What if someone decided to publish Wikipedia’s featured articles on dead trees? What would that collection look like? Well such is the question graphic artist Rob Matthews decided to answer in his portfolio.
The result is indicative of the value that digital has brought to the knowledge domain. I believe that was Rob’s very point.
Just when you thought smart advertising had become an oxymoron Showtime and their media agency OMD sign a deal with advertising deal with Amazon, giving them banners on amazon.com and wait for this, the ability to offer up a free book download on the Kindle.
There certainly has been an explosion of marketing campaigns this year which have used twitter as a key messaging point.
Here are some links I’ve retweeted on twitter that were interesting or insightful.
Fast Company on how the number of friends is an indicator of behavior
http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/kit-eaton/technomix/facebook-does-s…Great little rivalry and media placement of this BMW outdoor ad
http://ow.ly/2L9nDesign portal dedicated to showcasing spartan and clean sites
http://www.minimalsites.com/Forbes ask Big Spaceship founder Michael Lebowitz to select his top 5 campaigns. And they are:
http://post.ly/GQbFor the information architects out there, some info porn
http://ow.ly/2ffw
That’s all for today
Michael Lebowitz is the founder and ceo of Big Spaceship, and the mind behind qapture.net. He was kind enough to take part in a little back and forth focusing on the Big Spaceship’s most recent release.
Aside from the cute name, this is the second site in seemingly the same amount of days to leverage the community and really content created by Twitter through a sponsored deal brokered by Federated Media.
This time around AT&T and not Microsoft are the sponsors of this effort. Built around March madness it’s mainly a mainly US centric campaign that seems to rally folks around their team in the NCAA Men’s basketball tournament.
The lack of being click on call to action taking me away from this “app” and unto some campaign form or page means that AT&T is seriously making an attempt at utility, by not seemingly pairing this site with any production or product.
Although a bit more constrained than Exectweets, kudos to AT&T, Federated Media and Twitter for their nod to Utility, are well deserved.
ExecTweets.com is a portal sponsored by Microsoft in conjunction with Federated Media and Twitter. That’s right you’ve heard it right. This is by my account the first real foray towards a revenue model that Twitter is exploring. It will be interesting what other vehicles they come up with over the next few months.
Aviary.com’s mission according to their bio on the site, “is to make creation accessible to artists of all genres…” That’s nice and all, but the tools they’ve built around that mission are unmistakably cool and remarkably powerful for browser-based application. There are four tools at your disposal, Toucan (a color swatch tool a la Adobe Kuler), Raven (a vector tool), Phoenix (an image editor tool) and my favorite Peacock a sort of visual laboratory.
In addition to cool tools, they’ve been a small community around member submits. There you can see what other creatives have shared. A lot of it is very inspiring even if it’s a community still in its infancy.. So join me in congratulating them on their ‘09 SXSW Technical Achievement award by testing it out and letting your friends know about it if you enjoy the experience.
Tweeeeet.com is a great looking glass into the Twitter activity of more than two dozen designers. The UI seems just right with a ticker announcing the latest tweet and a news feed which captures the last 5 tweets. If anything make sure you follow these fine folks if Design is an interest, hobby or passion of yours.
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