My take on the BibiBomb.

You can read more about this here.

Most phones come with flimsy manuals with complicated language and jargon. These books, which can live on a bookshelf actually contain the phone.
Each page reveals the elements of the phone in the right order, helping the user to set up the sim card, the battery and even slide the case onto the phone.

This is quite brilliant. Makes me want to change my iPhone 4 for this one…

[via Out of the box - book on Vimeo]

Propaganda is most well known in the form of war posters. But at its core, it is a mode of communication aimed at influencing the attitude of a community toward some cause or position, and that doesn’t have to be a bad thing. Although propaganda is often used to manipulate human emotions by displaying facts selectively, it can also be very effective at conveying messages and hence can be used in web design, too.

via 100 Years Of Propaganda: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly – Smashing Magazine.

At @clearleft we’ve recently been working with Channel 4, and their 3-dimensional segmented logo got me thinking; was there something I could do with a bi-directional browser-resizing parallax to recreate some of their iconic channel idents in an interactive form on the web?

So one lunchtime, that’s exactly what I did. The result is very playful, and once you get going it’s hard to stop resizing the browser and zooming those blocks around! Give it a go:

View demo (then resize the browser window)

CSS trickery with the Channel 4 logo // nicepaul.com.

[via @holtaway]

I wanted to write an elaborate post on my thoughts on the Gaza flotilla raid and its consequences but it was too hard for me to express them in writing, so I decided to postpone it for now.

However, I did want to share a story with you. It was broadcast on This American Life – a weekly public radio show I listen to as a podcast.

The section I decided to present deals with the tunnels in and out of the Gaza strip. It’s Act 2 of episode #407 entitled ‘The Bridge’, originally aired on 05 July 2009:

In the Middle East, hundreds and hundreds of tunnels connect the Gaza strip and Egypt, allowing supplies to bypass the Israeli blockade against Hamas-controlled Gaza. Producer Nancy Updike speaks with Ira about the tunnels, and plays tape from an interview she conducted with a tunnel owner.

Every episode of This American Life has a theme and a “variety of stories on that theme. It’s mostly true stories of everyday people, though not always. There’s lots more to the show, but it’s sort of hard to describe.”

So, I was trying to find a good music player to embed in the site when I encountered Moof – which claims “Social Music Reinvented” for an iTunes like online social music player – which didn’t suit my needs…

…but I couldn’t miss the login and registration form on the bottom of the page. Seems so human-centric and inviting.

Now – the question is – would it work? Are you feeling this form would work better on you?

The Map Room: Paramount’s Geographic Facsimile Map of 1927

This 1927 map by Paramount apparently was for financial backers; it indicates shooting locations in California that could stand in for more exotic locales. Via Matt.

The future is here!

Beautiful CSS3 Search Form

The Inspiration Stream – Veerle’s blog 3.0

21 Craziest Ads ever

[via Mashable]

vancam:

That’s a class campaign slogan, there’s obviously some seriously smart people working with/for Stonewall!

(via thephotofairy)

“Last week, I met a devout Muslim couple, who told me that communists in the BBC shouldn’t be allowed to stay in a B&B when the owner doesn’t want them to.”

Who has David Cameron been talking to?

Visual keys.

Takes time to get it…

Crazy Keyboard :: Typography Served

John Locke in Iceland

What If Oscars Were Given To Movie Websites? – Smashing Magazine

The Sandpit on Vimeo (via Vimeo)

The Internet in 1969 (via clark7795)

Absolutely amazing!

Would be a great long feature too, or a game…

PIXELS (by Patrick Jean) – EXCELLENT !! (via steevetheboss)

Gov’t Mule Warfield Posters by Sperry and Hunter | Chuck Sperry

I love the shapes it does. Techno-Abstract art.

I used a javascript thing I found via Google reader that tracks the movement of your mouse on the screen. I’m not sure what the dots mean. It might be where I have left the cursor.. or maybe it’s clicks? I think it’s a bit of both.

via Spencer E Holtaway

Typegeeks joke. LOL.

Typography Joke | Design You Trust

Shot-for-shot remake of the Beastie Boys Sabotage video from Battlestar Galactica clips

Galactica: Sabotage (via @dearsarah)

vancam:

This is a right good music video. It couldn’t have been done in one take could it? COULD IT?!?!?

Why did Ofcom back down over DRM at the BBC?

Cory Doctorow tells us that… the corporation is endangering its own future by letting the Hollywood studios set the rules for its HD broadcasts.

Why 2010 will be the year TV and the web really converge

Steve Plunkett explains how milestones such as Project Canvas will bring together broadcast television and online media.

Is copyright getting in the way of us preserving our history?

Victor Keegan on The issue of copyright is a global nightmare for anyone interested in digital preservation.

and also:

Ducks, Nazis and Disney: well, that’s one way to get a TV transition

Cory Doctorow asks in part 2 of his article: Is crippling our sets, and handing over our cultural regulation to a foreign cartel, the best way to get viewers switched on to high-definition?

*** Update: a new article has been added.

John Naughton writes in The Observer:

The Google Three, Italy and Silvio Berlusconi

The web may be global but sovereign states still make up the rules.

– Let me know what you think.

A great conceptual campaign by Aten Design Group. Self promotion in an almost genius way:

IE6 Funeral

Internet Explorer Six, resident of the interwebs for over 8 years, died the morning of March 1, 2010 in Mountain View, California, as a result of a workplace injury sustained at the headquarters of Google, Inc. Internet Explorer Six, known to friends and family as “IE6,” is survived by son Internet Explorer Seven, and grand-daughter Internet Explorer Eight.

Funeral services for Internet Explorer Six will be held at 7pm on March 4 at Aten Design Group, 1629 Downing Street, Denver, CO 80218. Those unable to attend the funeral are asked to send flowers.

Just got the Special 30th Birthday Anniversary issue of Creative Review with a printed replica of their first ever issue, Spring 1980.

That’s a great way to celebrate!

Creative Review – CR March issue

While some publishers have concerns over Apple’s business model regarding print media on the iPad, one magazine that’s embracing the future with open arms is Wired.

Recently, Wired Magazine’s Editor-in-Chief Chris Anderson called the iPad a “game changer”, and the folks there have been working hard to develop a more interactive version of the magazine that will hopefully be ready to go in time for the iPad launch.

(via Edible Apple)

Isn’t that cool?

(Created via Zazzle)

These images are generated by evaluating and interpreting the 1997 music video “Mo Money Mo Problems” from the first disc of the Notorious B.I.G. album, Life After Death. The algorithm detects edges in the image and attempts to trace motion from frame to frame, using the initial frame as their starting point. The output is rendered as a vector image, the curves represent the motion.

Mo Money Mo Problems By Nick Hardeman

(via Visual Complexity)

I guess if it’s in favour of an health reform or greener factories, I am in pro lobbying. Or at least, I feel it’s not that bad.

“As Chair of the Senate Finance Committee, Sen. Max Baucus is one of the most instrumental lawmakers in crafting the health care reform that President Barack Obama has promised. In his many years on the committee, Baucus has amassed a wealth of connections to the health care and insurance industries, often through his ties to former staffers turned lobbyists.

The five former Baucus staffers who now lobby for the health care or insurance interests represent twenty-seven different companies or associations. In some cases these lobbyists have the same clients. This map of connections expose how close the many organizations seeking influence on health care reform are to one of the most powerful players in Washington.”

All data was taken from OpenSecrets.org.

The Max Baucus Health Care Lobbyist Complex

(via Visual Complexity)

You just can’t trust pirates… (via indiekidd73)

For more funny signs check the post on the Flickr Blog

SPENCERTRON 9000:

Warning: These are not pants

vancam:

Zohar explaining the difference between Project Phases and Stages today. I Got Told.

I feel bad now.

The first online social encyclopaedia (copied by Wikipedia) and the first online journaling system (copied by Blogger).

I found my user from 1999. Shame I lost the password or email address.

A picture a day…

North End Road (via My Flickr)

First time I see ‘License Photo’ option on Flickr, licensing by Getty Images. Now – is it published by Flickr user and “bought” by Getty, or is it published by Getty in another way to reach buyers?

(image by virginiaz)

I LOVE WAR! (via .FAKE.)

“DO YOU STAGE OR DIGITALLY MANIPULATE YOUR PHOTOGRAPHS?

No, I spend a great deal of time walking the streets trying to capture moments. The only photographs on my website that are staged or digitally manipulated are the photographs clearly labeled as ‘adverts’ in the commissioned section.”

MATT STUART | PHOTOGRAPHER | SHOOTS PEOPLE

If you want to find an up-to-date map of Haiti, then there is only one place to go. It is not Google Maps or any of its competitors. It is the admirable OpenStreetMap.org (OSM), which is being updated even as I write by volunteers all over the world.

(via Meet the Wikipedia of the mapping world at The Guardian)

vancam:

Whoever created these guidelines obviously wasn’t scared of going into (pretty) details, my inner nerd is well impressed.#traininsights

Thanks to Kathryn Corrick for discovering them.

Chris Ware – The Whitney Prevaricator 2002

(via TATE ETC. issue 9 – The Real Comic Book Heroes: Large Image)

This is just beautiful!

(via Francesco Franchi)