MIT Personas
The conversation prism
http://theconversationprism.com
Giving Character to Characters
Organic Typograhy
A project by Richard The | Design Ecology Group | MIT Media Lab
In most applications using digital typography today (e.g., animation or screen display), designers rely on existing typefaces. The possibilities for altering and transforming these typefaces are exploited in many ways. What is currently not explored is another large field of typography: the dynamic, flexible, and organic appearance of handwritten typography or calligraphy. This kind of typography is only brought into the digital realm by laborious processes such as scanning; this is because current file formats for type describe the outlines of the individual letters, not the essence/skeleton/model of a letter that we use when writing by hand. This project tries to explore the possibilities of computational and generative processes to improve and change the visual appearance of typography.
Web based 3D colour tool
There is quite a good section on how colour works and colour models. http://www.colorotate.org/
Live flashing by
Stop motion viral for Olympus cameras
Created by taking 60.000 pictures, 9.600 prints, shot over 1.800 pictures as stop motion without post production. The creators at Neue Digitale quote “A wolf loves pork” by Taijin Takeuchi as their inspiration.
Cadburys raising eyebrows
Viral ad for Cadburys chocolate following the drumming gorilla both by glassandahalffull.
Page publishes specialised web design magazine WEAVE
WEAVE beta – example article from the preview
Generation Interactive and tools of the trade Read more
IE falls to 50% – browser usage in Germany
Source: Webmaster Pro. Die Webmasterpro Webanalyse bietet Daten über Nutzungsstatistiken und Marktanteile im deutschsprachigen Netz. In der Webanalyse werden tagesaktuell die Marktanteile der Browser, Suchmaschinen und viele weitere Daten dargestellt.
Animated gif tutorial for CS4
Web Design is 95% Typography
A good article by IA on typography for the web.
The Screenshot above is of typetester, an online tool to compare screen type.