Date: June 13th, 2009
Meet the unsung heroes of European amateur Football. Under armour have launched a microsite for their much anticipated Dominate & Create football boots. The website shows the profiles and stories of eleven handpicked amateur players in Europe and their love for the game. Via creativesocialblog
Date: June 12th, 2009
Nice data visualizer by Wouter Walmink of Eindhoven-based design company studio:Ludens. so_many_a_second is a visualizer that uses mondial statistics from wordlometers and tries to get the user in touch with the emotional actuality of the objective data. Via Martijn
Date: June 10th, 2009
Boone Oakley did a great job integrating their digital presence completely on youtube, check it out on their webpage
Date: June 9th, 2009
Very nice short infographic film by design consultancy and technology research lab. MAYA Design. The film is about architecture in its broadest sense and is a companion piece to their film about information. Read more…
Date: June 8th, 2009
Great map created by Vincenzo Cosenza showing social network dominance around the world according to traffic data from Alexa and Google Trends. We see Facebook is taking over the world and a larger part of Africa is not using social networks. Africa’s lack of participation in social networks is presumably not because Africans are anti-social, but that they’re not able to log on, read more about this on societrends
Date: June 5th, 2009
I’m not a big Flash fan but this website is really amazing. The turn is made by the multi-media artist & singer Fred Viola,
via -> todayandtomorrow
Date: June 5th, 2009
Great project by designer Toby Ng Kwong To based on the scenario – If the world were a village of 100 people. He designed a set of 20 simple vector graphics posters related to a statistic in order to present the information in the simplest and most accessible way.
Date: May 29th, 2009
Fun meets function in Minsh a 3D ocean where each user is populated by a different tweeting fish. Users writing about a given subject find themselves swimming in the same school. When a person updates his or her Twitter status, the fish swims away to join people with similar thoughts. Currently Minsh is in a closed alpha phase and will start a limited second phase over this summer.
see how it works here via Virtualworldsnews
Date: May 27th, 2009
This is an interesting project by the MIT SENSEable City Lab. MIT visualized mobile phone activity during the historic inauguration speech in celebration of Barack Obama’s 100th day as President. The result of the project are two animations of the days before and after the inauguration event. Read more…
Date: May 13th, 2009
Just Landed is a great twitter visualization extracting travel information from Tweets and maps the journeys on a map. The application looks for tweets containing the phrases ‘just landed in…’ or ‘just arrived in…’. The home location for the traveling users are scraped from their Twitter pages. The system then plots these voyages over time.
more info here via infostethics
