The virtual bleeds into the real
While computer graphics, animation and games get more 'real', far more
interesting to me are the cases where the virtual bleeds into the real.
The best recent example of this was
Cities
City of Signs 2
These are the images I was racking my brain over to remember a city of signs I'd
seen before.
Floating Logos [http://siberart.com/projects/logos/logos_home.html] by Matt
City of Type
London's Kerning, by NB Studio
[http://www.nbstudio.co.uk/londonskerning/index.html], is a map of London
composed entirely of type. The city is rendered as pure typography.
In contrast,
City of Signs
The city council of São Paulo has banished all street advertising. Where once
stood garish billboards extolling the virtues of Heineken, Nivea Visage, or a
Seat Toledo, now all that remains are the
Floating Cities 1
As part of an investigation of new urban typologies I am undertaking as part of
TeamHelsinki [http://teamhelsinki.blogspot.com/] for the Greater Helsinki
Vision
2050 [http://www.greaterhelsinkivision.fi/] competition, I came