Hello and welcome to a wintery edition of Friday Graphics!
That’s right, the days are getting shorter, the nights longer and everybody’s catching a cold. My advice is to wrap up warm and read Friday Graphics . Especially this week’s edition, where I’ve got a HTML5 experiment with “Lights”; a dataviz created with your Facebook profile; some music in book and video form, 100% handmade! We’ve also got some pixel art and a big WTF involving the opening of a door!
It’s ok, you’re here, it’s Friday and it’s Graphics!!
We’ll start with the website of the week. A few days ago I came across this visual, musical and interactive experience for Ellie Goulding’s most recent track « Lights ». The effects and the interactive possibilities of this musical experience are pretty impressive. Personally (and this is rare) I watched and listened right through to the end. Your inner geek will also appreciate the potential of webGL. A job well done by the HelloEnjoy agency!
And while you’re waiting, here are some screen grabs from the site, it’s stunning!
For Facebook’s big developers conference, the designers of Obscura Digital were involved in the creation of an on-site data visualisation installation, where people were physically connected together. People could log in to their Facebook profile and see their connections to others by means of a circular interface projected on the ground.
Once “connected” to other people, this radial visualisation created a “social graph” containing mutual friends, interests, workplaces, schools, hangouts, etc. Information used to connect people to eachother. An amusing, maybe troubling game? Or simply a feat of technology? In any cases, the circular interface rules!
Thanks Fabrice
We move now from visual to aural experiences with the very interesting work of Emmanuel Martinet, a graduate student from Esad de Strasbourg. Emmanuel has already produced four books containing sound effects, background music, loops, etc. Thanks to a camera that films from above, the pages of the books are scanned and processed by a computer in order to make sounds and music.
It’s a beautiful combination of books and music which breathes new life into both mediums.
On we go with a little moment of pure visual emotion, a video created entirely by hand, frame by frame, for the band We Cut Corners’ latest track Pirate’s Life. The video is part of the trend of returning to handmade, clear lines and drawing. I like it, but I’ll keep quiet and let you enjoy it.
Aaaah, attention all lovers of 8 bit and 16 bit videogames! I’ve managed to track down a site called “Title Scream” and I have to confess that since I did my childhood has been flashing before my eyes! Basically, this site gathers together an impressive number of “title screens”, the start-up screens of old video games from the very first consoles. From a graphic point of view it’s quite amazing given the restrictions on colour and size and how they had to create the “pixel art” (pixel by pixel), you still find a lot of incredible scenes and images!
> visiter titlescream.com
We finish with our WTF of the week and a man who explains to us, step by step, how to open a door…WTF ! Every element is precise and measured, so there’s no risk of going wrong when you attempt to repeat the movements. There are English subtitles if your Finnish is weak, but rest assured it’s all in the visuals, the gestures, the experience. A nice piece of design work in a way!
For the final word I want to say thanks for all the kind words about the updated version of Graphism.Fr, my blog. And if your curiosity hasn’t been sated after this little lecture,I invite you to imagine what the future (or the present) holds in store for us
, mobile phones, and HTML5?Until next week, have a great weekend!
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