http://blog.cpd-work.com Tue, 19 Apr 2011 13:55:34 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Underwater ballet, photographed by Nadia Moro.]]> http://blog.cpd-work.com/2010/behind-the-suface I defy anyone not to find this series of films from the American Museum of Natural History inspiring.This film is basically the top half of Powers of Ten complete with a few decades more learnings.]]> http://blog.cpd-work.com/2010/amnh-films There’s something perverse about saying something, sticking it on the wall, and expecting a predefined response from it. I don’t really know the statistics that prove the effectiveness of billboards and print ads, I don’t really care. But it does feel that when you do that you’re engaging in the kind of behavior that a [...]]]> http://blog.cpd-work.com/2010/no-fly-posting I’m working on a project at the moment to create a communal sense of accumulated achievement over time. A way of changing behaviors in regard to energy usage. I like the Streamgraph as a method of telling a story, it’s visually organic, not too analytical, and feels gentle. As a way of engaging a viewer [...]]]> http://blog.cpd-work.com/2010/streamgraph The observed environment causes physical chemical reactions which in turn cause emotions that stimulate subjective self expression. I want to create a system that will convert subjective self expression into an objective form that can be universally comprehended by everyone, with no language or cultural barriers. The objective beauty of flowers has been investigated by [...]]]> http://blog.cpd-work.com/2010/human-happiness-meter Everyday communication is conducted in discrete zones, Facebook, Twitter, email, IM, Skype, SMS. Abstracted and mapped onto functions like upload, send, attach, comment, tag. These functions often overlap and don’t facilitate intimate interaction with other people. Communicating feels like filling in a form, and notifications of these communications adds to the cacophony of distracting bleeps [...]]]> http://blog.cpd-work.com/2010/intimacy-and-loneliness Fantastic Google Maps mash up, travel the full length of the Trans Siberian Railway, the pride of Russia, whilst listening to Gogol’s Dead Souls. Amazing. I’m hoping for a few days, bed ridden by flu, where I’ll have the excuse to go the full length of this Russian odyssey. I’d have to get a dubbed [...]]]> http://blog.cpd-work.com/2010/moscow-to-vladivostok Evident Utensil music video, interesting datamoshing texture, digital psychedelic. Right click and watch it big.]]> http://blog.cpd-work.com/2010/evident-utensil Sync/Lost is a multi-user installation for immersion in the history of electronic music.]]> http://blog.cpd-work.com/2010/synclost Class voyeurism, catchy music and lots of wrong things, all made right. Right click to watch big.]]> http://blog.cpd-work.com/2010/die-antwoord “A robot connected to the internet which gives young people a direct voice in the Houses of Parliament, by taking their virtual messages and writing them out in the physical world, in the place where politicians are.”]]> http://blog.cpd-work.com/2010/voicebot Article from Andy Beckett about the ‘deepweb’. “The deep web is currently 400 to 550 times larger than the commonly defined world wide web,” he wrote. “The deep web is the fastest growing category of new information on the internet … The value of deep web content is immeasurable … internet searches are searching only [...]]]> http://blog.cpd-work.com/2010/the-dark-side-3 FPM‘s site, created by THA. Minimal branding, letting the audio dictate and transform the site.]]> http://blog.cpd-work.com/2010/fpm-site-by-tha The CSS awards and Site Inspire both ran pieces on the site I built for Young recently. The minimal CSS Javascript thing seems to float people’s boats these days. Also Boing Boing and Thought Merchants mentioned my hairy vector generator.]]> http://blog.cpd-work.com/2010/chitter-chatter Patrick Burgoyne, Editor of CR, was nice enough to get in touch and do a piece on the CR Blog about the Hairy bit of code that you can download]]> http://blog.cpd-work.com/2009/creative-review Imagine seeing these in the 70′s. Reminds me of Conrad Shawcross’s work.]]> http://blog.cpd-work.com/2009/1652 This is unnerving. The same way I find all voluminous airborne objects unnerving. I’d still like to see huge Zeppelins floating across continents like weightless cruise ships simply for the spectacle.]]> http://blog.cpd-work.com/2009/airjelly SWEATSHOPPE’s video painting technology.]]> http://blog.cpd-work.com/2009/1614 The photography agent Webber came in to the office the other day, for me Greg White‘s portfolio stood out.]]> http://blog.cpd-work.com/2009/greg-white-2 Work related set in Flickr.]]> http://blog.cpd-work.com/2009/work-related-flickr-set I strongly recommend watching the full 54 minutes of Adam Curtis’s film It Felt Like a Kiss. The music is fantastic and the archive footage is well researched and made even more powerful by the editing. To represent decades of American history within a nightmare hallucination, fast paced as a trailer for a blockbuster, and [...]]]> http://blog.cpd-work.com/2009/it-felt-like-a-kiss I’ve found the pursuit of photorealistic painting interesting for the psychology behind them as much as the paitings themselves. Ben Weiner makes photorealistic impressions of abstract views. Charles Bell‘s Pinball series of photorealistic paintings is equally impressive.]]> http://blog.cpd-work.com/2009/ben-weiner-charles-bell Photography of Hong Kong’s dense urbanism. The photos are arranged in themes like Real Fake Art and Bastardised Chairs that help conjure a place in your mind beyond the edges of the photos. (via @ilovemei).]]> http://blog.cpd-work.com/2009/michael-wolf-2 That which can be built, (Rough Translation). Antoine Lejolivet, Paul Souviron and Jean-François Barbier perform artist’s residences at DIY stores and create fun sculptures in the situationist mold.]]> http://blog.cpd-work.com/2009/encastrable NASA has mad available to download spectacular images of the Apollo missions to celebrate the 40th Anniversary of the Moon landings.]]> http://blog.cpd-work.com/2009/apollos-40th The Green Cloud. Lasers projected onto smoke from a power station, then people in Helsinki were encouraged to unplug electrical equipment and as a result the cloud would increase in size.]]> http://blog.cpd-work.com/2009/green-cloud “This sculpture is a machine that advances two full sized automobiles slowly into one another over a period of 6 days, simulating a head on automobile collision.  ”Each car moves about three feet into the other.  The movement is so slow as to be invisible. It is almost impossible to watch a modern action film [...]]]> http://blog.cpd-work.com/2009/the-slow-inevitable-death-of-american-muscle I like these paintings of Léopold Rabus. He uses representative techniques like perspective, realistic figures and spaces and distorts them and reinterprets their connections to unnerve the audience and make them think again about what they’re looking at.]]> http://blog.cpd-work.com/2009/leopold-rabus Chinese artist Zhou Fan’s Jellyfish series. “A series of my paintings is based on dreams that I had as a child of many many jellyfish floating in the sky, some of which fell to the ground on parachures and became mushrooms. These dreams had a strong impact on me, and I remember them vividly. Somehow I feel [...]]]> http://blog.cpd-work.com/2009/zhou-fan Canadian Illustrator Jon Klassen‘s lovely work. There’s an idea, and that’s described beautifully and sometimes abstractly. Good to Remember that humor is important to counterpoise more ominous emotions.]]> http://blog.cpd-work.com/2009/jon-klassen A film by Lernert Engelberts & Sander Plug. This is a really well treated idea that came about by accident. It’s quite relaxing to listen to. Like that track from OK Computer. It’s also sad. Episodes are here. “August 4, 2006, the personal search queries of 650,000 AOL (America Online) users accidentally ended up on [...]]]> http://blog.cpd-work.com/2009/i-love-alaska-50 Flickr set of technical drawings from American delineator Hugh Ferriss]]> http://blog.cpd-work.com/2009/hugh-ferriss-2 These paintings are good. They drip with character and life.]]> http://blog.cpd-work.com/2009/kevin-cyr I like the abstract landscapes. He uses dots and his name is Dotson.]]> http://blog.cpd-work.com/2009/michael-dotson The wonderful world of Han Hoogerbrugge is worth one of your hours. I’d say it’s a steal. The animation especially. This is mostly all I looked at during my foundation course.]]> http://blog.cpd-work.com/2009/han-hoogerbrugge Just shipped 3 DATASHUFFLE prints to Sweden for an exhibition of glitch art and music at Karlshamns gallery, showing alongside work from Beflix. Pop along if you’re in the area.]]> http://blog.cpd-work.com/2009/datashuffle-at-karlshamns-gallery A growing collection of typography snapshots in the ffffound vein linked to my hairy ginge.]]> http://blog.cpd-work.com/2009/we-love-typography Now I have to have an opinion. Fuck it, make your own mind up, his work made me smile and I feel bad today.]]> http://blog.cpd-work.com/2009/mike-mills Fine Tokyo design blog Hitspaper have featured DATASHUFFLE. I think they like it. (Bablefish Translation) I’m excited to work with the motif of data error. And several works on the mind lately. First, CPD-WORK graphic posters [Data Shuffle]. Then, in the year 2000 inspired fabian jochen kanzler & steve michaelis pattern book [frug]. The product, [...]]]> http://blog.cpd-work.com/2009/hitspaper-datashuffle I’ve seen a lot of staged, cinematic photography recently, where the scene is composed of artificially combined elements. Jeff Wall has been composing these kind of photographs since the late 70′s. His photography has a surreal feel without seeming unfamiliar or infected by brash styles. A lot of his works bear close relation to Fine Art and [...]]]> http://blog.cpd-work.com/2009/i-saw-this-jeff-wall The blog Manystuff included me in their end of year thing for 2008. I was involved in an exhibition in Berlin earlier in the year curated by Charlotte. Which was nice.]]> http://blog.cpd-work.com/2009/there-i-am The DATA SHUFFLE range of prints are now for sale. Silver-based A2 digital C-type prints, printed by a Chromira RA-4 printer on Kodak Endura Metallic stock.]]> http://blog.cpd-work.com/2009/buy-buy-buy A photo a day keeps the doldrums away. Nikola Tamindzic‘s daily photography.]]> http://blog.cpd-work.com/2009/home-of-the-vain Massive wood.]]> http://blog.cpd-work.com/2009/henrique-oliveira Oh, yeah, I get it now. Marloes ten Bhömer.]]> http://blog.cpd-work.com/2009/marloes-ten-bhomer Tree house.]]> http://blog.cpd-work.com/2009/terunobu-fujimori Courtesy of gb_r. These are hip.]]> http://blog.cpd-work.com/2009/42-1s Alright, alright, alright.]]> http://blog.cpd-work.com/2009/videogramo There’s beauty in that decay.]]> http://blog.cpd-work.com/2009/yves-marchand-and-romain-meffre I’d never seen this before. I like the feeling of soft light he creates with shadow and gradients.]]> http://blog.cpd-work.com/2009/siggi-eggertson Studioklink’s Moodwall reacts to passers-by.]]> http://blog.cpd-work.com/2009/moodwall I saw an image of Big Bambu by Mike and Doug Starn and was drawn to its scale.]]> http://blog.cpd-work.com/2009/big-bambu Richard Galpin makes these compositions by cutting and peeling sections from photographs.]]> http://blog.cpd-work.com/2009/richard-galpin I was at the private view of Designing Seeds at the SIAD galley in Sheffield, which was great. Another lovely thing was the large selection of GF Smith paper samples that were being handed out. Particularly the large dimensions of a book of photography by John Ross, designed by SEA, which was beautiful.]]> http://blog.cpd-work.com/2009/sea-for-gf-smith Jason Salavon is a man of abstraction and code with some good ideas for creating images.]]> http://blog.cpd-work.com/2009/jason-salavon My favorite product of theirs is the jealous picture frame.]]> http://blog.cpd-work.com/2009/troika (via We Make Money Not Art) This looks fun.]]> http://blog.cpd-work.com/2009/are-you-experienced I saw Charles Avery’s The Islanders: An Introduction at The Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art. It reminded me of when I was a child and would conjure characters and put them to paper. And it reminded me of Murakami’s Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, in the way it introduces you to [...]]]> http://blog.cpd-work.com/2009/the-islanders-an-introduction I found No Rules Just Architecture after seeing their House of Ruins, but I’m more impressed by their website. Each project is displayed in its space like a collage, overlaid by iFrames and Type, it seems like a natural and sympathetic way to show their work, when they could’ve paid a lot more money for a [...]]]> http://blog.cpd-work.com/2009/nrja I like some of Jeremy Geddes‘s work.]]> http://blog.cpd-work.com/2009/jeremy-geddes Nice composite pieces by Patrick Winfield, although Hockney was doing these ‘Joiners‘ in the early eighties, he also made photomontage pieces that were more representative of space and interested more with time as a factor in the compositions. Also talking of Hockney’s Joiners, Photosynth by Microsoft is an interactive take on this concept.]]> http://blog.cpd-work.com/2009/joiners Explanations of the concept of psychogeography here. With a great map buy Guy Debord here.]]> http://blog.cpd-work.com/2009/psychogeography Conceptual artist Michel de Broin creates intelligent and funny sculptures and installations. See them here. The web is just one big gallery.]]> http://blog.cpd-work.com/2009/michel-de-broin The works of Roel Wouters.]]> http://blog.cpd-work.com/2009/roel-wouters (via dezeen) “Israeli designer Itay Ohaly has proposed a series of chairs called Fracture, made of benches of various materials which are torn or smashed into individual chairs.”]]> http://blog.cpd-work.com/2009/itay-ohaly mas0809′s photostream “Final project for the Master of Advanced Studies program in Computer Aided Architectural Design (CAAD) at ETH in Zurich. Design and fabrication of a garden pavilion, exhibited at Vienna Design Week 2008.”]]> http://blog.cpd-work.com/2009/caad-in-zurich (via artdaily) E-Cyclorama by Sanford Wurmfeld at Edinburgh College of Art. “The E-Cyclorama is a painting, but a painting that you’re immersed in, that you view from within. Painted on the inside of a huge cylinder, using one hundred and nine separate colours on more than seven hundred square feet of canvas, the E-cyclorama surrounds its audience, [...]]]> http://blog.cpd-work.com/2009/e-cyclorama Job Wouters, Illustrator, typographer, doer of some pretty work(er).]]> http://blog.cpd-work.com/2009/letman Fashion and nightlife photography at the now defunct Ambrel site.]]> http://blog.cpd-work.com/2009/nikola-tamindzic I like the drawings and studies of Patrick Rocha’s son, Patrick Rocha.]]> http://blog.cpd-work.com/2009/patrick-rocha The nice people at Spin and their lovely work.]]> http://blog.cpd-work.com/2009/spin Say more by saying less, Carlos Tarrats for American Apparel. Classic and clean.]]> http://blog.cpd-work.com/2009/carlos-tarrats Identity guidelines that look as good as the brand, for the Barbican, here.]]> http://blog.cpd-work.com/2009/barbican-brand-guidelines I love UVA, especially for the work they did/do with Massive Attack.]]> http://blog.cpd-work.com/2009/united-visual-artists-tryptich Wonderful illustrations here be found.]]> http://blog.cpd-work.com/2009/daonefootedgoose Swiss artist takes designer down art school memory lane! This is where it happened.]]> http://blog.cpd-work.com/2009/beni-bischof Strangely attractive images of heavy industry from around the world by Edward Burtynsky. ”Nature transformed through industry is a predominant theme in my work. I set course to intersect with a contemporary view of the great ages of man; from stone, to minerals, oil, transportation, silicon, and so on. To make these ideas visible I search [...]]]> http://blog.cpd-work.com/2009/edward-burtynsky Fine pencil drawings by Cath Riley.]]> http://blog.cpd-work.com/2009/cath-riley Contemporary American portrait artist LUCONG.]]> http://blog.cpd-work.com/2009/cong-hua-lu Interesting article about American Apparel here. I love how American Apparel walks the line between clean-cut, ethical and wholesome (Helvetica, breezy west coast optimism, ethical production) to grungy Vice-like photography, and nudity. The brand has such a solid foundation with its exploit no one production practices and quality basic design appeal that on the other [...]]]> http://blog.cpd-work.com/2009/american-apparel Nice anime quality to these AS3 generated patterns.]]> http://blog.cpd-work.com/2009/patrick-gunderson I saw Conrad Shawcross at the Walker Art Gallery and the Saachi Gallery in London. The creaking, wurring machines are impressive and physical, and they operate with exaggerated and contrived movements to demonstrate the simplest of fundamental principles.]]> http://blog.cpd-work.com/2009/conrad-shawcross Industrial horror in the Art of Jonathan Schipper. Some great videos of the installations, especially Raining Blood, a twitching sculpture grinding itself to dust on the floor, in time to the music.]]> http://blog.cpd-work.com/2009/jonathan-schipper Leah Tinari‘s paintings are Luscious and absurd at the same time.]]> http://blog.cpd-work.com/2009/leah-tinari From Buenos Aires (via blog.FABRICA.) REGIA, from the hip fashion photography with a grungy aesthetic.]]> http://blog.cpd-work.com/2009/regia A nice interview with Ian Anderson about the fall of TDR. On the CR Blog.]]> http://blog.cpd-work.com/2009/tdr One of the reasons I studied Graphic Design was DEXTRO.]]> http://blog.cpd-work.com/2009/dextro Elegant and contemplative photography and some great projects here.]]> http://blog.cpd-work.com/2009/andrew-zuckerman Saturation and set pieces. Shiny happy photographs by Jing Quek.]]> http://blog.cpd-work.com/2009/jing-quek Hyper-realistic paintings from Italian painter Valerio Carrubba.]]> http://blog.cpd-work.com/2009/valerio-carrubba Hajime Sorayama was involved in designing Sony’s Aibo that sits in MOMA as well as these hyper–stylised airbrush illustrations.]]> http://blog.cpd-work.com/2009/hajime-sorayama Florian Kräutli‘s product design. “A curtain which you can shape to any form. Through the incorporated structure and magnets, it stays in the shape you push and pull it to.”]]> http://blog.cpd-work.com/2009/florian-krautli Paintings from this man are interesting.]]> http://blog.cpd-work.com/2009/ethan-hayes-chute Varelsen-Animals.]]> http://blog.cpd-work.com/2009/varelsen-animals Went to this retrospective 5 or 6 years ago (Jesus), elegant.]]> http://blog.cpd-work.com/2009/abram-games I first saw this man’s paintings a couple of years ago back. Better late than never. In his own words, “My field of action is architectural space and everything that constitutes such space. These spaces are and remain the original media for my painting. I work “on site” each time in a different space and [...]]]> http://blog.cpd-work.com/2009/felice-varini Massimo Vignelli has released an ebook of his approach to design and its fundamental principles.]]> http://blog.cpd-work.com/2009/massimo-vignellis-canon Jean-Yves LeMoigne. Superb photography from this French photographer.]]> http://blog.cpd-work.com/2009/jean-yves-lemoigne Whalehunt is a photo documentary of a whale hunt by Jonathan Harris. In his own words “The Whale Hunt is an experiment in human storytelling.”]]> http://blog.cpd-work.com/2009/whalehunt Totem pole of illustration by Serge Seidlitz.]]> http://blog.cpd-work.com/2009/serge-seidlitz A beautiful one page site by Suprb for Audio Designer Hecq. Built with jQuery in Codeigniter.]]> http://blog.cpd-work.com/2009/hecq Marcus Wendt and Vera-Maria Glahn are Field. They create generative artworks with custom built software for installations and animation.]]> http://blog.cpd-work.com/2009/field Belgian artist Stephan Balleux’s site contains his portfolio of hyperstylised oil paintings of amorphous human like forms. In his own words “Composed of paintings, 3D animated videos, sculptures, my whole body of work is articulated around pictorial perception and the conceptual idea of painting, organized in what i call “the paintingpainting project”.]]> http://blog.cpd-work.com/2009/stephan-balleux Patrick O’Dell is a contributor to Vice magazine. He photographs his friends and the skate culture that surrounds them.]]> http://blog.cpd-work.com/2009/epicly-laterd Experimental Jetset. Danny, Marieke and Erwin update with a new site for 2009. If you don’t know who they are, in their own words, “We are Experimental Jetset, a small, independent graphic design studio based in Amsterdam, consisting of three persons: Marieke Stolk, Danny van den Dungen and Erwin Brinkers.We have been collaborating as Experimental Jetset [...]]]> http://blog.cpd-work.com/2009/experimental-jetset yosoh.com – computers and clay. I sometimes want to combine Mac and Kiln.]]> http://blog.cpd-work.com/2008/yosoh Interesting hand made feel to this man’s digital animation.]]> http://blog.cpd-work.com/2008/takeshi-murata Memory Cloud by minimaforms. Animating the built environment through conversation. Sponsored by Live and Media Arts at the ICA (London).]]> http://blog.cpd-work.com/2008/memory-cloud An insect vacuum from Plastic Bamboo.]]> http://blog.cpd-work.com/2008/plastic-bamboo A blog of stair design.]]> http://blog.cpd-work.com/2008/stair-porn Lina Scheynius – intimate photography.]]> http://blog.cpd-work.com/2008/lina-scheynius Light Blubs From Pieke Bergmans Pari. And intersting product design.]]> http://blog.cpd-work.com/2008/pieke-bergmans OpArt Paper Sculpture by Jen Stark.]]> http://blog.cpd-work.com/2008/jen-stark Illustrations painted onto wood from this studio.]]> http://blog.cpd-work.com/2008/littlesweets Russian and/or Soviet propaganda & advertising [1917-1991]]]> http://blog.cpd-work.com/2008/ussr-posters From Linzie Hunter’s Spiners series of typographic sketches based on the subject lines of unsolicited emails. I’m collecting a series of Scam emails for a similar project with a different execution.]]> http://blog.cpd-work.com/2008/linzie-hunter Writing and filmaking from Brooklyn.]]> http://blog.cpd-work.com/2008/caroline-koebel