Interactive Art Director
Last trip to the insane asylum
Photographer Jon Crispin has been documenting the suitcases left behind by patients at the Willard Asylum for the Insane in Upstate New York. 400 suitcases were found in an attic at the asylum in 1995. They date from 1910 to 1960. Many of the patients who went to the asylum died there and were buried in graves marked not with names, but by numbers.
http://new-media.ca/inspiration/last-trip-to-the-insane-asylum/
Automate your online tasks
IFTTT (If This Then That) is a great online service that allows you to automate your online tasks. For example, you can to archive every photo posted on Instagram under a certain hashtag to a Dropbox or Google Drive account. Simply log in, create a recipe and the service will automate the task for you.
There is also an extensive library of recipes brewed up by other users so you can explore the endless possibilities.
London bus stops for London bus
Postcard, 1960s London
http://new-media.ca/inspiration/london-bus-stops-for-london-bus/
Same information, better design
Compare the two interfaces below. They should both convey the same type of information, although one of them does it a lot better. Which one do you think does a better job?
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One interface is from the recently-redesigned Environment Canada Weather page and another is from the Icelandic Met Office. One forces you to click around aimlessly across multiple pages until you find the information you need (or give up and just go straight to Google). Another one lets you access all of the information at a glance via a simple drag action.
Only one of these examples successfully marries form with function and keeps the user in mind.
Underground library
Ourit Ben-Haim takes photos of people reading on the New York subway and documents their reading choices on the Underground New York Public Library.
Music in colour
Great music video by Blockhead titled “The Music Scene”.
Explore the world & play
GeoGuessr puts you in a random place anywhere in the world and you have to guess where you are. Careful, you might spend a lot of time playing this!
Via @jeff_macgregor
Great cities by starlight
Thierry Cohen combines photos of great cities with a clear starry sky. Dark city landscapes feature clear starry skies taken at a different location to match what would have been visible in the city without light pollution.
New York
San Francisco
Tokyo
