is back again but with a project in collaboration with Bristol-based Craig Minchington. It’s a refresh that involves brand identity and illustration for Mutual Attraction. A dating agency and matchmaking service that needed some love to share their expertise for everyone in the name of love. Radim and Craig both have similar skills but for this project, Radim was in charge of the creative direction & design. And Craig was behind the 3D modelling, I am digging the overall project especially where you can clearly see the style from both designers.
Collaboration work between Radim Malinic, a freelance creative director, graphic designer and speaker from London and with Craig Minchington who is also in the same field but based in Bristol, UK. They have worked together on several projects including the Harnham Salary Guide (2016) featured on ABDZ.
Mutual Attraction is a London dating agency and matchmaking service. Mutual Attraction is all about meeting people face to face, in the flesh and stepping away from the screen. Dating in the real world, with real people, looking for real love. Refreshingly simple yet effective.
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Credits
- Creative direction and design: Radim Malinic / Brand Nu
- 3d modelling: Craig Minchington / Adora Attack
More Links
- Learn more about Radim Malinic at brandnu.co.uk
- Learn more about Craig Minchington at adoraattack.com
AoiroStudio
Aug 31, 2017
Source: Abduzeedo Illustration
August 31, 2017
‘Star Wars: Jedi Challenges’ hands-on preview
Want to be a Jedi? Disney and Lenovo have teamed up to create an augmented reality headset that lets you wield a lightsaber. Deflect blaster shots, play Holochess, or fight Kylo Ren in ‘Star Wars: Jedi Challenges.’
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Source: Digital Trends VR
August 30, 2017
New Music! SXSW Artist Releases – September 2018
September promises to be a big month for new music with tons of LPs slated to come out, and plenty of releases from SXSW Showcasing Artists. Each week we will be updating this page to include the newest releases for you so that you can find your new favorite musical artist.
We’re ringing in the month in style with 10 new releases from SXSW Showcasing Artists on September 1, many of which will come from veteran artists. New-wave band Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark return with The Punishment of Luxury, post-rockers Mogwai release Every Country’s Sun, indie-favorites The Pains of Being Pure at Heart drop The Echo Of Pleasure, and British rockers Motörhead release Under Cover.
After taking a look at the weekly releases, we pick one new album and make a playlist for fans incorporating new music from past SXSW Showcasing Artists for them to discover. This week, we’re riffing on a dance-rock playlist inspired by LCD Soundsystem whose new album American Dream is getting released this Friday. Check it out because these playlists will only be active for seven days before we pick a new artist to focus on. Keep up with our playlists on the official SXSW Spotify channel, and be sure to follow the playlist.
Past Showcasing Artist September 1st Releases
Jake Bugg – Hearts That Strain
Mogwai – Every Country’s Sun
Starsailor – All This Life
LCD Soundsystem – American Dream
Cloud Control – Zone
Madeline Kenney – Night Night At The First Landing
Motörhead – Under Cover
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark – The Punishment Of Luxury
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart – The Echo Of Pleasure
Join Us March 9-18, 2018
Learn more the benefits of being a SXSW Showcasing Artist. Once you’ve made the decision to apply we recommend checking out these tips from the SXSW Music Festival team on how to make the most of your Showcase Application. Now is also the best time to register to attend SXSW 2018 while badge rates are at their lowest and book your hotel while there are still great downtown rooms available.
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The Pains of Being Pure at Heart – Photo by Mengwen Cao at SXSW 2014
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August 30, 2017
Unique Artworks by Elena & Olivia Ceballos
Unique Artworks by Elena & Olivia Ceballos
Elena & Olivia are twin sisters that work at DreamWorks TV. They are very talented artists that come up with beautiful, unique artworks, lifeful illustrations that will lighten up your day! These are very special examples of their work. Their style is very unique and at the same time you it seems straight ou from children’s book, you can see even some Monet there. Super, super sweet.
These are only a handful of their work. For more of it, please visit their Instagram! I hope you enjoy these! Cheers. 😉
PauloGabriel
Aug 30, 2017
Source: Abduzeedo Illustration
August 28, 2017
Photographer Oleg Tolstoy’s “The Tourist Trap” Series
Photographer Oleg Tolstoy’s “The Tourist Trap” Series
Award-winning London-based photographer Oleg Tolstoy has us smiling from ear to ear with his latest series “The Tourist Trap” which hilariously documents unbeknownst tourists in Florence lost in their very own viewfinders. If you’re anything like me you’re just happy you weren’t in the beloved Italian city when Oleg was shooting because I’ve definitely been guilty of this precise crime. Over the course of two visits and ten days spent by Florence’s historic Duomo, Oleg has created an eye-catching set of visual paradoxes: portraits of strangers in a strange land that are somehow intimate and completely unguarded.
“Everyone was so busy taking photos, listening to audio guides and gawping upwards that they barely registered my presence, even when I was just feet away” the photographer explains. “It was comical, but poignant. They’ve travelled across the world to be here, but in the act of obsessively making thousands of bits of postcard-perfect content to show to friends back home, they’re lost in their viewfinders and not really aware of their surroundings at all.”
“Some of their expressions reminded me of catholic depictions of ecstasy” Oleg notes. “Like past pilgrims, these visitors to the cathedral are lost to a higher power, but in this case, it’s modern technology.”
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Aug 28, 2017
Source: Abduzeedo Photography
August 27, 2017
Nothing is Too Ridiculous: The Brilliantly Stupid Ideas of Directing Duo DANIELS
Explore the brilliance of dogboarding, a farting corpse, and a robot made out of bros.
We’ve all had those crazy, “stoned” ideas, whether it’s riding a block of ice down a hill or turning your house into a blanket fort complete with bar, lounge, and video game corner, but directing duo DANIELS turns them into ingeniously bizarre music videos, shorts, and features films. Made up of Daniel Scheinert and Daniel Kwan, DANIELS has already made a name for itself (themselves?) directing commercials and absurd music videos for The Shins, Foster the People, and most notably DJ Snake and Lil Jon’s chart-topping single “Turn Down for What,” but last year they took their strange prestige to another level last year with their first feature film Swiss Army Man, starring Paul Dano and Daniel Radcliffe who plays a farting corpse.
Source: NoFilmSchool
August 27, 2017
Watch: The Herstory of the Female Filmmaker
How much do you know about the history of women in film?
Cinema has a rich history of visionaries, dreamers, and movers and shakers, from Eadweard Muybridge who basically invented it by accident to Industrial Light and Magic who ushered in the age of CGI. Countless filmmakers have influenced, changed, and evolved our beloved art form with their brilliant innovations, but more often than not the contributions we talk about belong to male creatives.
If you’re interested in boning up on some film history to give you a more well-rounded understanding of how cinema went from novelties captured with bulky Kinetoscopes to grand pieces of art captured in UHD with an ARRI Alexa, filmmaker Kelly Gallagher’s short The Herstory of the Female Filmmaker is an excellent place to start.
Source: NoFilmSchool