STUPID Studio had an awesome blog. But together we’ve just added some more awesomeness with the updated STUPID theme 2.0. The most significant change is that the site isn’t “just” a blog anymore. It’s a full-featured corporate site also with cases.

We’ve added a really cool live filter to the case-section. In three levels you can filter out what sort of projects you would like to watch. Kind’a cool!

Visit the site here or our STUPID case here.

We’ve designed about 6 different universes which is produced in carton. These universes will work as full screen backgrounds. Furthermore the idea is to place Studio Strange’s products in the universes. Off course this is still just sketches and dummies, but we think the project will evolve into a different web site. Anyway the process is a lot different than we’re used to, and it’s positive to get our hands into something else. Something analogue!

Through January we’ll be doing the “real” photo-shoot with the “real” universes. We’re looking forward to show you more from this project…

Yes, it’s a box of chocolate from Summerbird which we’ve just sent out to our clients, business partners and good relations.

Mums Studio is soon celebrating it’s 1-year birthday, and what a year! We couldn’t have asked for more… We’ve been busy with all sort of projects, all exciting projects! Among other things, we’ve been designing the corporate identity for Solo Data ApS, Digitech, ediva ApS. We’ve developed a great blog-platform for STUPID Studio which is soon to be further developed. We’ve just finished a project for RejserFraTyskland.dk which includes a national television campaign. We’ve build CM Systems, designed web-sites, sound and print-identities, we’ve been on photo-shoots with clients such as Grene Industri-service, SCHNOOR and Theia.

And we’re off course more than ordinary pleased to see that 2010 seems to be quite promising also. Through 2010 we will be working on new projects and new clients such as, Designbureauet Emma Toft, Printbook, Karup Airport, Lotis Furniture, Odense International Film Festival (with STUPID Studio), Studio Strange, SCHNOOR, and a lot more.

Thank you!

We would like to thank everyone who have been a part of a fantastic first year with Mums Studio.

Merry Christmas!

Mums recently finished the shoot and retouch of around 100 packshots for Schnoor. To make a realistic reflection, we used a piece of glass.

“Welcome To Macintosh” is a well-done documentary about the history of Apple. The ups and downs, the “CEO-chaos” through the 80′s and 90′s, and the development of the company when Steve Jobs came back in control in 1997, and off course the never-ending rival and competitor, Microsoft.

trailer:

quotes:

Because this documentary holds so many good quotes, I’ve listed a couple here;

“I use Windows to the extend that I had to use Windows. And I just cannot understand some stuff  there”

“I’ve hated Windows for a number of years, and I  could never figure out why, and about three years ago it finally hit me, that the reason I hated it, was that it always make me feel stupid”

“The PC users really get off on how complicated it is. It makes them feel superior when the sit down with somebody and totally confuse them”

get more:

Rent or buy the documentary in the iTunes store, or go to the official web site to read more.

It’s lovely to get recognition for the work you do, and that’s just what happened today. The logo we recently developed, together with the whole identity and website, for Solo Data ApS, was featured at LogoMoose – go there and rate it.

LogoMoose is a showcase for the best logos from all over the world. We bring you your daily portion of logo inspiration.

We’re crossing our fingers for the logo of the month and even logo of the year award.

The images is supposed to be used in a video-presentation of the company and in future printwork and on the web.

You’ve probably seen HDR images many times, and thought wauv! How can anyone catch these colors and depth…? Well, it’s actually quite easy! At least if you have the right hard- and software by your hand.

You need;

- a camera capable of shooting pictures with different exposure
– the software Photomatix Pro (Also Adobe Photoshop can be used)
– your eyes

I was playing around with this in the evening, sitting in the sofa with my laptop, so I didn’t went out to shoot my own pictures. Instead I found the images below, which where perfect for just learning the software and the basics;

Normal

Over exposed

Under exposed

Well, with your three photos you are now ready to make your first HDR photo.

Step_01

Open up Photomatix and click “Generate HDR image”

Step_02

Browse or drag the files you want to base your HDR photo on. In this case I use the “venice”-files. Click the “OK”-button

Step_03

A new window opens. I used the standard settings, as you see below. But you can play around with the settings as you like…

After you click “Generate HDR” Photomatix will start working with the images;

Step_04

Sometimes you can get an odd looking image, but don’t worry. Just click the button “Tone mapping”…

Step_05

Now you use the sliders and the tools to make your HDR photo. If you know a bit about image editing or have worked with Photoshop before, all the sliders and tools will make sense to you.

When you are satisfied, you go click “Process” and afterwards you can go to “File” > “Save As” to save a tiff or jpg file.

Step_06

Below you see a couple of results from my first HDR experience. I hope soon to get out and shoot some photos myself, and process them.

Credits

I learned a great deal of this from abduzeedo’s tutorial.

It’s been an exciting journey! The Stupid Studio blog is now open, and on the first day it ran away with a WeLoveWP award – congrats! The theme is quite advanced, with the possibility to theme every post or page individually. Build upon dynamic classes the color theme can easily be updated through the admin area. It makes the blog flexible, and opens up for the possibility to give every post or page it’s own little universe…

Enough said! Take a look; http://stupid-studio.com/

I wanted to share a couple of screens from the process so far. I’m about to get the style right. The theme is winter, frost, cracking ice, etc.

The finished poster:

Motion / spots:

I’ve just started to make some of the motion for this project. Below are a couple of screenshots.

There’s yet a long way, but I think this motion piece will be nice… Any comments are welcome!

Stay tuned for more updates on the progress of this project.