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. [...]
UI Design in Serenity
There’s quite a lot of UI elements in Serenity and they all help paint a detailed picture of this fantasy world the movie is set in. There’s everything from cockpit interfaces, holograms to communication devices. Strangely, one thing that really stood out for me was actually the gravestones, which displayed holograms of the person deceased. [...]
Terminator – The evolution of Machine Vision
The Terminator series provides us with some good examples of how robots could potentially view the world. With each new installment the look of the Terminators’ HUD (“machine vision”) vary slightly but mostly stays true to the overall approach of the original movie. Machine vision presents the world from the machines’ point of view and [...]
Blade Runner
Every decade has a different vision of the future, but for one reason or another I am particularly fond of the 80s. There’s just something really special about 80s films like Blade Runner and Back to the Future, especially when we look back at them today. The art direction in Blade Runner is particularly amazing [...]