Workers at the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees have designed a game where the players play the part of a refugee. Among the challenges are escaping a war ridden town, getting asylum in foreign countries and starting a new life in a new place.
Want to see how quickly you can run McDonald’s into the ground? Find out by playing the McVideogame here.
It took me only 3 years…
The NYT had John Maeda design the cover of its latest edition of the Key Magazine, the Times real-estate magazine.
There is a short slideshow of the design process which is pretty fun and interesting.
View the slideshow here.
Thanks Mara for pointing it out.
Looking through our SOFTlab visitor statistics (nerdy I know) I stumbled upon FFFFound, an image bookmarking site which allows users to post and share their favorite images. It also recommends images dynamically based on user interests and tastes.
More design and arts based than pictures-with-my-puppies based, looks like it could become an interesting resource for cool images.
Google has recently launched Google Sky. Included within Google Earth 4.2, the SKY mode allows you to explore galaxies far-far away, the sky right above your location and perhaps even design flaws on the Death Star.
I had come across this experiment a couple of weeks ago but forgot to post it. Today, poking around my bookmarks I found it again.
It’s done in Processing and it displays about 3000 flocking elements. More on the project here.
And by all means, check the site All Manner of Distractions out. There are some amazing experiments in there.
I finally took a look at Google’s new Street View addition to Google Maps and it is truly amazing: you have a 360-degree street view which can be panned just by dragging on it. Just place the little fellow wherever you want to and take a peek of the city.
Why go visit places now when you can just sit on your behind and click your way through the world?
Just ran into this site for a visual effects guy out in Germany, Nastuh Abootalebi. At first I was looking mainly at the site design and UI, which scores a 9 out of 10 in my book. The dual screen “before & after” has been done before, but never so slick. I love that no matter what button you push or information you receive, the site remains smooth and continuous. And, if you don’t move your mouse for a bit, everything dims down so you can focus on the work.
Which is exactly what I did (after my rather short investigation of the interface). (more…)
Google has launched ‘My Maps’, where the creation and distribution of customized maps is a very simple process. ‘MyMaps’ gives you the ability to draw lines, create polygons and insert placemarks with just a simple click. Images and video can be embedded onto the description window as well (you’ll have to do it manually though). So, it won’t be long until we start seeing some very interesting mappings of cities. Guy Debord and the situationists would’ve been delighted.
The TED conference has begun posting videos of its speakers to the web at www.ted.com/tedtalks. They are nothing short of amazing. In particular I recommend: Rives and Richard St. John, but there are a wide variety of subjects to choose from. (more…)