Designing a user interface can be a huge challenge. On top of the intuitiveness, readability, accessibility and aesthetic issues, often it is a matter of getting an endless number of components in to a very limited space while keeping enough empty space remaining so you can think. It is very interesting to see innovation like this in architecture.
Just finished getting a little pre-week work done. Below some of the stuff I listened to. Happy Sunday!
The xx - IntroDjango Django - WOR
Fanfarlo - I'm a Pilot
Angus & Julia Stone - Big Jet Plane
The Kissaway Trail - New Lipstick
Karkwa - Les chemins de verre
Drew Danburry - Nirvana, by Kurt Cobain
Peter Wolf Crier - Untitled 101
Wintermitts - Schoolyard
Delta Spirit - Trashcan
The Ting Tings - We Walk
Wintersleep - Archaeologists
The xx - VCR
White Rabbits - Percussion Gun
Butterfly Bones - <3
Surfer Blood - Floating Vibes
It's a Buffalo - Marbles
Sun Kil Moon - Neverending Math Equation
Band of Horses - Factory
Broken Social Scene - Anthems For a Seventeen Year-Old Girl
Plants and Animals - Feedback in the Field
Hold Your Horses - 70 Million
Metric - Collect Call
We Have Band - Divisive
This one is in Picadilly Circus in London. The digital billboard generates a variety of props generating unique photo opportunities, ensuring that the McDonald's logo shows up in every tourist's digital camera.
This second one is in Stockholm. This digital billboard is set up as an interactive game and allows participants to capture a photo of a McDonald's product and then get it for free.
This infographic is a little misleading, but gives you an idea of what developers are using to build & test web sites. No big surprises here, but I bet Chrome becomes a bit more popular with this crowd in a year or two.
Full report here (PDF).
In case you didn't know already, most advertising you see on the web is based on one of two things (1) information the advertising server can get about you [from cookies, profile information, etc]; or (2) the content on the page you are viewing.
Was reading this Reuters article about George W's memoirs and got an ad telling me to drink responsibly. Seems about right.
This photo of a suspension bridge was taken with an empty pop can pinhole camera and exposed over six months. Read about it here