Here is a great infographics shedding some light on how many people have died since the beginning of times. Looks like that number is 106 Billion.
Imagine my surprise as I attempted to look at Google’s Haiti Layer on Google Earth and was confronted with a “Not supported” message.
Don’t think there is much more to be said
Gabriel Gianordolli is obviously a very gifted infoviz designer. Check out his flickr page for much more goodness.
Taken by folks working for the Guardian, this is a great video using tilt photography, sow motion and time lapse to showcase the sheer scale of the 60th Anniversary of the founding of the Commuist Republic in China.
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.
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.
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
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.