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i didnt really enjoy digital media, i can appreciate it and its amazing to watch. this video promotes skype. a different media to print but something to pay attention to.

Skype - Info Rationale

Skype is a software application that allows users to make telephone calls over the Internet. Calls to other users of the service and to free-of-charge numbers are free, while calls to other landlines and mobile phones can be made for a fee. Additional features include instant messaging, file transfer and video conferencing.
Skype was written by Estonia-based developers Ahti Heinla, Priit Kasesalu and Jaan Tallinn, who had also originally developed Kazaa. The Skype Group, founded by Swedish-born entrepreneurs Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis, has its headquarters in Luxembourg, with offices in London, Tallinn, Tartu, Stockholm, Prague, and San Jose.
One of the initial names for the project was "Sky peer-to-peer", which was then abbreviated to "Skyper". However some of the domain names associated with "Skyper" were already taken. Dropping the final 'r' left the current title "Skype", for which domain names were available.
Skype has experienced rapid growth in popular usage since the launch of its services. The company was acquired by eBay in September 2005 for $2.6 billion. EBay has written Skype down to $1.7 billion on its books and announced a public stock offering for 2010 to spin Skype off as a separate company.

SkypeIn allows Skype users to receive calls on their computers dialed by regular phone subscribers to a local Skype phone number; local numbers are available for Australia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, Poland, Romania, South Korea, Sweden, Switzerland, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and the United States.[6][7] A Skype user can have local numbers in any of these countries, with calls to the number charged at the same rate as calls to fixed lines in the country. Some jurisdictions, including France and Germany, forbid the registration of their telephone numbers to anyone without a physical presence or residency in the country[citation needed].
Video conferencing was introduced in January 2006 for the Windows and Mac OS X platform clients. Skype 2.0 for Linux, which was released on March 13, 2008, also features support for video conferencing. Skype for Windows, starting with version 3.6.0.216, supports "High Quality Video" with quality and features (e.g. full-screen and screen-in-screen modes) similar to that of mid-range videoconferencing systems. Skype conferences currently support up to 25 people at a time, including the host.
The word 'Skypecasting' is a portmanteau of 'Skype' and 'broadcasting'. Its original usage referred to recording Skype voice over IP voice calls and teleconferences. The recordings would be used as podcasts, which allow audio or video content to be syndicated over the Internet. Skype launched a "Skypecasts Beta" service in 2006 where it remained in beta until its end in September 2008. Skypecasts hosted public conference calls, up to 100 people at a time. Unlike ordinary Skype p2p conference calls, Skypecasts support moderation features suitable for panel discussions, lectures, and town hall forums. Skype operated a directory of public Skypecasts. On August 26, 2008, Skype announced that Skypecasts would be discontinued beginning September 1, 2008. 1 September 2008 at 12:00 GMT, Skypecasts were shutdown without any concrete explanation.
Skype does not provide the ability to call emergency numbers such as 911 in the USA and Canada, 000 in Australia, 112 in Europe, or 999 in the UK. The FCC has ruled that, for the purposes of the section 255 of the Telecommunications Act, which pertains to accommodation of disabilities, Skype is not an "interconnected VoIP provider". As a result, the US National Emergency Number Association recommends that all VoIP users have an analog line available as a backup.

On April 24, 2008, Skype announced that they offer Skype on around 50 mobile phones.
On October 29, 2007, Skype launched its own mobile phone under the brand name 3 Skypephone, which runs a BREW OS.[15]
Skype is available for the N800 and N810 Internet Tablets, which use the Linux Maemo environment.
Skype is available on both the Sony Mylo COM-1 and newer COM-2 models.
Skype is available for the PSP (PlayStation Portable) Slim and Lite with firmware version 3.90 or higher, but the user needs to purchase one of three microphone input peripherals.
The new PSP-3000 has a built in microphone which allows communication without the Skype peripheral
Skype is available on mobile devices running Windows Mobile.
The official Symbian version was under development in 2006, but was not released.
Official Skype support is available as part of X-Series together with mobile operator 3. However this uses a regular mobile phone call and iskoot to a Skype gateway, rather than mobile internet. Other companies produce dedicated Skype phones which connect via WiFi.
Third party developers, such as Nimbuzz and Fring, have allowed Skype to run in parallel with several other competing VoIP/IM networks in any Symbian or Java environment. Nimbuzz has made Skype available to BlackBerry users.
An official free Skype application for the iPhone OS was released in the iTunes store on March 31 2009. However, some network operators do not allow Skype calls to be made from their 3G, so if users want to use Skype on iPhone they need to connect it to a wifi network first.


The brief is to show why skype is better than a phone. i'm thinking of working mainly visually but without using a phone or skype for imagery. initial ideas..

coming soon

John Romita, Sr.

worked on Marvel, especially Spider-man.
Romita was the artist for the Spider-man newspaper strip, from its launch in January 1977 through late 1980
vintage age of comics. i'm gunna look at creating my own hugo bottles drawing influence from these three artists.

Steve Ditko

another marvel legend. definitely see the similarity to kirby's work.
i think i'll try and do my work in a similar style. honour the Gods.
i love the colouring on this. the pastely faded colours. sweeeeeet

Jack Kirby

vintage marvel artist.

collaborated with Stan Lee on numerous projects such as Fantastic four, Xmen and Hulk

Skooly

very strong vibrant vector graphics. screen prints. This could work well with the skype brand too.

John Vogl

could see this simple illustration style work for the fantastic four inspired bottles. i wish i could make my own bottles and shape them into fantastic four shapes. that would probs be bending the brief too much tho

this image below is more intricate than the images above. I think this style works well and is really popular at the moment. Lines Lines and more Lines.

Reminds me of Dan Mumford abit only a less dark tone

Luke Lucas

Yum..

Illustrative type. As i said gets me going. This type is so smooth and actually reminds me of a WHam bar. I dunno why its probs the shiny texture to the tounge.

Jared Nickerson

Really simple illustrations. I think Deano would like this dude. Must tell him about him. Anyway strong bold lines are a must. The pirate cupcake is really quirky and would look in place at Johnny Cupcakes.

Also loving the illustrative type. This is another area of interest for me. I don't find magazine/editorial type+Layout interesting, but mixing type up with a strong illustrative feel gets me going

Alex Trouchet

c'mon





this guy is absolutely insane. hes been mentioned before and everyone seems to dig him. there is something about his vector work that is so slick that it doesnt even look vectored. mad mad mad

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vector based work to promote the last hugo create. i really like strong vector work. i like to work with vector then screen print. i dont think i'm gunna do that with this brief, as for the other two i am definately screen printing.










the ideas i have yet to put to paper, are centering around vector based work, which i think will fit in well with existing hugo work. especially that for the hugo create project. (see above)
the work i want to produce is going to be vector based, but i want it to look clean and fluid like...

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