The Tech Landscape
By Peter Gasston
The Tech LandscapeJul 30, 2020
Art, NFTs, and collective belief
COVID-19 Accelerates… Digital Fashion
Ralph Lauren designs its first digital collection—for Bitmoji—and Helsinki Fashion Week sells unique digital designs. A look at what these two announcements mean for the rising field of digital fashion in games and social, from Fortnite to Gucci.
Sources
- Ralph Lauren thinks people want to shop their Bitmoji
- Helsinki Fashion Week Explores New Frontiers With Purely Digital Format
- The World's First-Ever Digital Dress Is Sold For $9,500
- This Augmented Reality T-Shirt Lets You Change Graphics via Your Smart Phone
- Gucci Reveals Snapchat AR Shoe Try-ons
Further Reading
COVID-19 Accelerates… QR Codes
The much-derided QR Code may be on its way back, thanks to a world in which we fear touch.
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A Lockdown Conversation with Paul Stanway
In this short I chat with Paul Stanway, an old friend of mine and co-founder of brand experience agency XYZ, recently awarded Campaign’s Creative Experience Agency of the Year. We talk about the challenges of running an agency known for its live physical events in a time where those events are no longer possible, and the importance of acting rather than reacting.
Lockdown Conversations are short chats with some of my friends who are doing interesting things with their spare time during the COVID-19 quarantine.
Operating System (Sting) by Twin Musicom is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution licence.
A Lockdown Conversation with Claire Medcalf
A chat with Claire Medcalf, a Creative Lead Copywriter with Rehab, about her projects Letter Lounge and Post Quarantine.
If you want to write a letter to your future self for inclusion in Post Quarantine, send it to:
Post Quarantine
Unit 34786
PO Box 6945
London W1 6US
Include your contact details and Instagram handle.
Lockdown Conversations are short chats with some of my friends who are doing interesting things with their spare time during the COVID-19 quarantine.
Operating System (Sting) by Twin Musicom is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution licence.
COVID-19 Accelerates… Digital Identity
How the COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the way we find community in virtual spaces and express our identity with digital fashion.
Sources
- Why games like Animal Crossing are the new social media of the coronavirus era
- Ferne Le'roy (Zalera) - Guardian Tree Funeral March
- Silicon Valley is racing to build the next version of the Internet. Fortnite might get there first.
- The Impact of COVID-19 on Video Gaming and Our Virtual Lives
- ‘Animal Crossing’: Why Gamers Are Spending Hours Making Virtual Clothes
- How 'Animal Crossing: New Horizons' Became the Ultimate Fashion Outlet
- Should Brands Follow Net-A-Porter’s Animal Crossing Lead?
- 100 Thieves on Twitter
- Fashion meets Fortnite: 3D clothes and digital catwalks
- Digital fashion surges in a sales downturn
- How fashion's post-pandemic future could be digital
- Helsinki Fashion Week — Already Green — Will Be Purely Digital, Too
- Tommy Hilfiger Has Avatars, Holograms at the Ready
- Can Digital Materials Mitigate The Impact Of The Coronavirus?
COVID-19 Accelerates… Virtual Art & Culture
How the COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated changes in the way we see and share art, from virtual art fairs to self-curated art shows in physical and digital spaces.
Sources
- 'Beginning of a new era': how culture went virtual in the face of crisis
- Discover the 235 galleries showing in Art Basel’s Online Viewing Rooms
- Online Viewing Rooms: ‘Art Basel has paved the way for what’s to come’, says exhibitor
- On Painting: Art Basel Online
- What Sold at Art Basel in Hong Kong’s Online Viewing Rooms
- The John Armleder and Rob Pruitt Show
- HAUSER & WIRTH unveils ArtLab, a new research + tech division creating VR-based exhibits
- Lisson Gallery: Announcing new augmented reality platform
- Acute Art
- ALL World
- Google Arts & Culture
- How to Build an Art Museum in Animal Crossing
- Animal Crossing Art Generator
The Tech Landscape #148
- The NHS partners with Facebook.
- How China might help create a common messaging standard.
- Pinterest goes shopping.
- Streetwear in Animal Crossing.
A closer look at some of the stories from the Tech Landscape newsletter #148.
The Tech Landscape is a weekly collection of news about consumer digital technology. Stories are selected by me, Peter Gasston, with a little insight and opinion where appropriate.