inspired & good

NYT Snowfall - long form storytelling

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 14:28:35 +0200

Long form story telling with an interesting mix of photo video - some autoplay video adds a very filmic touch - translates to ipad as large video player. Nice use of available content including audio clips, 3d mapping and video footage taken from the event - quite a story.

Hack your maps

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 14:27:09 +0200

A great article/tutorial on hacking open source maps by Young Hahn (working at MapBox - the tool the tutorial is presenting) on alistapart.com.

Survival international

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 11:52:26 +0200

Beautiful visual storytelling by survival international from 2012 telling the story of the Awa tribe. A strong emphasis on clear and concise copy - some fun experiments with parallax and video. And then there’s that photo & video content!

Storyplanet interactive report

Fri, 26 Apr 2013 13:16:00 +0200

Storyplanet - good potential application for building interactive stories - in beta, sign up to be a tester…

Zeega is looking good - time to play in the cloud!

Fri, 19 Apr 2013 19:02:12 +0200

Zeega is looking good - time to play in the cloud!

Scrolling into science

Fri, 19 Apr 2013 13:10:00 +0200

ERIBA science hall unravels the science behind aging as you scroll deeper and deeper into the human body. Really nice use of animation, scrolling, text content (short and to the point) and video. Works beautifully on the ipad without loosing any of the functionality as far as i can see. Superb work by theFactor.e

Secret door into google street view

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 13:00:00 +0200

Secret door presented by a rather unusual source - double glazing specialist safestyle windows - this could be a clever ploy to increase SEO but still very clever collection of google street view & interiors randomly gathered for your enjoyment… And because it’s using google as it’s main product it’s working in IOS too - yay!

Beautiful trouble- experimental navigation

Tue, 19 Mar 2013 14:31:21 +0100

Beautiful trouble was funded by kickstarter now has an experimental navigation attached to the online content - it’s kinda fun and the content is super interesting.

shark alliance horizontal scrolling story

Thu, 28 Feb 2013 00:09:29 +0100

The EU Shark story - nice illustrated horizontal scrolling multimedia story by the shark alliance.

Is this tv?

Mon, 01 Oct 2012 16:09:29 +0200

Dramatic photography with parallax scrolling, this could be a gritty new cop series but no - it’s the Milwaukee police news. Thos most wanted aren’t extras - they’re really the most wanted.

easel.ly infographics generator

Tue, 28 Aug 2012 11:00:33 +0200

Still in beta, easel.ly is an infographics generator and editor - loads of templates and elements to work with and because it’s beta it’s free! Useful tool though great infographics are made with great info!

CNN's eco twitter world experiment

Fri, 17 Aug 2012 15:30:00 +0200

Using webGL - ecosphere is a beautiful representation of twitterings during the Rio Earth summit. Not mobile friendly (as yet).

MyBlockNYC

Thu, 16 Aug 2012 17:46:06 +0200

I love this site! Great example of Google maps and user generated content.

Take a look!

magazine style personal narrative

Wed, 15 Aug 2012 23:49:45 +0200

Editsquartely.com combines beautifully simple design and narrative and lovely images by Ian Coyle.

the guardian's top tools for data visualisation

Tue, 14 Aug 2012 16:48:44 +0200

Some great links - thanks folks!

Inside stories - from the neighbourhood

Mon, 13 Aug 2012 19:04:07 +0200

Slick design and storytelling on this South Hill community site from Canada by Jeremy Mendes and Shannon Mendes.

interactive evolution of the web

Fri, 10 Aug 2012 12:47:45 +0200

visual.ly experiments in interactive infographics with this beautiful flash-free timeline.

map of the internet

Thu, 09 Aug 2012 16:57:24 +0200

Every site is a circle on the map, and its size is determined by website traffic, the larger the amount of traffic, the bigger the circle. Users’ switching between websites forms links, and the stronger the link, the closer the websites tend to arrange themselves to each other.

backwards and forwards in time

Mon, 23 Jul 2012 12:31:25 +0200

The Gaurdian have created this super timeline about the Arab Spring - manipulating content forward and back as well as left to right - very nice work - made in flash dammit.

NZ tourism - animating in canvas

Sun, 22 Jul 2012 17:50:21 +0200

Great article in Smashing magazine behind the scenes of the very cool New Zealand tourism site - and even find out how to create your own canvas animation.