Christian Faur has assembled a collection of over one hundred thousand hand cast crayons in order to create his Crayon Series 1 body of work. I’m not entirely sure if they would be classed as sculptures, installations or paintings?
Crayon Series 1 is a series of photorealistic landscapes and figurative images that are formed at the surface of the thousands of tightly packed crayon tips. Very nice indeed.
A nice social info-graphic from Digital Surgeons. An incredible amount of users are now using these social channels as illustrated by the Facebook world map below (generated by visualising friendships).
Have just seen this Kinect puppet prototype on the Creative Review blog. I wondered how quickly we’d see people from outside the gaming industry using this technology. Really nice application, this is going to open up a whole new world of possibilities.
It never ceases to amaze me how quickly people hack systems, release drivers and a raft of open source code and share all their brilliant hard work. Oh it’s all getting very exciting out there in digital world.
A lovely post on the Creative Review blog, U&lc lives. U&lc launched in 1974 was the most important typography publication of it’s time. Hugely influential and still standing the tests of time, Monotype Imaging are making editions available to download in PDF format.
For all the type geeks out there this is a must have edition to your collections.
I got a link to this info-graphic yesterday from Roz one of Harvest’s user experience team. Interesting and surprising facts on the average ages of people on and using social networks.
A big misconception is that they are dominated by the yoof, the fastest growing demographic are the over 50′s who are embracing technology and new communication channels at a significant rate.
The full info-graphic can be seen on thenextweb.com and more via Flowtown.
I thought I’d share a couple of cool infographics that have caught my eye recently. The top image is the ‘Cosmic 140‘ a visual representation of the top 140 twitter influences compiled by the Information Architects team. The size of the blobs indicate indicate how many followers each account has.
New City Landscapes – Interactive Tweetography Maps is the second image of a 30km radius around London compiled by Twitter data. There is some great renaming of london districts and I love the thought of ‘Soho Mountain’ in the centre of town.
If you’re going to buy one book this week/month then Creative Mischief by Dave Trott is the one I would pick up. I can’t recommend it highly enough. It works for every creative discipline.
I won’t tell you why. You’ll understand once you’ve read it. Genius.
Another great find whilst doing client research is The Web Strategy blog by Jeremiah Owyang.
An incredible source of knowledge and insight into web strategies. Written by Jeremiah Owyang who was a Senior Analyst at Forrester Research, and is now Partner of Customer Strategy at Altimeter Group.
Good reading:
Companies Should Factor ‘Social Influence’ Into Total Customer Value
Four Social Media Trends for Business in 2010
I hope he won’t mind but I’ve pinched his “To Be Successful, Companies Should Focus On Four Key Trends in 2010″ to share with you.
Don’t fondle the hammer.
Understand customers, focus on objectives, not develop strategies based on ever-changing tools. Companies really need to understand their customers first, see our recorded webinar to learn more.
Live the 80% rule.
This is a movement: get your company ready. 80% of success is getting the right organizational model, roles, processes, stakeholders, and teams assembled –only 20% should be focused on technology.
Customers don’t care what department you’re in.
Customers just want their problem fixed, they don’t care what department you’re in. Yet, now, nearly every department can have a direct relationship with your customers using social tools. As a result, provide customers with a holistic experience Start to investigate how brand monitoring, community tools and CRM systems are merging.
Real time is *not* fast enough.
Companies cannot scale when it comes to social media, for most companies, you cannot hire enough people to monitor and respond to the conversation, As a result, lean on advocates, by building unpaid armies, and anticipate customer needs through advanced listening techniques.
The image above is from “The Future of the Social Web” Forrester Apr 2009.
The Five Eras of the Social Web.
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