Retro, Saul Bass inspired, video for the new Resistance game. Love the styling.

Slow motion awesomeness. It never gets old. RT @StevenYip

A slow moving piece of public art. People passing by won’t even realise it slowly changes, its only seeing the final stop motion that reveals the movement.

So this is genius in my humble opinion. Put simply:

Mapnificent shows you areas you can reach with public transport in a given time.

This functionality ported into property search engines would make life so much easier when trying to decide where to live.

Public beta

A look behind the scenes of Period. , an interactive projection and audio installation controlled via iPhone. Made for the Mutek festival in Montreal.
Interesting use of tech I’ve only seen used for ad campaigns with any frequency.

Jurjen Versteeg created this video as his graduation piece, he describes it as:

…a possible title sequence for a fictitious documentary, this film shows a history of the title sequence in a nutshell. The sequence includes all the names of title designers who had a revolutionary impact on the history and evolution of the title sequence. The names of the title designers all refer to specific characteristics of the revolutionary titles that they designed. 

The mood captured in the piece is superb and the whole thing has a cohesive simplicity that takes it to another level. All in all I can’t commend Jurien enough.

FontBook iPad app

FontBook, the world’s most comprehensive typographical reference guide, is now available on iPad. 

Browsing fonts is always a bit of a nightmare, do you browse by foundry, style, keyword…? When I’m searching for a font I normally end up with hundreds of tabs open and I start to loose track of why I’ve gone done certain paths. So I love the way you navigate through the different foundries and faces in this app. Zooming in and out from across different grids representing different levels of categorisation. It keeps everything linear but allows for tangental discovery. 

I also love the compare feature which lets you stack different fonts up against each other, customise the sample by changing copy and colour and then share it to your social networks to get your peers’ feedback.

I can see this being expanded with extra browsing methods like font family trees, timelines etc to make font discovery educational.

All in thumbs up and thanks for the find goes to nickmulley

Great video by Josh Boston made for Qualcomm about all the interesting stuff they are doing. Loads of cool factoids about the digital landscape. I love seeing abstract numbers quantified into meaningful ones. It’s even better when its done with great visuals and animation. 

Teller, of Penn & Teller fame, explains some of the psychology used for illusions. Really interesting to see behind the curtain and learn how magic relates to real life behaviour.

I found myself wondering about how this behaviour can happen when I’m designing interactive processes like websites or apps. Could this repetition be used or abused to get the user to do what we want?  At the moment we can fail to think enough about it and that leads to bad user experience.

The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore is an iPad book experience with the emphasise on experience. It has been created by ex-Pixar animator William Joyce  and it is fully interactive with every page having its own unique interactions and animations and games. 

This really makes me jealous of kids today, what a fantastic learning experience for parents to share with their children.