Marcus Csomor - Mixed Media A couple weeks back I made a post on the wonderful competition Tiger was running called Tiger Translate. The brief was “We would like you to give your interpretation of the, changes that will be affecting your world over the next 10 years”. So it was open for a lot of creative interpretation. A good friend of Gráfica Real, Marcus Csomor - from The Ripe Collective, who...

The Wonderful & Quirky Art Direction of Sia I recently was enlightened to the amazing work of Sia (Australian), not only musically but to her whole artistic presence. Everything she touches is painstakingly original and ironically low budget - yet works wonders. It’s always inspiring to come across an artist like Sia who oozes 360 degrees of creativity. She has recently been flown to America to write lyrics for Christina...

Cooliris - Smokin’ Hot Browser Plug-in Last night a friend showed me Cooliris and the first thing I thought was, how did I not know about this?! A free browser plug-in to browse images and videos with ease and elegance. The results are accurate, the layout is clean, the performance is fast and the features go on. You can browse Google, YouTube, Getty Images, IStock, MySpace, Facebook etc.. etc.. If you are a designer...

Multimedia Wizards - Sixty40 Interview I was first exposed to the works of Sixty40 at the Semi-Permanent conference in Sydney 2008. And I was pleasantly impressed. The team, founded and led by Matt Taylor and Mark Simpson are a motion graphics and animation studio that are dominating the Australian industry. Their work is watermarked with fun, humour and storytelling and spans the spectrum of animation in 2d, 3d,...

Top 10 - The Best Multimedia and Graphic Design Resources There are so many sites offering design tutorials on-line that as a beginner it is hard to find the good and weed out the bad. So I decided to put together a top list that is made up of sites that I personally found the most useful, and only offer top quality tutorials and resources. Because once you have a handful of these sites in your daily reading you will notice the difference...