On Wooster Collective I just saw a video that I have been trying to find for several months. I first watched it back in the summer, but could never remember who did it or what it was called. It’s a black-and-white short made by Studio Smack, a Dutch design group that has created some interesting animations. Their description of the project . . .

“Kapitaal (Capital) is a typo-animation about legible signs in a city, it’s an impression of the enormous amount of visual stimuli that we are harassed by every day. The amount is so big that it’s commercial effectiveness has become utterly dubious.”

Check out the Studio Smack website for a high-res version of the video, as well as their other work. There is a youtube link of Kapitaal after the jump.

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Dutch design studio LUST has recently opened the Generation Random: 10 Years of LUST exhibition at the <> tag gallery in The Hague. For this event LUST has created a new touch-screen interactive catalog to present a decade’s worth of work. To coincide with the event there will be various workshops and events happening while the show is up through the month of March. This includes a two-day workshop by David Reinfort on Semi-Automatic Generation and a city tour led by LUST and Luna Maurer that looks at physical locations where design, interactive media, architecture, and urban development overlap. I really wish I was in the Netherlands right now.