LivingDesign.info by Asif Naqvi

Cuppetelli and Mendoza’s Threaded Interface

Annica Cuppetelli (USA) and Cristobal Mendoza (Venezuela) began their artistic collaboration in the Fall of 2010. Their work has been exhibited in the Biennial of Video and Media Arts (Chile, 2012) and festivals such as FILE 2011 (BRA), FAD 2011 (BRA), video_dumbo 2011 (NYC, USA) among others. Cuppetelli obtained her MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art (Fibers, 2008) and Mendoza at the Rhode Island School of Design (Digital Media, 2007). Mendoza is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Art and Art History at Wayne State University in Detroit, MI, where they are based.

Art, Cristobal Mendoza, Cuppetelli, Inspiration, interactive installation, Mendoza, Mendoza Peru, Michigan, Nervous Structure, Technology, Threaded Interface, United States, Venezuela

12 August Share your
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Cocoe

Under - Advertising, Design, Illustration, Inspiration, Media, Motion Graphics

A selection of some interesting animated promos and ads produced by the Spanish audiovisual production studio Cocoe. The studio is founded in 2003 by David and Gabriel Suchowolski Duprez (microbians) with a view to strengthen and develop their creative skills – leading towards visual productions. Cocoe specializes mainly in animation and motion graphics along with corporate identity and strategic communication consulting.

Advertising, Animation, David Suchowolski Duprez, Design, Gabriel Suchowolski Duprez, Graphic design, Graphics, Illustration, Inspiration, Media, motion graphics, promo, Stop motion, studio Cocoe, Visual arts

11 August Share your
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Afghan box camera

Under - Photography, Technology

Interestingly this form of photography still exists in many countries as a cheap and instant mean to a photograph.

The Afghan Box Camera Project provides a record of the kamra-e-faoree (instant camera) which as a living form of photography is on the brink of disappearing in Afghanistan.

In this video, Qalam Nabi, one of the last two remaining box camera photographers in Kabul demonstrates how to use his camera.

Afghan Box Camera Project, Afghanistan, Camera, Instant camera, Kabul, kamra-e-faoree, Photography, Technology

11 August Share your
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Artificial Paradise, Inc

Under - Media, Motion Graphics

Artificial Paradise, Inc is an experimental film anticipating a future where a major corporation has developed a unique software, based on organic virtual reality, which holds all the lost memories of humankind. A user connects to this database of the forgotten… what is he searching for?

Directed, edited and composited by Jean-Paul Frenay.

3D, 3D modeling, Animation, Artificial Paradise Inc, Culture, Entertainment/Culture, Jean-Paul Frenay, motion graphics, Technology/Internet, Virtual reality

7 August Share your
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Christian Tagliavini’s Cardboard Ladies

Under - Art, Inspiration, Photography

Swiss-Italian, born in 1971, educated in Italy and Switzerland, where he currently lives and works as an graphic designer and a photographer. This provides him the perfect frame and background to invent, create and totally produce images that blend fine arts and craftsmanship.

Christian Tagliavini loves designing stories with open endings (requiring observer’s complicity) on unexplored themes or unusual concepts, featuring uncommon people with their lives and their thoughts made visible. This rich and exciting collision of circumstances results in photos as a final product.