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Rob and Nick are a British based husband and wife team whose experiments have yielded a new art form. They use light-sensitive paper and expose it to a range of different lights to create very dynamic and colorful images. They are widely tipped in the UK as the artists to watch in 05. For what it's...

Videogames for designers - Play the NYC shopping game - imagine a game like this built out (with real brands and product realism) as a consumer-research interface of the future. Jellylova.comWith Shox Neo, Nike jumps into the east coast hip-hop timberland trend with a crossover - mixing boot with...

Websites are emerging that allow consumers to cash in on their creative skills. Originalsnowboardart.com allows artists to submit designs to sell on the site and consumers to buy original works.Cafe Press operates in the world of books, music, t-shirts and mugs and allows consumers to create their...

Photographer Matt Siber's project on brands is a fascinating one. Siber photographs the branding signage that surrounds us and uses Photoshop to eliminate the supporting poles and structures. The resulting photographs show brand identities that seemingly float in the air. It makes for a very...

When developing solutions for brands, it makes sense to take a disciplined and a structured approach. However, there should always be room for the power of creative intuition to make its mark. This is brilliantly illustrated in a filmed interview with Pentagram's famed designer Paula Scher. In the...

Ubiquity and low cost are powerful transforming agents for any technology. It has now happened to cameras and photography. Everyone has a digital camera and the cost of producing a photograph is next to zero. People are now free to take photographs of everything; photography is no longer reserved...

Sometimes art can provide us with a window into our society. At Influx, where we help brands connect to consumers, art can be stimulus, allowing us to see society up close and personal. Recently, photographer Paul Shabroom traveled across America to capture offical meetings of public officers in...

These days, one of the only way consumers can own, wear or use something that's truly unique is to make it themselves. While the DIY (Do It Yourself) trend is not new in categories like apparel, PCs and cars, other categories that feel immune may not be for long. Sure, the argument goes, a...

BMW has sponsored a documentary film called "Who Killed the Big Idea", which debuted at Cannes this year. They understand that a significant piece of their market share comes from professionals in marketing-related industries. Now the company that started branded content film turns a more...

More and more DJs are going high-tech, composing and performing without turntables or mixers, just laptops. Now anyone can relatively quickly download free software, samples and beats to turn their PC into a DJ workstation.TechTV on how to be a laptop DJhttp://www.laptop-jams.com/At the same time,...

A Dutch photographer has created an enormous exhibition showcasing the dress codes of modern tribes. By using identical backgrounds and identical poses, the exhibition sheds light on the striking uniformity within each tribe and the ways individuals change small parts of their uniforms in token...

Mathew Barney (Bjork's baby's daddy) is on top of the art world with his celebrated five-film series called "Cremaster Cycle."The name refers to the cremaster muscle, which raises or lowers the testes in response to temperature, stimulation or fear. Barney explores human gender differentiation from...

Acclaimed British sculptor Antony Gormley has been commissioned all over the world to construct his vast iron statues that tower above neighboring architecture. His most notable work, 'Field for the British Isles,' is an installation of 40,000 miniature clay figures, each one handmade. Gormley has...

Glasgow born artist Douglas Gordon uses both appropriated and original material in his installation pieces, exploring themes like temptation and fear, life and death, good and evil, and innocence and guilt.Gordon's installations are often epic in scale, bringing the viewer into the piece as one...

The work of Thomson & Craighead looks at the ways in which new communications technologies alter our perception of the world.These prolific web art pioneers do not just accommodate offline pieces to be viewable on the web, they create pieces within the navigational rule of thinking, sometimes...