SWARM 11 | 2010

We’re loving the dynamically generating online festival guide for this year’s SWARM 11, making direct use of sites like Twitter and Google Maps.

Following some basic guidelines, galleries and venue participants can ‘tag’ themselves automatically into SWARM’s online listings. Similar to pulling fan Twitter posts using a #SWARM11 tag, the website pulls feeds with another tag specifically into the list of events and generates venue maps.

Swarm is an annual festival of artist run culture organized by the Pacific Association of Artist Run Centres.
Don’t miss it this year: Thursday September 9th and Friday September 10th, 2010.

FIXPIX | eBoy

I’m hooked on this game. FixPix: 100 smart puzzles designed by eBoy based on their famous pixel art. Looks great on your iPod touch, iPhone or iPad, and if you don’t have one of those, check out their screenshots and the rest of their work.

WORDS | by Everynone

A fantastic treatment of words and the visuals associated with them. Watch Words, a film by New York and L.A production studio, Everynone.

MIND YOUR BID-NESS | VAFF Auction Party

Time to get your bid on.

This Wednesday, for one night only, tons of goods, fun services, performances and people are going to be auctioned off to the highest bidders. Did you skim through and miss the word people?

Put your money to good use at this years fundraising event, Mind Your BidNess presented by the Vancouver Asian Film Festival. You will be able to bid for a long list of talented people and their services including Kim and Racquel Villagante, Caroline Weaver, and Skewed’s very own Lexa Naicu!

August 25, 2010. Admission $5. Live auction starts at 9pm. For more info follow links above and this one works too.

See you at the Biltmore!

HACK JOB | Booooooom Contests

Booooooom! fails to disappoint when it comes to providing daily doses of inspiring artworks. And every once in a while, the blog launches awesome projects that generate all sorts of submissions. From postcard designs to the Wild Things’ Forts contest, the projects and their results are always fun to follow.

This time Booooooom and Converse are presenting the ‘Hack Job‘ skateboard project. Open to anyone anywhere,  all you have to do is build a skateboard out of any random materials and send in your photo or video. The deadline is September 10, 2010, and 5 pairs of shoes will be given to the top 5 creative submissions.

Submission samples over at the blog. Project on the left by Dominic, and  on the right, by Lukas Richarz.

ADVICE FOR DESIGN STUDENTS | From Frank Chimero

Click here to read more from what Frank Chimero had to say in response to the question: What advice would you give to a graphic design student?

“Take things away until you cry. Accept most things, and reject most of your initial ideas. Print it out, chop it up, put it back together. When you’re aimlessly pushing things around on a computer screen, print it out and push it around in real space. Change contexts when you’re stuck. Draw wrong-handed and upside down and backwards. Find a good seat outside.”

Make sure you take wander around his site and read more from his blog, lots of Q&A’s and great tidbits (and I mean tidbits in the most respectful way).

Via swissmiss

LOOK ON THE BRIGHT SIDE | Voleurz

Watch the official 2010/2011 teaser for Look on the Bright Side, available for free on the Voleurz site November 2010. Loving the fun design and the wicked shots and editing.

Produced and directed by Darren Rayner; Production team: Mason Mashon, Charlie Grinnell, Keegan Salmon, Scott Tolan and design by Bruce Giovando.

STRAWBERRY SWING | New Coldplay Video

The official video for Coldplay’s new single, Strawberry Swing, directed by visual artists Shynola. Read this interview for more on how the video was made.

“Always bend at the knee. And back up your hard-drive.”