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Pictionaire 2.0

Kris Hoet — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 21:24:53 +0000

Gosh. Would I love to see what we could do with this at the agency, out the current ‘review’ table – in the new one ;)

ABC

Kris Hoet — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 20:22:28 +0000

Really nice work from designer Jason Dean from Orlando, who designed this alphabet based on some of the most important brands identities of today. There are only 500 copies of this limited edition so be quick if you want one.

And? Did you do the test? How many brands could you name instantly?

[Via fubiz]

Cereal gaming

Kris Hoet — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:37:53 +0000

Augmented reality is the new black, but only few people seem to be doing something really interesting with the concept of AR. I don’t really want to hold a white paper with a black mark on it in front of my laptop to get a 3D image of a car projected on it… or at least on screen that is. I could already see that same 3D car on my screen in the past without all the AR complications. Catch my drift? Do something different and fun like the example below, or make it useful like what Ray Ban did recently with their Virtual Mirror.

Enjoy.

And if you do want to create some AR with cars, maybe make it some more like this ;)

[Via Helge Tenno]

Let’s face it

Kris Hoet — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:20:21 +0000

I found this the other day on Zoomdoggle: Eric Testroete, a Vancouver based gaming industry guy, created this pretty cool 3D mask of his own face. Awesome don’t you think?

Similar concepts on the website of Bert Simons, one I found via Pietel on Facebook today, all I need now is some free time :)

Going vertical

Kris Hoet — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 11:30:40 +0000

A couple of days ago I read this article about a new book format called ‘Dwarsligger’ (Dutch) which is supposed to make it easier to read in bed or on a plane… Not only is the book’s size adapted but more importantly you have to read from top to bottom instead of left to right.

Interesting thought, I’m almost amazed nobody else thought of this before. Funny enough, only a couple of days later, I noticed the following video in which another Dutchman presents a new invention at the INMA Outlook 2010 Conference: the vertical newspaper. I smell a trend :)

Who’s next?

Because clicking is so 90’s

Kris Hoet — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 09:40:10 +0000

This trailer shows a the website project created by Andreas Lutz as part of a study project and is rather inspirational. The website uses video and sound input to control the navigation, so basically you navigate using gestures and voice.

Make sure you try it out for yourself on Andreas’ website as well. I found it still pretty hard to use the navigation and have to admit I still prefer clicking for now :) but you can see where this is going and that’s an opportunity that I do want to think about. Very cool!

[Via fubiz]

The Ad-O-Matic

Kris Hoet — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 07:07:24 +0000

The future is here! After crowdsourcing as an option to create an advertising campaign, the Ad-O-Matic promises an even easier way out. Miami Ad School students created the all-in-one ad generator, watch it here:

[Via AdFreak]

If you printed the internet…

Kris Hoet — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 18:45:43 +0000

Very nice infographic about what it would take if you wanted to print out all the content on the internet. Here’s one visual, make sure you visit CreativeCloud for more infographics about the topic.

Gauging the internet

Kris Hoet — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 08:14:13 +0000

I like simple things like this.

“The gauge is attached via a network cable to the internet where it monitors news and search results for “paris hilton” and “paris france” and displays an average result in real-time.”

[Via Microsoft buddy Steve Clayton]

Design fail

Kris Hoet — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 06:06:46 +0000

Just a bit of Thursday morning fun, found this via someone on Facebook (forgot who – sorry for that). Did we ever notice how poorly designed the Star Wars universe really was? ;)

“Blasters. A tactical nightmare: They’re incredibly loud, especially for firing what are essentially light beams. The fire ordnance is so slow it can be dodged, and it comes out as a streak of light that reveals your position to your enemies. Let’s not even go near the idea of light beams being slow enough to dodge; that’s just something you have let go of, or risk insanity.”

More of the same on SciFi Scanner.