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3D

The Future of the 3D Image Library: CEPIC Week

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Credit:i3DLife on iPad

Published on 15 May 2012

The 3D image experience is becoming more familiar on the big screen and even in the living room. But Chris Bamford and i3DLife are creating a library of 3D imagery and an iPad app that is already proving very popular in areas such Education, Medicine, Art Galleries. But as Bamford tells us, in the age of Tablets, and new kinds of publishing, we have barely scratched the surface on the opportunities for 3D imaging...read more.

CEPIC Congress

Fast Technology Spurs Visual Search: Cepic Week

A man skins through the aspens in search of fresh snow.

Credit:Image Source / Aurora Open

Published on 14 May 2012

Advances in computer technology and machine learning may change how we search for pictures. Mathieu Chuat from Xerox, pictures the changing world of picture search...read more.

Fashion Movies

Christian Dior And The Moodboard Movie

dior

Credit:Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin for Christian Dior

Published on 9 May 2012

Photographic duo Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin, shoot Dior’s Secret Garden. The film highlights a new kind of image-making...read more.

ISM Note

30 Year Anniversary: How E.T. Shaped The Imagery of Childhood

Group of boys by wall with football, portrait

Credit:Image Source / Charles Gullung

Published on 8 May 2012

Released in 1982 the huge success of Steven Spielberg’s E.T. was due to passing itself off as a movie about an alien, but in reality was it was a touching exploration of the changing nature of the American family, single-parenting, and most of all the private lives of children. And it changed the imagery of childhood...read more.

Photo Prize

Vogue, Harper’s and NYT Magazine Win Photo Awards

Alex Prager for NYT

Credit:Alex Prager for The New York Times Magazine

Published on 8 May 2012

The National Magazine Awards selected some stunning photography at their awards ceremony...read more.

Competition

"Holy Collage Batman! It's The Friday Mashup"

Empire state building and cityscape at night

Credit:Image Source

Published on 4 May 2012

"Yes Robin! Another diabolical visual riddle, inspired by the upcoming Batman movie"...read more.

Icon of the Auto

Five Messages of Car Images In Advertising

View of Death Valley in wing mirror, California, USA

Credit:Image Source / Rob Casey

Published on 2 May 2012

Car images have been powerful vehicles (excuse the pun) for advertising messages and in a week which has seen some great new car ads, we look at some classic car imagery and the core marketing messages they convey...read more.

Size Matters

New Volkswagen Ads In Tradition of Think Small

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Credit:

Published on 1 May 2012

A set of new ads from DDB Sydney, and shot by Andreas Bommert, highlights the advantage of new Volkswagen technology in squeezing a car into small parking space...read more.

Movies

Friday Debate: Brand Fans or Fan Fans?

brand fans

Credit:Documentary by weareamplify

Published on 27 Apr 2012

It's Friday and its time to reflect on some serious Marketing and Image-Making issues...read more.

Trends

5 Trends We Learned This Week

IKEA CAM

Credit:IKEA Cam

Published on 27 Apr 2012

From cheap-looking-but-cool-because-of-it-cameras to cool-moves-without-looking-cool...read more.

Portraits

First Dance, First Tux, First Love - The Prom Photo

Prom

Credit:Mary Ellen Mark, Prom project

Published on 25 Apr 2012

As Prom season begins, National Public Radio reports on the photo project by Mary Ellen Mark, a book of portraits capturing that twilight moment between teenager and adulthood that is Prom night...read more.

Photo Industry

Big Debates In Commercial Photography At CEPIC

Woman photographer taking photograph against black background

Credit:Image Source/ Inpix RF

Published on 24 Apr 2012

This year’s CEPIC congress (Coordination of European Picture Agencies Stock, Press and Heritage) is being held in London from 16-18 May, with Photocentric Day featuring some big debates...read more.

Image Mash Competition

Mash-Up Inspired By Music Trailer of the Week

channel v v2

Credit:Trailer for Music TV station created by Where There’s Smoke

Published on 20 Apr 2012

Our email image mash this week was inspired by a visually flamboyant, music-based, image mash circulating round the web this week...read more.

Human Dreams

Oxfam's Stunning Night Photo Exhibition

69831scr Mary Atabo and her Family

Credit:Oxfam / Alejandro Chaskielberg: Mary Otabo and her family

Published on 17 Apr 2012

Alejandro Chaskielberg's night photos of a community recovering from drought but hit by rising food prices has a poetic honesty often missing from charity photos. The Sony World Photographer of the Year highlights Oxfam's GROW campaign...read more.

Awards

Webby Nominations: God’s Lake

godslake

Credit:Webby Nominee God’s Lake Narrows project. Image Kevin Lee Burton. Created for National Film Board of Canada

Published on 13 Apr 2012

The Webby nominees fill the spectrum from funny to socially sharp and creatively inventive. But a powerful use of photography for an interactive about life on a Canadian reservation caught our attention....read more.

Views On The Run

5 Landmark Moments on the London Marathon

Close up of running feet

Credit:Image Source/ Cultura RF

Published on 12 Apr 2012

As London gets ready for two London Marathons this year, and tourists and advertisers get ready to select choice landmark photos, we look at images runners will get to see during their 26 miles round the capital...read more.

Magazine Awards

Magazine Award Finalists Announced

Interview Anne Hathaway mert and Marcus

Credit:Interview, nominated for National Magazine Awards. Cover shot by Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott

Published on 10 Apr 2012

The finalists of the National Magazine Awards shows that the print medium is far from being dead, is enjoying a remarkably creative afterlife in the digital age...read more.

Apple-Tinted Glasses

First Ad for 30 Years Cute and "Cool"

cool frog

Credit:Cole & Weber for Tree Top. Directed by Everynone

Published on 10 Apr 2012

There's nothing more emotionally affecting than looking back. Except looking back at childhood which makes nostalgia feel cute. A double jackpot for apple juice brand Tree Top Apples...read more.

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