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The Work of Janne Parviainen

Alexander Sperl — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 09:24:23 +0000

Once in a while there are people on flickr who post pictures that I would pick as a favourite every time. Janne Parviainen is one of them. He paints with light and the photography resulting from that is just incredible. I let the results speak for themselves.

Seen enough? Check out his full photostream on flickr and be suprised!

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Inspiration Galore

Alexander Sperl — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 11:12:51 +0000

It’s always a good idea to frequently have a look at Vimeo. Today I found the following videos that I thought are worth mentioning for various reasons:

Fluid Sculpture from Charlie Bucket on Vimeo.

Polaris by Miniature Rocket from Yaniv Fridman on Vimeo.

Experimental Tribute from Chris Carter on Vimeo.

Aspirins – Cutter from Mr. Harrison on Vimeo.

LCD Soundsystem “Home” from FUNWUNCE on Vimeo.

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YouTube Video of the Month

Alexander Sperl — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 08:10:28 +0000

Advertising Steven Johnson’s book “Where good ideas come from”.

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Logo Panne

Alexander Sperl — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 07:22:56 +0000

Ich lese gerade einen Artikel in der Frankfurter Rundschau über die Tatsache, dass der hessische Energieversorger HSE ein neues Logo bekommen hat, das es schon gab. Auch der Slogan „Das Ganze sehen“ war bereits vergeben. Interessant, dass es auch einer so renommierten Agentur wie Jung von Matt passieren kann, eben nicht „Das Ganze“ zu sehen…

Auf jeden Fall ist es interessant die beiden Logos mal nebeneinander zu sehen:

Die Logos für den Energieversorger HSE (links) und für die Henningsdorfer Stahl Engineering GmbH

Sicherlich gibt es Unterschiede, aber der sehr ähnliche Charakter der beiden Entwürfe ist unverkennbar. Interessant ist auch, dass die beiden Abkürzungen identisch sind. Ich lasse die Interpretation des letzten Satzes einfach mal offen.

Aber was bedeutet das jetzt eigentlich? Wenn es einfach ein Versehen sein sollte, wovon ich stark ausgehe, dann ist es ein äußerst peinliches. Der Artikel in der FR weißt sehr süffisant darauf hin, dass man vor allem den Slogan „Das Ganze sehen“ leicht ergooglen kann. Offensichtlich ist also die Recherche-Arbeit bei diesem 400.000,- € Projekt etwas zu kurz gekommen, möchte man süffisant ergänzen. Ich will nicht wissen, wie da die Stimmung bei den Verantwortlichen ist.

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5 Videos That Will Put A Smile On Your Face

Alexander Sperl — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 19:17:09 +0000

This is plagiarism in two ways: The 5 items of something idea was sneaked from Carsonified’s blog and all the videos were first published on Computerlove. So, sue me…

Here are 5 videos now that will probably put a smile on your face:

Time to waste some minutes on this…

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Nen Rolli hatte ich noch nie

Alexander Sperl — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 11:46:55 +0000

I received an e-mail today that I participated in a poll at the beginning of this year. No, not what you think. It wasn’t spam, I really participated. I would like to recommend that you take a look at its outcome. It is called “Nen Rolli hatte ich noch nie” and is a Zwischenprüfungsprojekt by Alex Ketzer (I’ve forgotten from which university). There are some web design issues concerning the web site, but the book looks really great.

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Sonst noch was?

Alexander Sperl — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 09:18:44 +0000

My friend Astrid told me about a sweet little shop run by her and a friend in which they sell some of their stuff. If you’re into nice and simple illustrations with a funny twist or warm scarves which look like a fox or rabbit, then this is for you.

Oh, the shop is called “Sonst noch was?“. Check out the blog, too.

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BBC Blast Studio

Alexander Sperl — Wed, 13 May 2009 19:07:13 +0000

Ok, so you like to use paint on your wall but your landlord won’t let you? Why not mess up the wall of some BBC studio? Enter Blast Studio…

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Interesting Links #6

Alexander Sperl — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 19:56:22 +0000

It’s time for a new edition of Interesting Links.

Nick La has gathered some very nice Single-Page Portfolio Sites at his Web Designer Wall. Some interesting concepts and a lot of high end use of web dev techniques. I personally love We Bleed Design for its fancy PNG effects and Fröjd for its simplicity.

Then, there is the Reverse Graffiti Project. If you don’t know what reverse graffiti is, go and have a look at the video. Incredible!

For those of you who haven’t heard this already: NASA has their photos online on a new website called NASA Images (you would have guessed) powered by Internet Archive. If you’re not into astronomy, you will still like the trippy images anyway…

And finally, especially for my students, there’s the Opera Web Standards Curriculum, “a complete course to teach you standards-based web development, including HTML, CSS, design principles and background theory, and JavaScript basics.”

Well, isn’t there something here for everyone of you?

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FontStruct

Alexander Sperl — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 11:18:36 +0000

Every once in a while there’s an online application which really blows your mind. And here’s this while’s mind-blowing online application:

FontStruct

FontStruct is a wonderful tool provided by the good folks at fontshop, which let’s you develop your own true type font from predefined elements. Here’s what I did in half an hour yesterday.

It needs a lot of detail work, of course, but you get the overall idea: Meaning that FontStruct is easy to use, you get your results fast and it’s fun.

Try it and mail your results in the comments.

Oh boy, I’m excited!

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