Posts Tagged with "Design"

Word Cloud Identity

August 11, 2008

I referenced Wordle a few weeks back in our discussion on data visualization. If you missed the post, Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, [...]

Made In Queens

August 1, 2008

Are you as hyped as I am on the sound bike scene that’s brewing in New York’s Queens borough?
The movement, fueled by a group of ingenious, base loving Trinida-­dian teenagers - obsessed with souping up their bikes with massive soundsystems - has led to the production of a short documentary titled Made In Queens that [...]

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Néojaponisme

July 29, 2008

Today was mad hectic at the agency. All three floors of the shop were buzzing with creative energy/activity. All day people came and went from the Radar space, and the hour hand on the clock swirled at a rapid rate.
Let’s travel back in time:
3:00 PM: I need a break. My eyes are burning from starring [...]

Data Visualization

July 27, 2008

Technorati estimates that the blogosphere has doubled in size every six moths for the last three years. On average, 175,000 new blogs are introduced to the web each day. For the typical individual/organization, keeping up with, communicating and making sense of this data is difficult/impossible. How then, can one effectively communicate what is happening [...]

The Image Fulgurator

Julius von Bismarck’s Image Fulgurator is a modified camera that’s capable of projecting images onto street furniture (a bench, wall, sign etc.) where they appear in the photos of strangers, but remain invisible to their eyes.
So how does it work? According to Wired, the “half guerrilla-art stunt and half homemade-gadget awesomeness” has a “slave unit [...]

Chris Kahle

July 20, 2008

I spent last Friday night sipping on import tall boys with Chris Kahle; a Vancouver based advertising creative, at his coal harbor apartment. We discussed the crème de la crème of the industry, interactive strategies, his obsessive-compulsive tendency to switch up his blog and where things are going with web 2.0, 3.0 and 4.0. He [...]

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