A Source Of Inspiration http://www.asourceofinspiration.com Fresh ideas for interactive creativity, curated by @armandoalves since 2006 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 22:53:46 +0000 en hourly 1 38.7042-9.1663http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/http://www.asourceofinspiration.comhttp://www.asourceofinspiration.com/media/asoi.pngA Source Of InspirationASourceOfInspirationhttp://feedburner.google.comSubscribe with My Yahoo!Subscribe with BloglinesSubscribe with NetvibesSubscribe with GoogleFollow me on Twitter @armandoalves Osocio’s Campaign of the Year 2011 announced http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ASourceOfInspiration/~3/VsTdS5txMMI/ http://www.asourceofinspiration.com/2012/02/09/osocios-campaign-of-the-year-2011-announced/#comments Thu, 09 Feb 2012 22:53:46 +0000 Armando Alves http://www.asourceofinspiration.com/?p=4223 The Return of Ben Ali, A Litre of Light and Occupy Social movement are the 3 winning campaigns voted by bloggers (myself included) and juri at Osocio.org. See all the 20 nominees here. The Return of Ben Ali, A Litre of Light and Occupy Social movement are the 3 winning campaigns voted by bloggers (myself included) and juri at Osocio.org.

See all the 20 nominees here.

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Using your Cover Photo, Timeline layout and typography, Moo’s application can turn your Timeline into a pack of business card with your primary details using Facebook’s API. On the back, you can add your own quotation or sentence about yourself.

To make your own Facebook cards just go to your http://www.facebook.com/yourfacebookusername/info and hover on the business card on your contact info – the first 50000 ones get printed for free :)

via Ana Mendes

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Panoramas Sapo


Back in March 2011, Pedro and Basilio began working on their photographic panorama of a key landscape Lisbon monument, Castelo de São Jorge. But it’s not your regular photo: it’s a Tera pixel panoramic photo of Lisbon!

With over 2000 hours of computing processing, 32.000 photo shots, 6TB of data and 5.000 hours of work the project was launched at SAPO Codebits 2011, last November.


Making of video

The project currently has a few more panoramas, such has the one captured at football match Sporting vs. Lazio, where you can tag yourself in the audience.

Impressive work, Pedro and team.

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Have a great 2012!

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The paperback would make a great gift for the season, but for now it’s only available as digital edition (PDF, ePub & Mobi).
I couldn’t resist the visual goodness and the chance to get inside the mind of one the great designers on this field (Jon designed Firefox’s logo) and rewarded myself with one.

From ideation to drawing tips, web or application icons, this is one of the best references on icon design available, further confirmed by the great feedback on Twitter.

I'm only about halfway through The Icon Handbook by @, but it's already worth it. Fantastic job: http://t.co/JpxLuidV
2011/12/20 4:59 pm via Twitter for MacReplyRetweetFavorite
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Jason Santa Maria

The Icon Handbook - http://t.co/MlHGJMnh - After first 30 pages I can recommend. Icon design has great wisdom for game designers.
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]]> http://www.asourceofinspiration.com/2011/12/21/the-icon-handbook/feed/ 0 http://www.asourceofinspiration.com/2011/12/21/the-icon-handbook/ Arcade Fire: Sprawl2 interactive video http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ASourceOfInspiration/~3/UClXj6A9cF4/ http://www.asourceofinspiration.com/2011/12/16/arcade-fire-sprawl2-interactive-video/#comments Fri, 16 Dec 2011 16:40:22 +0000 Armando Alves http://www.asourceofinspiration.com/?p=4151 This afternoon when Arcade Fire posted about their new Sprawl2 video, the website wasn’t available yet, so as a huge fan i was a tad disappointed with only the quirky video available (below). But now it’s live the new interactive video by Vincent Morisset (who just joined unit9), and you really have to exercise your [...] This afternoon when Arcade Fire posted about their new Sprawl2 video, the website wasn’t available yet, so as a huge fan i was a tad disappointed with only the quirky video available (below).

But now it’s live the new interactive video by Vincent Morisset (who just joined unit9), and you really have to exercise your dancing skills on this one. Enjoy the interactive version at http://www.sprawl2.com/ (webcam required) or just the official video.

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As you can see from the teaser trailer, it all boils down to using your assault rifle on Google’s Street View scenery.




Not sure if the PG18+ is against Google’s terms of service (which got shorter), but from Columbine to the Tower of London, there’s plenty to choose from.

via Kotke

]]> http://www.asourceofinspiration.com/2011/12/12/google-shoot-view/feed/ 1 http://www.asourceofinspiration.com/2011/12/12/google-shoot-view/ The New Aesthetic http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ASourceOfInspiration/~3/HyBrj78tVKY/ http://www.asourceofinspiration.com/2011/12/11/the-new-aesthetic/#comments Sun, 11 Dec 2011 19:09:41 +0000 Armando Alves http://www.asourceofinspiration.com/?p=4137 What happens when a whole generation growing up on video games or the Internet defines 21st century aesthetic? James Bridle at Web Directions South 2011, via Russell Davies. More on the New Aesthetic on his tumblr. What happens when a whole generation growing up on video games or the Internet defines 21st century aesthetic?

James Bridle at Web Directions South 2011, via Russell Davies.

More on the New Aesthetic on his tumblr.

]]> http://www.asourceofinspiration.com/2011/12/11/the-new-aesthetic/feed/ 1 http://www.asourceofinspiration.com/2011/12/11/the-new-aesthetic/ Immersive Imaging fills rooms http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ASourceOfInspiration/~3/X-G57Wrc0lM/ http://www.asourceofinspiration.com/2011/12/01/immersive-imaging-fills-rooms/#comments Thu, 01 Dec 2011 15:40:56 +0000 Armando Alves http://www.asourceofinspiration.com/?p=4127 There’s the big and expensive kind of projection mapping, and there’s the smaller but equally aweseome ones as the 3 films created by Studio Output to promote Sony’s PlayStation@Store. Everything is one take, using real time tracking, projection mapping and Augmented Reality technology, which they’re terming “Immersive Imaging”. By attaching the PlayStation Move to the [...] There’s the big and expensive kind of projection mapping, and there’s the smaller but equally aweseome ones as the 3 films created by Studio Output to promote Sony’s PlayStation@Store.

Everything is one take, using real time tracking, projection mapping and Augmented Reality technology, which they’re terming “Immersive Imaging”. By attaching the PlayStation Move to the camera, they could track projections to screens in real time, enhancing the effect of spatial deformation and false perspective on the projections.
Just have a look at the 3 films.

The videos highlight the VideoStore service on PlayStation@Store where users are able to rent or buy their favourite films in high definition.


Agency: Studio Output – http://www.studio-output.com
Production Company: Marshmallow Laser Feast – http://marshmallowlaserfeast.com/
Director: Memo Akten, Barney Steel, Robin McNicholas
Producer: Ian Hambleton


via vincenzo

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One of the students suggested the possibility of translating feelings into digital, and even if i presented We Feel Fine by Jonathan Harris as an bayilik example, i believe the work below is much more representative of transcoding physical into digital.

Feel-O-Meter by Julius von Bismarck , Benjamin Maus and Richard Wilhelmer is a media installation at the Lindau (Berlin-Schöneberg) Gasometer featuring an oversized smiley face, as the crown of the lighthouse at the harbor entrance.

A camera placed at the port, reads from faces, analyzes it and forwards the details to the installation, interpreting the different emotional expressions hunca life katalog from the faces of residents and guests of Lindau. The lighthouse Smiley then imitates the recorded emotions, expressing the mood from the city.

And they can always add extra signals from Twitter of Foursquare :)

Source: Infoesthetics

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