New video for Coco Electrik

Check out the new promo for Coco Electrik - Fire and Ice. Directed and designed by George Tsioutsias, Co-directed and VFX by Achilleas Gatsopoulos.

SWP Graphic Design Graduation Show 2010

Venue: L0 Gallery, Jockey Club Creative Arts Centre (JCCAC), Shek Kip Mei, Kowloon.
Date: 13 - 15 Aug 2010
Opening Hours: 10:00am - 8:00pm
Free Admission
For enquiry: design@swpearl.com
Web: design.swpearl.com

DUCK Signs Ben & Julia

Flairs "RADIO" directed by Ben&Julia from Ben&Julia on Vimeo.

Ben&Julia Studios in Berlin, are multidisciplinary talents specializing in colorful and creative work, including mixing animations, shooting live footage, producing drawings, and manufacturing puppetry for commercials, virals, music videos and animations.

Generally, Julia takes the role of Art Director and takes care of colours; Ben draws a lot and works on the technical side of our projects, they specialize in character creation and like to give them names and invent them stories. Ben & Julia first joined forces in 2006. Prior to this, Julia spent time as an associate producer and graphic designer for MTV and as an art director for TV and press. Ben worked as a director, editor and VFX artist for various agencies in Paris.

For more information: http://www.trustcollective.com/portfolio/content/duck_benandjulia.php

DesignEd Asia Conference 2010 – Call for Abstracts

Design Education has the chance to preserve world cultures, and the skills of those cultures, through digital, fashion, graphic, interior and product design. In some regions of the world, it may be one of the only ways to preserve the visible language of a culture. Do you have an important story to tell about design and culture? Are the artifacts your students design steeped in the culture of their region or are they made for a nondescript global market? Please share your insights at DesignEd Asia."

Papers topic areas wanted:
Successful cultural content integration into the curriculum、Regional cultural design projects、Sustainability and cultural designs、Entrepreneurial local cultural designs、Designing for other cultures or a topic of your choice that relates to design education.

Abstract submission due: 31 July 2010

Organisers:
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University School of Design
Hong Kong Design Institute
Co-organiser: Hong Kong Design Centre
Date: 30 Nov & 1 Dec 2010
Venue: Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre
For more information: http://www.sd.polyu.edu.hk/designedconference2010/

Motion Graphics Festival :: July 2010 Tour

The Motion Graphics Festival is the premier creative conference for motion design, visual effects, sound design and interface technology, presenting a wide array of events including: art showcases, workshops, panel discussions, studio tours, theater screenings, industry mixers and audio visual showcases. Entertainment events include screenings with artists curated from international talent, such as: The Mill, Dvein, Pleix, Psyop, Herzog & De Meuron, Warp Records, The Crystal Method, Royksopp, Assassin's Creed 2, LucasArts and many more.

With an artistic lineup of events focused on discovering new talent and providing them an opportunity to showcase their work, call For Entry submissions are accepted throughout the year.

Atlanta: 9-11 July
Philadelphia: 24-25 July
San Francisco: 30 July – 1 August
Year-long Call for Entry Guidelines + Entry Form: http://MGFest.com/10/call/#4entry
Full Event Information + Registration: http://MGFest.com

FOON FOONO: LOVE and LOVED

Compelling, dark and sexy. Those are the words that can best describe the artworks of Foon. Through a series of bunny-eared and red-nosed human characters, Foon explores the many facets of human characteristic. He presents the humanity of his subject matters by accentuating their fragility and vulnerability.

About Love and Loved: Loves unleash our feelings; lead us to explore the different dimensions of ourselves. While we were in love, our actions are mostly the creation of emotions, which sometime cannot be explained perfectly or rationally. But if we are truthfully honest about how we feel, chances are it might evolve us eventually. The artworks at Love and Loved exhibition will show you the glimpse of those moments of action.

Location: The Sub-Station. 45 Armenian Street, Singapore 179936
Reception: 23 July 2010, Friday / 7pm onward
Exhibition runs from: 23 until 28 July 2010
RSVP: rsvp@foonfoono.com