This is a visualisation of the debate that happened during Cannes at The Contagious Conversation... (click to enlarge)
More info on chat over at Contagious and the visual done by Scriberia
Wednesday, 30 June 2010
The Contagious Conversation
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Labels: advertising, Brands, Conference, Illustration
CDsea
Installation in Wiltshire by Bruce Munro using 600k CDs...
Few more pics over on De Zeen
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Labels: Art, installations, media, music, Software
Cheers
Nice beer and footy collab posters...
Check them all here
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Lomo 360
Check this bad boy out - Lomo that does 360 panoramas at the pull of a chord...
Dig it more here
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Labels: innovation, photography
Solar phone
By Samsung - being unveiled in India. More at PSFK
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Labels: environment, Invention, Mobile
Tuesday, 29 June 2010
Skills of the rockstar planner
Nice series of chats with planners around lots of stuff. This one is about intuitive problem solving....
Watch others over at PSFK
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Labels: advertising, Conference, Documentary, film, Planning
Stop the water
Finally someone has done this...
Buy and read more here
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Labels: environment, products, recycling
Monday, 28 June 2010
Newspaper sculptures
NYC urban artist Nick Georgiou creates organic sculptures out of old newspapers, depositing them in random locations around the city...
More over on Flavour Wire
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Labels: Craft, recycling, Street art
Friday, 25 June 2010
FabricBall
Spanish designer Klas Ernflo covers footballs in cool fabric patterns...
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Thursday, 24 June 2010
The Big Caption
I'll just let the images (and words) do the talking but do check out The Big Caption - it's awesome... as it The Boston Big Picture blog where all the images are originally from - photojournalism at it's best...
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Labels: comedy, News, Photo, Typography
Smile
A lovely smile activated ice cream vending machine from Unilever as part of their 'Share Happy' philosophy.
Read more over at PSFK
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Labels: advertising, Digital, Food, innovation, Invention
Nerdball
Some lovely data visualisations of football over at World Cup of Nerds ...
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Wednesday, 23 June 2010
My phone is off for you
Great social intervention project by Ingrid Zweifel getting people to turn their phone off and dedicate quality time during a meal.
Go here for the official site - and video - or a review on Notcot
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Labels: Ideas, Social Media
Stuff & Things
STUFF & THINGS. from Jack Cunningham on Vimeo.
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Tuesday, 22 June 2010
Steve Powers at PSFK
"Who he?" you say. Shame on you. He be the man behind Love Letter in Philidelphia as previously blogged and also featured in top film Beautiful Losers. Check it:
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Labels: Conference, Illustration, Street art
Monday, 21 June 2010
Foodballers
Frank Yampard:
Broccoli Sagna:
Pepper Reina:
Aaron Lemon:
Lots more over at Yep We Can
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Labels: Food, Illustration, sport
2 bits of Star Wars illustration
First off, Greg Smeltz does dapper Victorian portraits...
Secondly, John Woo puts the characters of Star Wars in couture and trendy street wear...
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Labels: fashion, Illustration
On the other hand...
The Dislike ink stamp from the same people that bought you the Like ink stamp. Having never been a Facebook fanatic, I'm feeling this more...
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Labels: Digital, products, Social Media
We are not time travellers
Alex Varanese has grabbed grab all the modern technology he could find, taken it back to the late 70's, superficially redesigned it all to blend in, and started a fictional consumer electronics company to unleash it upon the world. Cool.
For the full set go here
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Labels: advertising, design, products, retro
Friday, 18 June 2010
Lego England
Read an interview with the creator over at CR Blog
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Labels: advertising, animation, Lego, sport
Thursday, 17 June 2010
The hoverboard is here
And about time too. Just don't stand on it yet:
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Labels: Invention, technology, toys
OK Go - End Love video
Maybe not as good as their previous efforts but goodish
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iPod Arcade dock
By Pinel & Pinel. Only $13,713 but comes with Donkey Kong, Pac-Man, and Space Invaders loads more retro games - therefore a bargain.
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Labels: music, retro, video games
Thumb war
Lovely - by Christopher Lee - who's done some fantastic vector illustrations
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Labels: Illustration
Swarm Lighting
'Swarm Light' by rAndom International / Design Miami / Art Basel 2010 from rAndom International on Vimeo.
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Labels: innovation, installations, Invention, light
Wednesday, 16 June 2010
Robocup 2010
The other World Cup - The Robocup 2010 - is played by robots made by loads of techie dudes and colleges. It kicks off in Singapore in mid June. It might be more exciting than the real thing.
Here's one of the top players:
Go here for a comprehensive preview and meet the other key players or check the official Robocup website
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Labels: innovation, Invention, sport
The train that never stops
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Labels: Ideas, innovation, Invention
Lapp-pro X Nike
LAPP-PRO pay homage to Nike’s eight sponsored teams at this year’s 2010 World Cup with a stunning display of light painting using no digital enhancements...
Check the rest and the 'making of' video at Hypebeast
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Labels: Clothes, fashion, photography, sport
Tuesday, 15 June 2010
Sugar Skull by Paul Alexander Thornton
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Labels: film, Illustration