While an interesting take on augmented reality being used alongside ‘traditional’ print, will it really be that practical in everyday use?
Or if it takes off, is the consumer that bit closer to making the decision to buy?

See the links below for a real advertising campaign (Dominos Pizza) and other demonstrations using the Blippar app. Love the Aero bars!

http://lnkd.in/MVwcEW
http://www.blippar.com/

3d, Blippar, image technology, magic

So the end has come, and after a month of selfless fluff-growing it’s time to say goodbye to our lovingly nurtured face-space. We’ve managed to raise over £250, supported by a fantastic moustachioed cupcake bonanza, and donations continue to rolling in for our Best ‘Tache Vote. Click through to view the final results of our top-lip works of art… and don’t forget to give what you can for such a worthy cause by visiting the Movember website.

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Cancer, Charity, Design, Linney, Movember

As Movember draws to a close this week, here’s a collection of illustrations inspired by this very worthy cause: Illustration awards via Creature Mag

Creature Mag, Illustration, Movember

“3 Dreams of Black” is an interactive music video developed in WebGL. Visit the site: www.ro.me. Most of what you see during the experience is not video, but is real-time rendering of visual models through WebGL, a technology that brings hardware-accelerated 3D graphics to the browser. Combined with different live action and 2D-cell render animation assets it gives users a vivid visual and compelling musical experience where a story is told with new and ground breaking technology.

Learn more about the technology behind the production.

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I attended the Typo London conference last week. The event which hosted a wide range of speakers from Neville Brody to Lawrence Weiner, had the theme of ‘Places’ but to be honest was much broader than that. It was brilliantly facilitated by Erik Spiekermann and Adrian Shaughnessy (among others) and was easily the best conference I’ve been to in some time. One of the best things about it was that most of the speakers stayed for the duration and watched the other presentation, which created a real feel of community.

It’s the first time this event has been held in England, having previously been in Berlin and judging by the feedback from everyone, it looks like it’s going to return to the capital next year. I will be putting together a presentation covering all the amazing talks which will be shared here but for the time being here’s additional reading about it from Creative Review and Design Assembly.

Conference, Places, Typo 11

The BBC has put up a new homepage (in Beta form) which is the first redesign since 2008. It seems to be very influenced by the iPlayer App and is another indication of websites taking inspiration from the way in which we use tablets.

We’re currently working on our own website redesign following similar principles (in that it works across a range of devices) which will be launched very soon. Regarding the BBC site, it feels a little underdeveloped and the colour coding, which worked well previously seems to have diminished leaving the hierarchy of information somewhat scattershot.

Check it out here. Any thoughts?

BBC, Website

Came across this brilliant HTML5 navigation concept for Zurich’s Langstrasse district, where you can explore the businesses and people in the area. Too often, this kind of emphasis on site behaviour and style is at the expense of quality content and overall user experience, but it’s refreshing to see that’s not the case here.

View the 360langstrass.sf.tv site

HTML5, Langstrasse, Navigation, Switzerland, UI, Web Design, Zurich

I came across this site recently – it’s an idea that I’ve seen previously, noteably NB Studio’s You Are Here campaign for the museum of London l  - but this opens this very simple but brilliant idea up for everyone to relate to and add their own content. I find a lot of the pictures very emotive, linking memory, people and place in a powerful way. It’s hard to look at all these without feeling the strong desire to go out and do one yourself  – time to route through my old photo albums…

dearphotograph.com

Dear Photograph, memory, place