We were super excited to be invited to contribute a poster to Yellow Bird Project's latest creative, charity-driven project headed up by the one and only Andy J. Miller. As a follow up to the Indie Rock Coloring Book, Andy and YBP have joined forces again to create The Indie Rock Poster Book which will include 30 different posters by 30 different artists, designers and illustrators. Each poster will be an interpretation of an indie rock song of the artist's choice...
Last weekend during the Portes Ouvertes Design Montréal, Dynamo presented a private collection of matchbook artwork from the 1930s through 1950s, titled "Avez-vous du feu?", or, "Got a light?". Our faithful intern-turned-junior-project-manager-from-Paris : Guillaume Bourousse participated in curating the exhibition, and was an invaluable help in organizing, scanning and installing the exhibition. On display were large-format blowups of around 200 of the microdesigns, selected from the more than 1500 originals, each on display in their original format as well. If you'd like to brush up on your French, please read Guillaume's post about the expo here.
Yellow Bird Project's latest release is a slick new Summer t-shirt designed by Dynamo for the band Whispertown 2000. All profits from the shirt benefit "Start in Streets", a charity created by Sophie Tweed Simmons and Tatiana Rogers that serves to prevent the litter of the streets from reaching nature’s underwater playground.
The treatment of the red fish against the sunshine base demonstrates (through color) the “disappearing” act that is happening to this fish due to the overfishing and pollution that’s affecting its waters. We learned that the Halibut is in fact on the endangered list and all but guaranteed to disappear by the end of this century. Also, the small technical callouts are using scientific terminology specific to genetic deformity, so those help accentuate the double message, and why the third eye is present on Mr Fish.
There is a large mix of multimedia on display here - some of it displaying new product, some of it used as spaces for people to play in and discover, and some of it just as ambient kinetic art like some of the laser projections on buildings at night. Here's a short video tour of a few of the interactive pieces that I've seen so far. The first segment is a new Philips light product that reacts to objects placed near it by turning itself off, creating a kinetic pattern of light squares. Next, some small LED panels create an interesting text wall. Then an interactive piece with different graphics assigned to mobile forms that change when moved. And in the dutch design forum, a pretty unique interactive piece, where human bodies are used as conductors - the user must touch two different portions of exposed skin and when this connection is made, a sound is generated. Following is a Sony installation where the entire room is transformed into a sound-contained space, and sound triggers objects animated on screen. Different screens in the space treat sound as visuals in different ways, each expressing the sound through animation... More to come.
Day 2 of the Salone and we're off in the wild of Milan. As mentioned, there isn't much of the city that isn't participating in the event, and Interni magazine and many others have maps of all the offsite events tagged on them - some so dense that street names arent even visible! Today we saw a lot of new products and got a look at the way a lot of companies present their collections...
As promised, I'll be posting from here in Milan at the Design Fair. If you haven't been to the Salone Del Mobile, it is a design experience that is like no other, and inspiration seeps from every corner and alleyway in the city. While the "Salone" actually takes place at the convention center just a short metro ride away from the city center, there is a massive amount of design activity throughout the entire city. Just about every local gallery and empty apartment space in the entire city radius is rented, with product launches, exhibitions, live creations, grafitti art and design ephemera assaulting your senses constantly. It's heaven...
Dynamo is participating in Design Montréal's Open House 2010. Montréal designers, architects and fashion creators will be opening their doors to the public on May 1 & 2, from noon to 5pm.
Dynamo will be exposing our digital work on several workstations for visitors to browse and explore, and branding and other print and packaging projects will...
Although we were notified a few months ago, today we received our lavish certificate of merit and a copy of the international design annual we're in. Stay tuned for more YBP updates, as we're designing for a new book project with Andy Miller, and the T-Shirt we designed for Sophie Tweed Simmons' L.A. band Whispertown 2000 is hot off the silkscreen presses and will be available at the ybp store soon!
Take an in-depth listen to our past, present and future as Bryan and Alex represent for Dynamo in this hour-long in-depth interview with our faithful founders on CJAD/FullerLandau's entrepreneurial business show "What keeps you up at night?". The full interview can be listened to here in m4a format (100MB) : http://bit.ly/8Z7odq or here in MP3 format (40MB) : http://bit.ly/9QiiSM
cheers, dynamo!
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