DUMB FUN | Tim Moore

Designer Tim Moore has explored the combination of collage art, AR/VR and photography in an app (launching soon) called “DUMB FUN”. The app allows users to add a plethora of virtual imagery to their surroundings and explore 16 different “worlds” all created with their own unusual and unique aesthetic:

DUMB FUN is described as an interactive art experience for iPhone that has the freedom to explore photography and collage in digital worlds. The worlds were created using Apple’s ARKit where users can “walk through” the 2D layers and textures:

 

DUMB FUN originally started as a newsletter that delivered one new piece of artwork by PRVCTICE weekly: “The concept behind the project was to treat the newsletter as a zine at its most minimal form: publishing original work and nothing else, just the imagery.”
Tim Moore is the designer behind one of my favourite apps, VSCO, and I absolutely adore his wonderful visual identity that is prevalent throughout all his work. Moore’s work is actually very reminiscent of my Foundation final project, so I wish I had discovered his work all those years ago!

Project Embrace | #AFROVISIBILITY

Ad agency (and previous place of employment for yours truly when I had just started out) Quiet Storm were commissioned by branding agency Vine Creatives to create a series of posters for Project Embrace.

The campaign aims to shine the light on every day women of colour who are proud of their natural hair. #Afrovisibility is a reaction to the fact that Afro hair is rarely seen in any advertising, let alone on giant city-centre billboards, but these will feature in London, Birmingham, Manchester, Southampton, Newcastle and Glasgow.

The outdoor campaign by Quiet Storm features beautifully shot, powerful imagery featuring black women, all cast through an open audition, which includes a teacher, a finance manager, a writer, a receptionist, a student and an HR partner. The tag line “Proud to be me” boldly overlays these real women who are celebrating their natural hair.
In the last few years I have taken an interest in educating myself about the pressures placed on black women to change their hair to more European styles, and this is very evident in film, TV, music and advertising. With more and more more women of colour bravely sharing their stories of traction alopecia (hair loss from sewn in weaves and braids) and their stories of hating their own hair, it is a wonderful for black women of all ages and backgrounds to see that they shouldn’t feel pressurised to spend money on expensive weaves or straighten their hair, and should embrace the ‘fro!

TIME Magazine | The Drone Age

TIME’s latest issue is an exploration into the impact drones have had on our society and culture, with a unique cover to match. The cover shows the iconic TIME logo and red border recreated using 958 illuminated drones hovering in the sky, and it is the first ever TIME cover captured with a camera drone.

TIME partnered with Intel’s Drone Light Show team and Astraeus Aerial Cinema Systems to fly and capture the 958 drones in California, which where Intel has a campus:

The cover is a still taken from the drone camera with the swarm at 100 meters (around 328 feet) tall. A similar stunt was created at the Olympic opening ceremony earlier this year. Incredible! I recommend watching the BTS video below: