Three units, which are resembling standard record players, translate concentric visual patterns into control signals for further processing in any music software. The rotation of the discs, each holding three tracks, can be synced to a sequencer.
The Berlin-based studio The Product for “spatial and media-related design” created the Soundmachines for VW’s premiere of the 2012 Beetle at the IAA Motor Show.
Dutch illustrator specializing custom lettering, Eric van der Boom was recently commissioned by the vintage-sound guitar pedal manufacturer Dr. No Effects to create a new logo, packaging and product styling for all their pedals. The visual styles for each of the pedals pair amazing well with the rich tone and sounds (demo the sounds on the Dr. No site).
Other projects by Eric van der Boom worth checking out - Ray Ban Rare Prints, Baetulona, and Def P & Beatbusters.
Follow along with this week’s curated posts featuring some of my favorites from the Behance Network - tagged: behance.
Foster The People’s album Torches has officially made its way into my regular rotation. Check out the full album on Rdio.
Two of my personal favorite photographers, Tim Navis and Kim Høltermand, behind Desert City, are teaming up with film collective Scenic, composer Deru and other musicians and filmmakers to capture the remote reaches of Iceland. Now they only need a handful of people to help fund the project on Kickstarter. They have my pledge!
Design studio DKNG recently screen captured the entire design process that went into creating a tour poster for The Black Keys. The time-lapsed video shows their steps from sketching to details to the actual silkscreening all set to “Black Bug” a mashup of The Black Keys and Big Boi.
Ever wonder what everyone’s listening to as you walk around NYC? Youtuber Tyler Cullen decided to ask random New Yorkers with headphones on what song they are listening to.
For your listening enjoyment quickly put together an Rdio playlist with all the tracks mentioned in the video. I was pleasantly surprised that their growing library had all 21 tracks.
Web technologist Cameron Adams recently created a mashup of 23 Daft Punk songs titled Definitive Daft Punk. Like any good music mashup as you’re listening it becomes easy to get lost in the track and figure out where one track begins and ends. To illustrate the layering and composition Cameron created this killer HTML5 and CSS3 visualization of the mashup. Make sure you view it in a modern browser like Chrome or Safari.
Kelli Anderson just pulled off what might be the coolest wedding invite ever created with a paper record player included that plays a song written by the groom and bride. With a bit of paper folding the invite booklet reveals a needle that plays a flexi disc record. If I ever received an invite even close to this one I would feel obligated to buy them an amazing wedding present.
Get inspired looking at all of Kelli’s amazing work.
I can’t get enough of this epic and cinematic new track by Manchester Orchestra. I really hope that their new album Simple Math coming out May 10 will live up to this track.
“Machine´s Waltz” is a poetic vision of Paramount Têxteis textile plant in Brazil. Created and produced by digital agency Grafikonstruct, the film has a soundtrack specially composed by Lucas Lima.
Check out more of Grafikonstruct’s work.
Apparently all the cool kids are riding their dogs these days. Created by the DANIELS—Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert. Check out their other short films, averts and music videos.
Follow the DANIELS on Tumblr
Matthew Buchanan on Matta’s new video “Release the Freq” -
New on Nice Type: the music video for Matta’s “Release the Freq”, beautifully directed, shot, edited and animated by Norway’s Kim Holm. Sure, we’ve seen this style before, but it’s seldom executed with the attention to detail seen here.
A friend of mine and talented designer, Ishmael Burciaga recently launched Album Art Collection as a gallery of his favorite album artwork designs. I’m looking forward to this collection growing over time. Also visit his Favorite Key Art Designs site for a collection of movie posters.
I just discovered this music video on Creative Boom’s new Tumblr site (using the Inspire Well theme) for The Japanese Popstars’ new track ‘Let Go’. The well executed and quite trippy animation style was directed by David Wilson and produced by the team at Colonel Blimp.
The animation reminds me of James Patterson’s, PRESSTUBE, work who really helped pioneer this Flash animation style in the early 2000s. If you appreciated the animation in this music video take some time to explore through the PRESSTUBE site.
Japanese band SOUR along with a long list of creative, technical, and design credits created this unique music video that combines your Facebook, Twitter, geo-location and webcam data. I can’t say that I’m a fan of the music itself, but the technical execution is well done.
I can confirm that connecting to Facebook and Twitter does not auto-post anything to your accounts.
