Wednesday, August 13th, 2008
Genius. The video for Cut Chemists’ ‘My First Big Break’, shot with a 360° panoramic lens.
Tags: Cut Chemist
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Wednesday, August 6th, 2008
- There’s a great article over on the Creative Review blog about the reprinting of Wim Crouwel’s ‘Vormgevers’ poster and the process behind reproducing the artwork so that it matches the original ‘non-computer’ created design and all its imperfections. The reprinted poster is available from Blanka and looks fantastic.
- Lego Wall-E as created by pixar animator Angus MacLane. Think Lego missed a trick here.
- SoundCloud - Online audio platform designed for music professionals that’s come up with some clever ways of sending and receiving music.
Tags: Lego, Wim Crouwel
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Thursday, July 31st, 2008
The BBC have just launched a public beta of their music site, BBC Music. Using data from MusicBrainz! and Wikipedia, BBC Music Beta enables users to explore artists played on BBC Radio. Artist profiles currently show a biography, discographies, BBC appearances and related artists information with the data available in a variety of ‘RESTful’ formats including XML, YAML, JSON, RDF, Atom and RSS.
The IA is good and the overall design works well within the new BBC web guidelines. It definitely looks like it should easily scale as more data gets added and it looks like there’s plenty of scope for integration with other BBC data sources such as programmes, events, news, album reviews and even iPlayer. One to keep an eye on!
Tags: BBC
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Sunday, July 20th, 2008
- Watchmen - The first trailer is out and it actually looks like it could be pretty good.
- Eight issues in and Frog Design finally release a print version of their fantastic online resource Design Mind.
- Intua Beatmaker - sequencer and sampler app for the iPhone/iTouch. Get a copy here.
Tags: Watchmen
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Saturday, July 19th, 2008
- The Dark side of Switzerland - Swiss Darkside Poster from Areadesign
- Lost tapes of the Dr Who composer - Found recordings from the composer of the original Dr Who theme tune, Delia Derbyshire.
- One of my favourite apps for the iPhone/iTouch is the New York Times app. It’s a great example of how a newspaper can get its content online and I’m hoping that the British press (Guardian, BBC are you listening) will get in on the act. There’s a great article on the design of the icons over at Felix Sockwell’s site, Drawger.com.
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