norway style guiding

comprehensive overview of a 'corporate' style guide and the effort that is required to create a consistent brand message...
http://norway.designmanual.no/

thanks to pat toohey for posting this through.

check out this production

The old is new again

This week I focused on "old media" and its historical, technical and conceptual relationship with "new media". This was a cursory overview (at best) - for a more detailed discussion The Language of New Media by Lev Manovich (2001) is a good start (Manovich cites Man With A Movie Camera (Dziga Vertov 1929) as seminal in the history of cinema). As usual I ran out of time screening work at the seminar: other projects not screened are listed below:

Time & space as a 'brand'?

This week I will show a few Michel Gondry projects. Unlike the projects screened last week, Gondry's projects are not 'branded' vis a vis a design aesthetic but via an obsession in time and space. His work is varied and includes: The Science of Sleep (2006), Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004), a large no. of video clips for Bjork, Chemical Brothers, Massive Attack, Daft Punk....

Apparently he is also directing a production titled Master of Space and Time, release date 2009.

Blog

Each week I will add the links, video etc which we use during the seminar and studio.

This week I have added most of the links for the work shown in the seminar plus a few links which we did not get to. I have not added links or video for: Radiohead video and MAS video; over to you...

Welcome to MMDA3305.

I'll keep this blog up-to-date for the academic year. You'll find important posts, links and tid-bits on the blog.