CNN just redesigned their website and its quite a change. I have just gotten use to the their last redesign but this one feels a bit more pronounced.
Right off the top items to note are the global navigation, led by Home, Video and Newspulse, a new digg-like news story stream.
As you scroll down you’re greeted by more New York Times reader-style content buckets each representing a content bucket.
All in all a great redesign. Curious to see what others think.
After the giddiness that ensued with all the new UI elements featured in iTunes 9, this news from Apple is simply bonus.
In an attempt to support better app discovery, a brand new page was introduce. Take a look and tell me what you think.
Gap’s newest campaign (courtesy of akqa), Born to Fit is a powerful sign of the times. What would have been a few years ago a TV campaign is now squarely digital. Experts, pundits and amateur marketers alike should have plenty to dissect. With mobile being a centerpiece and more importantly audience participation this is a great example of a great integrated campaign which utilizes all our favourite social media destinations (twitter, iphone, youtube and facebook) in a great way.
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.
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.
To announce a new store opening in New York, Diesel took a decidedly different approach. Instead of the cult DJs and celebrities and fashionistas descent for an evening, they staged five real life intimate parties that would normally be no access for the rest of us. The dinner parties featured various NYC celebrities spawning a wide cultural swath from DJs to Athletes.
Well if this is the fture of presidential communication and information dissemination , I like it. Indeed this Administration has taken a very direct approach to their communication strategy when it comes to informing the public.
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Mafia R&R, the latest game from SGN is my latest addiction on the iphone. The gameplay is pretty straightforward. You start out as a soldier and as you complete jobs, fights and training, your experience and reputation grows. That simple formula gas has been the one used for many successful games both on the console and the desktop.
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The attention to detail is painstaking, the pixels are perfectly in place and the interaction looks like it took decades to refine. Those are the qualities of the site Virb. But enough with the hyperbole. Go forth and find out for yourself.
Here is a great little concept from the minds at Critical Mass. This weekend as the NBA All-Star Weekend unfolds, you’ll be able to follow Dwight Howard in real time as he documents via twitter and flickr uploads the people and places he comes into contact.
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