The last 10 years
The end of the year is here and it’s time to see what we have been exposed to in the last decade. Phillip Niemeyer has a great overview of this topic with his op-chart of picturing the last 10 year.
Archived entries for Reflections
Keep calm gallery
With the never ending workload and stress that modern folks are facing, Lucas Lepola and Hayley Thwaites started this gallery of wall posters that could feature quotes and design from various artist. Would love to have one of these by Rachel E Foster to remind oneself that there are still things to love and think about in life.
What google knows about you
If you have been using alot of google services, then you should check out google dashboard to see how much google knows about you. But on second thoughts, it’s google doing enough to protect your privacy? Read this article in mashable and maybe see what others have to say.
Pigs might fly
Nice way to showcase situation that will never happen. A personal project by Claire Fauché for Eurostar. Reminds me of being a bridge for the “great” integration.
They comment and we shall change
Online comment has become a medium in its own right, but when the general consensus is that most comments suck, why do we continue to add the functionality to websites? It could be due to human nature, when everyone would love to be acknowledge for their ingenious contribution. So what do you think? Dive in to it’s Nice That’s first weekly discussion and maybe you can “comment” your way thru.
It’s not about web traffic anymore
It’s always puzzling for me when i explain online rational to traditional folks. The mental vision of them is focus on driving the traffic to the website and create a sense of urgency for users to sign up with a service or a product. But with the rise of web 2.0, and now coming to web 3.0, the behavior is changing and folks nowadays are looking for unique content on the web. So Barbara Scala, Founder of Bloom mention this;
“It’s not about getting people to come to my web site anymore. It’s about getting my content; my videos,my articles, my event promotion announcements, on YOUR web site. That’s what I’m paying attention to now.”
- Barbara Scala, Founder of Bloom
She is quite spot on when you think about what she said. Read this article and maybe it could change the way you look at digital mediums.
The forest
In this Animated Short “The Forest” by David Scharf, the protagonist has to cope with this question and her hostile environment and finds a simple but radical solution.
The next creative revolution
A great article about creative integration. It’s not about the big idea, it’s about tailored thinking. Nice article by Nick Law, chief creative officer of R/GA.
Thru the eyes of the internet
Aaron Zinman’s Personas scours the web for information and attempts to characterize the person – to fit them to a predetermined set of categories that an algorithmic process created from a massive corpus of data. In short, it’s bringing the thought of how the internet see you.
It’s kinda of quirky how the internet give us our personal thru keywords. But its not doubt fascinating. Get your very own in Persona Project.