iAniMagic 2015: The Living Light Box

Summer is ending and winter is coming up on our heels, but here at Kdan Mobile we’ve got something you can look forward to this upcoming season. As you start to bundle yourselves up in blankets wondering what to do now that you’ve run out of shows to binge-watch on Netflix, remember that while we’ve been focusing this summer on our new set of Cloud Series apps, we haven’t forgotten the most important mobile animation event of the year. You guessed it: iAniMagic 2015.

Keep reading and we’ll give you a couple of hints on what you can expect this year.

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NoteLedge User Story – Dreams from an Artistic Yogi in Andalusia

“NoteLedge has been pivotal in a number of artworks I’ve created. For example, one time I did a painting aUsing Noteledge in the studiond I thought it was finished. A couple of months later I looked at it and I had a wild idea about what I might do to it but I was nervous about spoiling what I’d already done.

What I did was take a photo of the painting, import it into NoteLedge and then sketched my idea over the top of the photo. From this, I saw that the idea would work and I had the courage to change the painting.

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5 Essential Apps For Learning

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.

~ Benjamin Franklin ~


The quest for knowledge is fundamentally a constant affair and a boundless pursuit; whether you are still a student or already a working professional, the pleasure of learning should be a self-directed and ingrained mindset in life. Thankfully, with the advancement of technology and accessibility of information, you can now maximize what you can possibly learn.

Here are 5 mobile applications that will surely inspire you to get involved in facilitating your own learning and develop a thirst for acquiring knowledge.

 

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Dadaism and Layout – We are so Dada

ABCD Self-portrait (deliberately random assemblage of newspaper clips and cutout letters), Raoul Hausmann, 1923

Making a beautiful collage layout was a hard job before the invention of the digital printer; however, technology was not the only factor that impacted layout design. Layout design displays the opinions of the time it was created in. Reacting to the World War I period, a group of artists disposed of the decorative Art Nouveau, to look for a better format of communication. Dadaism was created to provide these designers a resource for innovated expression. Do you like freestyle layout designs? It may be surprising how “Dada” we are today when looking at historical Dada pieces. Continue reading “Dadaism and Layout – We are so Dada”