Design

In today’s Guardian are details about some of the interactive tools that will be available for viewers who watch Thursday evening’s first prime-ministerial debate at www.itv.com/electiondebate. It describes a range of “sentiment” tools that will be deployed to measure live responses to the discussion between leaders of the three main parties: Gordon Brown, David Cameron and […]

With yesterday’s announcement that the general election will take place on Thursday 6th May, the media has wasted no time in launching a glut of graphics, explanatory analytics and interactive guides to supplement their coverage. Whilst there is much focus about the internet’s role in this election, particularly with reference to the social web, in

Intersting to see in the Telegraph newspaper a report about the Top 50 University spin-out companies and, in particular, the use of sparklines. The graphs themselves are embedded from a service called younoodle scores which claims to have ‘the largest-ever dynamic directory of active startups, compiled from proprietary tracking technology, a rapidly-growing community, and several

Wanted to share this from Smashing Magazine who have published a post compiling some of the most creative uses of plasticine in fields such as art, modern advertising and video animation. There is something so warm and appealing about creations like these that creates a really positive reaction from viewers or target consumers. Aside from the

This video is for the new OK Go song “This Too Shall pass”. The band is well known for producing highly original and immaculately choreographed videos and this is their latest gem. It is based on a ‘Rube Goldberg‘ style system of ludicrously complex and convoluted action sequences similar to the award winning Honda advert and, to a lesser extent,

This last weekend I was in Barcelona and went on a tour around the Nou Camp stadium. This has to be one of the best value sight-seeing events I’ve ever done, the highlight of which is the museum leg of the tour and the truly outstanding multimedia installation. The first thing you come across is a darkened

The Guardian website has launched Zeitgeist, “a new way to reveal and explore content on the Guardian site, according to ‘social signals’ from users“. It presents a dynamic, alternative interface for navigating to content from across the site and is, in simple terms, based on the more popular items of the day. This offers a different