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We’ve already mentioned that location is the watchword at this year’s SXSWi, but we’d advise you to keep your eyes out for news on QR codes as well. Longtime readers know that we’ve been [...]

The Source wholeheartedly endorses the increasingly ambitious high-definition projections that are spreading throughout Europe (which we’ve mentioned before). The video here covers a projection that showed up in Hamburg, but we wish someone would bring this trend stateside.
If you’re digging this display (um, who isn’t?), an extended (7:27) version of this video is also [...]

An awesome follow-up to our previous coverage of mind-bending (and building-bending) projections.
Thanks to Dana Dzekian for the tip!

Uh, maybe just a little bit?

Y’know all the talking we’ve been doing about delightful, hidden surprises? You didn’t think those we’re limited just to web design, photo tagging, and packaging, right?
The brand new District Bar has thrown down the gauntlet on all the other local bars that are jumping on the Speakeasy train by including a secret room that’s only [...]

Whoa, someone seriously one-upped the cardboard artist guy we mentioned last month.
The above image shows an Amsterdam-based agency whose interior was completely redesigned using only interlocking pieces of reinforced cardboard. No glue. No screws. No nails. No Nothing. Oh wait, some Nothing – that’s the name of the agency. Ba-dum-dink!
More info available from PSFK.

Are you diggin’ LED installations too? Then check out this “moodwall” that’s been installed in a pedestrian tunnel in Amsterdam.
The 2500 LED lights in the display respond to the movements of passersby. Its creators hope that the bursts of colorful lighting will also discourage/replacing tagging in these environments.

The Brit Insurance Designs of the Year exhibition is well underway, with its 100-entry short list now available for perusal. The awards cover seven design categories, including graphics, interactive, fashion, architecture, and more. Check out the whole enchilada here.
Some of the lauded designs are quite familiar by now, including the Obama logo, the Obama poster, [...]

Oh Jet Blue. While your peers are charging me checked bag fees, ‘breathing on-board oxygen’ fees, and ‘just because we hate you’ fees, you’re offering me pimped-out tapas bars and sushi in the airport terminal. You’re not… ‘taken’… are you?  I just think we’d be really good together.
If you’re smitten like me, indulge yourself in [...]