Just been going through this brilliant site featured on the Coolhunting site http://www.coolhunting.com/culture/tokyo-illustrat.php called the Tokyo Illustrators Society - http://en.tis-home.com/ - here's some of the work...Illustrators featured in this gallery: Toshico Tsuchihashi, Sugio Yamazaki, Keiichi Tanaami, Satomi Sakurai, Kaori Kumura, Osamu Kitamura, Fmio Watanabe, Satoshi Maruyama, Tatsuro Kiuchi, Takato Yamamoto
Loving these urban illustrations by Plymouth based Jessie Douglas http://www.jessdouglas.blogspot.com/
We can all be Robocop now - love the irritated flick of the hand when disregarding all the ad messages. Brilliant and thought provoking video by Keiichi Matsuda (much better than my final year project all those years ago!!)
"The latter half of the 20th century saw the built environment merged with media space, and architecture taking on new roles related to branding, image and consumerism. Augmented reality may recontextualise the functions of consumerism and architecture, and change in the way in which we operate within it."
The scenario of the user being paid to bombard themselves with ads is something I think will happen in the future in many contexts not just AR, but this would only be one level of interaction - there would be other quieter modes/layers that Keiichi touches on here. You could see the concept working in a myriad of places such as queues, museums, shops, banks and the list could go on and on - equally exciting and terrifying.
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In a demo that drew gasps at TED2010, Blaise Aguera y Arcas demos new augmented-reality mapping technology from Microsoft. http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/blaise_aguera.html
Pattie Maes and Pranav Mistry demo SixthSense - It's a wearable device with a projector that paves the way for profound interaction with our environment. Imagine "Minority Report" and then some. http://www.ted.com/talks/pattie_maes_demos_the_sixth_sense.html
Clever stuff from Timo Arnall of the Touch project and Jack Schulze of BERG. "This video is about exploring the spatial qualities of RFID, visualised through an RFID probe, long exposure photography and animation."
Source: Pablo Marques http://posterous.com/people/5ewVDhbpZ5ct
Really interesting short video about Pantone colour development (rubbish backing track though!)
"See a rare behind-the-scenes look at Pantone and the development of the new PANTONE PLUS SERIES, the next generation of the PANTONE MATCHING SYSTEM."
Sourced through http://twitter.com/CrocodileJock & http://twitter.com/lukenmich
Robots in adverts, Robots in film, Robots on album covers, Robot toys - you get the picture, it's all about the Robots - see more in my 'Robots, Robots, Robots' Gallery on Flickr - http://www.flickr.com/photos/kathykavan/galleries/72157623949303367/
In another style, the brilliant lego set 'Robots Indoor' which are small robots, droids, mechs and other creatures - http://www.flickr.com/photos/24005582@N05/sets/72157607608428410/
Assorted source:
Gundam: http://www.flickr.com/photos/weesen/sets/72157619513261869/
Robbie The Robot, The "Lost In Space" Robot And The Bionic Man Walk Up To A Bar... http://www.flickr.com/photos/55396233@N00/3704325755/in/set-72157603702021021/
More vintage ads - http://unrealitymag.com/index.php/2009/01/14/20-awesome-vintage-video-game-ads/
Vintage computer mag covers - www.vintagecomputer.net/magazines.cfm
Atari Game Manuals - http://www.flickr.com/photos/joekral/sets/72157594432670289/
Atari Cartridges - http://www.flickr.com/photos/oflittleinterest/sets/72157623301444181/
It looked wicked then and it looks wicked now, end of. "Crom: I mean, sending me down here to play games! Who does he calculate he is?" Full Flickr gallery here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/kathykavan/galleries/72157623920892251/
See the complete set of 66 Tron trading cards, released by Disney in 1981 - http://www.flickr.com/photos/9333777@N03/sets/72157614906734489/
Alsorts here in the Flickr Tron Group - http://www.flickr.com/groups/tron/pool/
Incase you forgot the amazing Lightbike scene http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3ODe9mqoDE
"Googie is that wacky, whimsical, space-age architecture that permeated the American landscape in the 1950s and 1960s. Three parts Jetsons, one part Flintstones, Googie was a form of mid-century modern architecture designed to attract an ever-expanding American leisure class."
