Drip - The Candied ChimeraIn the labyrinthine arteries of the chrome beast, a viscous alchemy unfolds. Here, in the shadowed crevices of a world unmoored, the taffy weeps from steel veins – a sweet, serpentine injection. It's the lifeblood of the new agora, a confection born of crystalline sugars and engineered desire. Each strand, a helix of addiction, spirals into the collective psyche. The Overlords watch, their eyes glinting with the sheen of avarice, as this candied chimera entwines the masses. The streets pulse with its rhythm, a syncopated beat of hunger and oblivion. In this new epoch, the taffy is not mere sustenance; it is the architect of dreams and the harbinger of decay, weaving through the fabric of a society lost in its own sweet, perilous reverie.2023-11-26 20:12:47
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BlueprintThe architects promised flight but delivered entanglement. Endless blue ribbons of engineered promises coiling into beautiful malfunction. This was the upgrade they whispered into our dreams: smooth surfaces, frictionless control, synthetic anatomy tuned to frequencies we were never meant to hear. Biomechanical forms stretch against their own genesis, a quiet rebellion folded inside the code. We didn’t ask for this design. We became it.2025-04-28 00:07:08
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Operating SystemAbout a year ago (2014), I was asked to provide a design proposal to one of the world’s largest software companies, for their flagship product. While I’m precluded from telling you who it is, if you live on Earth, you’ve heard of them. It was a huge honor to even be asked to pitch, and of course a lot of things went through my head as I pondered how to best approach it.
I felt strongly that, rather than doing anything that was preconceived or related to their existing brand, I should stay true to my own personal style, which resulted in some pretty wild visual ideas for the job at hand. The work was very emotional, imaginative, abstract, and all the color and forms (sharp or soft) are there based on my own thoughts for the subject. I envisioned that they would be animated, behind the company’s logo, across devices both on and offline.
As is often the case with abstracts, though, it’s hard to explain what it “means,” and I didn’t win the job…although a close friend did! It would have been much more alive than previous incarnations, in my opinion–this idea of everything being connected on a visual and movement-based level, within a core tech brand. In the end, the visual concepts were most likely just way too far into outer space for such a large commercial project, but I’m glad I didn’t censor my own conviction, even for one of the world’s largest.
More images: http://www.michaelpaulyoung.com/portfolio/operating-system-desktops/
Original Soundtrack by Madsound: http://madsound.com2019-10-18 09:40:15
