Monthly Archives: September 2011

The alphabet in motion

30 Friday Sep 2011

Posted by in Typography

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Allesandro Novelli will make you fall in love with type all over again.

Alphabet 2 is a typographical experiment where each letter visually represents the meaning of a series of words. The various mediums used and the charming sound effects make this animation such a joy to watch.

For more typographic fun feel free to watch Alphabet 1, an illustrated animation where each letter represents a different font.

Fun facts:
The music from the animation is Si Tu N’étais Pas Là by Fréhel.

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Jessa

Turning your resume into a sexy infographic

28 Wednesday Sep 2011

Posted by in Infographic, Web design

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Vizualize.me is a cute little website that allows you to turn your boring old text based resume into a visual masterpiece. If you’re a fan of infographics like me you will have fun playing around with this.

Vizualize.Me Home page

The site syncs into your LinkedIn profile, grabs your public data and outputs that data visually using different themes, thus creating your infographic resume. I admit to being a tad more excited than I should have been when I got my email that said it had been launched and tried it right away.

Vizualize.Me User Interface

The infographic elements are really cute and the UI is sleek, clean, and easy to use. Although I would have loved to see more themes, more control and the ability to add different types of data and visual elements. This would really enchance the experience. I would have also loved the ability to not only choose themes but choose specifically how each section of data is visually represented. Currently the only differentiators between the themes is the Education/Work timeline, everything else is displayed the same.

I especially like the colour palette options which definitely takes out a lot of thinking on the user’s part. But I have to say some of the palettes were a bit senseless. For example yellow text on a white background is not only visually unappealing but inaccessible. But not to worry because you are still able to choose the colour of individual elements.

So after a little play I think my final infographic is cute as a button but I feel it serves more as small snapshot of a person’s career and skills set and I definitely wouldn’t use it to replace my actual resume. Regardless of that, it’s such a great concept and I love the vision behind it. To say I’m pretty excited about its evolution is an understatement.

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Jessa

HTML5 Readiness

19 Monday Sep 2011

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HTML5 Readiness is an interactive infographic website that visually communicates how much support exists for each new HTML5 and CSS3 feature since 2008.

HTML5 Readiness Screenshot

Basically anything that is greyed is not yet supported but what I love about this graphic is that once all the features are supported the graphic will form a lovely rainbow. Function + Beauty = Great design.

Enjoy!

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Jessa

The RE-35 Cartridge April Fool’s joke

12 Monday Sep 2011

Posted by in Photography, Product Design

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Okay so I’m a little late writing a post about this product since we’re in September and this product was released in April. My only excuse is this blog didn’t exist back in April, but I kept a mental note when I started this blog back in June that I would blog about the RE-35 USB cartridge. Funny thing is I was oblivious to the fact that I had unknowingly been April Fooled for about 5 months now. As I started researching the product for this post I realised very quickly that the revolutionary RE-35 cartridge never existed!

So what am I talking about? Back in April a product was released by Rogge & Pott. They had conceived a product called the RE-35 USB cartridge. This cartridge is designed to the shape of a standard 35mm film canister.

RE-35 CartridgesIt is a USB cartridge that is placed in your analogue camera instead of film. The images that are shot are saved into the cartridge to be later plugged into your computer (like a normal USB storage device) for retrieval. Thus, converting your images to digital in an instant. Genius.

When I first came across this product I thought that it was a wonderful idea. There are a lot of unused analogue cameras out there and this cartridge would mean that they would at least be able to see the light of day again. But alas, it’s not real.

RE-35 Cartridge inside a camera

It’s now known that Rogge & Pott invented the product as an exercise in identity-design, created a sleek professional product website and sent out press releases on the 1st of April about the product assuming people would get the hint that it was a joke. But due to the brilliance of the idea people started getting really interested in the product and were disappointed to find out the truth. The company now have a nice disclaimer in the product website carefully explaining to their ‘customers’ why the product doesn’t exist.

Well played Rogge & Pott’s.

So now that I’ve found out this was all fake, what is this post essentially about? Well, it’s basically a fun-loving and inspiring reminder of what designers can conceive through open-ended design exercises, the power of online media and basically I wanted to share with you how funny it is that I’ve been fooled for 5 months without even knowing it.

All photos courtesy of RE-35 cartridge Product Website.

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Jessa

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