Search Flickr by colour
October 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Idee Labs have developed a tool that offers a new search function for Flickr. They have extracted the colours from 10 million of the most “interesting” Creative Commons images on Flickr and using their visual similarity technology users can navigate the collection by colour.
FontStruct, design your own font
August 18, 2008 | 1 Comment
Introduction to FontStruct from fontstruct on Vimeo.
FontSctruct (created by FontShop) allows you to create your own font using their very clever little tool kit. You can draw each letter free-hand, and then shape it to perfection with one of the various options provided. The site currently holds nearly 900 fonts available for download all created by the community which is also a nice little touch.
More Data Visualisation But Through The Movies
August 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment

This was sent to me by David Bausola and it is one of the nicest examples of Data Visualisation that I have seen recently. Created by Zach Beane and inspired by Lee Byron’s Stream Graph, Movie Box Office Charts displays box office data graphically according to takings and date.
Wordle
July 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Wordle is a fun little tool that let’s you display a site, your del.icio.us tags or random text in the form of a tag cloud. Here’s what my del.icio.us bookmarks look like *geek*.
Philips Design Probes
June 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment

This is a nice little series of experiements from Philips Design Probes. Through tracking trends and developments that may evolve into mainstream issues that have an impact on business, they are focusing on key areas covering politics, economics, culture, environments and technology features which will enable them to understand lifestyle post 2020. There are some really interesting projects going on including how we can create a sustainable habitat in 2020, but being a tattoo fan one that caught my eye in particular is The Electronics Tattoo.




