A new public art installation for the Museum of London

Posted Julio 21st, 2010 in Applications, General by Adrian

Field Design takes a look at a day in London:

LDN24 is a new public art installation for the Museum of London. It draws filmic impressions and the facts and figures of London life into a picture of 24 hours in the life of the city. Statistics and statements from the web and a huge database are printed along the LED screen by the seconds’ hand of a 24 hours clock. Weather, traffic and news updates, the Thames’ tides, Tube updates and recent fire incidents are pulled live from numerous RSS feeds, Twitter and news portals.

See the display in action below:

LDN24 from FIELD on Vimeo.

Via FlowingData

Outdoor Advertising With Twitter-Based Murals (Video)

Posted Julio 15th, 2010 in Applications, General by Adrian

The Canadian Tourism Commission teamed up with DDB Vancouver to develop an interactive campaign to engage the cities of Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles in a playfully innovative way. The agency rolled out “digital storescapes” (a.k.a. Twitter-based murals) with a comprehensive engagement strategy that utilizes FacebookYoutubeTwitter and a street team as platforms, enticing Americans to ‘keep exploring’ by considering travel to Canada.

The murals feature touchscreen interfaces that centralize tourist buzz by displaying live tweets and photos from travelers in Canada. This creates the opportunity for potential customers to not only become exposed to other travelers’ experience, but also to browse through authentic commentary and have a customized branded experience.

Watch the mural in action:

The Canadian Tourism Commission

Via PSFK

YouTube Leanback is live

Posted Julio 12th, 2010 in Applications, General by Adrian

This latest move coincides with Google’s effort to migrate Internet-uploaded video content to television sets.

The feature is still in beta, you can check it out at www.youtube.com/leanback.

Of course, being YouTube, there’s a demo video.

A new strategy for making people pay for The Times online: Infographics

Posted Julio 11th, 2010 in Applications, General by Adrian

The webs of The Times have already lifted the paywall. But if you want people to pay you got to give them something attractive, diffferent. Unique. And The Times thinks that infographics can be that added value.

They have hired one of the spanish stars of online infographics recently, Rafa Höhr. Former graphics editor of Prisacom (ELPAIS.com, As.com…) and who was working in the online media of Grupo Joly (a regional spanish media group).

Now they’re also publishing interactive infographics for its iPad edition, as I could discover thanks to Esther Vargas.

The Times iPad infographic - “Health Profile of England” from Applied Works on Vimeo.

Infographics people are telling that time ago. We are not just cared about our jobs. Infographics can be the added value. The difference among the flood of webs. Murdoch thinks infographics are a good reason to make people pay. He can success or fail. But he’s not just another person telling the same old story.

Via Infographics news