Posts Tagged ‘Wallpaper’
Granimator Freeform iPad Wallpaper Creator by ustwo
Well isn’t this just like our friends over at ustwo™ who are constantly on the cusp of cutting edge app technology and living by nobody’s rules but their own. We’re halfway (Jon’s half) through an interview with them about the impending Inkstrumental release, and BAM, they drop this new Granimator app for the iPad! [Note: The app's own website says it is available for iPhone as well as iPad, but after upgrading iTunes, downloading the app and syncing my iPhone, I can't corroborate that. The Granimator app shows up as an iPad app and is not readable on my iPhone. That's a bummer.]
Granimator™ is a creative sound based wallpaper creator. A free-form, immersive touch and sound experience that allows you to become the artist and create the best wallpapers for your iPad or iPhone. Once you’ve created your masterpiece, save your creation or show them off to your friends through Flickr, Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr and Granimator.com.
The Granimator™ offers an exquisite collection of ustwo™ designed packs which gives you access to multiple choices of graphical elements (styles, shapes and backgrounds) which you can touch, pinch and drag across the screen to create stunning compositions and soundscapes. Granimator will be among the first apps available when the iPad launches overseas next month.
“Granimator is the perfect blend of everything ustwo stands for: creativity, passion, motion, sound and style,” said Mills, co-founder of ustwo, which has spent £55,000 to date developing the app, with a further £75,000 set aside for further development. “This is an iPad app designed to enable users to create something beautiful, while being fully engaged with the creative process.”
The app itself is a free download and users will initially be able to access free artist packs from in-house designers BOBBYBOBSON, Gracie Miller, Laffers and Jason Gregory, as well as the eagerly anticipated Mentalism pack by our boy, Jon Burgerman. The next release planned for Granimator will be the Coolective Pack which will feature six more artists, including Pete Fowler! Make it for iPhones too! [Head's up via Saki, ustwo and Creative Review]
Color-in Wallpaper
Maybe you can’t afford an original work of art by one of your favorite designers, but now you can at least try to emulate them by coloring in the lines. This new wallpaper makes setting up a Jon Burgerman-style installation a snap. The paper, which retails for £40-£45, can be found at Oliver Bonas, Pussy, Snowhome and many other shops in the UK. American distribution is coming from eco-conscious NineteenSeventyThree, but can be ordered directly from them online for £40 (~$55 USD) here. Wallpaper: size: 1000cm x 52cm (20.5 inches) roll, black print. Coloring in doodles is a scientifically proven way to calm oneself. Color-in wallpaper is recommended by 10/10 psychologists for patients who suffer from certain kinds of anxiety. True story.
Banquet of Freeloaders Wallpaper
Although this wallpaper didn’t go viral among bloggers like Jon’s DIY wallpaper, when I own a home, I am getting this. Banquet of Freeloaders is Jon’s wallpaper design for Maxalot’s Exposif Designer Wallpaper Collection. The wallpapers are custom-printed in any size to fit your space floor to ceiling, left to right. I’m not 100% sure what this means, but as for price, it says: “Costs: €325,- + € 29,- p/m2.”
Maxalot crosses digital arts with emerging pop surrealism, aiming to reach broad audiences with individuals and studios who break boundaries in art and design. Formerly based in Barcelona, the Maxalots have returned to their motherland, Holland and now curate exhibitions in a series of unconventional venues throughout the city. See Exposif for our collection of Designer Wallpapers, produced by Maxalot in collaboration with leading names in graphic design, photography and illustration. Available to custom-order for walls of any shape, colour or creed. Running things at Maxalot are Max Akkerman and Lotje Sodderland.
Adventures on Doodle-Safari Alternative Wallpaper
Jon has two designer “vynils,” which are adhesive wall drawings (aka stickers) out through Domestic in France. Entitled Adventures on Doodle Safari, the 120×100cm vinyls cost 74 €. Read more about vynil, an Alternative to Wallpaper in a PDF from Domestic here.
Run by Stéphane Arriubergé and Massimiliano Iorio, Domestic introduces collections of objects designed by designers, graphic artists and artists gathered around innovating and new concepts and themes. All these objects have the particularity of offering an area where the end user can intervene and be free in the creation process. In 2003, Domestic launched its first Wall Drawings collection and with it, invented what is now called wall stickers, a new standard in the world of design and interior decoration. A genuine alternative to wallpaper, Wall Drawings literally hands over to the end user who, invited to convert his interior into an area for expression, becomes the originator of his own decor.
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