Open a music app and watch the queue subtly shift after you skip two downtempo tracks; click a thriller trailer and notice the first seconds spotlight the chase, not the romance; face a boss in a game and feel the patterns adapt to your playstyle. These micro-adjustments aren’t luck. They are the surface of Generative...
Visitors now step into rooms where 20,000-lumen projectors wash walls with moving color, spatial audio follows them like a spotlight, and headsets render virtual galleries at 90 frames per second. The result is one of the biggest shifts in museums and galleries since audio guides: Immersive and Multimedia Experiences in Art are turning passive viewing...
Run your fingers over a clothbound spine with foil-stamped type, then compare it to a glue-only paperback: the weight, stiffness, and even the sound when you open it feel different. Those sensory differences—paper at 100 gsm versus 70, Smyth-sewn signatures that lie flat versus perfect-binding that cracks—are not superficial; they shape whether a volume is...
One 60–80 g shampoo bar can replace two to three 250 ml plastic bottles, and the average adult uses around nine personal-care products daily. Multiply that across a year and a household, and the inputs—money, time, packaging, and water—scale quickly enough to feel inescapable. If you’re curious why people move toward cleaner formulas, minimal aesthetics,...
Sotheby’s has announced that Edvard Munch’s masterpiece The Scream will lead its Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale in New York on 2 May 2012. The iconic work is one of the most instantly recognizable images in both art history and popular culture, perhaps second only to the Mona Lisa. The present version of The Scream dates from 1895, and...
This week many of the world’s masters of fantasy and science fiction art will be gathering for one of the most important annual juried shows held in their field. It’s a substantial show, during which these worthies display their wares, including past masterworks as well as new pieces, many created specifically for this event. And...
As might have become obvious by now, I’m a huge fan of Mark Wheatley’s comics. His latest project—The Return of the Human, which is now running online as part of the first slate of titles from a major new webcomics consortium—is a perfect example of why I’m so intrigued with his work. It’s a graphic...
It was inevitable, really. Even as the comics medium has continued to mature, it has experienced a growth in acceptance as a legitimate medium by academics. Simultaneously, the general populace rediscovered the particular joys that comics have to offer, and that same increased public interest has led to a burgeoning curiosity on the part of...
In this final installment of TMR’s exclusive extended interview with Bill Morrison, long-time Creative Director of Bongo Comics (publisher of The Simpsons and Futurama monthlies) details his personal slate of projects he’s got planned for next year. Topping the list is a revival of Lady Robotika, the sci-fi comic series co-created and -written by Jane...
Almost from its start nearly twenty years ago, Bill Morrison has headed up Bongo Comics imprint, publishing a small line of exceeding fine and funny comic book series, collections, and mini-series based on Matt Groening’s signature creations, The Simpsons and Futurama. It’s a demanding job, true, one which rarely garners much real notice outside of...