January 2012
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Video Ninja
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The Design Process
While the final product of these posters by DKNG Studios are remarkable, the process videos are even more mesmerizing.
Phish (Blossom Music Center) - Poster Process from DKNG Studios on Vimeo.
Phish (Hollywood Bowl) - Poster Process from DKNG Studios on Vimeo.
“The dumbest mistake is viewing design as something you do at the end of the process to ‘tidy up’ the...
December 2011
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Jessica Eaton's Geometrical Photography
Jessica Eaton bases her colorful geometrical photos on Joseph Albers’ focus on the “discrepancy between physical fact and psychic effect.”
If you’re in New York, check out her exhibit at HIGHER PICTURES, which runs through December 17.
Count us in.
November 2011
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TEDxBrooklyn
On Friday, December 2, 2011, Learned Evolution’s own Justin Bolognino and Emma Matthieson, in conjunction with Varghese Chacko will be producing TEDxBrooklyn at Brooklyn Bowl.
We’ve curated some incredible Brooklyn-based brilliant minds to speak. Check out all the details here.
The event sold out in under a day, but we’ll be Livestreaming the entire day online and in...
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Who Needs Motion Graphics When We Already Have...
October 2011
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Beyond Duality
We transcend and include duality, strategically implementing brain sides and either/ors as needed.
These gorgeous Mercedes ads we found today really took our breath away. Credits to Shalmor Avnon Amichay/Y&R Interactive Tel Aviv, Israel. Amazing work.
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Blurring the Lines with Shaka
French street, video and fine artist Shaka is fueling us with inspiration this afternoon with his stunning 2D + 3D paintings. Why use more words when pictures speak thousands of them?
For those of you lucky enough to be in Paris next week, be sure to check out his show at Alexandre Lazarew Gallery.
Thanks to Flavorpill for the tip!
September 2011
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A is for Alphabet
Happy Monday Morning friends! Let’s kick the week off right with some seriously fun creativity by the Italian studio n9ve with their video “The Alphabet 2.” Enjoy…
July 2011
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Microscopic Munchies
Caren Alpert takes pictures of food under an electronic microscope. (Above: A shrimp tail at 230x magnification.)
Link (via Gizmodo)
World of Light
Check out these incredible maps that display Twitter & Flickr usage around the world. So beautiful!
Through The Looking Glass
Up until August 7th, Boston’s Museum of Fine Art is showcasing the artist, Dale Chihuly, in an incredible exhibit.
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Tobias Rehberger
Sometimes, you think to yourself, “how on Earth have I never seen this artist’s work before now???”
Ladies and Gentlemen, Tobias Rehberger:
June 2011
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Paige Bradley's "Expansion"
Every so often, a piece of art leaps through dimensionality and speaks Truth directly to the core of one’s being like words never could. Paige Bradley’s incredible Expansion is just such a work, simply breathtaking in both concept and execution.
From her website:
Expansion
76 x 35 x 17”
From the moment we are born, the world tends to have a container already built for...
I'll tell you later.
David Byrne makes sense.
LE Loves Amy Poehler
Amy Poehler spoke at Harvard’s Class Day this year. Her speech is smart, pointed, inspiring, and of course, hilarious, and her delivery is perfection.
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A Day at the Beach
Artist Jim Denevan makes incredible drawings on sand and ice that are all eventually erased with time. Here are some standouts, and be sure to check out his website for more.
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Aaron Koblin
Tuesday Inspiration video via jb shows the incredible power of interface design…
From TED:
Artist Aaron Koblin takes vast amounts of data — and at times vast numbers of people — and weaves them into stunning visualizations. From elegant lines tracing airline flights to landscapes of cell phone data, from a Johnny Cash video assembled from crowd-sourced drawings to the...
Image Shift
Hot new video from American Apparel (and not the kind of hot you’ve come to expect!).
Happy People = Good Workers!
This Tuesday, the LE team sat down and watched 3 inspiring videos that highlight the important link between personal satisfaction and professional growth, namely:
What motivates us:
The transformative power of personal projects:
And the hidden power of smiling:
Dig in!
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We
Lately we’ve become completely obsessed with Instagram. You can find us posting photos as we party at Brooklyn Bowl, roam the city, or rock in Vegas with Eclectic Method.
While the app doesn’t yet have a website, we use Extragram to see it all on a big screen.
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Amon Tobin Set Build for 'ISAM' Live
Amon Tobin expands his live performance with the help of a projection mapped set build designed by a team of inspired thinkers.
Another instance of cool finding a way to be even cooler.
May 2011
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The End Times Remixed
Our evil genius video remix masterminds over Eclectic Method dropped this bomb on the world just 4 days before the supposed end of the world was to happen today, May 21st, 2011.
Shockingly, it didn’t come true this time… but the Apocamix is TRUTH, friends. Enjoy it!.
Download the mp3 banger on their Soundcloud page.
Sound and Vision
It’s no secret that musicians have to work a lot harder to sell their work these days.
With that said, one of our favorite sayings here at LE is that limitations breed creativity, and here is a cool example of someone getting creative.
Brooklyn hip hoppers Junk Science + Scott Thorough are the latest to adopt a fun new format to release their music: a feather-shaped USB stick. Prettttty...
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Where do rejected ideas go? The New York Times features 20 book covers that never made it to the printer.
Link (via Quipsologies)
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Introducing the Lost Type Co-op from Riley Cran and Tyler Galpin. From their website:
The Lost Type Co-Op is a Pay-What-You-Want Type foundry, the first of it’s kind.
Founded by Riley Cran and Tyler Galpin, originally in a whirlwind 24 hour adventure to distribute a single typeface, Lost Type has blossomed into a full fledged foundry, distributing fonts from designers all over the...
Brooklyn Bowl Goes 3D With Pitchfork
Straight up, Brooklyn Bowl has the hottest video setup there is. Huge HD screens abound, and eye candy is the rule. So it’s only natural that we would make it the place for Pitchfork to premiere the 3D videos that are part of their new Pitchfork 3D series.
Get glasses & check the vids here.
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Jacob Escobedo's Subtle Beauty
From 20x200 Artists:
Jacob Escobedo grew up in Pioche, Nevada, a small desert town three hours north of Las Vegas, surrounded by his father’s hoarded collections of oddities, old medical books and encyclopedias. His childhood provided an amazing backdrop for creative experiments and interest in the outdoors.
His work, which combines organic elements with the psychedelic, recalls the...
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Graphic Traveling // Francois Leroy
From his website:
My name is François Leroy, I’m an Illustrator, graphic designer based in Paris, France.
I’ve studied traditional art at school in Paris. At the same time I’ve started to be interested by digital art and it became a real passion to this day. I define myself fully in this dynamic generation for which internet and interactive are major words.
3(D) Dreams of Black
Chris Milk, quite frankly, is the man.
Milk, the creative force behind the Arcade Fire’s The Wilderness Downtown, has launched a new interactive video. This time it’s for “3 Dreams of Black,” a song off Rome, the new album by Danger Mouse and Daniele Luppi.
Create & navigate your own reality? We’re all in.
Dive in here.
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Destroyed
On the microsite for Moby’s new album/photo project Destroyed, users can stream the full album while viewing photos that are geo-located on an interactive map. And not only that, but you can add your own Instagram photos to the map by tagging them with #destroyed. Brilliant.
Oh, and the content? Freaking beautiful. The photos are at once stark and teeming with life; the music a swelling...
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A tour of NYC for the truly adventurous. Scale bridges, trek though subway tunnels, and avoid getting caught (and killed) with Steve Duncan and Andrew Wonder and see the hidden gems New York’s Undercity has to offer. Crazy? Yes. Awesome? Definitely.
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Can one separate personal and professional growth? The Queen of Wrong lays some wisdom on us.
Emotion + Memory + Creativity =
this delightful video from Google Chrome…
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Toby Ziegler
Tuesdays at LE are all about inspiration. Delivering a healthy dose today is Toby Ziegler, British artist doing his best to keep our perception of 2D and 3D happily confused. Enjoy…
April 2011
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Eye Candy for Strangers @ Brooklyn Bowl
For the past year and a half, we’ve been producing Eye Candy for Strangers at Brooklyn Bowl, calling international video artists to submit motion graphic art, animation, short films, music videos, and VJ visuals of ten minutes or less, via the Eye Candy For Strangers Vimeo Group.
The selected videos are then presented on Brooklyn Bowl’s massive HD projection screens. Tonight,...
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Kubrick's Chicago
No, it’s not another Instagram photo treatment. This image comes to us via Flavorpill’s Flavorwire, who’ve dug up an amazing series of Kubrick photos from his stint with Look magazine back in 1949. Kubrick’s ability to frame beauty through a lens is unsurpassed; hope you enjoy these grainy relics as much as we do…
~LE
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The Creators Project Meets Coachella
If there’s anything we like here at LE, it’s the intersection of creativity and technology. So obviously we’re huge fans of The Creators Project, the creative partnership between Intel and Vice. This year, Coachella teamed up with The Creators Project to take the fest to the next level, and the results were beautiful and inspiring.
A few highlights:
Muti Randolph’s LED...
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Symmetry from Seeds
From our “Seeds of Duality” logo to the slideshow on our new website, we’re pretty keen on exploring the emergence of design from the teasing of opposites here at Learned Evolution.
Nested micro/macro context rules our world, as did this incredible new video blowing up on Vimeo by the ever-talented Everynone out of NYC.
Tasty stuff…
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Inspiration Sprouts on Saturday at F5 Fest
Day 2 at F5 Fest was even more inspiring than the first—a seemingly impossible feat. The day began with yet another round of the happy-themed, naughty puppet-clad opening titles created by the very talented, Buck. Adam Sadowsky of Syyn Labs, the first speaker of the morning, gave a detailed run through of the making of OK GO’s “This Too Shall Pass” music video.
The next...
F5 Fest Doing it Happy
Coming straight off the flip-flop clad Summit Series fantasy factory at Sea, we went straight into the F5 Fest. Held at Roseland Ballroom, F5 is a taste-maker laden design conference with interactive installations, and a closing party to feature Eclectic Method at Good Units. The Method will also be doing a talk at F5 on Saturday afternoon.
Highlights from the Friday included the next level...
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Summit at Sea
Today, jb sets sail along with Eclectic Method on what promises to be—at the very least—a fascinating weekend aboard the Celebrity Century cruise ship for the illustrious Summit Series’ “Summit at Sea.”
From Fast Company:
This year’s carefully curated list of attendees is a mashup of suits (Indra Nooyi, CEO of PepsiCo; Shona Brown, senior vice president of...
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Oliver Vernon
While we’re digging to our roots here on the LE blog, we must also pay tribute to an early LE friend and timeless inspiration to us is, Oliver Vernon. Words can’t do much to describe OV’s work, so we’ll stop using mere words in this post… now!
March 2011
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Eclectic Method on Jimmy Fallon
We couldn’t be more proud of Eclectic Method, who we’ve been working with since 2005 after jb saw them at RESFEST in Barcelona. Initially, they were represented under Learned Evolution, until we decided to create The Meta Agency with them as a catalyst.
Tonight, EM will be making their network TV debut, performing live on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon with the Copyright...
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It’s no secret that we love cubes, small bits of color, and surprising emergence of beauty. Thus, it’s no shock this DDD Paris installation for Voyages SNCF, “Escape Machine,” rocked our world on a brisk Monday morning. Thanks to The Cool Hunter for the vid.
Enjoy!
~LE
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On Johnny Beach
For the inaugural Learned Evolution Tumblr blog post, there is no more applicable place to start than with a little ode to our old friend Johnny Beach. Were it not for his support and friendship now 12+ years ago, there is no way LE would exist as it does today.
From Learned Evolution founder, Justin Bolognino: “At 18 years old, I’d never met a figure like Beach, also 18 at the...