Design of ‘The Avengers’ – Interface designs and HUDs
Wow! The Avengers did not disappoint, it was the entertaining blockbuster it was anticipated to be. What’s more, it didn’t disappoint in the way of featuring a tonne of HUDs and GUIs, and elaborating on what we loved about IRON MAN 1 & 2 thanks to the team at Cantina Creative! IRON MAN HUD Check [...]
Oblivion – Interface Design
You guys are in for a treat! GMUNK has generously compiled a montage of all the awesome UI elements from Oblivion! We’ve also got a link to a featurette with director Joseph Kosinski, GMUNK and DLEW talking about the design in the film. The things I love about the UI design in Oblivion… The consistent [...]
Continuum – Sci Fi interfaces
Continuum is a Canadian sci-fi series about time travel and features everything from implanted HUDs, hologram phones, weapons and vehicles to suit interfaces. It looks like the design team had a bit of fun with the interface elements and imagining how these futuristic devices would appear and function. The style is consistent, maybe because the [...]
Gold Runner
This short trailer for Gold Runner has some nicely crafted interface elements. Not surprising since it’s the project of Tronic Studios co-founder Vivian Rosenthal. Watch the Gold Runner trailer by Vivian Rosenthal Interview on Motionographer PS. I just noticed the 4 hexagons on the bottom right thumbnail pic, looks like our logo :)
The future of firefighting – C Thru Smoke Helmet HUD
The C Thru Smoke Helmet is the regular fire fighters helmet re-imagined by Swedish designer Omer Haciomeroglu. I’m very excited to see a Heads-up Display applied to a practical, everyday situation. The helmet basically solves numerous obstacles that often arises in a fire rescue such as low to almost no visibility in highly dense smoke, [...]
Justice – New Lands Retro UI
I was hesitant about posting this one, but I’m just a sucker for retro interfaces or anything that makes me nostalgic. This clip for electronic music duo Justice, certainly does that from a visual sense. The whole clip looks like a 70s or 80s sci-fi film, full of gadgets, action and a bit of cheese. [...]
Plurality – a Sci-Fi short by Dennis Liu
Plurality is a Sci-Fi short by director Dennis Liu, which explores a world where everyone’s DNA is plugged into a single information grid set in New York City 2023. Not only is the story easy to watch and compelling, it features a lot of nice UI goodies. The production quality of this film is quite [...]
METS Amazin’ – Futuristic Baseball UI
Here are two cool spots for the New York Mets, featuring a futuristic take on baseball. Not really what I expected to see from a spot promoting a baseball team, so I was pleasantly surprised, mainly because I love seeing everyday activities re-imagined in futuristic worlds. Here the players all wear helmets that feature Heads-Up [...]
Showcase 4 – Sports HUDs
It seems when it comes to sport, the more information you have on your performance, the better chance you have for improvement. There’s already a lot of applications out there that track your activities, like Nike+ and EpicMix. For more visual, real-time data in sports like Snowboarding and Wingsuit Flying where you can’t afford to [...]
Total Recall – UI Design
Here’s a highlight reel of the UI work from the 2012 remake of Total Recall, by the amazingly talented Ash Thorp. There’s quite a good range of HUDs and GUIs in Total Recall. In the clip you will see HUDs, hologram displays, scanners, maps, vehicle UI, and other touch UIs on a range of surfaces. [...]
Vanquish – Interface Design
The style of the Vanquish HUDs and GUIs is awesome. In the following clips you’ll see a range of reticles, scopes, radars, weapons readouts as well as robot suit HUDs. I love the colour palette used and the shapes of the embellishments. The arrangements of the elements and type used, create a really cool style [...]
Archetype – Robot HUDs and GUIs
I recently stumbled across Archetype, a sci-fi short film by VFX veteran Aaron Sims, who’s credits include Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Transformers: Dark of the Moon, and Green Lantern. It’s a fantastic looking short that follows the story of a robot who starts having memories of once being human, and appears to be [...]
UI Design in Sunshine
So this is officially the first post of 2012! The story of Sunshine is centered around a group of scientists, set in a spaceship heading towards the sun. What’s great is that this scenario has been carefully considered in the UI design. Since the interfaces have such a specific audience, who are highly intelligent experts in [...]
Metroid – Interface Design
Metroid is a game that’s been around for a long time. It started out as a 2D platform shooter but as the series moved onto the Wii, the game changed dramatically and put the players behind the visor of the main character (Samus) and allowed them to play the game from a first-person view. This [...]
UI Design – Ghost in the shell 2
Ghost in the Shell 2 is the first anime film we’ve featured, but will most likely not be the last. In terms of HUDs and GUIs, anime is an excellent source for two reasons. Firstly, because they often explore themes about the future and secondly because along with industrial/vehicle design, the interface designs tend to [...]
Interface Design of Final Fantasy
There are so many great examples of UI design in Final Fantasy – The Spirits Within and they encapsulate a wide range of interfaces including holographic diagrams, medical instruments, military maps and HUDS. I was so impressed by the quality and detail that went into the interface designs. Everything seems to be so well thought [...]
NIKE Jumpman – D3
Nike’s latest campaign for Michael Jordan’s Jumpman 23 brand features Dwyane Wade as secret agent D3 in a series of short commercials. As with most secret agents, D3 comes with a suite of high tech gadgets, sky diving, car chases and lasers. The UI highlights would definitely be D3′s visor HUD and his sidekick’s tablet. [...]
Star Trek – UI Design
I can’t really say I’m a Star Trek fan (I prefer Star Wars myself), but I was pleasantly surprised by this movie, which also happened to feature some nice interface designs. Most of them appear as either screen displays in the ships or touchscreen devices, with the exception of one short clip featuring Eric Bana [...]
UI design of The Island
Made in 2005, The Island features some interesting UI concepts, some of which have been realised today. One of these is the touch screen table top that’s controlled by a glass prism. Unlike regular touch screens that work with skin contact and multitouch, this one only allows the user holding the prism to control the [...]
G.I.Joe Rise of the Cobra – UI Design
G.I.Joe Rise of the Cobra features a nice collection hi-tech gadgets and displays. There’s everything from handheld tablets, scanners, HUDs, targeting systems and holograms. The HUDs and GUIs in the film definitely has its own style, with a colour palette of bright colours like red, yellow, orange, cyan and green. It’s also not as data [...]
Iron Man HUD part 3 – Behind the scenes
Here is an absolute gold mine of the coolest and most visually stimulating collection of interface design tests and process work from Iron Man 2. This is a real treat, thanks to the incredibly talented guys at Prologue. It’s amazing to see how much work went into the development of the designs. There’s far too [...]
Iron Man HUD part 2
The first Iron Man would have been a hard act to follow, but the team behind Iron Man 2 have done a stellar job with the design in the film. As with the first film, it is rich with beautifully designed huds, surface interfaces, interactive holograms and is full of cool ideas. It was great [...]
Iron Man HUD part 1
I’d imagine it’d be a dream come true for some designers, to be tasked with designing the HUDs and GUIs for Iron Man. Apart from the fact that Iron Man is one of the most iconic characters in the Marvel universe, his suit is supposed to house the most advanced technology imaginable. The Front and [...]
The Design of Avatar
There’s a lot of good examples of design in films, and now more and more examples of good interface design. It’s very common to see seamless integration of interface design into the story of a film. Avatar is a movie that demonstrates this really well. Overall the elements that make up the interface design style [...]