Leo Burnett “When to take my name off the door”
To celebrate Leo Burnett Worldwide’s 75th anniversary, Lobo has created an animated tribute to Burnett’s speech, which should serve as inspiration for anyone tempted by the siren song of giving less than 100% on every project.
Mozilla’s Popcorn.js lets you fuse video with interactive design. The open source tool kit uses the power of HTML5 enabling filmmakers create innovative interactivity around their videos.
Over the years of the modern Olympic era we have witnessed design take a forefront in the planning and execution of the event. Check out the colors of Summer Olympic logos from 1896 to 2012 London along with some noteworthy facts from each games and palette inspiration from some of the more colorful posters and logos.
Poly is a medium contrast serif font. Poly was originally designed for aglutinative languages, (which is why it’s wide) specifically a South American indigenous language (Wayuunaiki). I paid a lot of attention to the “diacritics zone” to harmonize and unclutter the upper zones of the lowercase letters.
Android 4.0 marks a major milestone for Android design. Nearly every pixel of the system was redesigned. Starting with the most basic elements, with the introduction of a new font, Roboto, designed for high-resolution displays. Other big changes include framework-level action bars on phones and support for new phones without physical buttons. Check it out here.
Stocktouch was recognized as the #1 app in the finance category for 2011 by Apple.
Check it out on App Store Rewind 2011.
Check out this beautiful, fluid typography derivation.
Credits:
Typography by Luis Miguel Torres
Photography by Claudia Sepulveda
Lichtreise is a visualization of a specific holiday itinerary. What makes this work special, is how simple non-digital technology has been used to generate the map: the basis is a long-time exposure picture, which was lit with a physically moving batter-powered UV-LED light and a battery. The map itself was lit in a separate step, which all combined resulted in a beautifully “rendered” infographic.
“Never Forever…” is a quantitative visualization of the transient nature of empire. It graphs all known empires, colonies and territorial occupations from 2334 BCE to the present day. Each empire occupies a slice of the pie graph with a known start (+) and end (×) date.
See the full article here.
The new visual identity of the MIT Media Lab is inspired by the community it comprises: Highly creative people from all kinds of backgrounds come together, inspire each other and collaboratively develop a vision of the future.
The logo is based on a visual system, an algorithm that produces a unique logo for each person, for faculty, staff and students.
Harness the latest developments in HTML5.
Adobe provides exceptional tools for creating rich content, regardless of technology. Use HTML tools from Adobe to produce expressive interactive animation, superior typography and graphic effects, and applications on standard open frameworks.
Animation, Render, Compose: Danil Krivoruchko, Rostislav Magay
Sound: Konstantin Chubakov
Director: Danil Krivoruchko
Made by MYSHLI for Sensetive Brands
The latest JKR book (download here) attempts to answer this question by focusing on 25 brands; some famous, some less obvious, but all great. It’s a book about design, but also the people who create and manage it – the champions who can teach us all a lesson. Full of facts, trivia and insight, all served up in bite sized slices.
