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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]