Category Archives: Design

London Fashion Week 2013 Central St Martins Wrap Up

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The first day of London Fashion Week 2013 closed with the annual Central St Martins’ MA show for a preview of new, up and coming designers to watch. One of the most prestigious fashion academies in the world, Central St Martins is the only school permitted to feature their own show in London Fashion Week. And with an A(lumni) list consisting of the biggest names in the fashion industry—John Galliano, Zac Posen, Alexander McQueen, Riccardo Tisci, and Christopher Read more [...]

“What’s necessary is to be the room in which the party takes place.” Jeff Howe

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ZOOPPSTERS, You made it to hump day! Congratulations! As a reward (I know you probably already know this, but I figured I had some time on my hands) I wrote a little educational piece on crowdsourcing, our business model, that you are a HUGE part of! Our innovative business model breaks the barrier between business and consumer, through the creation of a community for all artists to join, inspire, and enhance. We work to deliver a democratised product choice Read more [...]

Mrs. Dash: Live it. Love it. Longer.

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Fellow Zooppsters: The Mrs. Dash: Live it. Love it. Eat it. competition has been extended until January 30th due to the holiday.  Now you have all the more time to make your Mrs. Dash submissions crazy good. Happy creating! P.S. This money will be pretty, pretty, pretty handy when paying off your holiday debt.  Boom. Read more [...]

Zooppa Mascot contest ending: Who’s it going to be?

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We're very excited to be one step closer to selecting our very own Zooppa Mascot!  We'd like to thank everyone for participating.  We had such a great turnout and had quite the assortment of entries! From animals, to artist implements, to...well, I'm not quite sure what category some of them fit in, but they're pretty neat! With the contest ending, the fun for us here at Zooppa begins!  We are now privileged to look through all of the amazing submissions and Read more [...]

Back to the Basics: Using the Dinosaurs of Photography

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During the last couple years there has been a revival and obsession with images that resemble photos taken by Polaroid cameras. Thanks to instagram the dream to be considered a trendy photographer can come true for any amateur. However, what are the tricks to capturing this certain look without a huge amount of help from technology. How do you capture creative pictures with the dinosaurs of photography? Polaroids are automatically cool without any help from technology. Read more [...]

Win a trip to Milan!

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We wanted to let you all know about a really awesome opportunity for social media gurus. Electrolux Design Lab, along with one of our Creative Network Partners, Design42Day, is looking for a social media correspondent to attend and report from the final Design Lab event in Milan (airfare + stay paid by Electrolux). The brief for Electrolux Design Lab 2012 challenges design students to draw inspiration from professional experience creators (chefs, architects, interior Read more [...]

Interactive Animation of “Starry Night” by Van Gogh

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We have all come to know the Starry Night painting by Vincent Van Gogh as possibly his most popular painting. At least I remember seeing it in nearly every classroom in high school. Painted in 1889, it has been a permanent member of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City since 1941. But now through the power of interactive media and a program called openframeworks.cc, a new and wonderful rhythmic version has been made available to view.  Video artist, Petros Vrellis Read more [...]

Creating Stop Motion Videos with Powerpoint

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Check it out. Former Zooppa team member Arik Abel recently went to India. We couldn't go with him, but a couple friends challenged him to do a Bollywood dance in public to M.I.A.'s Paper Planes. In front of the Maharaja Palace. He's a lateral thinker, so instead of one short-lived dance, he created an eternal stop-motion production. He calls it The Bollywood Bounce.   From Arik: The Making of The Bollywood Bounce 1. My photographer shot 30 photos Read more [...]

Free PhotoShop Online – Pixlr

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Your paper is due in 10 minutes. You need the perfect image. But Creative Commons is full of zoomed-out, irrelevant images with a horse in the way. What do you do? Copy that URL and whiz over to pixlr.com. It is quite simply the best free PhotoShop online. It's lightweight and has all the features you need, without weighing menus down with stuff you'll never use. The best part? It's in a browser. No downloading or logins to forget. Pixlr's awesome, lightweight Read more [...]

Deceiving Your Audience Isn’t the Best Idea

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Give the people what they want. Don't advertise an action-packed blockbuster if it's actually a rom-com--everybody will end up disappointed. (This can also be seen as a metaphor for relationships.) It's amazing that some of these are actually the real posters for these movies. (Others are more "creative interpretations.") They're so completely off-target, I'm astonished those films ever made it big. 1.) Sex and the City: First off: Carrie Bradshaw, (Sarah Jessica Read more [...]