This weekend I will be in China taking part in Beijing Design Week. For my part, I will be composing a digital artwork (Double Vision) during the Tiger Translate Battle of the Bands event. An open platform for creatives anywhere in the world, Double Vision calls for photographers to submit portraits of Asian cities, before illustrators add layers of perception-shifting artwork.

September 24th, 2011 / 20.30 – 2AM
Beijing, China @ Star Live

Michael Paul Young with Lullatone at OFFF Festival
Paris, France on June 26, 2010

Creative Director: Michael Paul Young
Lead Designer: Michael Paul Young
Assistant Designer: Jackkrit Anantakul
Font: Cumulus and Foam by Stefan Kjartansson
Soundtrack: Pajama Party Pop by Lullatone

Special thanks to Stefan Kjartansson for letting me dip into his Cumulus and Foam source file for many of the visual designs on this song.

Michael Paul Young with Lullatone at OFFF Festival
Paris, France on June 26, 2010

Creative Director: Michael Paul Young
Lead Designer: Michael Paul Young
Soundtrack: Pajama Party Pop by Lullatone

Michael Paul Young’s short film The Mountain of Ling was selected to be apart of the DOTMOV Festival (Japan). DOTMOV is a digital film festival organized by an online magazine “SHIFT”, aiming to discover unknown talented creators and provide an opportunity to show their works. We had a total of 289 works from 37 countries this year, and excellent 23 works among them were selected by guest judges. All the selected works are also exposed on the website. This year’s festival will take place in several cities in Japan and oversea during the whole month of November, 2008. Visit Website

Works commissioned for Todays Art 2008 (The Hague, Netherlands). Curator Maxalot presented a selection of today’s pioneering generative artists, projecting new, dedicated pieces commissioned especially for the event, onto the VROM building alongside The Hague’s Central Station.

PROCESSING LIGHT What if you had a special little helper who could assist your natural-born creativity into making intricate layouts of curious and beautifully detailed objects and things. Who would be the real creator? What if you had actually made this special little helper yourself to begin with? Artists working with programming do just that, generating their own powerful creators and letting them do the hard work. Through computer software algorithms written in various scripting languages, more and more artists now use these powerful tools to have information generate mind-blowing imagery. This ‘processing’ of information happens in a combination of order and disorder, and although most behaviors are tightly controlled by the artists, the outcome always presents an element of surprise. Artists included Dextro, Neil Banas, Eno Henze, Tina Frank, Pedro Mari, Quayola, C.E.B REAS, Karsten Schmidt, LIA, Jim Soliven, Marius Watz and Michael Paul Young.

My short movie March in Thonburi on display at The Graphic Design Festival in Breda, Netherlands (2008). At different sites around the city exhibitions, lectures, seminars, workshops, presentations and unexpected confrontations take place. Not only at the known cultural institutions but also in public space. Bus shelters, projections and installations fill Breda’s city centre with graphic design. The Graphic Design Festival Breda (GDFB) shows that graphic design does not just exist in print and is not bound by the window of a screen. GDFB shows all areas involved in graphic design and reflects its contemporary character. ‘Projector Spectre’ curated by Dennis Elbers.

Michel Paul Young’s short film The Mountain of Ling was screened at the AIGA (Florida) event, re:Charge08 in the Circuits section. Curated by Doug Grimmett.

Originally created for Todays Art Festival 2007 (via Maxalot), this short was projected onto Richard Meyer’s City Council Building in The Hague, Netherlands. This short went on to be shown at various film festivals in America, Europe and Asia from 2008-2010.

Published: May 21, 2008
Creative Director: Michael Paul Young
Animation/Design: Michael Paul Young
Soundtrack: Michael Cina and Ghostly Records

Prints created for the traveling exhibit, Current. The exhibit was looking for original methods of printing from many artists. Michael Cina discovered a printing method using films from screen printing to transfer the image to paper, instead of using them to burn the screens. In November of 2007 we started exploring taking the alpha channels from my 3d works and using this method to print them. You will only get around 5-10 prints max and creates a very one-of-a-kind print each time. Its extremely interesting to watch the 3d go from being such a polished, digital, perfect object back into a real world, organic imperfect object on paper. Visuals by Michael Paul Young, concept & printing process by Michael Cina.

Foundation Projects presents Off-Register, a traveling group exhibition of experimental printmaking.The Off-Register exhibition will showcase prints by a collection of international artists and graphic designers associated through the professional practice of commercial print design, but that do not consider themselves printmakers. This exhibition explores the relationship these artists and graphic designers have to printing and how commercial processes may inform more traditional methods of fine art print making.

The title, Off-Register, refers to a mis-registered color plate pass during printing, as well as acknowledging the artists and designers experimentation with the various techniques of traditional printmaking. Each artist will present one print, produced in editions, that utilize and experiment with various traditional fine art printmaking techniques: serigraphy, lithography, etching, various transfer, block printing, as well as incorporating unconventional methods and experimental techniques of print impressions.