Or more specifically, how a viral effect takes place. All this is shown in an under 3 minute video below.
“Leadership is over-gloried… Being a first follower is an under-appreciated form of leadership. The first follower transforms a lone nut into a leader. If the leader is the flint, the first follower is the spark that makes the fire… There’s no movement without a first follower ”
I’ve always been a fan of Universal Everything since introduced by my then art director Nic. Inspirational. From small sized videos to large scale installations. Mind you, some of the works are interactive animations too.
Here it is some really cool works in their 2010 showreel.
As part of the project, Radio 1 launched the Meet The Listeners campaign, negotiating with all the mobile operators to drop charges for picture messages to Radio 1 and asking listeners to send in pictures of themselves in order to put put a face to the loyal audience that defines Radio 1.
In a single day, they received 42,000 photos, then used them to stitch together this lovely stop-motion film:
Ikea released a catalog in its U.K. iPhone app today withless-than-wowing content, a call for feedback and a curious threat to only hand down updates to users who download version 1.0.
While the app is little more than a portable, digital version of a paper catalog — users can only flick through pages of the 2010 catalog and pinch to zoom — the retailer and its “brand entertainment” agency, Cake, are asking for update suggestions via voicemail, Twitter and e-mail. But it looks like only people who download the app now will get to see new capabilities when they come through.
“There are plans to quickly improve and develop the app but only in conjunction with customers who choose to download it,” says a note on Cake’s YouTube channel, where the above demo video for the app is posted.
So far, tweeters appending the hashtag #ikeaappideas have suggested GPS navigation store maps, in-app commerce, info on new food menus at stores and augmented reality to put furniture in users’ homes.
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Collected over time in my Feedly feeds. I like them all. Not comprehensive and there are better showcase sites out there. Feel free to add your choice showcase sites in the comments below. I would really love to discover new inspirations.
(via: Mashable)
Certainly not new to the scene but new(ish) to a lot of you… maybe… Carsonified spends a week each year to work on one of their apps, and they do it semi-live so we can all follow along. One of the more interesting things I’ve followed in a while, truly. This is a twitter based app for finding like-minded people at an event. It seems pretty fun, i’ll have to try next time I catch a FOWA or FOWD. The design is very open feeling and the colors are very subdued. I like the solar system graphic behind the main posts on the home page and the mouse over action on each person’s pic is well done. The most intriguing part is the sing up, I like how it takes me through the steps without really realizing what i’m doing. Very cleverly done.
(via: Unmatched Style)
As recently as the last decade, most of the media for public consumption were produced by professionals. Those days are over…. The question we all face now is how can we make best of this medium. Even though it means changing the way we’ve always done.
This is good watching, for those in a hurry, skip straight to 13:00 of the video and onwards.
“Adobe® Flash® Catalyst™ is a new professional interaction design tool for rapidly creating user interfaces without coding.”
This is the new tool for coolest presentation and Flash web building and for all the designers we can forget about the Power Point already! This is next amazing software from Adobe® for Flash.
Do check the demo video here to see the Adobe® Flash® Catalyst™ in action!
Very Interesting.. Are we gonna have a Work Place like this?.
Volume B Store is located in Sao Paulo, Brazil designed by Marcio Kogan in 2006. The project was completed in Year 2007. Volume B Stor is the retail furniture store Vitra. read more about it at Archdaily
Yesterday I tweeted on my Twitter stream
“Number of product roll-outs does not equate to product innovations. Most times, it works the opposite” [link]
And today I found this website, still in beta, in my RSS streams – FootyTube, as if to prove a point regarding the above. FootyTube is an aggregator site with an engine that trawls the open web and gathers football related content in the form of videos and articles and republishes them into, yes, FootyTube. Better yet, the value of FootyTube is the categorisation and channels it creates out of the jumbled up, perhaps noisy search data that gets returned form these searches.
I’m pretty impressed by what FootyTube has done in terms of organising these disparate, mixed up data and turning them in visual-information gems.
Website is in beta. You’d need to be a registered member to view videos. (I registered) Here are some screenshots. And my annotations/review.
(Found via: SixRevisions)
There isn’t much to explain why this is an especially important share. But for colleagues not already in the loop, music is integral in our product portfolio. We run 8 radio websites, music charts are key parts of these portals, song downloads will be available if not already, mobile music is the defacto keyword in Asian music distribution, and lastly, entertainment is big in our digital product plays.
Again, I have broken it up into 2 parts – Most Beautiful 5, and the rest of the other 25. Beauty = function and aesthetics.
13 tips for making ideas happen. From Behance’s 99% conference. Because Ideas are 1% inspiration, 99% perspiration.
Best of Behance’s 99% Conference: 13 Tried and True Practices For Making Ideas Happen | Fast Company:
1. Keep a notebook.
Bierut started this practice in 1992, and now has 86 of the things. But they’re not some fancy Moleskins full of lush watercolor sketches. They’re plain vanilla notebooks, filled with, well, notes and the occasional sketch. They seem to work as well as the high-priced spread.
2. Listen first, then design.
Actually, you don’t have to be a designer to take this advice. If you’re selling office paper at Dunder Mifflin, or pitching an account at Sterling Cooper, listening is still a good way to get a project off on the right foot.
3. Don’t avoid the obvious.
The obvious can be your best friend. There are few new ideas, folks. Mostly just better iterations of the old ones. Trying to reinvent the wheel too often just results in a lot of wheel spinning.
4. The problem contains the solution.
Read the brief or the specs, or actually pay attention to your notes from the client meeting (see #1, above.) Often, the solution is right there.
5. Indulge your obsessions.
They’re passion made tangible.
6. Love is the answer.
There are worse things than leading with your heart. As Bierut has proven, you’ll often be successful, do great work, and probably make money. And you’ll likely be happy.
7. Don’t let the urgent demands of today always subvert your plans for tomorrow.
In other words, don’t let the often trivial demands of an overflowing inbox consistently distract you from the more important items on your to-do list. Along those lines, keep two lists: one of daily tasks, the other of longer term projects with specific action items attached. – Scott Belsky, CEO, Behance
8. Don’t underestimate the importance of staying organized.
Chaos subverts progress. Creativity x organization = impact – Belsky
9. Hang around people who are passionate about things.
Their enthusiasm will rub off on you. Whom you hang out with really matters. – Jason Randal, theorist on developing expertise
10. Hire the best lawyers.
“I’ve met many people who run billion-dollar companies. They aren’t that smart. They hire good lawyers. It’s one of the things that made this project happen.” Robert Hammond, Co-founder, Friends of the High Line.
11. Share ideas liberally.
If you share things quickly, you’ll be more accountable.
12. Surround yourself with people who motivate you, and write things down.
Something as large as a presidential campaign was done simply by checking items off a to-do list. – Scott Thomas, design director, Obama for America
13. Nothing trumps hard work.
“Many successful people don’t want to talk about how hard they work. Even when you’ve made it, you’ve got to keep working.” – Jill Greenberg, photographer
(via: FastCompany)
Hi Fellow MAC users.
Are your photoshop cs4 colours different when u save documents as web?
If so, here’s a solution and some reasons behind this.
STEP BY STEP SOLUTION: (for those who don’t wanna know why)
http://www.usabilitypost.com/2008/07/30/photoshop-color-profiles-for-web-images/
Have a read on this if ur curious instead:
http://www.viget.com/inspire/the-mysterious-save-for-web-color-shift/
Have a good day designing with synchronized photoshop > web browsers colours.
Choose your colours wisely friends (:
I found this great website that compile a tons of Quotes on Design which is related to what are we doing everyday.
Here’s few of them, view more at Quotes on Design.
Accidents often produce the best solutions… only you can recognize the difference between an accident and your original intent.
— Jennifer Morla
Good design must be defined by appropriateness to audience and goals, and by its effectiveness, not by its adherence to Swiss design or the number of awards it wins.
A well-defined problem is half solved.
For me, design is like choosing what I’m going to wear for the day – only much more complicated and not really the same at all.