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UFO Sightings on the increase - with more predicted on 4th July.

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It’s been a busy two weeks for UFO spotters.  Only last week a police helicopter spotted a UFO test flight off the coast in Wales and started an impromptu chase that was ended by lack of fuel.  In the week that followed a number of other sightings were reported.   Recently declassified government documents now show just how common such sighting are.

Although certain military and government bodies are always quick to offer alternative “legitimate” explanations of the sighting, there will always remain some UFO visits that cannot be explained by “ordinary” phenomena.  There is a continuously growing and increasingly more vocal public demanding that UFO sightings be taken “more seriously” by the authorities.

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So what is a UFO?  What are the defining characteristics?  Is it speed?  Or the wobbly path of motion? Perhaps the colours and/or blinking lights?  An almost universal defining characteristic is that they always appear blurred from either moving too fast, or just being photographed out of focus.

Informed sources are predicting an orgy of public UFO sighting in Gdansk, Poland on 4th of July.  Cinimod Studio will be on the ground (and maybe even in the air) reporting.  Watch out for the news - on this website, Youtube, flickr and beyond…

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Neither Cinimod Studio, Peter Coffin, or any other real or fictional character or organisation can either confirm or deny any involvement in any scheduled UFO flights coming to Stars Festival in Gdansk, Poland, this July 4th 2008.  However, Cinimod Studio has speculatively prepared the above artistic impression in the spirit of conjecture.

October Collection

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The October Series is a collection of light based artworks that bring the excitement of some of our larger projects to a series of immediately available wall hanging mini-installations.  These artworks were unveiled on June 3rd 2008  at the Prima Design Show where Cinimod Studio was exhibited by International Art Consultants.  The  artworks display a seemingly impossible depth of three-dimensional light arrays.

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The series debuts with two panels:  “October Landscape” (1200 x 450mm) which is a journey through London captured digitally as a time-stretched record of the city lights and colours”, and “October Square” (700 x 700mm) which is study of colour and virtual shadows.

The panels are comprised of a highly engineered buildup of 4 different glass types, LEDs, embedded electronic control, and aluminium.

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Also on display is the working prototype of a new interactive “digital furniture” surface, which takes the same design principles and introduces sensor inputs to create a real-time light pattern that interacts with the viewers and passerby’s.   This will allow large linear lengths or even large areas of wall or floor panels to be imbued with the same engaging and interactive coloured light fields.

Snog

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on May 27, 2008
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Cinimod Studio is pleased to announce the successful opening of their first ‘SNOG’ store in London.  ‘SNOG’ is a specialist food outlet that exclusively sells pure frozen yogurt, and is the first one of its kind in the UK.    The design brief was to create a new high-end interior that was uniquely British and wholly original.

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Working closely with the client, StudioUribe, and the branding agency ICO Design, Cinimod Studio has designed a store that is excitingly fresh, and with a unique digital twist.  The concept was to evoke the feeling of a perfect never-ending summer. The interior is deliberately quirky, with a photographic grass floor and a ‘digital sky’ which adjusts the mood of the store perpetually throughout the day and evenings.

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The primary interior surfaces are all of standard architectural finishes that have been ‘tweaked’ to perform new design functions.  The seamlessly printed ‘grass’ floor is a commercial first, as is the digital ceiling with its fully integrated services.  For the white glass walls ICO Design has created a graphic interpretation of British flowers.  At ground level, the ‘Shitake’ stools from Moroso, designed by Marcel Wanders, work with the bespoke marble tables on turned wood bases to create a contemporary and relaxed take on garden furniture.

 

SNOG is the first store to feature a fully digital ceiling, which has been seamlessly inserted as a key element within the design.   Over 3,000 individually controllable LEDs have been deployed behind a Barrisol stretched plastic ceiling in order to create a bright light box video surface.  Digitally captured and manipulated clouds move gently across the store, with their colour and speed determined by the time of day. 

Click here for more photographs of the Snog Pure Frozen Store.   SNOG was also recently front cover of Design Week - see full story here.

In addition to designing the first store now open, Cinimod Studio is delighted to have been appointed as the lead architect and lighting designer for the future SNOG stores, opening soon across London.

For more information, visit the official website www.ifancyasnog.com, or even better why not stop in for a Snog? It’s all happening at 32 Thurloe Place, South Kensington.

 

 

Design Consultants:

Architecture and Lighting : Cinimod Studio Ltd.

In design collaboration with : StudioUribe

Branding and Graphic Design : ICO Design

A/V Design and Installation : Inspired Dwellings

The October Interactives

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on February 6, 2008
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This range of exciting artworks feature an intriguing combination of three-dimensional arrays of interactive colour movements controlled in real-time by the environment within which it is placed.

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Event Design

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on November 17, 2007
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Cinimod Studio is regularly involved in the design of large events such as fundraising dinners, private parties, corporate events and concert staging.  Using innovative designs that have evolved through a thorough investigation of the venue and the client’s brief, each project seeks to establish a ‘visual theater’ of lighting and staging that will define the character of the event.

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Wedding Lanterns

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on October 7, 2007
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LED table lantern centerpieces for a wedding.

100 miniature paper lanterns formed a gently animated canopy of glowing light across the venue, meeting the brief to create an alternative to the traditional candelabra (health and safety often dictates that no live flames can be used in public areas).

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Atlantis Gallery Event

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on October 1, 2007
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Cinimod Studio was commissioned by the events production company Urban Caprice to do the lighting and video design for one of their major events.  Sited within the ground floor of the Atlantis Gallery, the evening included a performance by the Dandy Warhols, followed by music from DJ Sasha.

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CGL Party

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on September 29, 2007
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Cinimod Studio was commissioned  to design the lighting scheme for the anniversary party of CGL Architects.  The venue was the Boiler Room of Truman Brewery, on East London’s Brick Lane.

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55 Baker Street Art Facade

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on July 27, 2007
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Interactive Art Lighting Installation, London. 2007.

This collaboration with Jason Bruges Studio and make architects for their new project on Baker Street serves as an example of how art and lighting can be combined with architecture from the on-set of a project.

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Poke Chandelier

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on March 24, 2007
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Interactive Chandelier for Poke London. 2006.

This interactive chandelier for the main meeting room of the Poke web design agency uses a combination of industry standard RFID equipment, purpose built lamps and bespoke software to create a truly engaging art object. The concept was to create a “Data In -Art Out” object where a beautiful representation of data was created.

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