http://www.stuee.com/blog Fri, 27 Mar 2009 04:22:44 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Knowmore: House of Commons' was on show from the Saturday 21st of February 2009 to Sunday 24 May 2009 at the State Library of Queensland. It received positive feedback from the large amount of traffic that visited it while it was in the Infozone. Keith Armstrong also drew a good crowd ... http://www.stuee.com/blog/2009/knowmore-showing-at-state-library/ Symbol of stillness - Stuart Lawson The 'Knowmore: House of Commons' interactive installation officially wrapped up production last week 30 January 2009. I wanted to take the opportunity to thank all involved for a great experience - Keith Armstrong, Chris Barker, Darren Pack and Luke Lickfold. The project was also supported by ... http://www.stuee.com/blog/2009/knowmore-house-of-commons/ Symbol of stillness - Stuart Lawson The image above - Symbol of stillness - is a still from a small concept animation of one of the items a participant might have seen emerging from the depths of the table as they spun its surface and traversed its perimeter. I say 'might ... http://www.stuee.com/blog/2008/knowmore_project_update01/ Cactus Larry - Digital painting. Copyright Stuart Lawson Introducing Cactus Larry. He's a character in a short animation I thought up back in 2002. I've embarked on bringing that animation to life - starting with this digitally painted character design I did two days ago... Click here to see Larry. Click here to ... http://www.stuee.com/blog/2008/cactus-larry/ Karl Schmidt-Rottluff study Another natural media exercise. This one involves examining other artists techniques and using them to apply different rendering possibilities that you can apply to your own work. Lessons learnt here, and with any art exercise, crossover into the digital domain; especially the principles of colour, general composition and ... http://www.stuee.com/blog/2008/karl-schmidt-rottluff-study/ Studio Shot - 2006 Annual report cover Back in 2006 I created a small Photoshop image to showcase document designs as if they were taken in a studio. I'm giving the template away for FREE! It was first used to create a mock-up studio shot of an annual report cover design I ... http://www.stuee.com/blog/2008/studio-shot-free-download/ Knowmore - stage 1. Image of table being tested in production meeting What is Knowmore? Knowmore is an interactive installation (or immersive kinetic artwork) - it is best described by Keith Armstrong as: "... a tabletop interactive work where the evolution of the images projected upon its top surface and spatial soundscape depends ... http://www.stuee.com/blog/2008/knowmore-2009-stage-1/ [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="470" caption="einsurance email campaigns"][/caption] These two designs were created for two separate email campaigns for eInsurance Group Australia. The eInsurance Group wanted an e-mailer that would appeal to a broad target audience of internet users who were members of an 'opt-in' advertising site. The email creatives above were produced ... http://www.stuee.com/blog/2008/einsurance-email-campaign/ [caption id="attachment_68" align="alignleft" width="470" caption="Memosis - Virtual Reality (VR) installation"][/caption] 'Memeosis' was an interactive virtual reality (VR) installation completed in 2003, and was inspired by developments in nanotechnology and the promising future it may hold for medicine. The focus of the work was to inform and entertain and was intended to ... http://www.stuee.com/blog/2008/memosis/ [caption id="attachment_122" align="alignleft" width="470" caption="Still life study - Stu Lawson 2008"][/caption] I revisited the still life. Sitting on a PC can dull the skills, So it was time for some hands-on practice with real media again. This painting was done in about 3 hours over a week. It was a test in ... http://www.stuee.com/blog/2008/good-old-still-life/