Eating guide for Dim Sum virgins [visualization]
An old, but fun decision tree for navigating Saturday morning dim sum:
Pictures of Stats [Visualization]
In one of his pieces, he creates an fantastic image resembling pollution spewing out of a factor. When you get up close and personal, you realize that its actually made of lots of plastic cups. As a matter of fact, it includes 1 million cups, which is the number of plastic cups that are used on airline flights in the United States every six hours.
His work is a pretty cool intersection between art/design and infographics. You can check out his website here and his latest book here.
Convert Evolution [iPhone App Design]
Tap tap tap has a short video taking us through their design iteration process. It's amazing the number of little tweaks that result in a highly consumable product. When thinking about your processes, how often do you tweak them? How often do you iterate?
Convert Design Evolution from tap tap tap on Vimeo.
More info about Convert is at taptaptap.com/convert
Online Marketplace for Directors [Online Film Festivals]
While living in DC, I was lucky to be part of a film festival. What continually amazes me is the depth and quality of amateur work out there. Given the high cost of making mass consumptive media (like movies and commercials), its no wonder that companies rarely bet on an unknown director.
Film festivals, especially the strappy small ones, seek to showcase emerging talent and their unique stories. For example, a Paris-based production company Mr. Hyde has launched The Hyde Tube, which provides an online venue for directors to have their work juried.
There are two things I like about the project:
- Creation of a Marketplace: Mr. Hyde, hopes that the Hyde Tube will becoming a marketplace where clients can find source new talent (and probably for a cheaper cost). In effect, Mr. Hyde is trying to remove the middlemen in the process--for a nice price"Clients will contact The Hyde Tube in order to pass on a project to a specific director, who is then free to decide whether or not to accept it. If accepted, the director will write a treatment or make an animated test within 3 to 5 days. For this work you will receive approximately 500€.
If the client is happy with the treatment and decides that the director will make the film, The Hyde Tube will connect the director with the client, and Mr Hyde or one of its affiliate studios will oversee the production until the film delivery."
- Visualization of Content: With a reported 100 directors, I was deeply curious on how they were going to help clients scroll through all the content. The use of screenshots allow the clients to scan multiple aesthetics efficiently.
Little Red Riding Hood [Animated Fables]
In the age of information, people expect to be able to take a deep dive at any point in time. I can't tell you how many times bets are settled by accessing wikipedia via my mobile phone.
Tomas Nilsson created a 3 minute reinterpretation of Little Red Riding Hood for a (Swedish) university class project.
Hope you enjoyed it as much as I did:
HT: Thingamababy
Evolution of Logos
Best Ad has a post showing the evolution of a couple corporate logos. I found it interesting how much or little companies have evolved their logos over time.
For example, after a significant change between 1955 and 1957, the logo design has continually been tweaked.
Bryant, thanks for sharing!
Let’s get Photo Synth-ical, Synth-ical
Since Blaise Aguera y Arcas first presented a demo of Photosynth at a TED conference back in 2007, I've been salivating at the opportunity to play with the technology.
A couple weeks ago, when Tommy and Ashley came out from NY, I took the opportunity to grab my camera and get a couple shots in.
Bonus: Try to find the first image in this blog post in the photosynth walkthrough.
Visualizing Music Mash-ups
Source: Cool Infographics
Radiohead’s Laser Light Show Video
Whoah...Radiohead's latest music video, House of Cards, uses 64 lasers instead of a camera.
Read Creativity's has a Q&A with director James Frost.
The Art of Cleaning
Speaking of corporations and their PR marketing campaigns. Green Works, a Clorox Company and maker of "natural cleaners," worked with Paul "Moose" Curtis on a graffiti art project.
Using Green Works products, created "reverse graffiti" by cleaning dirt off walls.
Like my last post, I'm on the fence. Conceptually, I like what the idea of "reverse graffiti," and its ephemeral qualities, and I'm a big fan of the director, Doug Pray (Scratch, and Infamy).
It's just...
I'm just not sure how to feel when street art goes corporate.
Source: Blogthousand!