Pixel Poster

Created by Ilya Kazakov.

Sarah Palin Facebook Page

I love the attention to detail in this.

View the larger image and have a read through the whole profile.

Funny.

via Valleywag

A personal library like no other

Jay Walker struggles to balance privacy with his impulse to share his finds with the outside world. Schoolchildren often visit by invitation, as do executives, politicians, and scholars.

He’s never invited any press in to see the collection—until now.

From King James to James Bond, Chaucer to Sputnik, this is a personal library like no other

Take a look at his amazing and inspiring collection:
http://www.wired.com/techbiz/people/magazine/16-10/ff_walker?currentPage=all

Shorter bedtime stories

A new IKEA magazine ad by zig Toronto promises beds “So comfortable, you’ll need shorter bedtime stories.” And then it fills that need with an accompanying booklet of very, very short stories.

An illustrated Jack and the Beanstalk, Little Red Riding Hood, The Tortoise and the Hare, and Sleeping Beauty are all told in one sentence. Short and sweet.

Great creative idea, and a gorgeous execution.

via http://ideas.veer.com/post/2551

Stunning dark inspiration

I’ve just started using Google Reader and have realised it’s so much easier to keep up-to-date with gems like these from Designfeedr.

Full articles:

http://designfeedr.com/stunning-illustrated-typography-on-dark-backgrounds

http://designfeedr.com/dark-illustration-inspiration

YouTube begins “click-to-buy” advertising

Google have been struggling for ages with how to monetise YouTube but starting with music and videogame partners YouTube will now begin inserting click-to-buy links below select videos.

Right now these affiliate links connect to iTunes and Amazon but we’re told more are coming.

Start your movie engines

Great poster for DVD rental firm bazuca.com

Larger image

Advertising Agency: Agencia Out, Santiago, Chile
Creative Director: Arturo Rebolledo
Art Director / Copywriter / Illustrator: Alvaro Samaniego
Photographer: Juan Edwards

Spacetime Fusion – using photographs to enhance video

Using Photographs to Enhance Videos of a Static Scene from pro on Vimeo.

The science bits are pretty complicated. But who cares when it can make your videos look fucking awesome using the power of Spacetime Fusion!!!

Copy and paste from Crackunit

Play Small

Really good post from Ben Terret about the idea of Play Small. Spot on.

One thing that really brings home Play Small to me is iPhone web pages.

Most people would assume that a mobile web page is a compromise. Not as good or as rich as the main page. The thing is, more and more I’m finding I like the mobile pages better than the main pages.

Stripped of all superfluous content and navigation, devoid of over elobarate graphics, they’re like raw ‘what I came here for’ in one handy pocket sized rectangle.

I now find myself opting for the small version even when the full sized is next to me on the laptop. I prefer the BBC News small. I prefer Typepad small. Flickr, Facebook, Twitter, Financial Times, Telegraph – I prefer them all small.

These aren’t iPhone apps. These are web pages designed for the iPhone.

Dopplr is pretty much the only site where the big version works just as well on the small screen, I’d even say it was better than the mobile version. Dopplr is very well designed and it’s also constructed around a very strict grid and I suspect this is why it works so well small.

The full Dopplr site is on the left, the mobile Dopplr site is on the right.

It’s a design truth that it’s better to design something with restrictions. And it maybe that size is just another restriction, but I think it’s more than that. Just like Wil’s sketches feel light and quick, so do iPhone web pages. Partly because they are quicker (quicker to load etc) but partly because they’re demanding less of my attention. I can get to where I want to go much, much quicker.

Make no mistake, we’re currently leaving the era of Baroque brands and moving into a new period of austerity in communication. And as we move towards Depression 2.0 maybe Play Small will become a vital tool for all designers across all forms of media.

Read the full article at Noisy Decent Graphics

PS.

What ever happened to .mobi?

Designing with social media in mind

Kleber, in collaboration with Universal Everything, have launched a new site for the Manhattan Loft Corporation using Google Maps as the foundation.

Layering a clean design on top of the data available from Google means visitors have access to information on nearby restaurants, shops and places of interest… and photos of the area.

Take a look for yourself:
Fitzrovia Apartments

It’s an example of how agencies are beginning to blend together the different layers of the static web and the social web.

The social web is at the root of what been coined the “Live Web“.

The Live Web isn’t just built, it grows, adapts and changes. It’s an environment where we text and post and author and update and tweet and syndicate and subscribe and notify and feed.

For more about changing nature of the web check out the excellent Social Web Design.