If you haven’t already checked out rap legend Jay Z’s new website to celebrate the release of his Hits Collection on the 22nd November 2010 then i suggest you do so. It’s a beautiful example of a truly interactive experience from the beginning to present.
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After ten days of ‘Movember’ everyone must have some pretty bushy moustaches going on?! Here is some cool art of a few famous icons who have joined in on the fun…
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Student? Looking to getting into advertising? Check out this blog. It looks around for the coolest student made ads and then gives them some publicity. Interested? Or know someone who makes good work? Well send it into the blog and get noticed!
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Gestural Sculpting With A Multi-Touch Controller…or making shapes do cool shit on a Mac using your iPad! This tech has been and can be used to create all kinds of shapes and objects and with a few extra bits of kit you could even make your digital fantasies a reality!
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As part of Internet Week Europe, Saint have come up with this great idea - Can you draw the internet? Kids vs Creatives - drawing the internet! “We thought it would be interesting to find out what their perception of the internet actually is, by way of scribble, drawing, or piece of art. Then, to make things even more interesting we thought it would be great to get the creative industry involved. Why? To find out who’s the more creative.” The industry with all of it’s wisdom, or the kids with their vivid imaginations!
Click the image to get involved!
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The barcode book by London-based product/sound designer Yuri Suzuki tells a story through illustrations made with barcodes. Sound is played using a barcode reader, connected to a speaker.
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Find the red M+M, win a car and live happily ever after. Red has been sucked into a Mac and now it is down to YOU, the common M+M consumer, to find him and win yourself a car, and probably a few bags of M+M’s if your lucky! Go over to the Find Red microsite to get started.
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Reading Room Manchester - the newest go to Digital Agency for the North West and they are on a winning streak. At the moment they are celebrating a run of 3 out 3 pitches and they show no sign of slowing down. The third of the three wins was with The John Rylands University Library, part of Manchester University to develop a microsite for their 1st Impressions Exhibition. The plan is to develop a highly interactive and engaging website for the general public to showcase the collection of early print material held at John Rylands University Library in Deansgate. We congratulate the agency on their month of pitch wins and can’t wait to see the result. Click the image to find out more about Manchester’s fastest growing digital agency.
*Disclaimer: We are entirely bias to how awesome Reading Room are as our Founder and Editor joins their team at the end of November and could find himself working on these exciting new digital campaigns!
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MyKea…get your common as muck Ikea furniture personalised! It isn’t cheap but it is pretty damn cool. Ikea is everywhere at the moment and this little start up has jumped onto the band wagon and have allowed you to choose your furniture, pick your design and get it printed and sent out to you. Designers can also get involved and submit their own designs to be used via the website. Lovely.Click the image to find out more.
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‘Just as you thought Facebook couldn’t get any bigger’ - Well this time it just might with the launch of a new Facebook branded phone. A ‘mobile’ event taking place on Wednesday in California could unveil the new phone, possibly working with Android to create the phones software. Watch this space.
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Out of My Window is a new campaign that allows you to explore interactive views from the global highrise. Concrete high rise buildings are the most commonly built form over the last century. Here you can see how people take these common buildings and create their own beautiful, dynamic space. On this website you can explore how different the insides can be…
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