Laser Cut Record
Category: Art, Music, Other Design Fields, Printing/Production,
Not satisfyied with creating the world's first 3D printed record, Amanda Ghassaei has now created wooden, laser cut records. The results are not only striking in a visual sense, but the audible versions of the songs cut into the wood in this way are strangely haunting. Tracks that Amanda has chosen so far include Radiohead'...
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twitterGreen Man Festival identity 2013
Category: Design / Branding/Identity, Design / Typography, Illustration, Music, Printing/Production,
If you're heading to Green Man Festival this year then keep an eye out for a new visual identity by YCN Studio. Working with illustrator Sarah Mazzetti, they've developed an other-wordly sense the festiva...
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Seaquence – experimental music maker with an organic interface
Category: Animation / Motion Graphics, Music,
Check out Seaquence – an experimental project of music making and interface design. Pretty crazy to play around with, and how cute are the bugs? ...
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Incredibox music machine
Category: Animation / Motion Graphics, Music,
Take a look at the music maker from Incredibox – apart from being good fun, it's a sweet bit of animation :) http://www.incredibox.com ...
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Of Monsters and Men
Category: Animation / Motion Graphics, Music,
Absolutely loving these guys at the moment — even more so after their scintillating live show in Camden last night. Of Monsters and Men are musical geniuses (genii?), something akin to Arcade Fire with piano accordian, trumpet and timpani action aplenty. I see they're doing a fair bit of touring around Europe in t...
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Ghost in the Machine - Erika Iris Simmons
Category: Art, Music,
These portraits of musicians (made out of recycled cassette tape with original cassette) are pretty awesome. Erika was inspired to create the 'Ghosts in the Machine' project after a description by philosopher Gilbert Ryle about how your spirit lives in your body. Erika imagines we are al...
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Black & White - The Ravonettes
Category: Animation / Motion Graphics, Music,
I love a good shadow animation and here's a great example. The song title is 'Black & white' performed by The Ravonettes and the film clip was designed and directed by Chris Do / Blind (which, incidentally, the completed from concept to completion in 3 weeks!). It was par...
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Mykonos - Fleet Foxes
Mykonos from Sean Pecknold on Vimeo.
Category: Animation / Motion Graphics, Music,
I actually posted this up on our old blog a year or two back but I like it so much I had to share it. The film clip is an awesome paper animation created by Sean Pecknold. Pretty mesmerising! You can also see the making of it here. You can see more of his fantastic work on the Grandc...
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Rest of the Story
Category: Books, Design / Print, Illustration, Music,
The guys at the Canadian studio Rethink have come up with the most incredible album artwork. Chris Tarry is not just a jazz musician, but also an accomplished author. Rethink turned his new album, Rest of the Story, into a little book of Chris' short stories. How amazing is the detail, that silver ribbon marker, the die-cut ...
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Magenta Skycode
Category: Documentaries/Film, Music,
How did this track get under the radar last year? (Well, my not-always-working radar, anyway!) Beautiful track and accompanying video from Finnish indie band Magenta Skycode. Definitely song of the day. Now, to buy the album... (love the ...
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