Credit Crisis Visualisation

This video by Jonathan Jarvis has been doing the rounds on the blogsphere, so you may have already seen it. But if you haven’t it’s definitely worth a look. A animations full of diagrams explaining the basics of the credit crisis. I know that I’ve always been a bit hazy around the topic – I’m [...]

Google Ocean

The ocean covers approximately 70% of the planet and is home to 80% of all life on earth, yet we have only explored 5% of it. We’ll google are taking the dive, having just released it’s ocean extension to Google Earth. Users can now virtually explore thousands of images of underwater landscapes . The software [...]

GE Smart Grid

GE launched their latest integrated campaign with it’s Super Bowl ‘Scarecrow’ ad, directing viewers to their ecoimagination site where they can generate 3D holograms through their webcams. This is the first time I’ve seen this technology put to commercial use. I first discovered it in the Papervision augmented reality test. Users simply print out a [...]

The first site where nothing happens

This is the first world wide site where nothing happens – created by Kit Kat. There is nothing clickable on this site, not animations just the text “Have a Break” in the centre of the screen and the Kit Kat logo beneath it. A clever execution by Kit Kat rather than trying to create an [...]

Tools are not the idea

Jonathan Harris is an artist/ designer well know for his We Feel Fine project which searches through the blogosphere to archive and sentences that describe how people feel. In a recent talk at ‘Flash on the Beach‘, Harris caused a bit of controversy by saying that digital and online work lacked emotion, stating “there have [...]