Design agency ‘Information Architects‘ has created an image of the top 300 most popular sites and domain using Tokyo’s Metro map as a basis. You’ll need to make this image bigger with a click to see it in all it’s glory.
Image copyright ‘Information Architects‘
Public Ad Campaign, an organization that is opposed to outdoor advertising, has created an augmented reality mobile app that replaces the billboards in Time Square with artwork (see the app in action at a recent public beta test). Public Ad Campaign and collaborator The Heavy Projects hope to expand the app in order to takeover billboards in other public spaces.
This is a great idea but the irony is advertisers will use the same technology to surround us all with bepsoke adverts!
There has been quite a lot written about this already on the net but it’s such a great use of digital trickery that I had to add my pennies worth.
So, at the end of May Warner Bros released the official site for the latest Batman film and if you’ve not been there yet do it now… Done? Good.
So what the hell!?! It’s a black site with a pretty disturbing sound file, nothing else.
As word spread via the internet community, blogs, twitter and other sites many people tried to work out what the audio file was saying. Some attempted to play it backwards, change the sampling and other audio tricks. But nothing worked.
However it was a poster on the Superhero Hype message board that found this.
Hidden inside the audio file was a Twitter hashtag. As the word spread and people started to tweet #TheFireRises they received a link to a hidden page on the Dark Knight site.
As more people tweeted their profile image was used to create part of a collage that eventually revealed this.
A photo of Tom Hardy as Bane!
The thought and simplicity of this idea is astounding. It relies entirely on the community to share information, communicate and discover the truth. It’ a testement to social media, the internet community and the agency that made this work are genius.
Of couse, this type of campaign only really works for a movie, we wouldnt be using this at Ping for the latest NHS campaign but it does illustrate how involved people are willing to get to discover the truth.
via lots of people and Joblo
My apologies for not posting recently, I’ve had a busy week or was it two weeks creating the Ping website and getting ready for showcasing at Digital 2011 at the SECC in Glasgow. I’m very happy to report that everything went very well, Ping site is getting amazing feedback and traffic has gone through the roof since the conference. So let’s celebrate with a cartoon montage.
In an attempt to get with “da kids” (probably) and find out what folk in Detroit want to improve in their fair(ly dangerous) city, Mayor Dave Bing asked for comments and suggestions on Twitter:
Totally missed opportunity in my opinion, although I wonder if he’d be okay with an ED-209 statue?
Well would you look at that, the nerdy internet community has a voice and carinsurance.org updated the mistakes from their previous poster to a more accurate Gen1 version. Kudos!
To see the full poster just hit the link below.
So I’m guessing you’ve seen the VW/Darth Vader advert broadcast in the US during the Super Bowl and flying around the internet faster than a leaking wiki. Well now you can see the boy behind the mask:
Beside the fact that this wee guy, Max Page, is a far better actor than the irritatingly annoying Jake Lloyd who played Anakin in the prequels he’s also never even seen Star Wars!
How is that possible?!? I thought Lucas had Star Wars prequels playing at every delivery ward the world over in an effort to make a new generation like them?
So with that in mind, Max get’s extra kudos for breaking the mold, although I find it spooky how much he looks like Mark Hamill, don’t you think?
