Raquel Herrera 15·05·2012

Nostalgic drawing machines

All that touch tone screen nonsense was bound to have its counterpart: machines that print, rip and record like in the good old analogue days are spreading like wildfire.

Perhaps the fault lies with the Fringe machine that appears to draw on its own. What is a machine like that doing in a world full of mobile phones read post

Art

Flavio Escribano 14·05·2012

3×2 indie video-game competitions

I’ve always considered video-game competitions as some sort of a blessing that ends up favouring a difficult, if not impossible, birth. Generally video-game projects have a high mortality rate during their completion (I can personally testify to that in my own flesh) due to the fact that they are amateur works made between friends in their ‘spare’ time with no immediate profit. So, when a competition of this kind appears read post

Games

ArtsMoved 9·05·2012

Illustrating doubts: answers for illustrators

You like drawing, designing, illustrating. You have a passion for pencil and paper (in their digital version too of course). Wherever you look you see shapes and colours; when you read you imagine impossible traces and characters. As you are aware that you don’t want to (and can’t) give this up, you already told your parents years ago that you wanted to become an artist, illustrator, designer read post

Design

María Ripoll Cera 7·05·2012

Pinterest for videos

After loading social networks with content, the time has come for mediation, that is, networks that allow them to be filtered and offer a personalized selection. Pinterest gets us hooked because it nourishes our senses with a theme based selection of good images made by others. Now, for videos… chill.com is born read post

Community

Jorge Gallardo 3·05·2012

Those who say television is dead are wrong

The big, heavy goggle box has been replaced by a more slender screen in the living room. But now more screens are added to the TV set in front of the sofa: mobile phones or tablets connected to videos via the web. You can watch the very same television programmes read post

Media

Andrés Colmenares 29·04·2012

Fancy: the value of good taste

Since Facebook’s extravagant purchase of Instagram, investors and geeks all over the world are already looking for the ‘the-next-big-thing’ on social networks, the next destination for dollars belonging to young billionaires like Zuckerberg. We have a new and serious candidate and no, it’s not Pinterest, but nearly… allow us to introduce Fancy read post

e-Commerce

Playground 26·04·2012

FKi, Iggy Azalea and Diplo present “I Think She Ready”

The first interactive music video in history is here, allowing you to purchase (nearly) all the apparel featured in it on the spot. How often, while watching a music video by your favourite artist (or not so favourite) have you thought “I like their style, I wouldn’t mind copying that outfit, but how would I get hold of those clothes?” read post

Music

María Ripoll Cera 24·04·2012

Have trust and you’ll get a good holiday

The true usefulness of social networks is beginning to reveal all its power with initiatives such as social travelling: if organized trips have been left without their travel itinerary, now it’s hotels’ turn to get rid of their keys… what do they need them for if millions of people have spare bedrooms and apartments to put travellers up in? read post

Community