Project 12:31 is an incredible photography concept that uses long-exposure techniques to create ‘light paintings’ of a human male cadaver.

In 1993, A convicted murderer was executed. His body was given to science, segmented, and photographed for medical research as part of the Visible Human Project. The segments, (all 1,871 of them) were put together to create an animation that is used to create the human form within the images. The animation was played fullscreen on a computer, which was moved around by an assistant while being photographed in multiple dark environments.

The technique is very similar to the Dentsu iPad light painting that I posted back in November 2010, using long exposure to capture moving image and physical movement. Two great experimental examples of converging mixed media techniques.

Project 12:31, A photographic series concept by Croix Gagnon. Photography by Frank Schott.

The above is a trailer for The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore by ex-Pixar animator William Joyce. It looks amazing with loads of interaction throughout the app and really rich animation and graphics. Check out Moonbot Studios as well.

I know what I’ll be purchasing and playing with tonight!

Ever wondered how on earth some projects have been created?

If you’re a creative, designer, developer or techy working in one of the many creative disciplines then no doubt you will spend a good deal of your time researching campaigns, sites, virals, social media etc from your peers, competitors and rivals.

In my experience of working in agencies there are normally two responses to viewing other peoples work. The first and most common (if creatives and designers are involved) is unfortunately to go straight for the jugular and start pointing out flaws, describe in detail how badly it’s been executed, wonder if they didn’t have the budget to finish it or explain how you would have done it differently and obviously better.

The other response is to sit in awe, to call colleagues over, send an email and to say under your breath “I wish I’d thought of that” or “how on earth have they done that?”.

North Kingdom frequently fall into the latter category, they appear to have won just about every major award possible and now they’re giving everyone an insight into how much work they put into their projects. They’re obviously working with considerable budgets but there is no denying the amount of work and detail that is executed at every level.

If you have a bit of time to kill then I suggest you give their site a visit and have a good study of the behind the scenes.

Christian Faur has assembled a collection of over one hundred thousand hand cast crayons in order to create his Crayon Series 1 body of work. I’m not entirely sure if they would be classed as sculptures, installations or paintings?

Crayon Series 1 is a series of photorealistic landscapes and figurative images that are formed at the surface of the thousands of tightly packed crayon tips. Very nice indeed.

Tomorrow I am going to crack into this little beauty of a book, Just My Type by Simon Garfield. What a great Xmas present.

From what I have read on the inside cover it is a book detailing how fonts took over the world. Why did Barack Obama chose Gotham for his presidential campaign? how did great originators of type from Baskerville and Gill through to Zapf develop fonts?

It also covers the pivotal moments when fonts left Letraset catalogues and were loaded onto computers… and typefaces became something we realised we all have an opinion about. Looking forward to the chapter on Comic Sans then!

It looks a great read, I suggest you check it out.

You can view more info on Simon Garfield’s website.
Also on Amazon and Guardianbookshop.

Here’s a challenge that’s pretty irresistible but the stakes are high! Can you draw the internet? So who’s more imaginative the creative industry or a bunch of 10yr olds?

I think i’ll sit down with my 3yr old and see what we both come up with at the weekend. I think i’ve gone into competitive dad mode, his better not be as good as mine!

I have just been watching these amazing timelapse videos that are part of an upcoming feature film. Because most of us live in highly populated areas with lots of light pollution we hardly see many of the stars visible to the human eye. I spent a night on Dartmoor earlier in the year and was totally captivated by the amount of stars in the sky.

Amazing high res footage all shot on a Canon 5D mkII, go check it out at Timescapes.org and over at Vimeo. Can’t wait to see this on a large screen or an iMax version would be incredible.

Incredible art installation by SOFTlab at Bridge Gallery NYC. The installation is made of over 4600 laser cut panels each a different shape with a unique color. The panels are connected by over 17000 bulldog clips. More images on Flickr.

WTF?, Crazy but cool were my thoughts when this was the first link I viewed this morning. Apparently it’s a performance piece by the artist Willi Dorner “a moving trail, choreographed for a group of dancers.”

Thanks to Mr Hobbs for the link, if you’re interested in front end development check out his Nooshu blog, it’s pretty incredible.

I only found out about this yesterday, the Anti Design Festival is happening around Redchurch Street in London’s Shoreditch. Apparently there are a host of exhibitions, installations, workshops, performances and talks in Art, Design, Product, Film, Sound, Fashion, Performance, Print and Interactive etc.

This is what the website has to say “As a response to 25 years of cultural deep freeze in the UK, the Anti Design Festival will attempt to unlock creative fires and ideas, exploring spaces hitherto deemed out-of-bounds by a purely commercial criteria. Created initially as a direct response to the pretty commerciality of the London Design Festival, the festival will shift the focus from bums-on-seats to brain food, and from taste and style to experiment and risk.”

Go check it out.