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With Love From AI – Kindness and joy with automation
With Love From AI explores technology and human connection through the medium of postcards. Using a custom-built photo frame, the device captures candid moments in various locations and transforms them into a heartfelt postcard message with Google...
Étude on Painting
'Étude on Painting' is a series of works by Kynd that explore the process of creating digital painting tools. The process involves creating a variety of painting tools—code-driven patterns for brushwork and mark-making—then allowing these tools to...
HOLO 2.5 Launched!
HOLO is ending the year with a bang: a new website. Launched six weeks ago,
HOLO.mg expands the print magazine into a more robust, ‘always on’ editorial and curatorial platform. Already a hub of activity, two major research projects are underway,...
75000 Futures – The algorithmic failures and impossible futures
Created by Gunnar Green and Bernhard Hopfengärtner, '75000 Futures' assembles 240 stock charts which were produced by the 2010 flash crash and collected and named by a company that streams and stores realtime market data.
HOLO 2 – The Grand Tour
226 pages, 42 contributors, 22 features, HOLO 2 is ready to go to press: the magazine about emerging trajectories in art, science, and technology is back with another issue. Take a tour and order your copy at today.
HTTPrint – Turn your browsing habits into a newspaper
Created by Emilie Pillet at ECAL, HTTPrint is a Google Chrome extension which generates a webpage that captures your navigation on the Web such as the time you spend on each page, the url, images and texts, in order to give a visual output. You ca...
Drone Aviaries & Field Guides – A Conversation with Superflux
Superflux are a design and foresight consultancy based in London. Founded by Anab Jain and Jon Arden in 2009, the studio produces prototypes and films that are simultaneously prescient, and playful—and now they can add ‘magazine publisher’ to that...
How to create interactive loops using lenticular animation and GifPop
This tutorial shows you how to write code to create a brief looping animation, using computationally-generated graphics, suitable for both online and lenticular publishing. Then, using the unique GifPop services, you can get your GIFPOPs printed.
HOLO 2 – Back to the (not-so-distant) future
Learn more about the making of HOLO 2. Featuring over 30 contributors from a dozen countries and a hefty 200 pages of premium print, HOLO returns and endeavours to be smarter, more substantive, and more special than our first issue.
PhonoPaper for iOS/Android – Graphical sound generator and writer
Created by Alexander Zolotov, PhonoPaper is a format of graphical representation of the sound (music, human voice, etc.); in other words, it is the 2D audio barcode (by analogy with the QR-code).
CONSTI2GO – Print copies of the US Constitution on the press of a button
Created by Thibault Brevet, CONSTI2GO is a portable device that allows, on the press of a button, to print copies of the US Constitution by hijacking the existing network of standard receipt printers.
Colorimetry in Motion – Study of colour by Nicolas Ménard
Back in 2012 Nicolas Ménard created a project at the intersection between graphic design and visual arts. The original idea was to design a book on the topic of colour, with a random process that generated abstract forms.
HOLO 1: A first look
226 pages, 34 contributors from 8 different countries, 12 months of blood, sweat and tears – the first issue of HOLO magazine, CAN's exciting print spin-off that is "more a book than a magazine," is near.
Memory Palace – Drawing and storing memories at the V&A
Created by Johnny Kelly and produced by Nexus Interactive Arts, Memory Palace is a "multi-dimensional" exhibition experience at the V&A museum commissioned by Sky Arts based on Hari Kunzru’s fictional novel about the art of memory.
Now Open: The CreativeApplications.Net Shop
We are pleased to announce the launch of CreativeApplications.Net's Shop and an option to pre-order CAN's upcoming sister publication, HOLO magazine
The Generative Gatsby: Jazzed Up Typography
This project is a book that highlights the furious rhythms of the jazz era, produced by generative design where authentic music scores arranged for ‘big band’ were translated in the text composition of carefully selected typefaces by notes paramet...
Eyes on the Sky – Weather as data paintings by Jed Carter
Eyes on the Sky is a process-based investigation into generative design and the weather linking 64 public-access web cameras across Europe, recording the colour of the sky and producing a book that collects a week of paintings where cameras paint ...
