Google are using a company called Common Craft to produce short instructional videos about their products. These videos are made with cut out pieces of paper in a way that exaggerate their handmade quality. Interesting to see how the leading edge of online engineering turns to the more analogue of media to present its message.
We're very pleased the three artists from Common Goods are going to the indigenous festival in Hawaii this month:
The proposed 2007 PIKO event is the fifth of its kind of international gathering of indigenous visual artists; following the first in Aotearoa (New Zealand 1995). The first Pacific Northwest America gathering was held at the Longhouse Education and Cultural Center at Evergreen State College, (Olympia, Washington, USA, 2001) and the recent Te Mata gathering was held in Heretaunga Hastings, Aotearoa (New Zealand, January 16 - 22, 2005) this year. In the spirit of its' predecessors, PIKO, the navel of the Pacific rim, will be held in Hawai'i. The event will begin on June 15, 2007 and conclude eight days later on June 22
Congratulations Julie Tipene-O'Toole, Lewis Dick and Treanna Hahn, all artists who were in Common Goods.
An interesting application of 'common' and 'craft' to a very immaterial kind of networking:
Common Craft is a consulting practice and weblog operated by Lee LeFever. The focus of Common Craft is Social Design for the Web.
