Yamaha Silent Sessions with HJ Lim

I love this new video from Yamaha showing South Korean pianist HJ Lim floating along, what looks like the canals near mile end Park and Victoria Park, East London, atop a narrow boat in full swing on her piano (video at the bottom of this post).

Silent Piano Technology

This stunning film shows HJ Lim playing Yamaha’s Silent Piano Technology which amazingly enables the piano to be played silently using headphones! When the silent function is activated, the hammers will no longer hit the strings and instead, a highly sophisticated sensor-technology captures all movements of the keys and sends them to the digital tone module.

A headphone-enabled piano means she can play Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No.2 in complete silence while drifting casually down a canal without upsetting the neighbours - or disturbing the ducks!

99designs Launches design competition to find an illustration basedaround Silicon Roundabout

99designs are celebrating their recent UK London office in East London. What better way than to involve their loyal following of budding designers and creatives than to hold a new competition!

99designs are holding a contest to design an illustration based around the Silicon Roundabout in Old Street. There's already been an amazing response with over 200 entries so far!

Read more and enter here >

Art & Design Movements Explained By The Open Univesity

The open University has created six animated videos to explain different art and design movements as a fun way of marketing their design courses.

From Gothic Revival to Modernism, they've animated the great artists and designers who lead they way in their own respective movements. I've posted a few of my favourites below. To view all six visit the Open University YouTube channel.

THE BAUHAUS


MODERNISM


AMERICAN INDUSTRIAL DESIGN