Is handmade stuff finding it’s way back to advertising?
The films in 3D are very real. With today’s technology, anything is possible. But there is a undeniable quality and a charm to handmade things. Here is a fine selection of handmade advertising I hope to see more of in near future:
Brazilian footwear company Melissa has turned the side of a building in São Paulo into a mega-huge movie screen for an animation that uses Post-its like analog pixels. Twenty-five animators worked for a steady five months, stamping sherbet-colored notes on the U-shaped foyer of the Galeria Melissa to generate an ever-rotating cast of images — from shadow boxes to a charming, psychedelic elephant — captured on time-lapse video above. By project’s end, the animators had blown through a whopping 350,000 Post-Its.
Less than a year after making the world’s smallest animation, Nokia just ticked off that large, lurking item on the to-do list: conjuring the world’s largest stop motion animation.
The new film, Gulp, tells the simple story of a fisherman who gets swallowed by a larger predator. It was shot entirely with the Nokia N8 phone.
Here is some more stop-motion awesomeness to inspire you:
Turn your iPad into a canvas with the ability to paint documents in photoshop with your fingertips
Alongside the release of the Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 update today, Adobe has released three new iPad apps. Adobe Color Lava, Nav and Eazel for Photoshop CS5. Color Lava is a color mixer that allows you to mix colors live on the iPad, Eazel turns your iPad into a painting tablet for Photoshop and Nav acts as a toolbar and file browser.
Adobe Nav for Photoshop
Adobe Nav uses a network connection to your computer to act as a file browser. You can browse, reorder, view and zoom up to 200 documents at a time on the iPad. Then just tap a file to make it the active document in Photoshop. You can also load files up on the iPad, disconnect it from the network and share those files away from the office.
In addition you can also customize a set of tools that you commonly use to be displayed on the iPad, allowing you to choose them with a tap.
Adobe Eazel for Photoshop
Eazel turns your iPad into a canvas with the ability to paint documents in photoshop with your fingertips. You can choose colors, blend wet and dry paint and the effects appear in Photoshop.
The way that Eazel handles the tool palettes looks absolutely fantastic, better than any iPad painting app I’ve seen.
Adobe Color Lava for Photoshop
Color Lava looks to be a solid addition for digital painters as well, with a focus on mixing colors until you get the perfect color. You can then transfer the color back to Photoshop to paint with. I’d estimate that this one will be used along with a traditional stylus and tablet for digital artists.
As anyone who’s used the color picker can tell you, subtle color variations are hard to come by. I really like the way you can save your color choices and export those to the color picker.
The whole setup looks absolutely fantastic and I’ll be playing with all of these apps to give you a full review. They haven’t hit the App Store in every region just yet, but when they do I’ll update this article with download links.
[Via Johan Lopes]
Immaterials: Light Painting The WiFi World
This is a really cool project that uses the “Light Painting” photography technique to help map and capture how invisible wifi networks actually look in our every day life. They built a 4 meter high rod containing 80 LEDs with a device that measures WiFi signal strength, the stronger the signal, the more LEDs light up, and with the long exposure photos capturing the mapped signal strength, this video provides seriously cool look into what WiFi might just look like! Check it here
[Via digitalbuzzblog.com]
Interactive Window Displays
The incredibly innovative Hyper Island WeSC window display may be simple in execution, but it will surely make a huge impact on passersby. Designed by Beatriz Areilza, Gustaf Engström, Lucas Lima and Marcus Wallander, the display features an infrared transmitter that tracks pedestrians to project a captivating display.
[ Via Trend Hunter]
Music posters has never looked so good
Truly inspiring work by Lowe Steiner, WERK’s old art director/designer – Music posters has never looked so good!
Supernice Mad Men posters
Supernice illustrated posters for all you Mad Men fans 
by master illustrator @stan_chow. To buy them click here
New posters for old movies by Olly Moss
Olly Moss was asked to create advertising images for nine of the shows on the upcoming 2010 Alamo Drafthouse / Levi’s Rolling Roadshow tour. His solutions are simply brilliant. Be sure to chech his website
Tinget – Alternative peeps for alternative people, 2004-2008
Tinget is a ”peeping tom” collective that spies on alternative forms of communication – mostly alternative marketing, art happenings, design, and business ideas. Check out http://www.tinget.net and be sure to grab your copy of TINGET the book! Typographic cover illustration by WERK shows portraits by people behind Tinget drawn with the text from the book