Happy Thursday! I hope you had a wonderful Christmas break. After a small break we’re back with top news in our latest creative rundown.

Today’s rundown 👇

• In the US, according to the FBI, hate crimes against Asian people have increased by over 70% in the last year. In an attempt to reduce and combat this ignorant and worrying statistic, creative agency Droga5 has teamed up with the Asian American Federation and its Hope Against Hate community programmes on a pro bono campaign. 

• 2022 trends for photography. Outline of the top trends predicted for photography in 2022.

• Alex Chinneck’s Spiral Staircase Artwork. Titled, a Spring in Your Step, the new artwork takes the form of a spiral staircase spectacularly springing apart in three directions across the facade of a building in Circus Street, a new neighbourhood of the city.

• Gamification of learning is the future of education. Education is shifting into the metaverse and this could be the best thing for students and teachers.

Let’s explore.

The Vintage-Inspired Travel Posters Tackling Anti-Asian Hate Crime

In the US, according to the FBI, hate crimes against Asian people have increased by over 70% in the last year.

In an attempt to reduce and combat this ignorant and worrying statistic, creative agency Droga5 has teamed up with the Asian American Federation and its Hope Against Hate community programmes on a pro bono campaign. 

The campaign’s central point is tackling the following question that many Asian-Americans and others of immigrant descent face: Where are you really from?

Entitled “I’m Really From”, this project aims to tackle the xenophobic undertones that taint the question by celebrating the complex relationships each storyteller has with the place they call home. In order to do so, the project focuses on the stories of ten Asian-Americans. 

Continue reading → Wishu

Trends of 2022: Photography

It’s been a wild year for photography with many changes – and even threats.

Video, over still images, is largely the dominant image format with photography having to learn how to weave itself into the medium of movement. This, however, is not to say that photography is dead and we must look at it from an excited and optimistic outlook in regards to how photography will evolve from this rapid change. 

Explore the trends → Wishu

Spring in Your Step: Alex Chinneck’s Spiral Staircase Artwork

On Monday, British artist Alex Chinneck unveiled his exciting new project in Brighton.

Titled, a Spring in Your Step, the new artwork takes the form of a spiral staircase spectacularly springing apart in three directions across the facade of a building in Circus Street, a new neighbourhood of the city.

Chinneck has already developed a name for himself in the art world, often celebrated as a “master of architectural illusion”. His work so far covers unzipped buildings, tied up post-boxes and even parked cars upside down.

His latest project, Spring in your Step, ​​is a 25-metre high-spiralling staircase made from galvanised steel and occupies the full height of a building at the heart of the square in Circus Street, creating a bold backdrop for the new event space.

Continue reading → Wishu

The metaverse could be the best thing for students

Gamification of learning is the future of education.

It was mentioned by Meta’s chief business officer, Marne Levine, that the value of metaverse for education provides assistance for running classes. It creates an immersive learning experience such as demonstrated in this video from Meta themselves:

If we can embrace technology as a learning tool quickly in a pandemic, then we can just as easily become early adopters of the metaverse.

The term metaverse was coined in 1992 by science fiction writer Neal Stephenson. Today his vision is creeping closer to reality. The metaverse is a digital universe that can be accessed through virtual and augmented reality. Not only will it involve entire VR or virtual reality spaces, it will also allow a layer of digital information to be overlaid on to the real world though digital headsets or glasses.

Continue reading → Cambridge.org

Other snippets

A Virtual Fashion Week is Coming to the Metaverse in March. Metaverse platform Decentraland announced on Sunday that it will host four days of “catwalk shows and showcases, pop up shops, after parties, and immersive experiences” in March 2022 in collaboration with Polygon blockchain-hosted luxury marketplace UNXD, the company that recently played host to Dolce & Gabbana’s first NFT clothing collection.

Artists Say Plagiarized NFTs Are Plaguing Their Community. DeviantArt users who have had their work stolen and minted as NFTs are denouncing what they view as an inadequate response from OpenSea and other marketplaces.

From partnerships to virtual real estate, NFTs holds massive potential for brands - 5 NFT Trends for Brands in the New Year.

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