Following on from Emma’s recent shop window blog…

My boyfriend has been sent to Italy this week with work. He found these beautiful fluid elephants in Louis Vuitton’s window in Milan.

A new Christmas handbag, surely?

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The studio design team worked hard all week, we deserved bit of a treat, a special night out. Magical.

For a couple of us, it was our first time in Mansfield town, and Mansfield Superbowl certainly didn’t disappoint.

We celebrated in style with sophistcated music (predominantly Steps’ Greatest Hits), gourmet food (Wimpy) and even a rather special firework extravaganza (our bowling lane broke and started to smoke).

A fabulous evening was enjoyed by all. We concluded the evening with a team hands-in-the-middle ‘whoooop’.

Thanks Emma for organising!

With an abundance of visual treats we were hard pressed to concentrate on the task in hand…

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I was down at Onedotzero on Thursday. If you haven’t head of it’s billed as the World’s most innovative Audio visual festival and it’s on at the BFI South bank in London.

First thing to see were the installations, One called Onward. This was basically a series of funny shaped light turning off and on in a dark room. Not really worth the cost of the leccy to be honest. I have seen photos of it looking good in a shopping arcade but by itself in a room it was rubbish.

Granimator: This was mildly entertaining. It was a background maker for ipads so you make up a picture by manipulating geometric shapes. An app basically. I suppose putting it on the big screen makes it an installation?

Plasticity: An audio visual installation. The first time I saw this I thought it was chronic. It was 6 microphones linked to speakers and lights so when you speak into then they distort the sound and flash the lights, supposedly mimicking the firing patterns of neurons within the brain. When I went back later it was a lot busier and really good. Trouble is everyone wants to be inside it and no one wants to do the shouting into the mics cos you can’t see owte.

All in all I was disappointed with the installations, I was expecting a lot more… how can I put it? ‘Stuff coming out at me’

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I went shopping to Nottingham on Saturday and got rather excited by some of the shop window displays, along with the clothes on offer. Here are a few of my favourites taken from Bridlesmith Gate.

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Diesel, Jigsaw, Nottingham, Window Displays, Zara

Okay, so it’s been around since the Superbowl and I’ve only clocked it recently, but I had to post this cracking Chrysler 200 ad from Widen + Kennedy.

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I was up in the North East at the weekend, helping my Auntie who’s got a bad knee. Anyway, I drove past Durham and saw this spectacular sight:

So I thought I’d have a look. It was the Durham Lumiere Festival. Once I got in I couldn’t get out again cos it was so busy, so I had a good look round all of it and it was sweeeeeet. There were projections, installations and a the biggest snow shaker since records began. It’s finished now but it’s worth having a look at next year. http://www.lumieredurham.co.uk/programme/installations/

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Here’s a piece of animation created as part of my training in After Effects. The visual represents the audio track and reacts to the volume. It is possible to take a track and find the peaks and troughs in order to pick out a particular instrument so you could create multiple particle systems that react to individual instruments. (pretty cool)

I used After Effects and a plug-in called ‘Trapcode Particular’. The plugin allows for particle simulations such as the example i have created below.

after effects, anthony birks, audio, audio to animation, multimedia, particular, trapcode particular

High definition video from the ISS – absolutely amazing!

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We were absolutely delighted to host a visit from actor, adventurer and motorbike fanatic Charley Boorman here at Linney Design on Friday. With only a little persuasion and the prospect of meeting like-minded bikers and designers, Charley took a break from his stage tour to drop in and see some of the work we’ve developed over the years for the likes of Triumph and Yamaha. A number of us then joined Charley backstage at The Palace Theatre before watching his excellent chat show, covering his formative years as an actor in Deliverance, to his more recent infamous exploits in Long Way Round and the Dakar Rally. A hugely likeable and talented chap, we’d highly recommend you catch him on tour this winter. Thanks again to Charley and producer Billy for taking the time to drop-in.

Charley Boorman, Linney, Long Way Round, Mansfield, Motorbikes, Yamaha

Take a look at the very complex breakdown of ‘Muller Wunderful Stuff’ tv advert. The combination of both traditional hand-drawn animation techniques and cg animation is very nice to see, especially with all those childhood favourites sneaking in all over the shot.

The making of Muller Wunderful Stuff from TBWA\London on Vimeo.

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