Interactive
Amazon’s Mechanical Turk service connects people who need simple human tasks done with people who are willing to do them. Aaron Koblin (see also 30gms) paid 10,000 online workers two cents each to “draw a sheep facing to the left”.
You can browse all the sheep drawings at The Sheep Market website and snap up a collectible “flock” of sheep stickers too. The site recreates each drawing in real time so you can watch how each drawing evolved. (via We Make Money Not Art)
David Rainbird
Posted on Thursday, 25th of May 2006 Permalink
10 ways is a Getty Images collaboration project with five leading interaction designers, among them Tomato and Less Rain. Each of the ten interactive visual explorations are noteworthy work but it’s South African, Andries Odendall of Sumona who, for me, stands head and shoulders above his contemporaries. His piece called Information is a complelling, infinite journey into the digital image. The idea of composing one image from a mosaic of other images is nothing new but rarely so well executed.
Gary Butcher
Posted on Thursday, 18th of May 2006 Permalink
I expect like me there are many of you that were pretty amazed by David Attenborough’s latest offering Planet Earth, in conjunction with the TV programme the BBC have launched Planet Earth Explorer. If you were hooked on Google Earth then this one will definitely have you in trouble.
Liz Greening
Posted on Thursday, 16th of March 2006 Permalink
This interesting concept has emerged from the BBC’s Backstage developer network. Backstage is a platform open to designers, developers and the public spirited to devise creative ideas, strategies and prototypes that harness the mountain of archived information that the BBC possess and to devise interesting methods to make it accessible.
This particular example called Mood News, is a news filter that selects keywords from constantly updating news articles and dynamically determines the mood of each article. This is a great piece of visual mapping that calls upon archived and recent news from across all BBC news feeds and ties them into a simple gradient visualisation.
Vikesh Bhatt
Posted on Thursday, 2nd of March 2006 Permalink
Gone is the Face magazine, the Raleigh Chopper and the Verdana typeface. These are the shortlisted Top 10 design icons voted for by the viewers of the BBC2 Culture Show – six transport related designs, two video games, the classic red telephone box and the world wide web. If you feel strongly about any of the above designs you can cast your vote here for your favourite. Link
Nathan Usmar Lauder
Posted on Thursday, 16th of February 2006 Permalink
Here’s an intriguing abstract visualisation of the (binary) network traffic data read from cnn.com. 0 moves the black square horizontally, while 1 moves white square vertically at the same time, the squares attract towards one another.
This software application is from Carnivore- These clients are designed to animate, diagnose, or interpret network traffic in various ways.
Vikesh Bhatt
Posted on Sunday, 12th of February 2006 Permalink
Nintendo held a conference this week at the Science Museum London (Nintendo UK are splashing a million pounds worth of sponsorship into the place) that was basically a launch of the next wave of DS games, with particular emphasis on the Brain Training games that have gone down a cerebral storm in Japan. The other titles shown included Electoplankton and Phoenix Wright (out in March).
In addition with this joint venture The Science Museum and Nintendo are set to create a gamers shrine, packed full of vintage games. The exhibition is set to launch in 2006 with free gameplay on well known tittles such as Sonic, Mario and Pacman. If anyone missed the GameOn exhibition at the Barbican this should be one to look out for.
Vikesh Bhatt
Posted on Thursday, 26th of January 2006 Permalink
Finally Google Earth is available for the Mac. It’s pretty awesome, especially where the satellite imagery has been mapped on to the 3D topological data. You can even take a fly through cities like Manhattan where 3D building data is featured.
Gary Butcher
Posted on Wednesday, 18th of January 2006 Permalink
