I can’t sleep tonight and I’ve just stumbled across Wonderland Magazine’s new website which has kept me up a bit longer. I think this site is perfect for fashion driven magazine’s like Wonderland. Although it’s not ground breaking in its layout the whole site feels very much as though it is constantly evolving and documenting an ever changing cultural environment – what a perfect reflection of the fashion industry! http://www.wonderlandmagazine.com/
I’ve been a fan of the work created by creative agency ‘Love‘ in Manchester for quite some time. Some of the founders of ‘Love’ have now founded a new agency named: ‘Music‘. Perhaps this is one reason why I’ve really taken a liking to the work produced by ‘Music‘. Music is such a brilliant name for a creative agency when you think about it, as design like music is just another way of conveying something like an idea, feeling or emotion. I really like how music’s site works too, it’s like a big wall of design to navigate around. Take a look at their work here: www.designbymusic.com
A fun musical interactive experiment to try and get people to use the stairs more often.
Aside from being an absolutely gorgeous site design Andreas Lutz’s website is also impressive because the user can interact with it through voice and gestures. Using your webcam you can use hand movements to navigate through his portfolio of music, site design and games. You can also use voice activation to navigate from one section to another for example by saying “music” you can be taken to the music section. This site is just really impressive, check it out!
When I first saw this I thought it was a joke but nope the plan is that you really will be able to spend endless hours having fun watching mind numbing CCTV footage in the hope that somebody will commit a petty crime. On the plus side if you do catch someone committing a crime you ‘could’ win £1000.
This is a new online ‘game’ which will allow just about anybody to watch a selection of CCTV camera’s across the country and keep an eye out for crime. If you spot and report a crime you could win up to £1000. Personally I think there is something a little bit scary about this project and I think it does raise a few issues including questions about the nations privacy. But in another way it kind of makes sense. There are all those CCTV camera’s out there and who is really using them and how many crimes do go unnoticed? Would it really better for us to watch each other rather than just the state watching and assessing us? Or is this scheme capitalizing on an already imposing method of crime prevention by making us spy on ourselves? I don’t think I’ll be partaking in this one. Britain appears to be leading the way into a CCTV monitored big brother style nation and the fact that enterprises like this exist is quite amazing. Apparently there is an estimated one camera for every 14 people in the UK.
This is a 'Design blog', well kind of! I use the term loosely as not all the posts are design related, apart from being posted by me, a designer! Some posts are my work but most will be work by others discovered by endless searching of the web. Anyway hopefully you will find a feast of visualy exciting links and posts here. My email is: info@jeffreyshield.co.uk
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