You don’t know Mark Coleran’s name, but you’ve seen his work. He’s the designer who creates the futuristic computer screens that characters in movies (like The Bourne Ultimatum, Children of Men, and Mission Impossible 3) use when saying things like “Enhance!” But now he’s the design director of Bonfire Labs, an agency who specifically hired him for his “fantasy user interface” (or FUI) skills.
via A Master of Sci-Fi Movie Gadgets Moves Over to the Real World | Co.Design.
Full-service advertising agencies are challenged with integrating digital capabilities into their traditional media mix. Technology in the past 10 years moved advertising beyond interruptive one-way push messaging into a two-way participative context. To agencies this represents more than just a wealth of new media options; it requires an entirely new way of doing business. Here’s how the leaders are thinking.
via Andrew Cherwenka: How Full-Service Advertising Agencies Are Becoming Interactive.
The Chronicle of Higher Education has created a must-see interactive infographic showing college graduation rates (1940-2009) from across the country. The information that’s displayed is a thing of beauty, but more important is the accessibility of the data as you drill down by county to filter for race, income, and population density.
What do you get when you combine the potential of HTML5 with Massimo Vignelli’s famous subway map? Thanks to Alexander Chen, you arrive with MTA.ME.
You can file this under the “Why Didn’t I Think of That?”. Â A page of buttons that make it super easy to click where you want to go on the Internet. Â On first impression, I saw this site as the Web equivalent of The Clapper or the Jitterbug mobile phone. Â But as the site creators noted, “9.2 million people in the UK alone are offline, and 6.4 million of them are over 65. Yet 90% of communication between 11-18 years olds is digital”. Â The people at the We Are What We Do campaign work to get people from different generations to talk and share more time together. Â So, Internet Buttons is about easing the worry that comes with something new. Â If these new adopters are anything like my grandmother, they’re loved ones should expect a slew of cat photos in their inbox in no time.
Internet Buttons
