Wow. Sometimes, every now and then you come to discover amazing things on the internet, like this great video by Takuya Hosogane.
Can’t stop watching it.
source: the beautiful ISO50 blog.
Thesixtyone is a great platform for musicians, a place where they can advertise their music, sell merchandise and contact their fans. Great idea, fantastic navigation and interface.
On thesixtyone, new artists make music and listeners decide what’s good. We’re nurturing a growing ecosystem where talented folks can sell songs and merchandise directly to their fans. Unlike a record or distribution deal where they only make $1-2 per album (if they ever get paid, that is), artists on thesixtyone make at least $7 per album and are paid every 30 days — no wait for recoupment and no complex royalty schemes!
We’re named after Highway 61, a U.S. route that runs along the Mississippi River and marks the origin of American music culture. Muddy Waters, Bob Dylan and B.B. King rode the 61. Elvis grew up in the housing projects along it. Highway 61 was the road by which people left their homes to take their music to the world.
source:AkouAuto
Flavors.me is a great idea/ website that is still in beta version. What it does is that it collects multiple accounts from someone’s online presence and puts them all together to a homepage that is very nicely designed.
Still in beta so expect extra features in the future. Well done!
Another series of posters/ images designed by Hulk4598, this time about all some social web services. Great style and clever taglines. You can see the flickr pool by following this link.
I had been a fan reader of Grafik for some time while I was in UK. Truth is, I kind of stopped buying it because of its high price and nothing else. The whole publication is great, the paper is fantastic and (which is the reason for writing this post too), its covers have always been amazingly inspiring.
As for the last 6 issues, Grafik has a new style for its covers, some illustrations that I can’t stop looking at. Great colors, simple forms and minimum typography.
This is definitely a great direction to magazine cover design. I really can’t wait to see what’s coming in the future.
Have a look at the Grafik website (which is pretty new and we had been waiting for it for ages!) and subscribe to the blog which kindly shares some great content for all of us!
A nice video about Google’s history throughout the years. A company that has changed our everyday internet life and still keeps surprising us with more and more..!
Nassos K., cpil, katrinpi & spyros_vj are the four contributors of a new and fresh idea/ website called Phresh. A great collection of inspirational images, videos and thoughts; an attempt that I was extremely happy to see that is happening in Greece although it can definitely be considered as a universal idea.
We wish them all the best and we are going to be checking them daily!
Hold your breath & check back again soon, cause we’re gonna be your browser’s homepage.
OK, this is a very quick one, just a day’s worth of work for a splash page concept for the new primetimers web radio. Just following general rules from around the web, this page should not include much but just the basic info and a listen now button for the visitors.
I thought the result is nice and clean so I am posting it here mostly for a preview and archival reasons.
‘The Daily Drop Cap is an ongoing project by typographer and illustrator Jessica Hische. Each day (or at least each WORK day), a new hand-crafted decorative initial cap will be posted for your enjoyment and for the beautification of blog posts everywhere. To use a Daily Drop Cap on your site or blog, follow the instructions in each post and read about the usage limitations.’
5byfive is a great little tool that searches over google images for album covers that you might be missing for your library.
Amazing!
(thanks afro)
As part of the ελculture.gr website/ portal redesign, I tried setting up a mood board that will include a vague idea of its character. Setting up a color pallette, choosing fonts and seeing the relations between text, image and color. By demonstrating the basic character and methodology we manage establishing a much better ground for development.
The mood board can be seen in full size, here.
Just discovered this site/project, Personas. Through your online activity and findings, it creates a profile that relates to different subjects. A very interesting project with a fantastic interface, animations and graphics.
You can try it yourself by visiting the website, here.
Here is some text as taken straight from the website:
What is Personas?
Personas is a component of the Metropath(ologies) exhibit, currently on display at theMIT Museum by the Sociable Media Group from the MIT Media Lab. It uses sophisticated natural language processing and the Internet to create a data portrait of one’s aggregated online identity. In short, Personas shows you how the Internet sees you.
How does it work?
Enter your name, and 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. The computational process is visualized with each stage of the analysis, finally resulting in the presentation of a seemingly authoritative personal profile.
Philosophy
In a world where fortunes are sought through data-mining vast information repositories, the computer is our indispensable but far from infallible assistant. Personas demonstrates the computer’s uncanny insights and its inadvertent errors, such as the mischaracterizations caused by the inability to separate data from multiple owners of the same name. It is meant for the viewer to reflect on our current and future world, where digital histories are as important if not more important than oral histories, and computational methods of condensing our digital traces are opaque and socially ignorant.
Credits
Personas was created by Aaron Zinman, with help from Alex Dragulescu, Yannick Assogba and Judith Donath.
source: swissmiss’ twitter
