Visual Complexity

February 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment

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I absolutely love this site. Visual Complexity was founded by Manuel Lima, an interaction designer who is currently Senior User Experience Designer at Nokia Design. Manuel describes the site as a resource space for anyone who is interested in the visualisation of complex networks. I can guarantee you won’t be able to put it down for at least 10 minutes.

Posted by Jamie Coomber | Filed Under Art, Blog, Creativity, Design, Social network, Statistics, newsRight 

Digital paint brush

December 4, 2007 | Leave a Comment

“I/O Brush is a drawing tool that explores colours, textures, and movements found in everyday materials by “picking up” and drawing with them. I/O Brush looks like a regular paintbrush but has a small video camera with lights and touch sensors embedded inside. Outside of the drawing canvas, the brush can pick up colour, texture, and movement of a brushed surface. On the canvas, artists can draw with the special “ink” they just picked up from their immediate environment.” This is a really great innovation and I am waiting for the consumer product version to launch. Source and images: MIT Media Lab

Posted by Jamie Coomber | Filed Under Bizarre, Blog, Creativity, Design, Innovation, newsMain 

Musical roads

November 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Developers from the Hokkaido Industrial Research Institute in Japan have built three “melody roads” in central and northern Japan, which act as tuning forks to play music as they travel along the road. “The concept works by using grooves, which are cut at very specific intervals in the road surface. Just as travelling over small speed bumps or road markings can emit a rumbling tone throughout a vehicle, the melody road uses the spaces between to create different notes.” Read more

Posted by Jamie Coomber | Filed Under Bizarre, Blog, Community, Creativity, Innovation, Music, Video, newsRight 

Weiden & Kennedy decorates London

November 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment

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Nokia are this years sponsor of the Christmas lights on Regent Street and have approached their agency Weiden & Kennedy to design the display. The creation is called `Unity’ and consists of 14 clusters of lights that change colour in the wind, temperature and from 14th December, users will be able to interact with the display via an interactive screen within Nokia’s new Regent Street store. A round of applause to Nokia on recognising the skills that agencies possess.

Posted by Jamie Coomber | Filed Under Blog, Community, Creativity, Design, newsMiddle 

How creative are the best creative agencies?

October 10, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Los Angeles based design duo Kozue and Dan Kitchens collectively known as Kozyndan, have posted an entry on their blog accusing Sony’s agency Fallon of ripping off their work that has been used in their latest Sony Bravia ad that features 200 Play-Doh bunnies in New York. Kozyndan claim to have sent post production agency Passion Pictures a panoramic featuring different coloured bunnies (shown above). Read more

Posted by Jamie Coomber | Filed Under Advertising, Blog, Creativity, Legal, Marketing, Video, newsMiddle 

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