Inspired by a shared interest in the striking dress codes of various social groups, Rotterdam-based photographer Ari Versluis and profiler Ellie Uyttenbroek have created the series Exactitudes, a systematic documentation of numerous identities over the last 14 years.
Colour Wars 2008 held a competition for people to submit two photographs of themselves. One when they were younger and another recreating that moment as they are now. Some of them are fantastic.
On the same day each year Diego Goldberg photographs himself and his family. It's surprisingly fascinating to see the family grow and the timeline build.
The perfectly spherical Costa Rica stones, the 110 million year old hand print, and the ancient Baghdad battery are among archeology's most puzzling finds. With science telling us that civilization is merely a few thousand years old, how do we explain metallic tubes found inside 65 million year old Cretaceous chalk?
Created as a final project for Alex Frank's Communication Design degree, the innovative interface and beautiful design of Dontclick are well worth a look.
A viral from Saatchi & Saatchi New York for jewelry store JC Penney. Directed by Bryan Buckley, the ad takes a nice lateral approach to men's seasonal bad gift buying. Really well done.
Papervision, a Flash component introduced to CS3 has been getting the techies in my agency all excited for a while. Why? Because until now, apparently, importing three-dimensional objects into Flash was always a matter of faking it using image sequences rendered from programs such as Maya. This process of course limited the potential of 3D on the web. Not any more though. Visit Papervision experiments to see the latest goings on.
For over 200 days with no observed sunspots, and solar winds dropping to their lowest level for 50 years, scientists are monitoring our star ever more closely. A collection of recent images from consortiums around the world however, reveal the sun's truly awesome power.
Using only a maintenance manual purchased on eBay for £6,PostlerFerguson has created this 1:1 of the concorde engine, Olympus, for a Selfridges window display. The model is both a eulogy to the design feat of Concorde but also to Selfridge’s own heritage - when the store first opened in 1909 it displayed the Bleriot XI, the first airplane to cross the English Channel from Dover to Calais.
Lovely eco-initiative from design agency Provokateur to promote the UKs tap water. DIY bottle water packs allow the user to refill their used bottle from home.
Unbearable loading times and cringe-worthy voiceover aside, this site from BBDO New York is rather nice. Taylor James created the circular city in CG, allowing users to fly into it and explore the different stories.
Read the body copy on this ad: 'Asbestos contains fire, cannot burn and holds up after metal and glass have burned down, giving vital time for people to escape'.
A pretty cool viral campaignby digital agency Ralph for the launch of Dexter season 2. The viral, sent out in the form of a press conference, aims to convince you the viewer, that you're next on a serial killer's hit list.
Right Guard are apparently using a group of 'pitvertisers' as part of a new marketing technique; digital displays on armpits. Well...it's something different, i guess.
Turn your laptop or mobile phone into a spirit level. Created for Bosch by Jung von Matt AG, Stuttgart, it won silver in Interactive at this years Clio Awards. This week, BMB have released its virtual pint on the iPhone for Carling. Now, why would anyone want a 'virtual' pint?
The first zoetope was designed in AD 180 by Ting Huan. By pasting a succession of images onto the inside of a cylinder with vertical slits in it, a spinning zoetope gives the illusion of action. This one for Toy Story however, uses strobes to pick out the necessary frames from a spinning 3D model. And it looks awesome. The technique is sure to be used somewhere in adland soon.
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