As I am looking forward to spend my summer with my nose in a book, I felt inspired when I saw these book posters. It just got me thinking who else I’d like to become….. Dracula, Harry Potter, The Dice Man, Madame Bovary, The Last of the Mohicans, The Great Gatsby……? My colleague Mette pushed this link to me, I found found the images here.
Posted in books, communication, made me smile
Tagged ad campaign, become someone else, books, Mint Vinetu
The life of ‘Alex Droner’ told through the interface of Facebook. The video is cool but it’s also sort of depressing and scary to see a whole life reduced to interactions on a social site – and more importantly, it all passes by so fast!
Posted in communication, interesting, made me frown, web
Tagged Alex Droner, facebook, social media, the life on facebook
Tjeck them out at Designfinder. Thank you @segelstrom.
Public sector service design in North America…
Citizen Experience
The Centre for Citizen Experience is a startup “do tank” that advances design in the public sector, particularly in North America. The Centre’s fundamental belief is that design methods and mindset can dramatically improve problem solving for public sector organizations.
Public sector service design in Denmark…
MindLab is a cross-ministerial innovation unit which involves citizens and businesses in creating new solutions for society.
MindLab is instrumental in helping the ministry’s key decision-makers and employees view their efforts from the outside-in, to see them from a citizen’s perspective.
(found on youmightfindyourself)
Today the best of Danish design was awarded at a ceremony at the Danish Design Center. I was there when the 11 winners were announced. Here I’ll only mention the ones that stood out to me – but tjeck out all of them on the DDC website.
The Roskilde Festival Site : The site is loaded with content, and lots of features make it possible for the users to interact with and enrich the site further. Even though it has a high level of complexity and is loaded with content, it’s still real easy to navigate and interact with.
The AIAIAI Track headphones make you smile in reminiscence of the 80′s and your old walkman. The design is an improved interpretation and you can make it your own by customizing the colors. It’s a perfect merge of both aesthetic and function – and the packaging, love it! In my opinion, they could’ve won an entire category just for the packaging.
Christiania Bikes: I personally have a hate-love relationship with these bikes. They’re a significant part of what makes Copenhagen, Copenhagen. That said, I hate when they take up too much space on the bike path – they can be quite impossible to pass, thus being a stress factor when I race through the city on my grandma’ bike.
Finally, I’ll mention Pig City. A visionary example of the kind of design thinking that has the potential to really make a change in the world. The idea is to create a sustainable synergy effect in co-producing pigs and tomatoes. I look forward to buy the first pig-tomatoes when the project is build by the end of 2011.
One of our most innovative, popular thinkers, Steven Johnson, takes on – in exhilarating style – a big question: Where do good ideas come from?
Posted in communication, design research
Posted in communication
Tagged Clay Shirky, cognitive surplus, crisis map, design for generosity, generosity, ted talk, Ushahidi, wikipedia
Dear Copenhagen… I’ve been unfaithful to you. It only happened once – forgive me! I love you! (…) I swear I’ll never see Aalborg again!
Dear Copenhagen… If you were a girl, I would date you!
Dear Copenhagen…. Where is my bike?
Dear Copenhagen…. Your coffee is too expensive!
Dear Copenhagen… Less bureaucracy!
(via Fuckyouverymuch)
Übercool presentation of the process of making a narrative visualization of very complex data. Tjeck out the entire presentation here. It will take you through the process of making a map of the future, step-by-step. A lot of interesting thoughts about narration, visualization and presenting data!
Posted in communication, graphic
Tagged info graphics, the truth, visual complexity
Designhelikopter is inviting you on a bite of this edible art installation called ‘The Chaos’ (I think). I don’t actually know if it’s a poem, a manifest or what? But it probably tasted good either way. I do think it’s a bit of a shame that the words are printed on the wall behind the cookies. I think it would be way cooler if the art work was altered as people ate bits and pieces of it – and eventually entirely consumed it. (via Cakehead Loves Evil, the creator the cookie-art concept)
Come into the closet with IKEA, make music and dance with Japanese business men in their underwear. Change the scene, the setting, the music and the moves.
Posted in communication, made me smile
Tagged campaign, come into the closet, dance, IKEA, Japanese dance, music
