Extremely fresh Mignonette
Hey, today is a good day. After waking up, I found an brandnew Mignonette in my inbox. This is a do-it-yourself assembly kit, an electronic game console “to learn about soldering, microcontrollers, and game programming”. True 8-bit style. Well, this will be a little bit of work… but extremely fun work!
Screenshot from Canabalt
Adam Atomic and Danny B teamed up again and created a very unique gaming experience. Canabalt is a one-button-game. You play a guy, he has to run for his life. While the scrolling is getting faster and faster, you have to push the button, in order to get the guy jump of at the right moments and at the right heights. Like the previous games Fathom and Gravity Hook, this game features only some minutes of core gameplay. But the look, the feel, the music, the soundeffects and the overall quality is definitely worth a try!
Well, today I came across some interesting content from totally different fields. But all with fresh style of animation.
First one is an animation from James Jarvis, animated with the help of Shynola. It is in general an animation about “running”, called “Onwards”. Read more about the project here. (via)
Next up is an so sweet animation with a very sweet song, too. It is about driving an electric car. Uh, careful, this video contains basically lots and lots of animals…
Finally we enter the gaming-area. “Bear on a wire” is an game for the iPod / iPhone, where you are a beat, that had to drive carefully on a wire. Weird content! (via)
Yay, this looks candy! Trailer from the upcoming Playmobile World MMO. This online-world from the traditional German toy-manufacturer Playmobil is primarily suited for kids older than eight.
“Learn something everyday” is an interesting project from a graphic design studio in UK. They release everyday a picture of “lesser know facts” that nevertheless are maybe good knowing about – or just fun to think about. Everyone is invited to submit own “lesser know facts” to the site. The best work of each month will be released a poster and can be purchased.
Found this nice video about graphic-designer Milton Glaser. Nice and inspiring to see. A little bit of art and graphic-design wisdom, always good to bring it back into mind. In short: be amazed and learn, learn, learn. (via) (via)
Serein-logo old
Serein-logo new
We remember: Serein searched for designers, in order to give the label a new spin into a new direction. Now they are there and finished. And I do not know what to say about the results. First: The logo is much more readable. That’s a good point, because the old logo could be confused with “Boroin” or something like that. So thumbs up for better communication.
The relaunch of the website somehow looks a little bloodless for me. Sorry, but I have to say so. A little bit like preset-skin-action over a wordpress, but maybe there will be coming more. It is decent, yes. But, hm. Well. Clear, but fast to forget. Let’s wait for the future. It seems that they are also planning some business-modelling, also combined with community-driven stuff. Or how would you interpret this line?
We will no longer offer all our music for free download, but for those willing to invest some time in the project, free downloads and other assorted good-stuff will become available over time.
Anyway, they announced a new EP from Nest, and this are extremely good news! The first EP from Nest was simply the best piece of netmusic ever released! Read more about the future of the label here.
