Fluidesign Blog

Check this absolutely stunning live action animation from BLU.

MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo.

My good friend Kiel Johnson, who was just awarded the Pollock-Krasner Grant, is showing at the Mark Moore Gallery in Santa Monica May 17-June 21. It’s definitely worth checking out!

Exploring the middle ground between the the factual and the fictitious, he creates caricatures of reality, cartoon like systems that function yet seem as though they should not, and vice versa.

The relationship between Johnson and the crowded and impacted Port of Long Beach (where his studio is based) has influenced his 2D and 3D work as he addresses the nature of commerce and the individual. His interest in the dynamic between the alienation of the individual and the overabundance of things in the world fuels his curiosity about how things work and the physical mapping out and making of things (both real and imaginary).

Reception for the artists: May 17th, 5-7

Woot! We just launched Tripkick.com.

It’s a simple concept based on the fact that “not all hotel rooms are created equal.” Tripkick.com reviews the rooms of major hotels in the major cities citing whether a room is quiet, unique, has an amazing view, oversized, etc. The site provides in depth info, comparison charts, user comments, and more. So in conclusion, thanks to TripKick.com you can finally make sure you get the room you want. Check it out here. Read their blog here.

P.S. TripKick was featured on Techcrunch here!

So, as I mentioned here, Twitter can be most useful for multiple things. We created an account like @lotd but for celebrities. So if you’re on twitter and you see a celeb, tweet who you just saw and where to @celebspotted. Then all people following @celebspotted will get updated whenever a fellow twitterer is lucky enough to have a remarkable celeb spotting.

And if you’re not on twitter and you like to follow (or stalk) celebrities, nows da time to join.

Speaking of the Webbys, this site got People’s Voice Winner in the Humor category. And as a congrats, we thought we would submit. Here’s our icanhazcheezburger. Click to vote on it!

more funny pictures

Happy Friday LOL!

We’re delighted to hear that GumGum will be presenting at Under the Radar on June 3rd. Congrats guys!

Look. I’m not saying it’s awards season or anything, but all I know is the site we designed for Loyola Marymount University was recognized as a Webby Honoree. Woot! (ha) We’ve had a great relationship with LMU over the years, designing several interactive projects for them, including the award-winning LMU Undergraduate Admissions site.

Woot! The Horizon Interactive Awards were just announced for 2008, and Fluidesign took home 3 trophies. Although we didn’t win the coveted Best in Category like we did last year (for the World Vision AIDS Experience), we did win in some tough categories. Check them out…

Lisa Kline for Ecommerce/Shopping:

California Apparel News for Magazine & News:

Godtube Prayer Wall for Flash:

Pats on the back to our team for the great work and our clients for making it happen. Oh, and if you can’t get enough of us (and you’re truly bored) you can check out our riveting winners interview. Good times.

Congrats to our client, GodTube.com. They just closed a $30M raise on $150M valuation! We worked with them on many components, including their video player, and the award-winning Prayer Wall. We’re excited about working with them and ramping up going forward.

Twitter has been awesome for companies seeking to know what their customers are saying about them. If you’re a company and you’re using tweetscan or summarize, great. Here is what you should do next.

So, Fred Wilson organized Lyrics of the Day (@lotd) on twitter. Twitters can post a short lyric that they think everyone will enjoy and direct it to @lotd. All that are following @lotd will see all lyrics posted to @lotd. This is both entertaining and smart.

You can apply this concept to events, conferences, new album releases, product launches, comments from your blog, whatever. If your audience is on twitter and is talking about your stuff, do your community a favor and streamline the communication by organizing the topic at hand and thus facilitating more talk.