Another Wednesday has rolled around, so here’s my weekly collection of interesting digital ephemera I’ve found poking around the vast Internet wasteland. Think of me as your guide through the eclectic digital desert…
Art and Design
Entire Text of Novels Used in Outdoor Poster Campaign
This is very clever! The entire text of the novel A Clockwork Orange printed on a poster as a part of an advertising campaign for New Zealand online bookseller Whitcoulls. As a big fan of Burgess’ dysutopian classic I am particularly drawn to the poster. The New Zeland based ad agency DraftFCB came up with the outdoor poster campaign, “Read More Books.” The campaign that reminds us that some of the most popular movies began as books. Other posters in the campaign include Charlie and Chocolate Factory and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.
I love how the art work is created using only color and the text of the books and recreates iconic images of the film or the book cover. To quote the great philosopher Darth Vader, “Impressive, most impressive. via DangerousMinds.net
The Animated GIF is Dead. Long Live the Animated GIF!
I say “G-iff” you say “J-iff” but we can all agree the article “Animated GIFs Triumphant” by Anil Dash is pretty cool; as is this great collection of animated GIF’s on Tumblr.
Amazing Harry Potter Paper Cut Designs
Seeing these gorgeous paper cut out master pieces from the insanely talented Brittney Lee is, well, magical!
Marketing & Social Media
This is a great little talk from Gary Vaynerchuk: Thank You Economy – SXSW 2011 Interactive. He brings up different points about the humanization of business, discussed at length in his book The Thank You Economy
Film,Video and Motion Graphics
Hitch from Pascal Monaco on Vimeo.
‘Hitch’ – An Alfred Hitchcock Cookbook
What’s the perfect recipe for suspense? Alfred Hitchcock knows how to dish it and his recipe is explained in this great graduation project from the highly talented Felix Meyer, Pascal Monaco, Torsten Strer, at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts in Hannover.
Freddie Wong!
If you haven’t checked out any of the great stuff from Freddie Wong, stop what you are doing and do so, you will be well rewarded; you’ll laugh and be amazed. Check out his stuff: Freddiew YouTube Channel | Freddiew2 YouTube Channel | His Blog
3 Cool Sites Worth Checking Out
modelcoasters.com
Just as it says, like people who build model trains, but these make the miniature people hurl their plastic lunches. You’ll see some great craftsmanship on display on this site!
Chinese Propaganda Posters
Foreign Policy Magazine has a great rundown of Sino-propaganda. Make Sure you get to #5 the note about mistranslation, it is pretty funny.
The Center for Cartoon Studies
A nifty place to get all animated and that.
Drop a line in the comments and let me know if I missed something cool.
