Design Observer: Beck’s new album – make your own cover
October 7, 2006
Interesting in the way that he’s looking to add value to the experience in ways that can’t be achieved through a straight download.
Design Observer: writings about design & culture
s hard to imagine such resistance to The Information even though it is playing to a much wider audience. There is a public expectation and even demand for interaction now. Audiences have a symbiotic relationship with media and the technology used to produce and distribute it. Fandom has become a mechanized process of blogging, programming playlists, shooting and distributing videos, file-sharing, and even remixing tracks. Beck’s sticker cover is just one way that he has acknowledged this shift. He has also released mutliple versions of his recordings, made raw tracks available for remixing, and provided video elements online for fans to use as source material for their own music videos. In a recent interview in Wired he said, “The idea is to provide something that calls for interactivity and that’s totally different from what you’ll have if you just download the album.”
Design Observer: writings about design & culture
October 7, 2006
cityofsound: Musics Rich Facets
September 9, 2006
the cool hunter – THE I-DECK – ALBUM ART LIVES ON
July 18, 2006
the cool hunter – THE I-DECK – ALBUM ART LIVES ON
This is the coolest way of replacing album art I’ve seen yet. Though it probably doesn’t quite fit that tactile aspect, and you can’t take it or lend it like a record.
Magical Urbanism » The Evolution of Stencil Art
July 16, 2006
One Plus One Equals Three
July 11, 2006
One Plus One Equals Three: The River of Crime, the Blank CD Mystery & the Curse of Bad 3D
Sell blank CDR’s and a link to the website to download the episodes.
cityofsound3A20Design.20Architecture.20Football.
June 20, 2006
World cup and design?
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cityofsound3A20Design.20Architecture.20Football.
Something truly globally popular as well as physical, participative, tangible, impassioned. It's right under our noses … And if you think this is all a bit too frivolous, last words go to John Cage, ironically:
"Purposeless play (is) an affirmation of life – not an attempt to bring order out of chaos, nor to suggest improvements in creation, but simply to wake up to the very life we are living, which is so excellent once one gets one’s mind and desires out the way and lets it act of its own accord."
Design Observer: writings about design & culture
June 15, 2006
Design Observer: writings about design & culture
Logo and band font design was sort of lost among larger discussions of album cover design — which also peaked in the 1970s — and even today the origins of many logos are shrouded in mystery and misinformation.
iVisualize
June 8, 2006
So you can put mac visualisations on your ipod…..
"With iVisualize it is finally possible to run these in iTunes, have them react to your music, and display a lot of song information.
iVisualize comes with 4 visualizations and you can download more or create your own it's up to you."
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