Timelapse movie: The Alps — part I from Michael Rissi on Vimeo.
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Monthly Archive for November, 2009
Impressive and stylish projections on buildings, a renewing way of communicating.For those who want to carry out a message in a striking and visually attractive way with guaranteed exposure: 3D Projection on buildings is the communication tool of 2009, and what an impact!
Projection on Buildings from NuFormer Digital Media on Vimeo.
SAN FRANCISCO — In many ways, MySQL embodies the ideals of the populist software movement known as open source, in which a program’s creator releases it to the world free of charge, and legions of volunteers contribute improvements that are also freely shared.
Open Source Proves Elusive as a Business Model – NYTimes.com.
Wireframing is one of the best parts of starting a new web design project. You have a blank canvas and you are allowed to let your creativity rein free. Your design may eventually be spoiled by the clients added input… but for that short time …
via A Collection of Useful Web Design Wireframing Resources : Speckyboy Design Magazine.
The 8th Berlinale Talent Campuswill take place from February 13 – 18, 2010.The Berlinale Talent Campus is a creative academy and networking platform for 350 up-and-coming filmmakers from all over the world.The Berlinale Talent Campus lasts for six days and offers a huge variety of different programme elements for DIRECTORS • SCREENWRITERS • ACTORS • CINEMATOGRAPHERS • PRODUCERS • EDITORS • SOUND DESIGNERS • COMPOSERS • PRODUCTION DESIGNERS • FILM CRITICS and VISUAL ARTISTS
As Google's Android operating system appears on more devices, more companies are extending the platform to develop custom user interfaces for their products. Though Google freely distributes Android and allows anyone to adapt its open-source components, they maintain control of the services (applications) they distribute with Android like Maps, GMail, Google Voice, and more.
via Functioning Form – Android User Experience: When Open & Closed Collide.
Influencing individual people’s behaviour often seems to be about mundane or trivial things, such as choosing one type of magazine subscription over another, or using less shower gel in a hotel bathroom.
The International CES is produced by the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA), the preeminent trade association promoting growth in the consumer technology industry. CEA represents more than 2,000 corporate members involved in the design, development, manufacturing, distribution and integration of consumer electronics products. All profits from CES are reinvested into industry services, including technical training and education, industry promotion, engineering standards development, market research and legislative advocacy.
via 2010 CES: About CES.
Next Firmware Update (v3.10) Enables PlayStation 3 system Gamers to Share Their Experiences with Friends on Facebook, Including Trophies Won In-Game, PlayStation(R)Network Game Purchases, and Game Events
via Sony Computer Entertainment America Inc.
NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — When Wm. Wrigley Jr. Co. dumped Digitas, Tribal DDB and Agency.com for a trio of smaller, production-centric digital shops last week, it did more than deal a setback to three global interactive agency networks. It raised the question of whether big digital agencies are being outflanked by leaner, faster, more-creative shops.
via Does the Industry Need Big Digital Agencies Anymore? – Agency News – Advertising Age.
Zygote Interactive Ball from Alex Beim on Vimeo.
The Zygote is currently being featured during the opening act of Sensation White, a series of the biggest electronic music festivals held around the world. Twenty Zygotes are released upon a crowd of 40, 000 people, creating an unbelievable, interactive, “underwater” experience. As the Zygotes bounce across the massive crowd, waves of excited movement are created throughout the whole venue.
The L-shaped multi touch table is equipped with four computers each operating one of the four screens embedded in the table top.
Cargo is a web publishing (CMS) and community-building platform currently in development. It powers a variety of creative communities in the fields of Education, Design, Research, and Conceptual Art.
Typeface: Neuforma
via NEUFORMA FONT #HFT002 IDENT on Vimeo.
(CNN) — What's the first thing that goes through your mind when someone says the word “data”?
Personas is a component of the Metropath(ologies) exhibit, recently on display at the MIT Museum by the Sociable Media Group from the MIT Media Lab (Please contact us if you want to show it next!). It uses sophisticated natural language processing and the Internet to create a data portrait of one's aggregated online identity. In short, Personas shows you how the Internet sees you.
via Personas | Metropath(ologies) | An installation by Aaron Zinman.
Remember the Y2K scare? It came and went without much of a whimper because of adequate planning and analysis of the situation. Impressive movie special effects aside, Dec. 21, 2012, won’t be the end of the world as we know. It will, however, be another winter solstice.
via : NASA – Scenes from the motion picture “2012.” Courtesy Columbia Pictures.
[itvt] can today reveal the winners of the Mediaroom Application Contest that Microsoft held at its 3rd Annual Mediaroom Developers Conference last month (note: Mediaroom is Microsoft's IPTV platform, which the company says has now been deployed in over 4 million subscriber households worldwide, by a customer base that includes AT&T, BT, Deutsche Telekom, Swisscom and Portugal Telecom, among others).
via Exclusive: Winners of Microsoft’s Mediaroom Application Contest Revealed | InteractiveTV Today.
Related Content Database (RCDb) announced today that it has entered into a technology licensing and services agreement with Netflix, Inc. to jointly develop the instant streaming Blu-ray disc that enables Netflix members to instantly watch thousands of movies and TV episodes on their Sony PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system.
via RCDb Licenses BD-Live Software to Netflix | InteractiveTV Today.
For a complete overview of the Movember Foundation, men’s health, our beneficiary partners, research and programs that Movember funds please visit the Movember Foundation Site. For a quick intro to the Movember campaign please read this page.
When envisioning the year 2050, Steven Spielberg asked our designers to imagine a world where technology permeates all aspect of our lives in a way that both celebrates the feats of human innovation while at the same time incorporates the flaws of real world imperfection.
An open platform for interactive television
FiOS TV enables next-generation interactive content and applications.via Verizon Developer Community.
The first three TV of Tomorrow Shows were praised by sponsors, speakers, exhibitors and attendees not only as true experts’ conferences that attracted a veritable “who’s who” of the interactive TV industry, but as offering a thoroughly unique and enjoyable experience. We are working hard to ensure that the TV of Tomorrow Show 2010–which is already attracting an array of high-powered speakers and which will feature a line-up of fascinating entertainments–is even better.
Over the past 18 months, a great debate has consumed our industry: Are digital agencies poised to sit at the head of the advertising table? Depending on whom you ask and what you read, the answer seems to flip flop — with a majority of people still having reservations and making claims that digital agencies aren’t ready to lead.
The future of gaming. This announcement must scare console manufacturers. And rightly so. OnLive will provide a direct connection to the latest games regardless of any hardware bias or console ownership.
via MTV Sticky.
TEDx is a new program that enables local communities such as schools, businesses, libraries, neighborhoods or just groups of friends to organize, design and host their own independent, TED-like events. Learn more »
via TED | TEDx Events.
There’s a lot of talk in the advertising industry of how big idea advertising is losing its importance. Rather everyday ideas, small and nimble ones that can activate consumers and influencers alike across the Internet seem to be getting as important. On our own internal social media email list, we’ve been having a raging debate on this too.
via Does SIM mean big ideas matter less? – Going Social Now.
MyAlltop enables you to create a “personal, online magazine rack” of your favorite websites and blogs. You can create a personal collection from over 32,000 information sources—
Imagine nature’s most elegant ideas organized by design and engineering function, so you can enter “filter salt from water” and see how mangroves, penguins, and shorebirds desalinate without fossil fuels.
Now imagine you can meet the people who have studied these organisms, and together you can create the next great bio-inspired solution.
Speed Up Your Workflow
Gaia is an open-source front-end Flash Framework for AS3 and AS2 designed to dramatically reduce development time.
With Gaia’s revolutionary scaffolding engine, you can build a fully functional Flash site in less than 10 minutes without writing a single line of Actionscript!
As websites continue to increase in their importance as a company’s storefront, the demand for rich, brand-extending experiences will also increase. Further proliferation of (lightning speed) broadband will reduce download issues while the adoption of Flash on mobile devices will dramatically increase and fuel reach and the desire/need for highly usable, brand transporting, conversion oriented experiences
Courtesy: Nuri Djavit, Paul Newnes, Adam Phillip of Last Exit
Don’t miss the entry deadlines!
DESIGN JANUARY 22, 2010
INTERACTIVE JANUARY 29, 2010
ADVERTISING FEBRUARY 5, 2010
ADC HYBRID/ADC DESIGN SPHERE FEBRUARY 26, 2010
STUDENT JANUARY 29, 2010
Domestika es un proyecto orientado a promover el valor del diseño como herramienta de cambio en la sociedad.
Cuenta con una comunidad donde se crean sinergias entre personas y proyectos afines. Un sitio donde compartir recursos, tanto materiales como intelectuales. Un espacio para la experimentación y la reflexión, potencialmente abierto a todas las disciplinas relacionadas con la expresión artística.
Communication Arts announces the winners of its 2009 design competition. Now in its 50th year, the prestigious competition selected 209 projects, representing the work of 159 firms, for inclusion.
Source : Communication Arts – 2009 Design Annual Winners.
Ars Technica’s Ryan Paul wants to know, “Can a [truly open smartphone] be done?” But the real question is, “Should we care?”
A contemporary mobile phone must maintain such functions, as: mobility, constant Internet access, access to the documents, games and to give the best possibilities and means of communication and contact. A new generation mobile phone “Mobile script” gives all these possibilities!
Personalize your BlackBerry
BlackBerry® Theme Studio allows you to personalize your BlackBerry smartphone by creating your very own themes. Build one from scratch or use pre-set templates to guide you.
via BlackBerry
The team managed to pull the web application together in time for launch, and the guide was a smashing success. Over the course of SXSW, sxsw.razorfish.com was visited by 2,806 people who spent an average of 10 minutes each on the site, typically viewed about 8 pages, and often came back for second and third visits. The site attracted a large amount of buzz on Twitter and was praised as the go-to guide for the conference.
Hyper Island is at the forefront of interactive and digital media training. Since becoming the first school of digital and interactive media in Sweden in 1995, Hyper Island has built a global network of the most creative and successful people in the industry.
The Hyper Island Master Class concept is built upon the unique Hyper Island methodology—learning-by-doing and learning-by-reflection. Dialogue-based training and teamwork are important factors for learning that makes an impact. At a Hyper Island Master Class participants interact with experts rather than listen to traditional lectures and work in teams more often than individually. The most effective learning tools are the challenging projects that will expose you to a variety of problem-solving situations. All participants are expected to have a strong and active participation.
Pipes is a powerful composition tool to aggregate, manipulate, and mashup content from around the web.
via Yahoo Pipes
Wrapping your brain around data online can be challenging, especially when dealing with huge volumes of information.
And trying to find related content can also be difficult, depending on what data you’re looking for.
via 50 Great Examples of Data Visualization | Webdesigner Depot.
A vision driven interactive stand for Brandwidth and Toyota IQ. The stand is touring shopping centers in the UK and currently at the Westfield Shopping center in London.by Memo Akten and Working with Seeper pretty amazing work
made with openFrameworks from openFrameworks on Vimeo.
openFrameworks is an open source C++ toolkit
for creative coding.
via openFrameworks.
Bold Moves is a campaign designed by TM Advertising and created by Mayor Tom Leppert and the City of Dallas, DOWNTOWNDALLAS, and Dallas Regional Chamber to aggressively target CEO’s on the east and west coast for relocation recruitment. Click here to read the blog entry and find out the inside scoop.
Props to Corgan Media Lab for the 3D work
Long days at work and some weekends and holidays but at the end paid off. it was pretty exciting that your client will be the first insurance company in the world to accept claims via the iPhone and they did, but the big idea wasn’t fulfill.
The Effies are about ideas that work. Ideas that appeal to more than a consumer’s eyes and ears. Ideas that connect with people on an emotional level. Ideas that made an impact and made a difference.
The Core Idea for USA Today was to create a catalyst for a conversation. A conversation that leads to a engagement based on the news the users are interested in. Continue reading ‘USA Today iPhone Pitch’
TV Widgets give you the best of the Internet in perfect harmony with the simplicity and reliability of your television. TV Widgets deliver a Cinematic Internet™ experience by converting your favorite Web services like Yahoo!® Finance, eBay®, CBS, Flickr®, USA Today®, and Twitter®, for the TV. View episodes of your favorite CBS TV shows, watch a movie, check the latest news and sports scores, shop on eBay or catch up with your friends on Twitter. It’s easy—just grab your remote, lean back and stay connected.
I wish the Future of TV had any chance for my Vertex cube concept.
Here is Ira Glass of “This American Life” talking about the building blocks of a great story.
Enlanza is a collaboration of individuals and nonprofits
pushing the world of bicycles forward.
