Stephen's Blog of Art and Design

Thursday, March 21, 2013

Google's World Wide Maze

Google has just launched its latest in a long list of crazy mind-boggling innovations. World Wide Maze is an interactive game that can turn any website of your choosing into a playable, 3D maze (What?!). You control a marble that must zig and zag its way to the finish (by turning your smart phone), collecting crystals along the way and navigating the treacherous curves of the Google logo (or Facebook, or Tumblr, or Twitter, or whatever). The requirements? You must have Google Chrome installed on both your computer and smart phone and then sync the two. Then, download the (chrome.com/maze) and enjoy! Video below.

(via Huffington Post)

Tuesday, February 19, 2013

ABCinema - Take 2

Adding to Eric Seitz's fantastic ABCinema series (which I first blogged about here), here is Take 2 with a whole new movie-guessing game (Answers below the cut).

(via Eric Seitz on Vimeo)

Gender-Swapped Fairy Tales

Sleeping Beauty

This is a series of gender-swapped fairy tale illustrations by artist Yudi Chen. These struck my interest not only because the illustrations themselves are quite nice, but because my thesis has had a focus on the reinterpretations of stories and how they can be portrayed visually.

Rapunzel

Tarzana and John

Little Red Cap

Snow White

Beau and the Beast

The Little Merman

Cinderfella

(via Yudi Chen on Tumblr)

Friday, February 1, 2013

Confessions

Confessions is a public art project created and maintained by artist Candy Chang that resided in The Cosmopolitan, Las Vegas during the summer of 2012. Over 1,500 confessions were put up on display on square wooden plaques, written on by the confessors themselves, or recreated on large canvases by the artist.

Inspired by Catholic confessionals, Chang installed a row of booths in which anyone can write down their confession anonymously to be included in the exhibition.

(via Candy Chang)

Wednesday, January 30, 2013

55 Years of the Brick

Imagine a movie

Here's some more awesomeness in the form of minimalistic Lego advertising (I previously posted another great set of Lego ads here). This time, Lego is celebrating 55 Years of the Brick by releasing these fun ads depicting movies, books, stories, bands, and songs using as few Lego pieces as possible. Try to figure them all out.