Don't Click

Interesting user experience experiment.

www.dontclick.it

Pop-Up Videos

"Relax" and spend some quality time with Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Duran Duran, and a-Ha. VH1 has posted all of your favorite pop-up videos.

VH1 Classics

Mapmaker, mapmaker, make me a map...

A map specialist who works in Illustrator and Photoshop, John Grimwade is the Director of Information Graphics at Conde Nast's Traveler and Portfolio magazines based in NY.
John Grimwade

Some blogs worth reading...

Written by the experience designers at AOL...
Control Shift

The interaction design bible:
boxesandarrows.com

A few more...
Joshspear.com
Marketing & Strategy Blog
Core77 Industrial Design Blog
Design Observer

Voice response to web execution

Pretty cheesy viral campaign from Weather Channel but check out the way you can send messages: canned, text to voice and voice reponse.

http://www.snowjoke.com/

Nike M4 site by Blast Radius

This site is amazing! Clean graphx/Fullscreen Video/Smooth multidrectional navigation. Really takes Nike sites to a new level. Bravo! Our good friend Jeff D. validates that the site uses papervision for the 3D effects.
-Josef



http://www.nike.com/jumpman23/m4/

Interesting Transitions

Check out how this site transitions you from section to section.
Fuze Group

Casual boutique offers a healthy dose of pixel play.

Enlisting the services yet again of local design wiz Yugo Nakamura, Japan-based designer/retailer Uniqlo has launched an entertaining and collaborative site for its global audience dubbed the Uniqlo Grid.

Using Nakamura's quirky, pixilated designs, the grid allows visitors to tweak a colorful array of squares in a variety of ways. By just clicking on the "join now" icon, one is immediately assigned a color (though it's fair game on any) and automatically set to draw and dissect with others. Several options abound to manipulate the grid, including dragging your mouse across a square to split it up into smaller bits, clicking, holding and drawing a circle around a group to sprout a larger square image and by double clicking on a square, you can spin it 180 or 360 degrees and change the copy depending on the algorithm.

All the while, a scroll at the top of the page breaks every single move down at warp speed, while at the bottom, a running scorecard constantly charts how many specific people have played around on the grid and how many times it's been altered. As an added bonus, the most fetching designs will eventually be put on display at select Uniqlo boutiques.

Uniqlo

Blip Festival 2007

Interesting convergence of music and vintage multimedia. Check it out... this weekend and next.

http://www.blipfestival.org/

Viral Holiday eCard from OfficeMax

Interesting holiday greeting card from OfficeMax. Create your own Elf card and send to friends and family:
http://www.elfyourself.com/

Here's a link to one I created:
http://www.elfyourself.com/?id=9607664605

Line Rider

This started out as someone's school project. After getting some serious attention across the web, Nintendo is adopting the game for the Wii and the DS.

Simple concept, nearly limitless results. Check it out, its a lot of fun.

http://www.linerider.fr/linerider/lineriderbeta2.swf


If you have the time, check out some of the videos on youtube- some people really get into this.

Greg S

The Domino Effect

Here's a clever application and engaging execution of a familiar idea -- the domino effect. While the individual animations are relatively simple, the end result is cumulative and the user has been guided through an array of products in a very entertaining way. There's a soundtrack, so have your audio on. Click on the link and be patient the page will automatically begin animating in few seconds.

Click Here

For those who don't speak Dutch -- "nog een keer" -- one of two links which appear in a dialogue box at the end, replays the sequence.

(submitted by K. Meyler)

And the dominos keep falling...

A great new spot for Guiness using the domino trick:
Tipping Point

The original Honda "Cog" ad that inspired it all:
Honda Accord Cog Commercial

James Jean

The drawings and paintings of James Jean. Check out the blog section to see the progression from sketch to finished painting.
ProcessRecess

More of James' work:
jamesjean.com
Polite Winter

Mind Blowing Vector Animation

Wow! (by Firstborn)

Zune Journey

Must See Videos

Some compelling videos on globalization, education and technology:

The Machine is Us/ing Us
A Vision of Students Today
Shift Happens

Where would you like your office?

Pics of some cool offices
Desk Envy

A life in type

A life story told through typography.
Design by BYU graphic design program.

Typophile Film Fest 4 (Opening Credits)

Make the logo bigger...

...and get rid of all that white space.
Some great design tools to keep the client happy.

Who needs designers?

Curly

Amazing type designer:
Marian Bantjes

A cool font designed by Bantjes:
Restraint

From the creepy web ad files...

If you haven't seen this Wilkonson razor ad yet,
it's worth watching.

People seem to enjoy it,
although it's strangely disturbing to me.

See what you think.

www.scaryideas.com/video/3785/

-Sas

Vik Muniz, Artist

Brazilian-born, Brooklyn-based fine artist Vik Muniz has exhibited his work all over the world. Using unexpected materials to create portraits, landscapes and still lifes -- which he then photographs -- he delights in subverting a viewer's expectations.


Vik Muniz's Site

Have a Pika

Interesting live action animation, using flashlights, LED toys and long exposure photography. Mostly from Japan, called Pikapika. You really have to see it to believe it.

See a couple Pika Pika ads from the Toyota Heya project, then scroll down to check out the film under the March 2007 header - amazing.
http://tochka.jp/pikapika/movie

-Sas

a cool hunter

Sign up for thecoolhunter.net's emails...
they "roam the globe" hunting down cool stuff from latest ads to lifestyle/travel:

http://www.thecoolhunter.net/ads

Killer reel

www.stardust.tv

MB

Sugar High

Looks like our friends at Nestle can breath a bit easier.
Tainted Munchies

Unleash your inner Pollock

Love this. Give it a try - its almost therapeutic.
Click your mouse to change colors.


http://www.jacksonpollock.org/

-Sas

Behold the Anti-Creative

Head On. Apply directly to the forehead. Head On. Apply directly to the forehead. Head On. Apply directly to the forehead.

You've all heard it, and you all hate it. But so far, according to this Ad Age article, the nuisance seems to be working. With something like a 234% increase in sales, what do you think?

Brilliantly simple, or just simple-minded?

Discuss.

Helvetica Documentary

Helvetica Film

Run for the Drive-Thru

Toco Bell integrates a simulated cab ride with a series of advergames. Try your hand at a mechanical Bull ride in "El Bullrito".

www.fourthmeal.com

Adobe's del.icio.us page

Awesome resource for everything form new Adobe products and plugins to blogs on creativity.

http://del.icio.us/adobe

Computer Arts

A great resource from a UK magazine - Computer Arts.

www.computerarts.co.uk

Check out the gallery for inspiration and the tutorials for getting it done.

Now all we need is for Ryan to hook us up with a subscription...


- MC

Joshua Davis

Home of the brilliant Flash designer/programmer, Joshua Davis
JoshuaDavis.com

Start a food fight!-this is awesome

http://www.thegoodfoodfight.com/

Takes us all the way back to 3rd-period lunch.
Not since the days of flicking the remains of our school lunches at classmates in the cafeteria has food fighting been so amusing than with General Mills' latest web effort.

Actually emphasizing a good cause, the viral, visual and often messy site, created by MDC division mono, promotes General Mills' "Eat Better America" mantra with a "good food fight." Faced with an already food-splattered homepage, viewers can then click through and choose their weapon from three sloppy, yet health-conscious dishes--including spinach-filled fish rolls and spaghetti & spicy veggie meatballs--each with their rating of splat factor, stainage and hurlability.

After choosing from three "glubslingers" including a lunch lady, a martial arts master and a hot dog vendor (also with their own rating system), a placid recipe page emerges only to give way to your combatant of choice hurling food your way and talking trash.

Of course, there's also an "ambush your friend" option that lets you wage culinary conflict via email with your person of choice.

Source:
http://creativity-online.com/work/view?seed=473aaa8d

Peep show.

If you haven't checked out this HBO site, you should.
It's really cool to play with...and watch.

www.hbovoyeur.com


-Sas

Great Cool Resource

The 200 most successful sites on the web, ordered by category, proximity, success, popularity and perspective.

http://www.informationarchitects.jp/slash/ia_trendmap_start.html

Very cool.

-Sas

3D Projection system

This may have interesting applications at events, etc.
Eyeliner 3D

T-shirts

Design your own shirt and if the community likes it they'll produce it:
threadless

Shirts by designers:
oolongtees

words to write by...

More word of mouth wisdom and general tomfoolery courtesy of www.gappingvoid.com.
-Brady

Toothpastery (Sas)

Maybe we can use these photos as creative to pitch Crest, Colgate or the National OCD Association. Someone actually documented their daily toothpaste exploits from January to November- 519 pics! Brusha brusha brusha.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/toothpastery/

Free Monkeys

Here's a cool, new article from Promo on premiums:
http://promomagazine.com/incentives/marketing_free_monkeys/

I really like this guy's thinking!

Design Blogs

Here's a collection of design oriented blogs:
NewsToday
Waxpraxis
Kaliber 10000

A great source of design related links:
How Magazine Design Links

Comcastic

This site is about a year old. Be sure to check out the puppets. You can call an 800#, leave a message and have it play on the site. Pretty cool...
Comcastic

Lemonade

A pretty cool tool that enables ecommerce on blogs.
Lemonade