Hello, we are Monday begins on Saturday, a symbiosis of two designers interested in interaction, arts & culture.

Sep
25

Pixar Exhibition

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So we have recently visited “PIXAR – 25 years of animation” exhibition in the Art and Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany in Bonn. Taking pictures was prohibited and we thought it was a nice opportunity to make some sketches, so enjoy

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Feb
29

Paper Prototyping

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An introduction and collection of examples of paper-based prototyping

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Dec
31

Happy New Year

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The Monday begins on Saturday collective wishes you a wonderful start to 2012!

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Nov
20

Dribbble invites giveaway

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Monday Begins on Saturday proudly presents a small competition for 3 Dribbble invites. Create a 400×300 pixel shot to the topic Strugatsky brothers’ novel “Monday begins on saturday”

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Nov
06

Phantom Limb released

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Phantom Limb started as a project during Global Game Jam 2011 at Cologne Game Lab. Since the game was exhibited during the Next Level Confenrence – which was also a main reason to finish it – we now decided to put it online

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Nov
02

Nausicaa, the game designer

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With this article we would like to leave the topic of semiotics and visual design rest for a while (in order to get back to it with more insights and fresh information, of course) and get to look at another topic which interests us a lot, and that is game design, or more precisely, to the ancient profession of game designers

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Oct
26

Triangle Aesthetics

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When playing Deus Ex: Human Revolution, we noticed a predominant presence of polygonal and triangular shapes all over the game world. Triangular aesthetics of Deus Ex is a part of the overall futuristic look, but how about the use of triangular shapes today? Let’s have a quick look

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Oct
18

Visual Alchemy

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Recently when surfing the waves of the world wide web for visual inspirations we noticed the abundance of sleek, elegant and simple but slightly familiar symbols used by creatives as logos. After having a closer look at some of those we realized that they were countless variations of alchemical symbols

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Oct
17

Why does Monday begin on Saturday?

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Monday Begins on Saturday is a science fantasy Novel by Strugatsky brothers. It is set in a fictional town in Russia at the “Scientific Research Institute of Sorcery and Wizardry” where highly classified scientific research in magic is conducted

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