Smart.

“No printing is necessary to activate Burger King’s new augmented reality banner created out of Crispin Porter + Bogusky and showcasing the fast food giant’s Value menu. Viewers can hold up any old dollar bill to their web ams and get a taste of what the greenback can buy.”

Burger King: BK Dollar Menu Banner – Cat: Creativity and Technology – Creativity Online.

The Future of Publishing is print on demand. Case in point: Strange Light, a 40-page magazine featuring stunning photography from the Great Australian Dust Storm of 2009. The freak dust storm occured on 9/23/09. The magazine was published on 9/25/09 using HP’s Magcloud.

SoupSoup makes an interesting point:

The idea that a magazine can be produced overnight and distributed worldwide, at a fraction of the cost magazines were once traditionally produced and distributed, is pretty phenomenal.

Some possibilities I could imagine: a tumblr like Eat, Sleep, Draw producing a quarterly periodical highlighting the best content they’ve curated. They would only produce what is ordered, ensuring they would not suffer a loss on production.

via: MrMattSpangler

Created in collaboration with the essential-oil company L’oeil du Vert, the fragrance has notes of wood, resin and rose that smell like the Moroccan vacation of a young filmmaker and her musician boyfriend. The always-contrary A.P.C. designer Jean Touitou — who hates perfume — wanted it to smell like the inside of a guitar case strewn with rose petals; the bottle, which he designed with M/M, is meant to resemble the waves on a computer screen that a 12-string guitar makes when playing the opening chord of the Kinks’ “Waterloo Sunset.” If you wear wrinkled scarves, old Converses and a secretly expensive trench coat and haven’t washed your A.P.C. jeans since Jarvis Cocker left Pulp, this one’s for you.

Via: NY Times, The Moment

1. 3-D Hologram Gesturing Technology

D’strict is a Digital Media shop in Korea that’s doing some amazing work w/ display and experience design. The J4 is a device they’ve developed that enables the user to control the display contents with simple hand shapes and gestures, thereby eliminating the need for a separate input tool.

2. Designer as Photographer

Inspring video feature on the Adobe XD site of Senior Experience Designer Kim Pimmel. He takes us on a photowalk around the Richmond shipyard, shares a peek at his home studio, and explains how his photographer’s eye shapes his UI designs. To see more of Kim’s photos, visit his website.

3. Power of the Interface – Nikewomen Japan

Simple idea: Video series of a Nike training instructor teaching a celebrity Aerobics exercise. What makes this site special is the attention to detail and unique interface, making it fun to play and watch. Nike.jp – Be Transformed

4. Best design practices in Papervision

Smashing magazine covers the best, recent sites using Papervision. This is a really comprehensive list and shows how Papervision can be used in your project, but keep in mind it’s not recommended for sites where simplicity and accessibility is essential. The Concave Scream site (the image above) is so dope! (Also covered by BBH Labs here)

5. Facade Projection

555 KUBIK | facade projection | from urbanscreen on Vimeo.

If houses could dream, what would they be? The description on the video profile page makes absolutely no sense, but this is an amazingly executed facade projection.

Here’s a lengthy (237 slides!) but comprehensive deck tying together the recurring themes in digital marketing of the past year. I like the concept. It’s like saying I’m so Digital, I’m Post-Digital. heheh… What that means in context to the deck is Digital in a post-digital world is no longer a silo, it’s an intrinsic part of everyday life. We shouldn’t think of it as separate medium because at this point it’s THE thread that runs through everything we do. And instead of focusing on technology itself as device, a better approach would be to accept digital as a social and behavioral catalyst.

Video Blogging (Vlogging) has been around for awhile, but never really picked up steam. With the iPhone 3GS’s video capture/editing features on the fly as well as dead simple blogging tools like Tumblr and Posterous, we’re gonna start seeing more play in this space. Peep TVTVChannel, an observational documentary published weekly by Nicolas Atkins. Anyone have other examples? Leave a comment below.

TVTV 23 from TV TV on Vimeo.

Water Brain Complete Edition（16：9） from Johann.Poo on Vimeo.

The talent pool in China is increasing day by day. Water Brain, a 15-minute animated graduation project, is making waves through the Chinese internet. It was produced by Ani7ime Studios, a group of seven students at the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, Guangdong Province.

I hate when a brand’s idea of a digital strategy is to put a video online, but this is a good example of how it can be done well…

http://www.nike.com/nikeskateboarding/paulrodriguezIII/
A simple, content-heavy site screening the ad/video/viral for Nike SB’s new shoe

The video itself is brilliant for a number of reasons:

• Soundtrack & cinematography
• Lance Mountain as the cop
• Kobe, P-Rod and Koston in the same scene. A nod to the fact that they are now all teammates on Nike’s roster.
• P-Rod’s “Did that just happen?” moment at the end (I won’t ruin it for you!)

Too good. Another job well done Nike SB.

Helveticons: Royalty-free vector icons, glyphs and symbols based on the Helvetica Bold typeface. Not cheap at $279 for the set, but boy will your diagrams pop.