September 2011
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Make beautiful things happen
Kickstarter help people to crowd source funding and it’s an easy way to contribute to some very cool projects - there’s prizes too if you want them! Beautiful trouble looks like the kind of book that needs to be made - make a pledge and get the book! They’re also using Kickstarter to raise funds for printed materials for the occupy wall street demonstrations…
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WatchFirst of a 3 part introduction to lenses - vimeo produced along with Vincent LaForet for the Vimeo video school.
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Interactive 360 online documentary
Storming Juno tells the story of Canadian forces on D-day via an immersive Flash experience that interweaves live recreation, documents, and oral history from veterans. Created by secret location to accompany a 90 minute television docudrama.
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Your photo here - crowdsourcing art
Every face has a story. Upload your photo and story, receive a print poster - paste it up, take a picture of your picture, upload it with its location and add it to the wall. Over 11,000 participants so far.
With his latest global art initiative, the InsideOut Project, JR is spreading his mission on a scale that was previously unimaginable, by crowdsourcing personal photos and the labor of...
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Is it time to go home?
Byturen.com - a simple idea beautifully executed in flash! Produced for the Copenhagen night bus service.
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Googlemap icons
Some lovely icons from “map icons collection” made under cc - you do need to give these guys a creditline - or ask them to design some for you!
To customise the icon on your map click on the icon to bring up the content dialogue box, then clcik on the icon in the top right. Then click on the “add an icon”.
Thanks to Jack Hunter for the inspiration and finding the...
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Orchestrating information - Philips obsessed with...
DDB produced this clever flash site for Philips - explore the individuals that make up the Metrpole orchestra. You can also enter a competition where you could have the orchestra play your composition…
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WatchSponsored by Blurb, the Emmy award-winning, multimedia journalist and passionate iPhoneographer, Richard Koci Hernandez (@koci), talks about how his love of the i-phone. He’s another multimedia evangelist, a journalism optimist (watch his inspiring talk at KDMC) - his website multimedia shooter is full of good the stuff.
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A girl story - youtube storytelling cleverness
Nice use of youtube, this animated series was only continued when donations reached a certain level, agirlstory.org was created in 2009 by agency Strawberry Frog to help raise funds for nanhikali.org who help provide education to under privileged girl children in India. Good magazine wrote a review here.
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the whale hunt - exploring visual storytelling
Controversial it may be but it’s a beautiful piece of interactive visual storytelling - The whale hunt - by an Jonathan Harris - his work always exploring and pushing boundaries of technology, art and storytelling.
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Biophillia by Björk ipad interactive app
Great review of the artists interactive musical experience - utilizing the tablets functionality in some clever ways…
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Need a guide to transmedia?
From Screen Australia , a beautiful 20-page production bible that clearly describes how to conceptualise interactive projects, write proposals, identify need, have impact, and engage communities with them. It’s an essential read for anyone making interactive, and also anyone who wants to know what it means. It’s a concise guide and you WILL understand interactive media better...
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Want More Information? Just Scan Me
During New York Fashion Week earlier this month, Quick Response (QR) codes — square, checkered symbols that can be scanned with one’s smartphone — were as omnipresent as chunky black booties.
+ find out some of the cool things you can do with QR codes with The History, Use & Abuse of QR Codes by Erica Glasier.
mashable has this nice article about designing with QR codes.
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Talk to Me at MoMA
Talk to Me features a variety of designs that enhance communicative possibilities and embody a new balance between technology and people, bringing technological breakthroughs up or down to a comfortable, understandable human scale. Designers are using the whole world to communicate, transforming it into a live stage for an information parkour and enriching our lives with emotion,...
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Maps
We’re looking at how we can use googlemaps better - I’ve been amazed to see what’s out there!
One of the best places to look for the latest and coolest is googlemapsmania - really worth a look and a bookmark to come back to later.
Here’s some links to maps I’ve looked at recently that are really worth checking out for function and form.:
NOCA interactive map - The...
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