I'll be gone for two weeks to enjoy the holidays.
One Year of Guerilla Marketing
The people over at Bloguerilla has collected some of the best viral guerilla marketing campaigns in 2008. The video compilation includes clips from From 13th Street to the animated and controversial Diesel spot, Samsung’s optical illusions, the Nike basketball stunts, the Madrid City Council save energy stunts, Wassup 8 years later, the Nokia N96 Bruce Lee ping pong, and the iPhone blendertec to name a few.
Nokia Lee Advertising
Bruce Lee playing ping pong for the Nokia N96. I'm not sure if it's really Bruce Lee but whoever is holding the nunchucks is good. Damn good.
Magic Wave by Reuben Margolin
Californian artist Reuben Margolin together with the Technorama Staff suspended 450 aluminum rods by 256 wires and connected 3,000 pulleys and sliding bars to create one of the biggest and most complex kinetic sculptures in the world. Interesting effect that employs no computers, only mechanical movements to create the result. Measuring 25 square meters the "magic carpet" contains more than 50'000 pieces and shows three characteristics of waves: Wavelength, Amplitude and Frequency. Watch the video for the full effect after the jump.
Apple Debuts New 'Mac vs PC' Christmas Ads
Just in time for the holiday season, Apple released two new Get a Mac ads entitled "I Can Do Anything" and "Tree Trimming" with the usual actors replaced by animated characters. Check out the videos below.
I Can Do Anything
Tree Trimming
Interactive Mirror: The Fairest of Them All
Spending hours in front of the mirror is a girl thing no more. This patent pending touch capable mirror conceptualized by Alpay Kasal of Lit Studios and Sam Ewen of Interference Inc lets you digitally paint, view photos, and play games. For more info, visit blog.LitStudios.com
SUMO Paint Online Image Editor
Here's some more impressive online image editor and another fair clone of Photoshop's major features inside a browser window. According to its website, "SUMO Paint is the easiest, fastest and the most creative paint app on the internet."
Similar to previously featured Aviary Phoenix, but without the 50-use limit, SUMO Paint offers professional and easy to use tools for creating and editing images within a browser. It allows you to create, edit and comment images online with powerful tools and layer support. More info about SUMO Paint can be found from: www.sumopaint.com/info. SUMO Paint is free to use and no sign-up required.
SUMO Paint
WebSapient Rips Off Filipino Designer's Entire Portfolio
Marco The Site Guy's Site
WebSapient's Plagiarism
This is not cool. Not so cool at all. I don't know Marco Palinar personally but for some asshole to steal his works and put it up as their own isn't just plagiarism but totally wrong.
According to WebSapient's About Us page, the so-called design company claims to be:...an experienced and well established web design company specializing in website design and e-commerce development. We have designed, shaped and launched hundreds of successful websites since our beginning, for many different types of businesses around the World.
Our team comprises of the most brilliant and skillful people in the industry with collective experience in Designing Web 2.0, graphic design, website development, Flash animation, Search Engine Optimization, Link Building and e-commerce programming. We continuously keep track on the latest technological changes and improvements in the web design industry. We deploy the most advanced and custom web solutions.
Our web designing & development team have the capacity to appeal to your sense of style, the training and knowledge of current web standards and practices, and the ability to turn your dreams into reality!
Our clients range from small businesses needing a basic web presence to large corporations requiring complex web applications. We invite you to review our website design portfolio and read our client testimonials.
It's the biggest pile of bullshit I've ever seen. WebSapient may have taken down its portfolio page but thanks to Liz's screenshots, the whole WebSapient site is full of crap now.
More about WebSapient's plagiarism:
WebSapient is Full of Bullshit »
WebSapient? More like HOMOSapient! (So-called design company rips off entire portfolio from Pinoy designer) »
WebSapient rips off ENTIRE portfolio of Pinoy web designer »
Uh, ‘Scuse Me???? (Ripping Marco) 12.10.08 »
WebSapient Rips Off Designer’s Portfolio »
WebSapient Rips off Portfolio of Filipino Designer »
WebSapient rips off ENTIRE portfolio off freelance designer [Digg] »
Coca Cola Christmas 2008 Commercial
As always, another beautiful holiday commercial from Coke. This one features the cover song "Can't Help Falling In Love With You" by Elvis Presley.
Shelter in a Cart
Designers Barry Sheehan and Gregor Timlin have teamed up to create ‘shelter cart’, a mobile living unit for junk collectors. The unit is designed to provide shelter at night and also serve as a receptacle for collecting. The lightweight unit simply tips over to provide shelter and the user can configure the adjustable roof. Although the design does help homeless people earn an income, the designers understand that it is not a permanent solution and more a way to raise awareness. The design was originally conceived of for designboom’s ‘shelter in a cart’ design competition. Keep reading for more photos.
via Gregor Timlin
Take the Quick Logo Quiz
How many logos can you recognize? Take the test and see how aware you are with the logos around you. Simply match the name with logo then click submit when you're done to check your score and the answers.
Phoenix Offers Powerful Image Editing Online
Another impressive image editing tool I've seen running in a browser. From basic image retouching to complex effects, Phoenix delivers the key features of a desktop image editor with the simplicity and accessibility of a web-based application.
Pheonix has a rich editing toolset so you can edit your images with undo and redo, brushes, magic wand, and blend modes. You can also work with layers, groups, and layer masks. The flash based webapp has an intuitive drag and drop interface and it also allows you to import from popular photo-sharing sites like Flickr, Picasa, and Facebook. There are plenty of tutorials available so if you're stuck with a machine that doesn't have anything better than MS Paint installed, it's very useful - and there's no need to download.
Phoenix [Aviary]
UPDATE: I've replaced the image above with a demo video to show the Phoenix in action.
Color Changing Shower Tiles
Imagine. You walk into shower, turn the water on and the walls begin to transform themselves into psychedelic changing patterns...
"Inspired by the stunning Northern Lights of Alaska, this line features 4 × 4 glass tiles that appear black at room temperature and move through the color spectrum when temperature (warm water, radiant heat, etc) is applied. The moving color is dynamic to the temperature of the heating agent."
via Northern Lights [Moving Color]
Typography Can Be A Multi Function Tool
Multi function letters by interaction designer Marcus Schaefer. He writes-
"My neighbour forgot his multi function tool in our kitchen. I started playing around with it and (surprise, surprise) tried to create a whole alphabet with the sentence “typography can be a multi function tool” in mind. I did not yet find the time to create a real font but if you want to play with it, feel free to download the high resolution versions of the colored (5MB) and the black(0.5MB) characterset as PNG."
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