Barcode Design

This is a why-didn't-I-think-of-that moment.. barcode images.
barcoderevolution.com

Patterns Of Light, Casinos And Train Passengers

Anybody who knows me knows that I've got a strange addiction to patterns. Watching this today got me excited to make more videos, and the simplicity of this video made it all the more beautiful. It's a music video for Maledict Car by the Japanese band Jemapur and was directed by Kosai Sekine to form part of the Tokyo.Ten - a showcase DVD and book which looks worth picking up.

In photography I enjoy the task of highlighting things that your average person does not spot. Whether it's the beautiful repetition of balconies on a rundown block of flats who's shades of colour change in the sunlight as you progress away from the light source. Or the underside of a bridge with water reflecting on a perfect mono-grey shade of concrete with the exact perfection of the columns at equal distance from each other.

So there you have it, that's what floats my photography boat! Once I get my new portfolio website together I'll be putting some of my photography up and will link to it from here. Until then check my flickr.

Vincent Laforet Photography

Vincent Laforet is Contract Photographer for the Ney York Times. His website is really nice and simple and full of some pretty incredible photos.

Some of my faves are the shots looking straight down to the ground over large groups of people on the beach or on the grass. I like these images because they highlight social groups and show the limits of everyone's personal space as well as who is friends with who. I suppose they also give a snapshot of fashion and trends in colour and hairstyles. The beach one is also really nice because everybody is framed by a coloured square of blanket.

Yet another reason for me to fancy living/working in NY.. think it is gona have to happen!

Interactive US Box Office Chart

This is beautiful.. check it here.

Yet more information graphics that fills my brain with the stuff it loves to see.. colour! I don't think this piece even needs explaining which proves how good it is at its job. I think what I like about it the most is the way there is no x-axis in the sense of a 'zero'. Instead the week's data is centrally aligned spilling out of the top and bottom on a week when the box office made its millions or contracting inwards when all that week's films were flops. Also check out the 1998 chart and let your eyes pop out at the Titanic facts.

Google Knows You

I found this on ffffound.

Will write something later when I'm home from work.

Synethesia

Brahms Capriccio, opus 76 no. 2 from musanim on Vimeo.

This is too nice not to post.. it's a visual representation of an audio track highlighting the fact that sometimes it is not just the eyes that see colour. Some people see colour when they hear music. This phenomenon, when a sense is stimulated another sense experiences a sensation, is called Synethesia.

I found this on EveryoneForever, part of the UniversalEverything site. Incidentally, UniversalEverything and Matt Pyke are pretty much my idols. 'One day Rodney, one day we'll be millionaires'.

Energizer Ad / The State Of Art Direction

I just came across this ad for Energizer, the tag-line reads, 'Never let their toys die'.. well it made me laugh! Came across this in the Creative Review blog whilst reading an article on 'The state of art direction' which is definitely worth a read. I found it interesting what was said about the problem with our current image-based culture as a result of our good friend Apple and their simple to use software.. I think you should just read the article.

Small Talk With A Designer

Just came across this.

112 Years Of Olympic Medals

So.. after recently viewing David Sparshoot's blog on the ycn, and at the same time receiving a stern word in the ear from my boy Patl I decided that it was quite simply time to pull my finger out and get the blog flowing.

The plan is simple.. one post per day, a snapshot of my daily brain workings and an insight into just what makes me tick. There will no doubt be links to my flickr, where I've decided to dump a load of images that I've come across on the net. The reasons for this are tarnished in misery, I emailed fffound begging to be added as a user and I've been shunned.

So here's the first post of many, a time-based chart of the number of olympic medals won by countries. Click here.