The Lowdown On the Lowdi. A Wireless Mobile Speaker And Fun Animated Launch Video.

The Lowdi is a wireless speaker that turns any phone, tablet or mobile device into a portable sound system. The product, site design and animated video for the launch of the product (shown later in this post) are all aesthetically pleasing, fun and simple- just like the product.



The Bluetooth v4.0 speaker is small, convenient and cute with concert hall sound and ships free. The €99 ($130 USD) Lowdi allows you to listen to your favorite music services like iTunes, mixcloud and spotify anywhere at any time.





What's in The Box:



They even offer a 30-day free trial with a full refund if you are not pleased.

The animated launch video:


Unboxing the Lowdi:


Credits for the animated spot:
Director: CRCR
Animation: Rémi Bastie, Nicolas Dehghani, Paul Lacolley, Nicolas Pegon, Jérémy Pires
Agency: MOMKAI
Creative Director: Harald Dunnink
Soundtrack: AUDENTITY
Sound Designer: Niels den Otter
Production: QUAD / WIZZ
Producer: Matthieu Poirier
Executive Producer: Nalden
Executive Producer: Laurent Olivier

Credits for the unboxing video:
Agency: MOMKAI
Those hands: Cléa Dieudonné
Soundtrack: AUDENTITY
Sound Designer: Niels den Otter

Buy the Lowdi here

99 Rooms; An interactive website which is a good excuse for Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

I must confess that I love websites where you simply "click around' and see what happens. And I've come across one on which you can spend a ridiculous amount of time exploring. A hauntingly mesmerizing site, 99 Rooms was created in Germany by ROSTLAB (see credits below).

99 Rooms is a unique internet art project that interweaves wall painting, photography, animation and sound in a manner entirely unknown until now. Shortly after its launch in June 2004, more than two million individuals throughout the world have already visited this interdisciplinary composite work of art.


Above: Room 68 before pressing on the little knob on the wall to the right

Above: Room 68 once the knob has been pressed flashes with light and sound

99rooms stemmed from the mystical, often apolocalyptically charming pictures created by Berlin artist Kim Köster within the countless vacated premises of East Berlin‘s industrial sector. Photos of these paintings were initially produced in digital form and then animated through a cooperative effort between Richard Schumann & Stephan Schulz and then subsequently complemented through a personal sounddesign from Johannes Buenemann. The final product of this year long effort is a scintillating intermediary world which invites the observer into an journey through its morbidly-beautiful rooms.

above: another room in which the cow's nose bleeds

ROSTLAUB Gbr
Mainzer Strasse 1,
10247 Berlin, Germany

Email: wir@rostlaub.com

Kim Köster (The Artist)
Richard Schumann (Art Direction)
Johannes Bünemann (Sounddesign)
Stephan Schulz (Flash / Programming)