Notwist

Notwist is a website for the German band The Notwist. It's quite a creepy site, especially with the sound on.. actually change that, it's only creepy with the sound on. On my first time I found it confusing to navigate which also added to the creepyness (not a real word but like it). I really like the little games and puzzles where you have to find the correct thing to click to progress you to the next puzzle. Have a play, I think you'll get what I mean from just playing, don't get to scared.

Of All The People In All The World

I've been bad, and broken my rules of posting.. it's been a while but I'm back! For the last few weeks I've kept a track of some nice things that have impressed me, and now I'm about to unleash them, so the next 4 or 5 posts are my backlog. Apologies if my comments don't make too much sense.. I've got a stinking hangover from a house party last night!

So this is the first image of joy. I've came across this via the creative review blog. It's an exhibition created by (i think) the same people who did that amazing exhibition in Tate Modern called Global Cities. They've taken facts and figures of the world and represented them in rice. Sounds simple but isn't it nice to have visual representations of numbers. I really like the representations of crowds and events, like the Live Aid gig. As well as the CCTV fact and the Beatles facts.
Flickr, Stanscafe

T.I. Paper Trail

I love it when things are made the hard way! Rather than creating this image using Photoshop Ian Wright has actually ripped up newspapers, bills, envelopes, posters and anything else he could find of the correct shade, to create this amazing image. Anything like this always reminds me of the coffee cup poster by Sagmeister for the Adobe Design Achievement Awards! I loved that then and I still love it now. 2500 cups filled with different depths of coffee to create a range of brown tones then aranged into an award. Awesome idea!

http://www.itsnicethat.com/index.php?pg=3

Lee Mawdsley

Lee Mawdsley is a photographer based in East London. Anyone who has an eye for symmetry in photography gets my vote. As I've said before, what I enjoy in photography is highlighting beauty in something that the average viewer would simply dismiss as impossible to hold beauty.

What I like about this image in particular is the amount of 'individual living' happening in the photo. Thousands of homes each lived in in their own unique way, hundreds of cars going about their personal journey, two directions of train lines, going in and out of the city. And then in the distance in the haze of the city is probably Paris' second most famous tourist spot, Arc de Triumph, which itself must be viewed by a million people a day.

NYTE - New York Talk Exchange

The New York Talk Exchange, is a visualisation of when the population of NY 'dial out' of the city and call the rest of the world. I like all 3 of the projects here but the third one, 'the world inside new york' contains the most information and shows data that I've not come across before, compared to the other 2. The world inside new york shows the diversity of each section's calling habits. Each square represents a 2 kilometre square block, within that block the different countries dialled are represented by colour coded percentage bars. I really like the shade of black used for the background colour along with the palette used for the map in the top left. I don't like the blurred gradient which points to the chosen square, although it is a good method of pointing to whichever square has been selected. Watch the video here, ogle at a high-res image here.

Bored? Feeling down? Considering growing a mustache? Have a secret giggle at this.

The Holy Grail Of Information Design

I've found it! The mother of all sites, Elasticmind! Elasticmind is part of the MoMA site and is what my dreams are made of! It's amazingly smooth, beautifully built and full of information! And I love information! I really like the circles that house the preview of the link (image above) and the category lines that flow from the circular rings.

From the Elasticmind site I've come across The Dumpster which is definitely worth a giggle. It's a visual portrait of romantic breakups collected form blogs in 2005, so I guess its ok to giggle at it now! This kinda reminds me of wefeelfine but personally think wefeelfine is much sexier. If anyone wants to get in contact and teach me how to create works of beauty like these then please please do!! I need this in my life!! email me at pkamaze@gmail.com

iso50.com - Today's Favorite Blog

www.iso50.com, The Visual Work Of Scott Hansen. Loads of sexy sexy things on here, the colour schemes used in some of his posters (found on the right of the page) are really nice. Visually the posters are beautiful anyway, but I'm all over the colour. He's got a really nice post on a photographer by the name of Ryan Fitzgerald. The night photography of concrete does it for me.