Just loved this... "Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle... read more
tags: compose, fun, interact, type, words
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I was talking with Matt Wade of Kin Design a couple of weeks ago about digital work with 'soul' and how its quite a rare thing. When this popped up in a couple of blogs this week it imediately jumped out as something with a bit of soul. Perhaps its just the elegance of the movement, perhaps it... read more
tags: Car, immersive, installation, moving
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I Found this nice little shockwave (does anyone still use shockwave?) app some time ago whilst doing research for an interactive project. It’s part of the Getty ‘interact 10 ways’ campaign, in which companies such as Tomato, Less Rain, Sumona etc… created apps that explore the ‘power of the image... read more
tags: collage, getty, image, information, photo, showckwave
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The site says - "Creating a data source together one glove at a time" Track Michael Jackson’s white glove in every TV frame of his nationally televised landmark performance of Billy Jean. Let the data loose to the public. See what happens. Genius. Especially the giant glove by Tim ... read more
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I was sent this link by a friend a while ago after discussing those moments when you can start with an idea that is so fundamentally wrong, you might just end up with something that is brilliantly right. Quite how someone with the spare time, a bike and a gps device can decide to cycle 67km an... read more
tags: doodle, earth, google, gps, journey, maps, mobile, streets, transport
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Not a type, but a pattern foundry: "An archive of decorative patterns, open for anyone to see, license and use, created by designers and artists from around the world. The patterns are available for use in 3 different ways; digital download, print-per-order and an evolving preprinted range of ... read more
tags: patterns
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Its a little know fact but apparently there is a subertanean tunnel running directly between New York City and London. Until very recently the tunnel has remained dormant and incomplete, this was until artist Paul St George unearthed the plans for the tunnel and set about uncovering it. Althou... read more
tags: american, Artists, city, community, connection, gaze, immersive, installation, live, locations, london, urban
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In line with the previous 'kebab' post, another spiralling 'reader' (is this a trend?) the Spectra visual newsreader from msnbc. More colourful and more interactive, and more futuristic - imagine this on TV. Choose a channel from the spectrum above and chose and collect the news items that intere... read more
tags: 3-D, interactive, interface, navigation, network, news, Visual, world
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'Literature easily digestible' An interesting way of promoting 'literature' from an established german publishing house. Fun idea, pity it's only in German. 'Instead of the familiar meat skewer, the doner kebab on the website is formed of selected quotes. To every quote there is information... read more
tags: 2008, 3-D, books, inspiration, publishing, words
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