News in Design

News in Design

News in Design featuring great design, architecture, fashion, graphics and innovation from across the globe.

 

Future of Banking

Ms. Wu created this video for Julius Baer to explain the working method of their new digital product for their potential investor. From concepting, storyboard, style frames design to animation, she figured out how to visualize the difference between heavy workflow, digitalization and new era. She added visual metaphors to increase uniqueness. Creative thinking and techniques were utilized to create a video with a clear story narrative and visual attractions. This video showed the beautiful future the new digital product will bring.

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Vessi

Vessi Animation is a promotional animation created for a boot. The animation presents the product through natural visual elements that link the footwear to the lifestyle of the customer. Water relates to the features of the boot, while clouds suggest lightness. The boot was modeled with hard surface techniques in 3ds Max, using photographs as reference, and leather textures were applied. Rendering was done with Redshift and simulations with Houdini. The animation was used on the product website and on social media, without explanatory text.

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Promising Ideas

Promising Ideas Innovation is a short animation created for Unicef to explain how more young people, especially girls in remote areas, have been connected to the internet. The animation compares the number of men and women who access the internet in developed and less developed regions. It then shows the problems that limited access creates for women in those regions. Complex data is turned into a simple story about one girl and the millions who face the same situation. The animation was produced entirely by computer.

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Space Paradox

Space Paradox is a conceptual video about the nature and limits of space. The film uses three world forms as its background: the spatial world of entities, the multidimensional world of fractals, and the world of logic and human consciousness. The transformation and overlap of the three forms present a dialectic between entity and vacuum, space and consciousness. The starting point is the question of the edge of space raised by Archytas, together with theories of potential and real infinity. Space Paradox also includes a creative expression of space graphics.

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134340 Music Video

134340 is an animated music video created as a fan made project for a Korean pop song of the same name. The song title refers to the asteroid number of the dwarf planet Pluto. In response to the lyrics, the video shows Pluto as a white ball moving through multiple dimensions in space, surrounded by colourful three dimensional shapes that follow the rhythm of the music. Simple geometric forms and keyframe animation at 30 frames per second are used. The flat cel shading art style was produced entirely in the software Cinema 4D.

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RingCentral - Message, Video, Phone.

RingCentral is the #1 business communications platform, bringing everyone and everything together to get work done. NotReal developed an overview video to showcase everything this powerful app can do, so viewers can get a glimpse of how broad and complete this product really is. There's the coexistence of three worlds: Real, the user point showed through realistic work situations. Digital, conformed by deconstructed UIs that highlight specific features of the app. And Abstract, to describe general functionality. Throughout the video, there's a team creating a product through the app.

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Design interview of the day

Read the latest interviews and conversations on design, creativity and innovation between design journalist and world-famous designers, artists and architects. See latest design projects and award-winning designs by famous designers, artists, architects and innovators. Discover new insights on creativity, innovation, arts, design and architecture. Learn about design processes of great designers.

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