Tag: tbm

• Digital Originals

  August 10, 2022

  Everyone’s got a story to tell. So in The Mill’s Experience Team we’re building custom tools to express individual experiences through physical and virtual clothing. Not just for high-profile football… more ›

• Let’s Agree That I Don’t Know You

  August 8, 2022

  In a world of strangers, the act of recognizing who you are has value. But increasingly that personalized greeting is becoming commoditized: from personalised spam to automated birthday greetings; the… more ›

• The overworked humans behind China’s virtual influencers

  August 8, 2022

  Over the past decade, entertainment companies in China and Japan have increasingly invested in developing virtual talent: pop stars that appear on stage via hologram, animated personalities who livestream themselves playing games and… more ›

• KOLs Are Dead. Long Live the Virtual Influencer

  August 8, 2022

  Luxury brands have long used influencers or key opinion leaders (KOLs) to get into the hearts, minds, and ultimately digital wallets of young Chinese consumers. Influencers, particularly those who enjoy… more ›

• Algorithmic fame

  August 8, 2022

  Social influence rests on the fact that, when faced with abundance of choice, we habitually rely on others to know what to buy, read, wear, or listen to. When these… more ›

• Meet Luo Tianyi, China’s biggest virtual pop star

  August 8, 2022

  Luo Tianyi is China’s most popular virtual idol among an estimated 30 to 40 holographic celebrities in the country. The trend originated in Japan, which has a long history of… more ›

• Colour & Shape: Using Computer Vision to Explore the Science Museum Group Collection

  August 7, 2022

  This article analyses a selection of the Science Museum Group Collection. We examined over 7,000 photographs of objects from 21 categories. The categories were selected on the basis that they contained… more ›

• Afrotopia — nataal.com

  August 7, 2022

  In this story from Nataal issue 3, Ekow Eshun, Selly Raby Kane and Sunny Dolat discuss Afrofuturism in fashion “Afrotopia is an active utopia that takes as its task the… more ›

• The war against printing

  August 6, 2022

  ‘The pen is a virgin,’ wrote Filippo de Strata in the late fifteenth century, but ‘the printing press is a whore.’ And that wasn’t the half of it. Born into a wealthy… more ›

• The Orient Express Is Resuming Its Legendary Journeys From Paris—and It’s More Glamorous Than Ever

  August 6, 2022

  The train that forever changed luxury travel almost 140 years ago—it debuted on October 4, 1883—is being brought back to life by French hospitality group Accor, which uses the Orient… more ›