Next week starts the 2012 inaugural Parsons Festival featuring undergraduate and graduate work from students across a range of disciplines. I plan to make it to a few select openings (see favorites below). It should be an eventful few weeks of great emerging talent! Here’s details: Parsons Festival 2012 showcases extraordinary work by students from [...]

An interesting prototype for an automatic font generator created by Byte Foundry. Although typographic design is a discipline that requires a lot of time and a thorough understanding of the art form and its history, this tool allows one to discover new and unexpected letterforms while experimenting with an automated database of parameters that explore [...]

What a beautiful use of new media in this interactive video piece for Chase No Face by Bell. The graphics were created in real-time using no post-production effects and were built by FaceTracker code from Jason Saragih. Visuals were created by Zach Lieberman, Francisco Zamorano, Andy Wallace, and Michelle Calabro. View some making of shots [...]

I love this interactive art piece by artist Joseph Griffith. Who wouldn’t want one of these in their own home? ~ found via Swiss Miss