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October 12, 2017
Explore SXSW Interactive Innovation Awards Categories Before November 10 Deadline
The 2018 SXSW Interactive Innovation Awards is still accepting regular entry applications through November 10. The Awards are open to anyone with a project, product, creative endeavor, scientific discovery, or student project that will launch or has launched between January 1 – December 31, 2017.
SXSW Interactive’s annual competition includes 13 award categories and 6 Special Honors, which recognize the most forward-looking tech developments in the connected world, launched or released in the 2017 calendar-year.
New for 2018, we’ve added the AI & Machine Learning category to the Interactive Innovation Awards. The AI & Machine Learning category aims to recognize the coolest, most cutting-edge, and the most useful applications of these intelligent and learning machines. Does your project make use of machine learning in a creative new way? Have you developed a new way for an intelligent program or system to learn from its users — or even teach itself? Do you have an new bot or interface that could pass a Turing test? Enter it in the Interactive Innovation Awards!
Learn more about the 13 award categories and 6 special honors that will be recognized at the 2018 Innovation Awards.
How to Apply
Tell us all about your entry and don’t be modest! The best entry forms give the Awards Jurists a thorough sense of your project, product or service (including some level of interaction with the project being entered, or video examples of it being used). Be sure to include information like:
- What the entry is and what it does (what problem does it solve or need does it fill)?
- Who it’s intended for (audience, target market, user it’s designed for)?
- What tools were used to build it; or what was involved in bringing the project together?
- Who was involved in bringing the project to fruition?
Feel free to include additional resources like spec sheets, marketing materials, associated social media accounts, testimonials, and a link to access the project with login info if needed.
Discounts for Students, researchers, and academics for the Student and SciFi No Longer categories are available upon request.
Deadline to Enter
Regular Entry: Saturday, Sept. 23 – Friday, November 10 — $150 fee
Final Entry Deadline: Friday, November 10, 2017
Join us for SXSW 2018 – register to attend by Friday, October 20 to save and be sure to make your hotel reservations through SXSW Housing & Travel for the best available rates.
Photo by Jay Willingham
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October 11, 2017
Announcing 200+ Showcasing Artists for the 2018 SXSW Music Festival
And we’re back! SXSW 2018 is five months away, and today’s announcement reveals the first wave of over 200 Showcasing Artists who will be performing at the SXSW Music Festival, March 12–18, 2018. Discovery is the standard at SXSW, and with acts from 32 countries set to perform in an array of musical styles you can expect to find artists and genres that you don’t even know you love yet.
Showcasing Artists include 88Rising artists Higher Brothers from Chengdu, China and Indonesian rapper Rich Chigga, new Matador Records signee Snail Mail, and recent additions to Jay-Z’s Roc Nation, Jay Park and Farina. Moses Boyd returns with the jazz/grime/electronic-infused Moses Boyd – Solo X one-man performance, while Albert Hammond Jr-produced Japanese indie-rockers DYGL, UK and New Zealand singer/songwriters Lucy Rose and Marlon Williams, and iconic UK indie pop legends The Wedding Present also join the 2018 lineup. View the full list of Showcasing Artists below.
Digging into a list of this magnitude is always a treat, but can also be time-consuming. Allow us to lend you a helping hand in the process of discovery:
- Follow the official SXSW 2018 Music Festival playlist on Spotify
- Listen to SXSWfm’s specialty show highlighting artists from today’s announcement
- Surf through our SXSW 2018 Showcasing Artists Music Videos playlist on YouTube
In case you missed it, the SXSW Conference made a Keynote & Featured Speakers Announcement yesterday, including additions to the Music Tracks. Grammy Award-winning singer and songwriter Keith Urban will speak at the conference as part of Music Culture & Stories, and Spotify’s Chief Content Officer Stefan Blom will have a conversation with Josh Constine, the Editor-At-Large for TechCrunch, in Sync, Stream & License.
Lock in your spot in the audience for these performances and conference sessions by registering to attend. Act quickly, as registering before the October 20 deadline will save you 30% on a Music Badge. The Music Badge provides primary access to all showcases, Music and Convergence tracks at the SXSW Conference and more, plus secondary access to Interactive and Film content. Review this chart to learn more about what the Music Badge can do for you.
Artists, if this announcement has served as a reminder that you have not yet submitted your Showcase Application, don’t panic. There’s still time to apply before the final deadline on October 20. Read these tips from the Music Festival team for a primer on how to make your best effort in the application process, and watch this helpful How-To video if you need help with the nuts and bolts.
2018 SXSW Showcasing Artists
Everything subject to change.
Ace Tee (Hamburg GERMANY)
Aero Flynn (Minneapolis MN)
Altre di B (Bologna ITALY)
Antytila (Kyiv UKRAINE)
Aries (Bilbao SPAIN)
Automelodi (Montreal CANADA)
Avatar Darko (Seattle WA)
Bad Moves (Washington DC)
Bad Pony (Sydney AUSTRALIA)
Alice Bag (Los Angeles CA)
Lee Bains III + The Glory Fires (Birmingham AL)
Bajaga and Instruktori (Belgrade SERBIA)
Baywaves (Madrid SPAIN)
Benin City (London UK-ENGLAND)
Dan Bettridge (Bridgend UK-WALES)
The Bishops (Austin TX)
Blackberries (Solingen GERMANY)
Blood Wine or Honey (Hong Kong CHINA)
Boogat (Montreal CANADA)
Moses Boyd – Solo X (London UK-ENGLAND)
Brightness (Newcastle AUSTRALIA)
The Britanys (New York NY)
Abraham Brody (Vilnius LITHUANIA)
Marla Brown (London UK-ENGLAND)
Buddy (Compton CA)
C-Kan (Guadalajara MEXICO)
Dylan Cameron (Austin TX)
Fabrizio Cammarata (Palermo ITALY)
Cape Francis (Brooklyn NY)
Castlecomer (Sydney AUSTRALIA)
ChihiroYamazaki+ROUTE14band (Tokyo JAPAN)
CIFIKA (Seoul SOUTH KOREA)
Cilantro Boombox (Austin TX)
Cirkus Funk (Cali COLOMBIA)
C.Macleod (Stornoway UK-SCOTLAND)
Kelvyn Colt (Bingen GERMANY)
Coma Pony (Chihuahua MEXICO)
Crumb (Brooklyn NY)
Cursed Earth (Perth AUSTRALIA)
Curved Light (Austin TX)
Cut Worms (Brooklyn NY)
Mikaela Davis (Rochester NY)
Jarv Dee (Seattle WA)
Helena Deland (Montreal CANADA)
Deluxe (Aix-en-Provence FRANCE)
Dirgahayu (Kuala Lumpur MALAYSIA)
Stella Donnelly (Fremantle AUSTRALIA)
Keelan Donovan (Portland ME)
Joey Dosik (Los Angeles CA)
Draper (London UK-ENGLAND)
DYGL (Shibuya JAPAN)
El Otro Borges (Buenos Aires ARGENTINA)
El Otro Grupo (Santa Marta COLOMBIA)
Farina (Medellin COLOMBIA)
Fatai (Melbourne AUSTRALIA)
FAVX (Madrid SPAIN)
Charlie Faye & The Fayettes (Austin TX)
Ruby Fields (Cronulla AUSTRALIA)
Fis and Rob Thorne (Palmerston North NEW ZEALAND)
The Fish Police (London UK-ENGLAND)
Flyte (London UK-ENGLAND)
The Foreign Resort (Copenhagen DENMARK)
Forever (Montreal CANADA)
FOXTRAX (New York NY)
Francobollo (London UK-ENGLAND)
Freedom Hawk (Virginia Beach VA)
Fuglar (Santiago CHILE)
GANGES (Madrid SPAIN)
Gang of Youths (Sydney AUSTRALIA)
Nubya Garcia (London UK-ENGLAND)
Samantha Glass (Madison WI)
William Harries Graham (Austin TX)
Grand Analog (Toronto CANADA)
Grandchildren (Philadelphia PA)
Greenbeard (Austin TX)
Grim Streaker (Brooklyn NY)
Grupo Rebolu (Colombia NY)
Gulfer (Montreal CANADA)
Gurr (Berlin GERMANY)
Sinead Harnett (London UK-ENGLAND)
Hatchie (Brisbane AUSTRALIA)
Hater (Malmo SWEDEN)
Ashley Henry Trio (London UK-ENGLAND)
Higher Brothers (Chengdu CHINA)
The Homesick (Dokkum NETHERLANDS)
Honduras (Brooklyn NY)
Warren Hood (Austin TX)
Husky Loops (London UK-ENGLAND)
HUXLEE (Los Angeles CA)
IAMDDB (Manchester UK-ENGLAND)
Izzy True (Trumansburg NY)
Jade Imagine (Melbourne AUSTRALIA)
Joji (Tokyo JAPAN)
JP The Wavy (Tokyo JAPAN)
Keith Ape (Seoul SOUTH KOREA)
Sarah Klang (Gothenburg SWEDEN)
La Banda Morisca (Andalucía SPAIN)
Manu Lanvin (Lyon FRANCE)
Leather Girls (Austin TX)
Luna Lee (Seoul SOUTH KOREA)
Lethal Bizzle (London UK-ENGLAND)
Benji Lewis (Melbourne AUSTRALIA)
Dean Lewis (Sydney AUSTRALIA)
LNG/SHT (Cancun MEXICO)
Los Wilds (Madrid SPAIN)
Lolo Lovina (Sydney AUSTRALIA)
Luneta Mágica (Manaus BRAZIL)
The Magnettes (Pajala SWEDEN)
Manatee Commune (Seattle WA)
Mannequin Pussy (Philadelphia PA)
Maréh (Cali COLOMBIA)
MARLENE (Stockholm SWEDEN)
Anna McClellan (Brooklyn NY)
MC Lars (Berkeley CA)
Melo Makes Music (Chicago IL)
Milk & Bone (Montreal CANADA)
Miqui Brightside (DJset) (Madrid SPAIN)
Mogli (Hamburg GERMANY)
Mothership (Dallas TX)
Museless (Barcelona SPAIN)
My Life as Ali Thomas (Bangkok THAILAND)
Hans Nayna (Mahebourg MAURITIUS)
Night Beats (Austin TX)
Not3s (Hackney UK-ENGLAND)
No Vacation (San Francisco CA)
October (Auckland NEW ZEALAND)
Nnamdi Ogbonnaya (Chicago IL)
Okey Dokey (Nashville TN)
ONR (Glasgow UK-SCOTLAND)
The Orielles (Halifax UK-ENGLAND)
Our Girl (London UK-ENGLAND)
The Outer Vibe (Nashville TN)
The Outfit, TX (Dallas TX)
Jay Park (Seoul SOUTH KOREA)
Partner (Windsor CANADA)
Peach Pit (Vancouver CANADA)
Sloan Peterson (Sydney AUSTRALIA)
pH-1 (Seoul SOUTH KOREA)
Phe Reds (Seattle WA)
Sara Pi (Barcelona SPAIN)
Plastic Picnic (Brooklyn NY)
pronoun (Brooklyn NY)
Punjabtronix (Bristol UK-ENGLAND)
Oliver Rajamani (Austin TX)
David Ramirez (Austin TX)
Rancho Aparte (Quibdó COLOMBIA)
Ratboys (Chicago IL)
Gemma Ray (Berlin GERMANY)
Lou Rebecca (Paris FRANCE)
*repeat repeat (Nashville TN)
Jess Ribeiro (Melbourne AUSTRALIA)
Rich Chigga (Jakarta INDONESIA)
R.LUM.R. (Nashville TN)
Lucy Rose (London UK-ENGLAND)
Rude Kid (London UK-ENGLAND)
RVG (Melbourne AUSTRALIA)
Salem’s Bend (Los Angeles CA)
Sammus (Ithaca NY)
sarasara (Lille FRANCE)
Sassy 009 (Oslo NORWAY)
Say Sue Me (Busan SOUTH KOREA)
Ed Schrader’s Music Beat (Baltimore MD)
Shamir (Las Vegas NV)
Shopping (London UK-ENGLAND)
Sik-k (Seoul SOUTH KOREA)
Silibrina (São Paulo BRAZIL)
Raz Simone (Seattle WA)
Snail Mail (Baltimore MD)
Sonars (Bergamo ITALY)
SPORTS (Philadelphia PA)
SsingSsing (Seoul SOUTH KOREA)
Steak (London UK-ENGLAND)
Stefflon Don (London UK-ENGLAND)
Stonefield (Macedon Ranges AUSTRALIA)
Sturle Dagsland (Stavanger NORWAY)
Sun Seeker (Nashville TN)
Surfbort (Brooklyn NY)
Surma (Leiria PORTUGAL)
Talisco (Paris FRANCE)
Tennis System (Los Angeles CA)
Terry vs. Tori (Seville SPAIN)
Theodore (Athens GREECE)
TiKA (Toronto CANADA)
Adam Torres (Austin TX)
Totally Mild (Melbourne AUSTRALIA)
Touts (Derry UK-N. IRELAND)
Uni (New York NY)
Us and Us Only (Baltimore MD)
Dhruv Visvanath (New Delhi INDIA)
VOWWS (Los Angeles CA)
Voyager (Perth AUSTRALIA)
VVV (Austin TX)
Warbly Jets (Los Angeles CA)
The Watchers (San Francisco CA)
The Weather Station (Toronto CANADA)
The Wedding Present (Leeds UK-ENGLAND)
Jerry Williams (Portsmouth UK-ENGLAND)
Marlon Williams (Christchurch NEW ZEALAND)
Wo Fat (Dallas TX)
Woodie GoChild (Seoul SOUTH KOREA)
“World Music Unleashed” by SIPM (Austin TX)
Yemen Blues (Tel Aviv ISRAEL)
Yultron (Los Angeles CA)
Yungen (London UK-ENGLAND)
The Zephyr Bones (Barcelona SPAIN)
Violetta Zironi (Reggio Emilia ITALY)
Everything subject to change.
Photo credits, clockwise from top left:
Uni – Photo courtesy of the artist
Moses Boyd Solo Exodus – Photo by Eddie Otchere
Rich Chigga – Photo courtesy of 88rising
Mikaela Davis – Photo by Will Cornfield
Ace Tee – Photo by Yannick Plume
Partner – Photo by Colin Medley
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October 11, 2017
Red Bull Sound Select: 3 Days in Toronto
Red Bull Sound Select: 3 Days in Toronto
We are excited to share the event by Red Bull Sound Select: 3 Days in Toronto. A gathering where they would celebrate the local talent from its city with many artists including: Majid Jordan, a l l i e, Chris Larocca, Badbadnotgood and more. Let’s take a look at the event and if you are in Toronto, Canada; you should definitely check it out. We will share in the next article everything about the work in some sort of an interview behind with the designers and artists and about all their work for the Red Bull Sound Select 3 Days in Toronto.
In their words
3 Days in Toronto (October 19-21) is a multiday musical takeover of Toronto, celebrating the local talent who have helped put the city on the map. Tickets are $20. Enjoy! #3DaysinTO
More Links
- Learn more about the Event at Red Bull Sound Select 3 Days in Toronto
Illustration & Art Direction
AoiroStudio
Oct 11, 2017
Source: Abduzeedo Illustration
October 11, 2017
Watercolor artworks that are too good to be true
Watercolor artworks that are too good to be true
It’s just mind blowing to find artworks so beautiful that you might think it was done digitally. It tends to be very tricky to find amazingly done watercolor pieces, but for Russian artist Ashiya it’s no problem at all. She paints artworks that are too good to be true.
Here you can see some of her latest pieces. For more of it and for videos of her creative process, please check out her Instagram account! You should really follow her keep yourself updated. I hope you enjoy these! Cheers. 😉
PauloGabriel
Oct 11, 2017
Source: Abduzeedo Illustration
October 11, 2017
Illustration & Art Direction: Selected Editorial Work by Eiko Ojala
Illustration & Art Direction: Selected Editorial Work by Eiko Ojala
Let’s take a look at the Illustration & Art Direction project by Eiko Ojala about a selected collection of his work from 2016-17. What’s interesting is that you would think that is paper cut but it’s a illustrative mixture with graphic design. The Beautiful craftsmanship that you should definitely be inspired. Check it out!
Eiko Ojala is an illustrator and graphic designer based in Tallinn, Estonia. You should definitely check out his Behance for more of his stunning work.
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Illustration & Art Direction
AoiroStudio
Oct 11, 2017
Source: Abduzeedo Illustration
October 10, 2017
Nightscape Photography Series: Ultraviolet Break of Day
Nightscape Photography Series: Ultraviolet Break of Day
Did you get a chance to watch Blade Runner 2049 this Weekend? I still haven’t, sadly. With this movie release, many of us have been re-exploring that movie genre but for us on ABDZ; it’s photography! We are taking a look at this nightscape photography series by FIELD IO, where are we headed this time? In the streets of Shenzhen’s Huaqiangbei also known as “The World’s Greatest Electronics Market where after some exploration on Adobe Lightroom, Marcus decided to create a series based on that uncanny atmosphere popularly inspired in the original Blade Runner movie.
FIELD IO is the work of Marcus Wendt who is a designer and visual artist from London, UK. You should definitely check out his Behance for more of his work.
Plunged into a foreign dark I found a new way of seeing, strange and alien. Synthetic light creeps into my eyes, the air thick with colours shifting and angles unbending. In the midst of the night a new day begins.
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Photography
AoiroStudio
Oct 10, 2017
Source: Abduzeedo Photography
October 10, 2017
Mobile Photography: First unedited images taken with the Pixel 2
Mobile Photography: First unedited images taken with the Pixel 2
Over the long Weekend, Google has released a bunch of photos that were taken with their latest Pixel 2. It looks quite stunning and they are unedited! From the announcement, I was a bit disappointed that the camera didn’t change since the original Pixel. But my feedback is quite redeeming itself with what they are promising and what they called: “computational photography”. Equipped with a single 12MP camera with a f/1.8 aperture and 1.4μm pixels; the Pixel 2 (judging by this collection) is also moving ahead with their portrait mode feature that looks quite beautiful as well. All that jazz to be saying that I am very excited about what’s to come with the Pixel 2, I can’t wait to test it out in the wild. What do you think about these pictures?
Taking great photos and videos is one of the things you do most with your phone, so we set out to deliver the best photography experience. You get stunningly crisp, clear, and detailed photos in any light. You can also take high-quality portrait shots with the perfect background blurs, from both the front and back camera. New motion photos capture a few seconds of video around the shot so you can relive the moment around the picture. The Pixel 2 camera is powered by our computational photography and machine learning (ML) capabilities which make all these great features easy, fun and fast for you to use.
Pixel 2
More Links
- See the entire Pixel 2 collection here
- Check out the other products via Google Store
Shot on Pixel 2
AoiroStudio
Oct 10, 2017
Source: Abduzeedo Photography
October 9, 2017
Web Design & UI/UX: Lionsgate Pitch Concept
Web Design & UI/UX: Lionsgate Pitch Concept
I used to be a great fan (and still) of pitch concepts, it’s such a great exercise to do with your team or even with yourself. The goal is to attract a client for project by getting out of your comfort zone with an idea and going through the whole design process. I love it because you get to experiment ideas or even try concepts that you wish you could have done on another project. We are taking a closer look at the work from Rolf Jensen for a pitch he had to work on for Lionsgate (in collaboration with Real Pie Media), I love how the background colour is part of the UI where buttons aren’t adding an additional foreground colour. It almost feels like an app but through a web experience. Check it out!
Rolf Jensen is a freelance interactive director based in Lower East Side, New York. We have featured his work before on ABDZ, please check him out on Behance.
These visuals are pulled from a design pitch I created for Lionsgate and Real Pie Media in LA a while back, yet this is some of the most recent work that I was able to show publicly this year, but more to be shared soon.
More Links
- Learn more about Rolf Jensen at rolfjensen.no
- Follow Rolf on Behance
Via Instagram
AoiroStudio
Oct 09, 2017
Source: Abduzeedo UI/UX
October 8, 2017
3 Ways David Fincher Uses Color to Completely Mess with Your Head
The color palettes David Fincher uses in his films are just as powerful as his dark, unstable characters.
There are a lot of words to describe David Fincher’s films but “subtle” isn’t really one of them. The worlds he creates have a characteristic normalcy, albeit dark and slightly off, but as their stories progress we’re always brought to the nightmarish carnival that is Fincher’s creativity—peeking past the curtain to see a fight club, a missing woman stabbing a man to death mid-coitus, and a mummified man barely alive laying in a room full of pine tree air fresheners.
However, there are areas in which Fincher uses some restraint and finesse in order to carefully lay the groundwork for his more over-the-top sequences, one of which is color. In this video essay by StudioBinder, we get to see how the director employs different color palettes to communicate important themes and character traits to his audience, as well as to ramp up the anticipation in suspenseful scenes.
Source: NoFilmSchool
October 8, 2017
What Dan Harmon’s Improvised Cartoon Can Teach You about Instinctual Storytelling
“You are a storyteller. You were born that way.” —Dan Harmon
Does storytelling come naturally to you? That’s kind of a tricky question, right? On one hand, we can pretty capably tell a co-worker about our crazy weekend, but on the other hand, we can spend hours staring at a blank page, completely stuck on how to write our next scene. Really, while storytelling might be an inherent skill we’re all born with, the ability to put that skill to work on paper may not be.
However, one writer that seems to really have this screenwriting thing down is Dan Harmon. His work on Community, Rick and Morty, and countless other TV series has shown us that consistent quality is attainable, but one show, in particular, reveals a unique spirit of storytelling that relies less on talent and labor and more on creative instinct, the improvised D&D knock-off HarmonQuest. In this video essay, Sage Hyden of Just Write discusses what screenwriters can learn about storytelling from improv, practice, and going with your gut.
Source: NoFilmSchool