Charming, Text-Based Video for Jonathan Coulton's Shop Vac
/Ending the week with a charming and visually witty music video. How many brands can you name?
via nymag.com
Who is Banksy?
/Aardman Animations created this cute little animation for the Encounters Festival in Bristol. The film plays on the mystery that surrounds the identity of one of the city's most famous sons: Banksy.
The film was created by Aardman director and animator Chopsy, and was commissioned by the Encounters Festival for the Grafitti Animation section, appropriately enough.
Jonathan Harris' Cold:Bold Presentation at Gain: AIGA Business and Design Conference
/You could think of Jonathan Harris as a technical artists or an artistic technician but more than that he is the very embodiment of the tension humanity feels at the threshold between art and technology.
via aiga.org
Thwarting Waste with a File Format That Can't Be Printed
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Digital documents (made out of ones and zeroes) are a lot less wasteful than paper (made out of carbon-eating trees). To minimize unnecessary printing, some people add a reminder at the bottom of emails that says something like "Please consider the environment before printing this."But the folks at the World Wildlife Fund have another solution. This week, they released a new file format—WWF, of course—which is, essentially, "a PDF that cannot be printed out." Drop by Save as WWF, Save a Tree to download software that will add a "Save as WWF" option to your print menu. Any WWFs you create can be opened by programs that open PDFs—but can't be printed.
via good.is