urban taster http://urbantaster.com a quick (almost daily) taste of the urban landscape Wed, 22 May 2013 16:29:12 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 pink dot 2013http://urbantaster.com/2013/05/23/pink-dot-2013/ http://urbantaster.com/2013/05/23/pink-dot-2013/#comments Wed, 22 May 2013 16:27:49 +0000 bjorn http://urbantaster.com/?p=15387 In it’s fifth year, Pink Dot Singapore is about supporting the freedom to love, regardless of gender identity and sexual orientation. The yearly campaign video, directed by award winning film-maker Boo Junfeng, always makes for a great emotional roller coaster. Here’s this year’s video, with music by Singaporean singer, song-writer and composer Dick Lee.

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]]> http://urbantaster.com/2013/05/14/blommersschumm/feed/ 0 golden constructionshttp://urbantaster.com/2013/05/11/goldenconstructions/ http://urbantaster.com/2013/05/11/goldenconstructions/#comments Sat, 11 May 2013 08:11:26 +0000 sumi http://urbantaster.com/?p=15362 Derived from the study of light, proportions and relationship between organism and environment, Michele Reginaldi created these beautiful series of mini architectural constructions. I would love to have this in my home..!

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]]> http://urbantaster.com/2013/05/11/goldenconstructions/feed/ 0 the lion king pre-production artworkhttp://urbantaster.com/2013/05/10/the-lion-king-pre-production-artwork/ http://urbantaster.com/2013/05/10/the-lion-king-pre-production-artwork/#comments Thu, 09 May 2013 17:57:13 +0000 bjorn http://urbantaster.com/?p=15349 Often, when we look at the final product of an animated movie, we tend to forget the months of amazing work that goes into every Disney classic. via Reddit

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]]> http://urbantaster.com/2013/05/09/rollhill/feed/ 0 the brown sistershttp://urbantaster.com/2013/05/08/the-brown-sisters/ http://urbantaster.com/2013/05/08/the-brown-sisters/#comments Tue, 07 May 2013 17:26:02 +0000 bjorn http://urbantaster.com/?p=15292 Photographer Nicholas Nixon spent 36 years photographing the Brown Sisters, a perfect illustration of the passing of time.

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]]> http://urbantaster.com/2013/05/08/the-brown-sisters/feed/ 0 the paint evolutionhttp://urbantaster.com/2013/05/07/the-paint-evolution/ http://urbantaster.com/2013/05/07/the-paint-evolution/#comments Tue, 07 May 2013 03:55:10 +0000 bjorn http://urbantaster.com/?p=15273 Spanish design agency CuldeSac put paintbrushes through the evolution highway and presented these intriguing results.

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]]> http://urbantaster.com/2013/05/07/the-paint-evolution/feed/ 0 the history of typographyhttp://urbantaster.com/2013/05/05/the-history-of-typography/ http://urbantaster.com/2013/05/05/the-history-of-typography/#comments Sat, 04 May 2013 17:52:40 +0000 bjorn http://urbantaster.com/?p=15269 Ben Barrett-Forrest created a great stop-motion short to explain the history of that little thing all designers obsess with… Typography.

Click here to view the embedded video.

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]]> http://urbantaster.com/2013/05/02/kyle-thomson/feed/ 0 peelhttp://urbantaster.com/2013/05/01/peel/ http://urbantaster.com/2013/05/01/peel/#comments Tue, 30 Apr 2013 18:00:25 +0000 bjorn http://urbantaster.com/?p=15232 Asking the age old question of “What’s behind that wall?”, Japanese firm YOY designed a lamp to invoke the magic of being able to peel back a wall, exploring the magical world beyond it.

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]]> http://urbantaster.com/2013/05/01/peel/feed/ 0 sleepdrunk-vademecumhttp://urbantaster.com/2013/04/29/sleepdrunk-vademecum/ http://urbantaster.com/2013/04/29/sleepdrunk-vademecum/#comments Sun, 28 Apr 2013 18:00:06 +0000 bjorn http://urbantaster.com/?p=15138 Much like painted petri-dishes, artist Tania Blanco’s surrealism tinged paintings tells the story like a series of ellipses.

The body of SLEEP-DRUNK VADEMECUM is made up of a large set of rounded painting formats. It is an open project still in process that started in the middle of 2008. Medical instruments, high precision techonology, scientific devices, anatomical models, clandestine laboratories and human representation become the object of study and thought. The bizarre represented objects reflect a mixture of past and future, and an ambiguous clinical atmosphere flows in them. On many of these painted surfaces, a soft cool-cold gradient isolates the represented elements and gives a non-gravitational character to the compositions. The project is based on a choral visual basis. The groups of images altogether represent the discourse, giving great importance to the different parts that give sense to the work as a whole.

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]]> http://urbantaster.com/2013/04/24/canvas/feed/ 0 le carnet noirhttp://urbantaster.com/2013/04/21/le-carnet-noir/ http://urbantaster.com/2013/04/21/le-carnet-noir/#comments Sat, 20 Apr 2013 18:00:42 +0000 bjorn http://urbantaster.com/?p=15197 Paris based Spanish artist Nacho Ormaechea creates these amazingly beautiful digital collages by filling silhouettes of people photographed on the street with images shot with a bolt of colour.

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]]> http://urbantaster.com/2013/04/21/le-carnet-noir/feed/ 0 real beauty sketcheshttp://urbantaster.com/2013/04/20/real-beauty-sketches/ http://urbantaster.com/2013/04/20/real-beauty-sketches/#comments Sat, 20 Apr 2013 09:54:20 +0000 bjorn http://urbantaster.com/?p=15212 Based on a simple message of “You are more beautiful than you think”, Dove created a campaign based on how you see yourself, and how others see you, visualised through the trained hands of an FBI sketch artist. The results are astoundingly poignant.

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]]> http://urbantaster.com/2013/04/18/rubber-barber/feed/ 0 drawnimalhttp://urbantaster.com/2013/04/17/drawnimal/ http://urbantaster.com/2013/04/17/drawnimal/#comments Wed, 17 Apr 2013 08:10:45 +0000 sumi http://urbantaster.com/?p=15175 A great new app for kids to draw and learn the alphabet! Drawnimal let your kids think outside the box and play both digitally and manually.

Click here to view the embedded video.

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