I’ve a feeling that 2010 is the year that typefaces are finally liberated onto the Internet. Up until now there have been several factors stopping the widespread use of typefaces other than the standard ‘web safe’ fonts like Arial, Verdana, Comic Sans and Times New Roman being used. This meant a companies print literature didn’t match their website and designers were limited with what they could do, but slowly, it’s beginning to change and I’ve been experimenting.
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This took four years draw and measures in at 8883 x 7636 pixels. It takes Paint to a whole new scale and must have been a real labour of love.
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Do you want to see the front pages of some national and international newspapers? Well this site provides a daily scan of some of the worlds papers. A very good idea me thinks.
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I’m trying to decide if this is fantastic or pointless. Each hexagon is a little screen that can be moved around to play games. Currently it’s still only in prototype stages so uses a projector to fake the screens. There is one very cool moment 1:10 into the video below where a screen in tilted and the graphic slides off onto the next screen — very nice. I’m sure this sort of thing will be coming to mobile devices near you soon, I remember Sony showing working versions of a similar technology about five years ago.
I really like this Guerrilla marketing campaign for Mini Cooper. Another simple, brilliant and eye catching ‘ad’. The message takes the form of the giant sticker on the brown cardboard box to promote a 99 Euro a month finance deal. The boxes, complete with ribbon and wrapping paper, were left in locations around Amsterdam just after Christmas and made to look like people had thrown out the packaging after recieving their rather large Christmas present.
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I can’t say I’m a big fan of Twitter but this is still pretty cool — a tweet from space. It’s great to know that all the billions spent on the ISS is being put to good use. Let’s hope they’re not using Internet Explorer up there or the space station could come crashing down to earth at any moment.
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I really like this. Fun, bright and honest. If you can simplify and distil an idea to this degree then it should be successful. Excellent execution of concept too.
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It’s been a while since Gary returned from his trip to Australia. He says he’s only just got over the jet lag and has recently found some images of the holiday to share. We all know Gary loves to travel and experience the local culture and his little woolly body just loved Australia. He took in all the tourist sites and made quite a connection with some of the local wildlife. Gary tells me he enjoyed the pokies, barbies and stubbies. I have no idea what he is talking about!
Sometimes you just want Google to give you more (or avoid Google altogether in the hope they’ll not rule your life soon). So where do you go for more? WolframAlpha is the answer, not only does it have a much cooler sounding name but it’s also much cleverer. Want to find out some hard facts about earthquakes near the Akashi-Kaikyō bridge? Or find the divisors of 3600? WolframAlpha does all the clever thinking for you and often gives you nice diagrams explaining everything for you to admire too. Try putting is a few different phrases and see what you come up with. I guarantee it’ll throw out something you never knew before.
Certainly not Daft Punk. As part of of the Nuit Blanche event in Paris, conceptual artist Michel De Broin designed and produced without question the biggest and most impressive disco ball I have ever seen. It’s a great idea. Suspended high above the Jardin du Luxembourg the disco ball which is made from 1,000s of mirrors scattered dancing light around the city. Just a shame about the crane.
