NZ tourism - animating in canvas

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. 

99% invisible

99% invisible is as described on the packaging “A tiny radio show about design, architecture & the 99% invisible activity that shapes our world.”

You can find the podcast on itunes - it’s packed full of good stuff - perfect sized pieces of inspiration about stuff you never think about!

The story below about the origin story of the Teddy Bear and why you never grew up cuddling a Billy Possum… 99% Invisible-40- Billy Possum by Roman Mars

(source: radiolab)

Buy Good Shirts, do good. Genius!

Simple concept - you pay for what’s on the t-shirt, be it a mosquito net ($18.57) or a cargo plane ($300,000).

Unicef + BBH New York + Artists Christine and Justin Gignac + Threadless

Case study - Al Jazeera in Tibet

Case study of shoot in remote Tibet on #HDSLR by @benjamin_emery; gear, issues, and great footage in Al Jazeera doc.

(SOURCE: tim matsui photo)

Designing with Disonance - are you feeling comfortable?

Great article by Tad Fry in Smashing magazine - the main example given is the site called “Spent” is definitely worth checking out…

Insitu

Insitu is an interactive documentary about European intervention artists and academics exploring their relationship with their respective city environments through playing giant musical machines, dancing with mechanical diggers and otherwise subverting urban order.
It is a quite revolutionary way to screen a film on the internet.
Take some time to watch the movie online! It is absolutely worth it.

Is it time to go home?

Byturen.com - a simple idea beautifully executed in flash! Produced for the Copenhagen night bus service.

Sponsored 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.

Just beautiful - put your headphones on and escape… From 2010, a short film about custom motorcycle engineer shinya kimura @ chabott engineering, directed by Henrik Hansen henrikhansen.net, shot on the Canon 5D and 7D.

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.

Some innovative uses (list will be updated):

QR CODE - Content-rich Resume from Victor petit on Vimeo.

(source: japantrends.com)

For google Earth (Source: PSFK)