In search of new online talent, Adobe Italy organized a competition inviting graphic designers, video makers, photographers, web designers and developers to create a project with Adobe technologies. To participate in the Adobe YouGC Contest, competitors had to submit their work within nine weeks, after choosing one of six categories: tutorials, desktop applications, demos, white papers, flash websites or inspirational mood.

Sometimes you come across something on the internet that makes you want to share it with everyone you know.  This is one of those things: The Third & The Seventh is such an astonishing visual experience that it would be a shame to keep it to yourself.

Imagine the human body as an illuminated walking billboard… Science fiction?

Not if you see the latest developments in bio-engineering. Researchers at the Beckman Institute (University of Illinois) and the Tufts University in Medford, have managed to build silk-silicon LEDs that can sit under the skin and might act as little photonic tattoos.

For the past thirty-one years, D&AD has been granting it’s yearly Global Students Awards.  All over the world, students in design and advertising are challenged to come up with mind-blowing creative answers to set briefings.

The emerging talents have a choice between 12 sponsored briefings and the results are judged by leading creative directors  and the participating sponsors.
It’s a win-win situation : sponsorship offers brands the opportunity to set a bespoke, creative briefing while supporting young talent.  The students on their hand, are given a chance to produce some of their most creative work, without the constraints they’ll be meeting in their professional lives.

This mesmerizing visual expression of what drawing feels like, is pure poetry for the eyes.

Art director Makoto Yakubi from Tangram Studios managed to capture what goes on in the mind of an artist and translated it to an elegant animation. The smooth mix of real footage and cg unfolds a whole spectrum of colourful outbursts, representing the transformation from an idea into materiality.