All Blog Posts Tagged 'Games' (9)

Kale, the giant blue couch can turn into anything almost anything a kid can imagine it to be. it was designed over at alper böler and lets all be honest, who wouldn't have wanted one of these?

alper böler: "Kids love big cushions to play with. Adults want design that fits into their lives and… Continue

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This snowboard video will take you back to those days of playing Atari and Nintendo 64. This is one of the most creative video parts I've seen in a… Continue

For those of you who liked Pixels, you're going to love this. Australian designer Robert Penney made these clever mock-up video game packages for his series, Retro Games with Modern Themes. Basically, Penney's taken modern movies like Avatar and the Dark Knight and remade them into retro…

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Vancouver's Olympic organizing committee unveiled the gold, silver, and bronze medals that will be distributed during the 2010 Winter Games. The medals, displayed last week, are the first in Olympic and Paralympic history to be made from discarded circuit boards and electronic waste. They are among the heaviest in Games history at about half a kilogram each.…

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Global architecture firm Populous won the competition to create the main stadium for the 17th Asian games in Incheon, South Korea. The 70,000 seat, $400 million multipurpose stadium will be designed to be reconfigured into a single sided grandstand of 30,000-seats, within a park, after the Asian games. It will be located between Incheon International Airport and Seoul,…

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Young koreans hold up colored display cards to form a background image for a performance of North Korea's Mass Games on September 12, 2008. The Mass Games are designed to entertain or celebrate holidays, and place emphasis on group dynamics rather than individual prowess. This particular show's name is "Prosper the Motherland!", dedicated to the 60th Anniversary of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, celebrated on September 9th.



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Extraordinarily lifelike characters are to begin appearing in films and computer games thanks to a new type of animation technology.



Emily - the woman in the above animation - was produced using a new modeling technology that enables the most minute details of a facial expression to be captured and recreated.



She is considered to be one of the first animations to have overleapt a long-standing barrier known as 'uncanny valley' - which refers to the… Continue

Like the Five Olympic Rings from which they draw their color and inspiration, Fuwa serve as the Official Mascots of Beijing 2008 Olympic Games.



Designed to express the playful qualities of five little children who form an intimate circle of friends, Fuwa also embody the natural characteristics of four of China's most popular animals - the Fish, the Panda, the Tibetan Antelope, the Swallow - and the Olympic Flame.



Each of Fuwa has… Continue

The medal for the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games is designed with inspiration coming from "bi", China's ancient jade piece inscribed with a dragon pattern. The medals, made of gold and jade, symbolize nobility and virtue and are the embodiment of traditional Chinese values of ethics and honor, sending forth strong Chinese flavor.



The medals are 70mm in… Continue