bv02 Creative Digest: Issue 2

Feb172012

Vol: 001 | Issue: 002

The bv02 creative digest is a compilation of thoughts, links, musings, and inspiration that has caught the eye of our creative team over the past week. A combined effort from Matt Davidson (New Media), Paul Wright (User Experience), Matt Ernst and Daniel Bianchi (Creative)

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bv02 project sneak peek

Project sneak peek of the week is a site that is currently in the development stage of its life cycle. Heritage Passages is an interactive website that tells the story through a series of intertwined narratives of how the Bytown locks shaped the city of Ottawa. HyperLab and Carleton Immersive Media Studio provided some amazing 3D renderings from their detailed architectural models of the locks and associated buildings that are used throughout the site.

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Industry news of the week


The new Todo application called Clear has launched and it’s making lists and todos fun again!

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UX news this week

UX Yoda twitter account is a dandy. Recent tweet: “Harder to destroy a design if emotionally attached to it you become. And destroy it you must if it fails.”

Thinking about touch? Check out .Net Magazine’s article about designing for touch. “Great mobile designs do more than shoehorn themselves into tiny screens: they make way for fingers and thumbs, accommodating the wayward taps of our clumsy digits. The physicality of handheld interfaces take designers beyond the conventions of visual and information design‚ and into the territory of industrial design. With touchscreens there are real ergonomics at stake. It’s not just how your pixels look, but how they feel in the hand.”

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Inspiration of the week

http://htmlandcssbook.com/buy/ – beautiful book about learning css and html

http://patterntap.com/ – long standing inspiration site relaunched as 2.0.

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Illustration of the week


That’s a very nice work by “El Grand Chamaco”. The artist uses only iPhone to create these amazing illustrations. First he uses Google search app (http://www.google.ca/mobile/google-mobile-app/) to find the right image, then he uses Brushes (http://www.brushesapp.com/) to draw over the picture. Finally, he uses Instagram (http://www.instagr.am/) to add some effects and voilà!

Check this gallery to see some iPhone illustrations: http://www.behance.net/gallery/Bad-Finger/3053435

About the Artist
Grand Chamaco was born in 1982, in Los Ramones, a municipality of the State of Nuevo Leon, in Mexico. He says he first learned to draw then he learned to write.

To know more about this talented artist, visit his website http://www.grandchamaco.com/

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Photo of the week


Photo inspiration of the week is of people watching “The Clock” a video art piece on display at the National Gallery of Canada. The Clock is a 24 hour film that looks at our perceptions of time in modern cinema. See more about The Clock here

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Video of the week


Another Super Bowl video this week from Chrysler; This video literally took my breath away. Produced by Wieden + Kennedy in Portland, the video is a rallying cry for America featuring Clint Eastwood. The bit compiled photos and video of supposed real life americans going about their day to day. Solidifying the purpose of this video, some real emotion is evoked by Clint’s narration (though that may happen even without the video overlay).
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Web-font pick of the week


Proxima
Nova by Mark Simonson Studio is a very versitile family that looks great as body copy or headings and everything in between. Lots of weights, widths and options with 42 fonts in this family.

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