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Creative App Review – Autodesk SketchBook Mobile

Autodesk Sketchbook - Creative app

At Roundhouse, we love our iPhones. We will feature a weekly creative app review to let you know the lowdown on the apps we love. Smartphone creativity is something many artist/ designers are interested in. ‘Spare’ time (on the train/ bus) becomes ‘Art’ time with the right tools. Drawing without Pencils. We have recently been […]

Moddler – 3D Printing

Bad Blue & beautiful - 3D Printing

As soon as we create a 3-d character worthy of modelling by moddler, we’ll be getting our first taste of digital 3-d printing … great stuff ! Contact Roundhouse Now!  Book an obligation free consultation to find out more and learn how to leverage mobile technology to grow your opportunities and business revenue.

IdN – 100 Issues and still going strong

ISSUE #100… AND STILL GOING! Thank you for reading us over all these years! Contact Roundhouse Now!  Book an obligation free consultation to find out more and learn how to leverage mobile technology to grow your opportunities and business revenue.

ROUNDHOUSE FEATURED ON ORIGIN IDEAS

Roundhouse featured on Origin Ideas

Thanks to the crew at Origin ideas for featuring our site, check it out .. they’ve got a great spread of work … very nice Contact Roundhouse Now!  Book an obligation free consultation to find out more and learn how to leverage mobile technology to grow your opportunities and business revenue.

Sound Design – How to Step Outside Your Comfort Zone

Sound Design

A definition in terms: Comfort – a physical or moral experience of safety/ ease/ consolation. Zone – an area/ partition / region of distinction The Quiet Art of Discomfiture Comfort zones – vital as they are – embody the ‘now’ Now is good – new is hard Creativity needs ‘new’ But we already know / […]

The 7 Ways of Self Promotion Or Self Promotion vs Self Discovery

Ways of Self Promotion

“What is difficult is the promotion, balancing the public side of a writer`s life with the writing. I think that`s something a lot of writers are having to face.”
Kazuo Ishiguro

 

Artists/ musicians often wrestle with the notion of ‘self promotion’. The romance of ‘keeping it real’ as a genuine artist seems in opposition to the fakery, false promise and shiny salesmanship that typifies many self promotion practices.

Top 5 Creative Tips for the Artist Musician

Creative Tips for the Artist Musician

Top 5 Creative Tips for the Artist Musician >> The ROUNDHOUSE WAY – The Way of DO Make heaps of stuff. We apply the same creative process to music as to visuals. (It is the ‘Do’ – mantra.) If you need to produce 12 songs for your next album – produce 24 and refine. Work […]

Pixel Stitch

Pixel Stitch

QUT Art Museum has a great program at present including PIXEL STITCH: Pixel/Stitch exhibits the work of four emerging Brisbane artists whose practices present an engagement between contemporary digital artistic media and craft-techniques. The material possibilities and promises of craft as part of critically-engaged fine-arts practice are explored through video, projection, photographic manipulation and installation. […]

The Sketchbook Project

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SOUND DESIGN – 3 Reasons Why Less is More

SOUND DESIGN - 3 Reasons Why Less is More

Artwork title: ‘If less is more’

The expression ‘Less is more’ was first written by poet Robert Browning in 1855.

The term was popularized by twentieth century german-american architect Ludwing Mies van der Rohe as a motto for his minimalist design credo.

‘Less is More’ elegantly describes the conscious pursuit of reductionism (‘less’)- where simplicity itself is a virtue. Meaning and beauty is sought in fundamentals and excess strictly eliminated. A greater experience (‘more’) ensues as truth and beauty is readily revealed in the absence of clutter.

Sound Design and ‘less is more’: How do we learn this simple lesson with regard to composition? What are some examples?