Google’s Think Quarterly has a series of data nuggets about the vast amount of creative output is published to the web every day.
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“If you wake up at a different time, in a different place, could you wake up as a different person?”
A map of my home town in watercolor
User Experience vs. User Interface
Arthur C. Clarke Predicts the Internet & PC (by openculturevideo)
In 1974 Arthur C. Clarke told the ABC that every household in 2001 will have a computer and be connected all over the world. Courtesy of Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
Type Connection
Type Connection is a dating game for typefaces. To win you have to pair up a typeface with it’s most compatible mate. Yes, that’s geeky. Yes, there are good explanations and aesthetic objectivity in which typefaces work together well.
Start by choosing a typeface to pair. Like a conventional dating website, Type Connection presents you with potential “dates” for each main character—without the misleading profile photos and commitment-phobes. The game features well-known, workhorse typefaces and portrays each as a character searching for love. You are the matchmaker. You decide what kind of match to look for by choosing among several strategies for combining typefaces. Along the way, you explore typographic terminology, type history, and more. By playing Type Connection, you deepen your own connection with type.
The HTML5 Gendered Advertising Video Remixer
The HTML5 Gendered Advertising Video Remixer
Weird. This site mashes up the sound from a boys toy ad of your choice with the video of a girls toy ad of your choice (or vice versa) with startling results.
LG begins mass production of first flexible, plastic e-ink displays. This is incredible. I hope Amazon picks up this technology for the next edition of the Kindle. Then I’d be able to keep my Kindle in my back pocket.
At world’s end: Artists reveal stunning post-apocalyptic images of the world’s major cities via Mail Online
Artists Lucie and Simon have taken the world’s most familiar and populous cities and removed all but one or two people to create the illusion of a lonely world.