Nike SB has put together an awesome video of their skating team “invading” Qatar with their skateboards. Documentary-styled video features such skateboarders as Dani Lopez, Dani Rubio, Dani Lebron, Juan Algora and Adrian Del Campo, was produced by Ivan Jimenez and filmed by Enrique Mayor. Great tricks, great views, interesting insights in skateboarding in Qatar. Definitely worth your time.
Archive for the 'Inspiration' Category
Just found in my RSS feed (in Polish, unfortunately, so won’t link it to international audience)
Virtual Magic, motion studio from Poland sponsored by AMD, is working on a project called “Asylum 5D”, 12 minute animation that will be shown in special 4D cinemas. While watching, you will be able to feel the environment, as screening will be accompanied by odours, feeling of blowing wind etc.
Viewers will be able to dip into gloom atmosphere of the asylum and feel the dark mood – says director, Dariusz Zduńczyk. Apart from realistic animation, cinemas will be perpared to make viewers smell odours, feel rain on their faces or insects crawling over their legs.
Sounds awesome. Don’t know about you, but I can’t wait.
If you’re living in Central & Eastern Europe, you’ve probably seen them or at least head about them. If you travelled to Poland, Ukraine or similar and took your time to look deeper into the folk culture, you might have seen them too.
Wycinanki are very strong element of local folk culture in Poland and Ukraine and are especially visible when you take a trip to the countryside, away from the smog and noise of the city. What are those? In very brief description, one can say that they are state-of-the-art, intricate floral motifs cut in colored paper that are being glued to paper or wood for decoration. As simple as that. In some regions of Eastern Europe, the art of creating them has been taken to a whole new level and local designers and artists often use them as inspiration. Maybe they can inspire you, too? Get ready to get bombed with local culture inspiration and inspired designs, to get that creativity flowing.
So, it’s that day again. The weather is great, you are looking forward to the weekend. It’s also the time for the usual TGIF series post! As usual, I am gonna give you some links to awesome Twitter profiles and some design or other interesting snacks for the weekend. Ready? Here we go!
#followfriday recommendations
- @ISO50
- If you’re a fan of good design and was not living under the rock for few last years, you probably heard about ISO50, the blog and website of a designer and artist, Scott Hansen. This, my friends, is his Twitter profile. Updated way more recently than the blog, it’s a goldmine of links to check. Warning – if you have problems focusing with distractions around (you shouldn’t use Twitter, then, durr!), it’s a productivity killer!
- @MadysonDesigns
- Sarah Whinnem, the founder and owner of Madyson Designs, self-proclaimed Miss Awesome of Twitter. If you use Twitter not only to share things like a robot, but you also appreciate good chat in your free time, you might want to follow Sarah. Not only sharing awesome things, but also very friendly and helpful, highly recommended follow.
- @sharebrain
- Official profile of Thomas Ulbricht, the brain behind the Sharebrain and other random popular design and webdevelopment projects around the web. If you’re into webdesign and webdevelopment and need some inspiration or help, Thomas is the person to follow, really.
- @Creativest
- Just found recently by a mutual follow (they followed me, I followed back), Creative In Links is a great resource of design news and links – if you like to keep up on what’s cool and what’s on top in design, this is another user worth following.
So, it’s Friday again and it’s time for more Friday Twitter recommendations and design finds in our new column, TGIF! As usual, I’m gonna start off with Twitter #followfriday recommendations and then move to design and interesting finds for the weekend, taken directly from my Twitter followers and other sources!
#followfriday recommendations
- @rutiso
- Max R. Scheer, known on Twitter as @rutiso is a designer and art director based in Berlin. His life quote that he has set in his Twitter background is “Work hard, know your tools, support your friends, be critical and curious” – and that’s basically it. You don’t need more words to describe who is Max – he’s honest, critical, tell you if he doesn’t like something, but always will help you get better outcome. Really cool guy.
- @nlupus
- Sasha Kovaliov, a. k. a. @nlupus is a sales and social media specialist based in Minsk, Belarus. Friendly, positive thinker, pragmatic, constructive in his criticism. If you’re looking for someone who shares lots of useful social web organizing tools and is available to have a simple chit-chat with you, you’re at the right guy to follow.
- @krftd
- Krftd is an awesome lifestyle, design and inspiration magazine based in Singapore. If you’re into art, design, fashion and lifestyle, Krftd is the place to go for quality articles, reviews and interesting stuff. Highly recommended.
- @davidairey
- David Airey, designer based in Northern Ireland and the founder of LogoDesignLove blog, and his ramblings on design, spec work, branding and more. Apart from that, great guy, great follow and an awesome creative. If you’re into logo and brand design, you can also check his professional profile at @LogoDesignLove. Great stuff.
