Via Thisiscolossal I've noticed a trend among art installations that are shared on the web. They all have light in common, but in a dynamic way. Two of the following examples involve the application of led lights onto bodysuits -or similar- to create an illusion of bright moving silhouettes. They have been called "light sculptures" or "light paintings" and they live up to their names. It's interesting to see how light comes to life and can be seen as another active element, whether as a static one or a moving figure. Could this art trend influence in any way the next trends in graphic design?

Design studio Diatom have created a small device with immense potential. It's the tiny CNC based robot called Piccolo, an automated small bot that can draw by its own. Piccolo is a low-cost kitset device that uses servos to create a mechanism for tinkering with or developing for basic 2D or 3D CNC output. Applications range from simple drawings, generative designs and data visualations, to small scale laser cutting or 3d printing, depending on the tool head used. Piccolo’s small size, low power and low cost makes it easy to use in almost any environment and in multiples. The Piccolo pro

The folks at Johnson Banks in the UK were asked to come up with a project that would display the 3d modelling software developed by the college of Ravensbourne. The studio decided to take a typographic approach to the project, thus coming up with Arkitypo, a showcase of different typefaces turned into 3d animated models. The results are.. well, amazing actually. This is definitely a very interesting way to review the history of some of the iconic typographies we know today, let's hope more of this kind of work keeps coming up.   Arkitypo: letter rotations from johnson ban

In this excellent TedTalk, Philippe Starck spends his 18 minutes reaching for the very roots of the question "Why design?" Phillipe Starck is one of the most famous modern designers working today. He has garnered a great deal of acclaim for his building interior designs as well as being an accomplished architect and product designer. Products designed by Starck can be seen on display in the collections of a number of European and American museums, among them the Brooklyn Museum in New York, the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, and the Museum of Design in London.

Logorama is a short film that was directed by the French animation collective H5, François Alaux, Hervé de Crécy + Ludovic Houplain. It was presented at the Cannes Film Festival 2009. It opened the 2010 Sundance Film Festival and won a 2010 Oscar for best Animated Short Film. The entirety of Logorama is made up of brand images and logos, with these brand images and logos used to represent characters, props, locations, vehicles, and other content.

Designer Stefan Sagmeister delivers a short, witty talk on life lessons, expressed through surprising modes of design. Sagmeister achieved notoriety in the 1990s as the designer who self-harmed in the name of craft: He created a poster advertising a speaking engagement by carving the salient details onto his torso. "Sagmeister's CD package designs are what poetry is to prose: distilled, intense, cunning, evocative and utterly complete. His intentions

In graphic design, Marian Bantjes says, throwing your individuality into a project is heresy. She explains how she built her career doing just that, bringing her signature delicate illustrations to storefronts, valentines and even genetic diagrams. Her illustration work has appeared in Wired, Wallpaper, the Walrus and many other magazines and newspapers worldwide.

Paula Scher is a legendary graphic designer that has been inducted into the Art Directors Club Hall of Fame, received the Chrysler Design Award for Innovation in Design, and a Gold Medal from the American Institute of Graphic Arts. Her work is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art and the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum. Paula Scher has created many album cover designs, four of which have been nominated for a Grammy Award. Sinc