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 [...]
100 Years Of Propaganda: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
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 [...]
CSS trickery with the Channel 4 logo
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 [...]
Moof – Login Form Reinvented
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 [...]
Paramount’s Geographic Facsimile Map of 1927
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.
