Design and Wonder in the Everyday

The Incredible Polo

Thursday, March 18th, 2010

French beatbox artist Incredible Polo is making the Web that much funkier with his Flash beatbox website. Warning: these beats will build a nest in your brain and refuse to move out. Check him out in some of his You Tube videos below.




Book digitization like no other

Tuesday, June 30th, 2009

Concave Scream

The band Concave Scream taps into books to promote their new album “Soundtrack for a Book.” Using the strategy of viral marketing—that is creating stunning content worthy of forwarding—their promotional website utilizes an incredible Flash application featuring digitized classic book covers for an interactive online distraction. *Geek Alert!* The application is reminiscent of a Star Trek episode where some unfortunate crew member gets stuck in the transporter mid “beam me up, Scotty.”

While toying with the pixels of “The Secret Garden” or maybe “Heidi,” you can listen to tracks from the band’s album. It’s a slick interface allowing users to download their manipulations as a desktop wallpaper. It’s definitely worth a minute of your online day. Link

A rundown of Apple’s multi-banner Web ads

Monday, May 18th, 2009

These “Get a Mac” coordinated web ads are fun to watch not to mention brilliant. I’d be curious to see the traffic spikes at the websites. Would these sites charge Apple to host these ads considering the page views?

Apple’s decision to air/post them for limited times only adds to the buzz. The first one in the list was just posted and pulled today. Enjoy.

Beautiful blogs

Saturday, December 20th, 2008

20-21_fubizHere’s a compilation of 40 well-designed blogs according to Sixrevisions.com. Some of these are excellent for their content as well. (Fubiz is a favorite of mine).