Musician and vocalist Fiona Soe Paing teamed up with animator Zennor Alexander to create ‘No Man’s Land’, a multlingual, audio-visual collaboration, which has wowed audiences from Italy to New Zealand. Fiona also creates excellent music as ‘Colliderscope‘.

Trailer: ‘No Man’s Land’ (Youtube)

London-based designer David Pearson specialises in book design and branding, and besides his work for clients like White’s Books and Ridley Scott Associates among others, his reimagining of a series of Penguin classics are great examples of minimalism and vision which suit the product at hand perfectly.

For further examples visit davidpearsondesign.com. (via Laughing Squid)

The guys at HurtYouBad spotted a bit of good old-fashioned billboard jamming (presumably in London?) on billboard adverts for this year’s general election in the UK.

“For our non UK readers – there will be an election this year and this smug, right wing, never-done-an-honest-days-work-in-his-life bastard is looking like the next leader of the country…thankfully he has been kind enough to put up billboards with blank white spaces on so we can tell him exactly how thrilled we are at the prospect…”

Link: Gingerprince for mayor of London.

Happy new year everyone! Please excuse the messiness of the site at the moment. It’s undergoing some severe transformation. Here is a t-shirt designed by James Callahan – a comic-book artist – for Beautiful/Decay’s excellent online emporium.

James Callahan’s Kersplat shirt @ Beautiful/Decay

The first (which can be viewed above) is called ‘Trichrome Blue’, and was produced by Lois van Baarle as a project for the Utrecht School of the Arts.

Trichrome Blue on Vimeo. (via Delicious Design League)

The second is called ‘Alma’, and is a fantastical short film by Pixar animator Rodrigo Blaas, which has been posted online for a limited amount of time this Christmas only.

I highly reccommend you watch it using the video embed below, or by heading over to almashortfilm.com while you can.

Artist Katie Paterson recorded the sounds of an Icelandic glacier, pressed it on to records made from glacier ice, and played them until they melted.

Sound recordings from three glaciers in Iceland, pressed into three records, cast, and frozen with the meltwater from each of these glaciers, and played on three turntables until they completely melt.

[...]The turntables begin playing together, and for the first ten minutes as the needles trace their way around, the sounds from each glacier merge in and out with the sounds the ice itself creates. The needle catches on the last loop, and the records play for nearly two hours, until completely melted.

Katie Paterson: Ice Records (via Today and Tomorrow)

This is really cool: a Flash-world that zooms you through a series of interlocking paintings. Very psychedelic. To get an idea of how they did it, check out the still images from the first Zoomquilt. Mad props to all the artists involved.

The Zoomquilt II (via Boingboing)

How Will You Create The Universe is an outrageously loveable short film which was directed by Encyclopedia Pictura. If you recall the music video for Bjork’s Wanderlust, well this was made by the same people. You will know then to expect nothing short of incredible imagery, colour and vibe. Here’s more on the short: (via Kitsune Noir)

This spot was inspired by, and is a new take on life and evolution simulated video games. It was a labor of love, animated by the wonderfully talented staff at Tippett Studios in Berkeley, CA.

All the characters are CG, modeled and painted after drawings by Daren and Isaiah. The swarms are particle simulations, with creatures exported from a game and attached as sprites. The backgrounds are all digital matte paintings, created by Isaiah and Daren.

Watch ‘How Will You Create The Universe’

Check out Studiocromie’s FAME Festival for more information and some other related projects.

COMBO a collaborative animation by Blu and David Ellis (2 times loop) from blu on Vimeo.

EDIT: They were created by the Swedish photographer, Magnus Muhr!