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“Look” by Sebastien Tellier, visuals by Myzyk & Moriceau, 4 min

I do not own an iPhone, I can’t even text-message, but for those of you who have iPhones, French independent label Record Makers created an iPhone application/game (they dub it “surrealistic”), and apparently you can win prizes by playing. That’s right, you heard right, you can win prizes. And here’s the best part: this iPoop application is f r e e.

Artists Mrzyk & Moriceau created the game; in the game you create random art by swiping different parts of the drawing. Your experimentation paired with your creative iPhone can WIN BIG.

It’s widely accepted by scientists and mathmeticians that our iPhones have and always will be smarter than us. Having said that, we must examine if the iPhone is more creative than the human.

Find it on iTunes

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Breaking news: DINCA.org is the first ‘blog’ ever to have stickers printed. Is this an accomplishment? No. Is this statement true? Probably not — I wouldn’t be surprised if The Huffington Post had some shitty stickers printed.

Will Thomas designed these stickers and we are giving them away for free. We will ship them to you for free. Ultimately, we had no reason to print these, and ultimately, we have no reason not to ship them around.

Just email us your mailing address and we will ship them to you (and we ship international). Simple as that.

Imagine how nice your Trapper Keeper XL will look with a nice orange DINCA stick on there. Do you share this vision?

This audio visual performance premiered at the 2010 London Short Film Festival. The performance is titled (O) and is a collaboration between motion design hot-shots Max Hattler and Noriko Okaku.

London SSF Synopsis: Max and Noriko first met when studying Animation together at the Royal College of Art. There are parallels in their animation-based experimental, semi-narrative, non-dialogue approach to working with film and video. Apart from their live work, they have collaborated on several projects ranging from tour visuals for The Egg and Basement Jaxx to stop-motion film Aanaatt and Max’s latest short film Spin. With (O), their third collaboration, Max returns to his teenage roots in sound/music-making and makes a first foray into live audio performance, complemented by Noriko’s surreal animated visuals.

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Noriko Okaku

This is a screen shot from an untitled film I’m working on. I used Illustrator to create the patterned design and I’m animating the separate layers using After Effects. I’m excited.

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Here is a teaser trailer of a GAMMA IV entry, made by Cactusquid, an independent video game developer from Västra Götaland, Sweden. Cactus has not released the game, but will provide those who donate via Paypal with a download link, stating on his website, “I’m broke and need money for rent, dentist and beer. So feel free to donate. Anyone who donates using the button below will automatically receive the current version of the GAMMA IV entry (hopefully this won’t disqualify me). It’s short, hard and might throw an error on some computers, just so you know.”

Some neat stuff coming out of the underground video game scene. A good introductory site is the Independent Gaming Discussion.

Dithered

Julien Ducourthial studied audiovisual media at the Esba, France, graduating from there in 2006. The project Ilbm.info | Interleaved Bitmap | in reference to the amiga computer picture format, was created with artworks inspired by low-tech, graffiti & abstraction.

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Here’s a revised version of some artwork I designed for fun. Back in November, I submitted this to Adbusters Magazine for their end-of-the-year issue, Big Ideas of 2010. Once the magazine hit the news stands, I visited the Barnes and Noble on State St. to see if my design made the cut; It didn’t make the cut, but I was fine with it, because after skimming the mag, I realized that the design didn’t fit the theme of the issue anyway.

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Reissue poster for Jean Luc Godard’s Pierrot Le Fou (1965)

We continue to plow our way through the best, and worst, film posters of the last 10 years. Today, on this good Tuesday, we’ll take a close look at 10 more great works.

The above poster is a lovely re-release of Jean-Lu Godard’s 1965 road film Pierrot Le Fou.

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The 2010 International Film Festival Rotterdam will be held January 27 – Febuary 7. The entire film schedule has yet to be released, but the Rotterdam Festival continues to leak selections, stating “The complete line up of approximately fifteen films in VPRO Tiger Awards Competition will be announced by January 7, 2010.” The poster art has been released and it’s lovely. Dutch design reigns supreme.

Some expect 2010 short film selections will be announced around Jan. 7th as well.

More:

The 2010 International Film Festival Rotterdam

IFFR adds five films to VPRO Tiger Awards Competition

Become an IFFR 2010 Tiger Friend

Teaser poster for The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004)

Many films have been released within the past 10 years, and with each film released, there are one or more versions of poster art released to promote the film. There are the teaser posters; the primary posters; the alternate second versions; sometimes even a third version. Multiply the amount of films released within the past decade, let’s say by three, and the sum is titanic (get it, Titanic?). Given this immense amount of posters, Dinca must divide the best and worst posters into multiple posts, and we’ll be posting up until the New Year. Perhaps, if we’re feeling ambitious, we may even select a Top 10 list for the past decade, however, with so many posters, it’s hard to rank, and it’s even more difficult to recall which films had great posters. Well, great posters are memorable — we’ll use that as our guiding light.

What makes a good poster; what are we looking for? Great poster art makes someone want to see the movie even if they know nothing about the film. It propels someone to get on the internet to research the film. Maybe they will go out of their way to watch the trailer instead of waiting around to be force-fed by a convenient television trailer. If the poster is really great, it will recruit an army of patrons, an army that wants to go out of their way to promote the film; spread the word; generate a buzz; hell, even blog about it, notwithstanding they haven’t even seen the film yet.

Certainly, great design and great typography are part of creating a great poster — the design can be innovative or a tried-and-true formula of the past — more importantly, though, the poster must best represent the story of the film, the motifs of the film, the tone of the film, and it needs to visualize the thematic elements of the film. Sometimes film posters are a big let down — usually when a poster propels you to see a movie, and then you watch it, only to find that the movie sucks. When this happens, we should salute the designer, because their design made a shitty movie look worthy of your time.

In addition to teaser poster for Wes Anderson’s The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, which is posted above, we have posted nine more admirable film posters below. Feel free to voice your opinions, critiques, and definitely nominate a candidate for your favorite film poster of the past decade, or nominate an atrocious poster. Ride with us as we ride through our mega-list.

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Test Pilot Collective is a San Francisco-based typography and design firm. Pay a visit to their website and you will realize how prolific they are: Throughout the years 1999 – 2003, Test Pilot Collective created a design for every day of every month, which is a grand total of 1,825 uploaded designs. Unfortunately, the Pilot Collective seem to be on a hiatus.

Test Pilot have designed 37 fonts, including Tryptomene, OCRJ, OCRK, and Ataribaby, all of which are available for purchase through their website. Their work heavily embraces ascii artwork, the monospaced dot-matrix composition, ’90s dirt style web design, computer retro, pixel typography, the animated gif, bitmap fonts, and bitmap artwork. They have a neat website; a supposed new Test Pilot Collective website will launch soon.

Below are 15 designs culled from their extensive archive of 1,825 designs.

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U.S. 1 One Sheet Original Movie Poster 27×41 for Lolita

If I remember correctly, Stanley Kubrick’s favorite typeface, according to Michael Bierut in his book 79 Short Essays on Design (discussed in the essay “Stanley Kubrick and the Future of Graphic Design”), is Futura Bold. Notably, Kubrick used Futura in the title sequence and poster art for 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968). In this poster art for the US release of Kubrick’s Lolita (1962), we find a light-ish condensed version of Futura, along with a heavy version of Akzidenz-Grotest, and a stencil typeface that I can’t identify. It’s 1st edition of the US release for Lolita and has sold for up to $1800.00.

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G2 Puzzle Special

Marian Bantjes is a graphic designer from O(!) CANADA(!), well, from the prairies of Saskatchewan, to be accurate. I found out about Marian from Michael Bierut’s name dropping of her in this article published by Azure Magazine. I can’t say I know much about her, but I can say that I like her work.

Marian on herself:

I have a very big virtual life. In fact, most of my life these days seems to exist in the ether of the internet. I’m not that happy about this, but … I live on an island on the west coast of Canada, so, uh …

I do not know if I am lazy or driven. A little of both. While I tend to work every day, from morning to night (I’m frequently working past midnight), my days are relatively stress free. In the summer I tend to take a lot of breaks and sit in the sun or go for a walk. I spend a lot of time thinking. Just staring into space and thinking. Does this count as work? Sometimes. When I wake up in the morning with the perfect solution to a given problem, have I been working while I was sleeping? Perhaps.

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I used Comic Sans on the very first website I built when I was living in the ’90s. I was young and the site was all about gecko caresheets. The background was bright orange and the font was in lime green.

This is the first time in ten years I’ve used Comic Sans … and it’s time to party!!

If you’re on Facebook, I encourage you to join the brand new Comic Sans Club.

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Designed by Counterspace Design. I like the use of the stenciled sans-serif typeface. I pretty sure the font is Jigsaw Stencil by Typotheque.

We are on the threshold of a spellbinding revival. A return to glory for both the animated .gif and midi versions of popular music. Buckle up.

Steal_My_Sunshine
What_If_God_Was_One_Of_Us
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Mariah-Carey-Always_Be_My_Baby
Nightshift
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Someone’s looking to hurt Apple shares ($203.25 as of Nov. 11). Definitely recruited by a smart fone competitor (indirectly, of course). Hope your child doesn’t have another seizure, and yes, you certainly can try to sue Apple, but that certainly isn’t what you’re after. ; )

Found this in my spam comments folder. Posted by AKfour seven. WTF is he trying to sell and what is he even talking about? Incoherent. Subbing President Obama’s name for something called Dofus Power Leveling?

This guy needs to reevaluate his business model.

Designed by Yokoland

Yes, there is a website for just about everything, and yes, there is an entire site dedicated to posters found on the streets of Oslo, Sweden, and yes, Nordic/European graphic design always is ten kilometers ahead of American design.

People snap photos of posters they find on the streets of Oslo and submit them to http://osloposters.net/. Considering the prevalence of graphic design in Oslo, a city of 580,229 people, it seems designers would be bumping into each other as they hung their posters, and bumping into pedestrians as they photographed the posters. Below are more posters. Posters

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… and steel drums