I've given up on my blog. For now. I was quite bad at keeping it up to date anyway, but what with moving to a new city and starting a new job, I've got too much I want/need to do. I'm sure one day I'll pick up where I left off.
Until then.
Playground online ad
Pretty cool idea for an online ad. It detects your IP address, then gets local weather information relating to your location and displays a jacket that best suits your conditions. With the UK's changeable climate though it'll be suggesting a different jacket every 5 minutes.
Quite similar
At first glance I thought this NASA image was a Jackson Pollock. Anyone else?
Maybe if you cross your eyes a bit. No? Just me then.
Bottom image is a Jackson Pollock for comparison.
Unity 3D
Our Flash dev told me about Unity recently, it looks quite exciting and if it grows in popularity will rival Flash in the online gaming market. The Unity site features some impressive examples of 3D environments that run very smoothly and the loading time is incredibly quick, even on my useless broadband connection. The cool part is that you're also able to publish to the iPhone and even create Wii games with it, with the functionality to read the iPhone's accelerometer and Wii's remote winging gestures already built in. Neat.
That's It, That's All
Best Snowboard movie ever. Great riders, great locations, awesome cinematography and a cracking soundtrack. Watched it. Then watched it again. Teaser is below.
Helv Moleskine
Like a few others in the office, I couldn't resist getting one of these. I like a nice bit of Swiss design and I'm more than a little partial to Helvetica. You can do a lot worse anyway. Now do I tear off the wrapper and use this thing or what?!
Cheeses of Nazareth
If you haven't come across this yet, the 50 dolor logo experiment is well worth a read.
This caught my eye...
Corbis, the stock photo site have subtly changed their logo. I really liked the old one, but this is a really nice modernisation. I'm glad they didn't overhaul it completely as it wasn't needed, and it does a perfect job of bringing Corbis up to date. They've succeeded in doing that annoying Apple thing of making something nice, even nicer.
Article found on Brand New. Photo is © Tim McConville/zefa/Corbis.
The REAL thinking behind the Pepsi logo?
There's a lot of ranting going on at the minute about the new Pepsi logo and it's accompanying brand guidelines, where, and I quote "Every page is, quite literally, more insane than the last." I admit, it does make very strange reading. Maybe it'll all come out as a big joke... Anyway, the point of this wasn't to jump on the bandwagon, but to post Lawrence Yang's slightly more light-hearted dig, which I kinda liked.
Another stack of complimentaries!
Mark's case study about his Torchwood Hub Interface project is in this book. Starts on page 12. Some nice work showcased in there too, including the Red Issue site by Hello Monday. I've always been a fan of that one.
Mysterious Balancing Soap
Walked into my bathroom earlier to find the soap doing a strange balancing act. I have no idea how it managed to become stuck up in the air on one of its corners in the middle of the sink. Chez swears it wasn't her, so I'm honestly a little freaked out.
There'll be books flying around the room next.
House
The t-shirt I ordered from House Industries arrived yesterday. I was impressed with the service and delivery as it only took 4 days to come all the way from the US. I've ordered stuff from the UK thats taken longer than that. A lot longer. Anyway, on opening I found all of this nice unexpected stuff.
Advertising pieces for them, yes. But nice all the same.
NMA Site of the Week
Horse Hero got Site of the Week in this weeks New Media Age magazine. Quite pleased with that as NMA is pretty respected within our industry. Got a respectable 78 out of 100.
Chez got me a Wii Fit Snowboard for Xmas
My mates flew out to Val D'Isere (great place, nice site design too) in the French Alps this week for another Snowboard trip. Conditions are pretty awesome out there at the minute apparently. I'm pretty jealous, so have been using the Christmas present Chez got me to death! - It's a snowboard/skate deck attachment that snaps onto the bottom of the Wii Fit balance board, and makes the Shaun White Snowboarding game (she got me that too) seem a lot more realistic. It works really well, and you can actually do a proper stance on it, as you can't stand with your feet very far apart on the balance board alone. I was stoked with it - get your own from Play.
Kinetic Type
I've been really inspired to experiment with Kinetic Typography. Animated text to you and me. There's a lot about, but I find the examples below particularly slick. Also reminded me of the Stranger Than Fiction intro scene, where the combination of type and video is great.
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