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Star Wars Uncut: WATCH FULL Director's Cut here

In 2009, Casey Pugh asked thousands of Internet users to remake "Star Wars: A New Hope" into a fan film, 15 seconds at a time. Contributors were allowed to recreate scenes from Star Wars however they wanted. Within just a few months SWU grew into a wild success. The creativity that poured into the project was unimaginable.

SWU has been featured in documentaries, news features and conferences around the world for its unique appeal. In 2010 we won a Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Creative Achievement In Interactive Media.

Finally, the crowd-sourced project has been stitched together and put online for your streaming pleasure. The "Director's Cut" is a feature-length film that contains hand-picked scenes from the entire StarWarsUncut.com collection.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13772_3-57363191-52/finally-the-star-wars-uncut-dir...

http://www.starwarsuncut.com/
http://twitter.com/starwarsuncut
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Star-Wars-Uncut/174910934747
http://starwarsuncut.tumblr.com

'Metro' Design Language of Windows Phone 7 & Beyond

'Metro'. An interactive design language to be reckoned with.

What is it?
"Metro is the name of the new design language created for the Windows Phone 7 interface. When given the chance for a fresh start, the Windows Phone design team drew from many sources of inspiration to determine the guiding principles for the next generation phone interface. Sources included Swiss influenced print and packaging with its emphasis on simplicity, way-finding graphics found in transportation hubs and other Microsoft software such as Zune, Office Labs and games with a strong focus on motion and content over chrome." Source: http://www.microsoft.com/design/toolbox/tutorials/windows-phone-7/metro/

Metro's Design Principles are:

/ Light, Clean, Open, Fast 
/ Content, not Chrome
/ Typography
/ Motion
/ Authentically Digital

Metro Presentation...

Window's Phone interface before and after Metro...
(Windows Mobile 6.5 vs Windows Phone 7)

Assorted Metro shots...

The creators of Windows Phone 7, the Metro UI and where the inspiration came from...

Jeff Fong, the Design lead for Windows Phone kicks-off Windows Phone design day with his overview of Metro...

Metro design language being used on Windows 8...

Ref:
http://www.microsoft.com/design/toolbox/tutorials/windows-phone-7/metro/ 
http://weblogs.asp.net/bsimser/archive/2011/03/26/metro-inspiration-designing... 
http://ux.artu.tv/?p=179 
http://www.webforuse.de/blog/?p=60 

International Teletext Festival 2012

Yes. I did say Teletext Festival, Teletext lives on (in Finland in this case). They are having an open call for entries for teletext art. The Festival is in Helsinki in March and submissions will be broadcasted on Finland’s national broadcast service (by the way the examples in the post have been taken from the 2006 teletext event by the same organizers, but they get you in the mood...)

ITAF is organised by FixC cooperative (http;//www.fixc.fi) in collaboration with YLE the national broadcast corporation of Finland. Artists are welcome to participate with 24 - page animations (1 page + 24 sub -pages) or single image works (much easier).

Call for entries here: http://www.fixc.fi/itaf/ 
Send your works by 25th Jan 2012 to: itaf@fixc.fi 
Teletext editor here: http://projects.lektrolab.com/microtel/

Found via http://prostheticknowledge.tumblr.com/post/15579232373/international-teletext...

While were at it, here's the post I did in Dec 2010
'Teletext, we still love ya...' http://kathykavan.com/teletext-we-still-love-ya

Swissted | Swiss Modernist Punk, Hardcore & Indie Flyers

#Love http://www.swissted.com/ (found via @andrewdotdobson)

Swissted is an ongoing project by graphic designer Mike Joyce, owner of stereotype design in new york city. Drawing from his love of punk rock and swiss modernism, two movements that have absolutely nothing to do with one another, mike has redesigned vintage punk, hardcore, and indie rock show flyers into international typographic style posters. Each poster is sized to the standard swiss kiosk dimensions of 35.5 inches wide by 50 inches high and set in Berthold Akzidenz Grotesk Medium, all lowercase. Every single one of these shows actually happened.