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Layer Tennis is a game in which two designers exchange in a creative volley of sorts, each responding to the other’s previous design. Recently, a match took place between two animators, Matt Smithson and Daniel Oeffinger. The hilarious result involves a giant rabbit god thing and robots of course.

Experience a tour of the Sistine Chapel without leaving your apartment.

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Brian Dettmer transforms old cassette tapes into sculptures of skeletons.

Recently, I’ve been collaborating on some work with my uber talented friends at HUSH. Hidden on a computer station, we discovered this illustration of us all. It had been curiously left in a folder of work by a freelance animator who was helping out on a project. Upon closer inspection, we realized that he had managed to incorporate all of our first initials into the image.

The Story of Bottled Water is a short film that clearly explains the problems with the packaged water industry and why drinking tap water is a much better option.

Here is what happened when Winnie the Pooh met Alien.

Artist Simon Schubert folds paper into detailed illustrations of spaces.

I’ve designed the bike that I want. All there is left to do is order it.

BMW revamped a classic parlor trick with their S1000rr racing cycle.

The opening titles for the Typophile Film Festival 5 were thematically inspired by the notion of how our five senses inform creativity. The project was created by design students from BYU. Everything is practical and no CG was employed.

Art and commerce don’t always mix with the best results and certainly don’t always combine for the best workflow on a project. This gallery of animated loops is dedicated to that often uneasy feeling known by designers when working with bad clients.

In 1909, Thomas Edison filmed Mark Twain at his Stormfield, Connecticut estate. The thought of these two cultural geniuses spending a day together for the sake of documentation only makes them both that much more intriguing as historical figures.

The thought of Santigold and David Byrne collaborating on a track that nods at the political chess moves made by female leader of the Phillipines, Imelda Marcos towards her male counterparts, makes perfect sense to me. The song sounds exactly like I’d expect it to.

Here is an entire year’s worth of photography processed through an algorithm that demonstrates how much color was represented.

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Mrzyk & Moriceau created a sexy little music video for Sebastien Tellier in celebration of Record Makers 10th Anniversary. The entire promo works like an animation walk-cycle that is focused on a rear end that keeps changing form. This clip is simple and brilliant. My favorite part is when the buttock’s sprays a perfume of flatulence that looks like diamonds.

Director Dael Oate’s vision of Purgatory is a place where one is a caught in a loop of sorts, hunting themselves.

Here is a collection of Vans and the Places They Were Found.