A love story: cut in two
June 29, 2011 § 1 Comment
Whether you are in Paris or New York, love can always find you. In London. Beautiful video splitting the screen in two by JW Griffiths.
via Fubiz
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Poetry is on the streets
June 29, 2011 § 4 Comments
Poetry can be found everywhere. On small pieces of paper and tiny notebooks, or even in big large billboards and back-lit bus stops. Robert Montgomery shares some of his thought in the most prominent spots of the city.
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1984, A brave new world
June 28, 2011 § Leave a comment
How did the future that George Orwell and Aldous Huxley visualised turn out to be? The following infographic, created by Column Five for Akorn Entertainment, compares the concepts of 1984 and Brave New World to the current state of the Internet, as it has been evolved through the Internet censorship techniques of the East and the continuous stream of trivial information of the West.
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The form of a word
June 24, 2011 § Leave a comment
Can you imagine the forms and colors that words can take? Digital design agency Corum + Guerrette created String DNA, an interactive data visualization image generator, which converts alphabet letters into shapes and colors. 
By typing your name or a short description in the text box, you can a visual interpretation of how a letter or a word looks like, like our blog’s name just below.
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A city, a symbol
June 21, 2011 § 2 Comments
Each city has a landmark and designer Albim Holmqvist revealed each city’s identity by incorporating in his typographic logotypes their most characteristic symbol.
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Hello summer!
June 21, 2011 § 3 Comments
Google celebrates today the summer solstice with a new colorful Google Doodle, created by Japanese artist Takashi Murakami.
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Made of crayons
June 20, 2011 § 2 Comments
Art made not by crayons, but of crayons. Artist Christian Faur uses more than one hundred thousand hand cast crayons of varying colors and shades to create amazing photorealistic landscapes and figurative images.
Christian Faur creates a ‘new art form that uniquely balances the qualities of both photography and sculpture’ by placing these individual “pixels” of wax into specific locations inside of wooden frames. Simply wonderful!
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The anatomy of a smurf
June 19, 2011 § Leave a comment
Killing time on a tablecloth
June 16, 2011 § Leave a comment
Killing time is never easy either you are in an airplane or in restaurant, but it can be creative. Illustrator Guibo draws his napkin tablecloth while he waits for his food, integrating in his drawings elements of the table.
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The quest of an artist
June 15, 2011 § 3 Comments
The quest of an artist for inspiration, creation, truth and beauty. This is the story of each true artist. And this is the story of Jackson Pollock, one of the most influential artists of the 20th century, in this beautifully animated French short film entitled Dripped by director Léo Verrier. The video lasts almost 8 minutes, but worth every second. Enjoy!
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City wave sound
June 15, 2011 § Leave a comment
Each city is a story of itself. It has its own character, scent and sound. In this fantastic graphic film by Grey Digital, some of the most iconic buildings of large cities in the world relate to each other, revealing a building skyline simulating waves sound.
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Making (non) sense
June 14, 2011 § 2 Comments
There is an infographic for everything. From comparing the most controversial figures, like the Beatles & Jesus or even Kanye West to Bob Dylan, to unraveling the universe of your social self and from exploring theories, genres and art movements, such as science fiction or graffiti and street art to explaining the form of the infograph itself in a rather self-referential mode.
It is the new form of conveying easily and visually appealing information, but Chad Hagen’s ‘Nonsensical Infographics’ convey no information, they play rather with form than function and remain visually challenging.
Familiar faces
June 9, 2011 § 1 Comment
Warning: Recommended for mature audiences. Strong design and coarse inspiration.
Managing to convey elements of the plot into the features of their faces, designer Noma Bar tells the story behind each character of some of the most peculiar movie stars.
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It’s all about me
June 8, 2011 § 1 Comment
OK, we all know that Facebook is the shrine of narcissism and self-reference. And the apps that I am going to present are a tribute to the “cult of me”. But they are so well done that they are practically irresistible.
Deutsche Post’s Social Memories creates a booklet filled with infographics based on the public info on your Facebook profile. While the digital version of the booklet is free, you need to pay 19 € for the bound version in glossy paper.
Intel’s Museum of Me, on the other hand, is a virtual exhibition of, well, you. Again using data from your public info it creates 3D gallery views of your photos, friends, words most used on your status updates, etc.
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The lights from above
June 7, 2011 § Leave a comment
We have already seen the colorful aerial patterns created in the sky of North America during 24 hours. With this new 24 hour observation, you can understand that from space earth looks like a beehive of activity. As the light of day is moving from the east to the west and Earth spins on its axis, aircrafts cross the whole universe, creating numerous different patterns.
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Mashing up Daft Punk
June 7, 2011 § 1 Comment
The anatomy of a mash up. Cameron Adams, aka “The Man in Blue”, mashed up, edited and remixed some of his favourite Daft Punk songs. Definitive Daft Punk reveals the entire structure of Daft Punk’s track list: the cutting, layering, levels and equalisation of 23 different songs.
By dividing up the sound data for each song and computing its appearance in realtime, the visualisation combines a circular waveform of each of the songs concurrently being played with an audio map timeline at the bottom showing each song color-coded.
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