Oblong Industries unveiled TAMPER at Sundance Film Fesitval this year as part of the New Frontier exhibition in the heart of snowy Park City. Visitors to the site used their hands and gestured to create whimsical digital video collages (as in the video above). Some of those collages — along with footage of their creation — are up on our YouTube Channel.
Happy Holidays!
Happy holidays!! I made an interactive greeting card for the new year … it animates some snowflakes made out of letters when you wiggle around the mouse. The source is written in Processing.
It feels good to write some code after a semester of mostly print-based work. I hope I can make some more time for work like this in 2009.
Oblong website launch!
g-speak overview 1828121108 from john underkoffler on Vimeo.
The Oblong Industries website is now live! Hello, future.
A month in graphic design bootcamp
In my last post I promised to share some of what I’m working on for my coursework at RISD. So far that’s mostly been happening on Flickr, but here’s a quick summary of what you’ll find there.
In Type I, we’ve been making a bunch of collages with found type, exploring how to place words on a page, and just this week started a project with the letter press! No pictures of the letter press project yet (I’m printing tomorrow) but these are a few of the collages I’ve made for the class.
Form and Communication is our big studio class. We have workshops once a week with the undergrads, where we work with a different design concept every three weeks. We also get a chance to meet a lot of the RISD faculty in Graphic Design because every workshop is taught by a different instructor. John Caserta teaches a special graduate student section of this class, where, among other things, we have weekly assignments taking photos to illustrate words.
More (images) to come.