Over in the wacky world of Google Labs, there’s some budding hubbub about Google Image Swirl, a program that searches and connects images based on “visual and semantic similarity.” (For those who have seen Thinkmap’s Visual Thesaurus, you’ll recognize the interface.)
While this has obvious implications in the context of Bing’s lauded image search, the product’s [...]

“Corporate social responsibility” and “crowdsourcing” are so ubiquitous in today’s marketing that even mentioning either term generally elicits more yawning than fawning. Of course, both tactics continue to resonate with consumers, so we can’t completely forget about them either. What to do?
How about shaking things up and spiking them with a bit of creative competition?
Take [...]

Ruben Miller passes along 24 (yes, that number is wrong in TWO different places on his site, but still) imaginative alphabets created from everything ranging from butterfly wings to human hair to raw meat to toilet paper. (Wow, that list went downhill fast, didn’t it?)
See the collection here. Plenty of very creative executions.

Sure, we already shared some fun Friday stuff with you, but when you’ve got a stop-motion cardboard creature video to share, why sit on it? Enjoy.

Yes, yes, and yes.
It’s Friday, it’s crappy outside, and you need some bright, shiny goodness. Hopefully, this video from SWEATSHOPPE will do the trick. (If not, perhaps an order of beer-infused cupcakes?)
The “video painting” demonstrated above doesn’t involve any paint at all. The artists use paint rollers loaded up with green LEDs to cover a [...]

A couple of months ago, we shared with you the quite awesome “book autopsies” of Brian Dettmer. You may have been thinking, “There’s only one thing that could make those more awesome… lasers!”
Well, you’re in luck! (And you’ve got some strange desires.) BLDGBLOG has a post on Johan Hybschmann, whose laser cutting techniques have turned [...]

You’ve always told yourself that you needed to go abroad to find inspiration. You see paintings like Bill Guffey’s work (pictured to the right), and get frustrated that globetrotters like him get to frolic through the French countryside while your only subjects are the Wiener’s Circle and a sort of brownish-green river.
Oh, but then you [...]

Whew – we went pretty deep this week, with big postings on brand storytelling and creatively seducing bloggers. It’s Friday, so let’s sit back, take in some chill music, and lazily paint a picture or something.
Oh, how kind of Labuat to take care of all of that for us! With the release of their latest [...]

We’ve had a number of clients ask us about how to engage influential bloggers (besides bribing them, and subsequently getting busted, of course). Unfortunately, most of these conversations revolve around the “who” (who is the most influential blogger?) rather than the “how” (how do we really get the attention of the blogger community?). As demonstrated [...]

Web design’s come a long way, hasn’t it? Check out the Daily Beast’s collection of old websites, and then reflect upon the fact that twelve years is considered “ancient.”
Feel better about yourself? Nah, didn’t think so.