So you reckon you can run as fast as an Olympic Marathon runner do you?

Well after watching this you might think again. For the 2011 New York Marathon people in New York were given the chance to see if they could keep up with Olympic Athlete Ryan Hall over just 60ft.

How on earth does someone keep this pace up for over 2hrs?

If you can get out of the office for the day and fancy a nice trip to sunny Brighton this month then you should register for Ampersand – The web typography conference.

It is happening on the 17th June at the Brighton Dome Corn Exchange, Church Street, Brighton, BN1 1UG, UK. Brighton is the birthplace of Eric Gill don’t you know!

A good one day event with some great guest speakers including David Berlow, type designer & cofounder of The Font Bureau; John Daggett, Firefox developer & editor of the CSS3 Fonts Module and Jonathan Hoefler, type designer & president of Hoefler & Frere-Jones.

The point of some of the last posts on this site have been to showcase what people are doing with cutting edge technology, this post is to showcase the everlasting beauty of old school technology. Namely letterpress and the art of relief printing.

I have always loved the process and results generated by letterpress. I still have a couple of mini presses and drawers full of type at my mums house from when I experimented with it an university. Sometimes you just can’t beat getting your hands dirty and being surrounded by physical type and the smell of the inks.

Reverting to Type is an exhibition curated by Graham Bignell & Richard Ardagh, showcasing the work of 20 contemporary letterpress practitioners from around the world.

It looks absolutely stunning, I shall be popping along I suggest you do the same if you’re in or around London over Christmas.

10th–24th Dec 2010 and 4th–22nd Jan 2011
Standpoint Gallery, 45 Coronet Street, London N1 6HD
Open daily 10AM–6PM

Great Interactive bus shelters throughout San Francisco invite commuters to partake in four games based on Yahoo! mobile apps, as part of a neighborhood-on-neighborhood competition. The neighborhood that scores the most points at its shelter wins a block party with OK Go!.

Really nice campaign. People have really taken to gesture driven interfaces and devices (think iPhone, Android, iPad, Samsung Galaxy Tab etc) and mainstream acceptance means the possibilities for great interactive campaigns are almost limitless.

Here’s a challenge that’s pretty irresistible but the stakes are high! Can you draw the internet? So who’s more imaginative the creative industry or a bunch of 10yr olds?

I think i’ll sit down with my 3yr old and see what we both come up with at the weekend. I think i’ve gone into competitive dad mode, his better not be as good as mine!

WTF?, Crazy but cool were my thoughts when this was the first link I viewed this morning. Apparently it’s a performance piece by the artist Willi Dorner “a moving trail, choreographed for a group of dancers.”

Thanks to Mr Hobbs for the link, if you’re interested in front end development check out his Nooshu blog, it’s pretty incredible.

Who says the French have no sense of humour. Absolutely loving these!
Sylvie rocks!

I only found out about this yesterday, the Anti Design Festival is happening around Redchurch Street in London’s Shoreditch. Apparently there are a host of exhibitions, installations, workshops, performances and talks in Art, Design, Product, Film, Sound, Fashion, Performance, Print and Interactive etc.

This is what the website has to say “As a response to 25 years of cultural deep freeze in the UK, the Anti Design Festival will attempt to unlock creative fires and ideas, exploring spaces hitherto deemed out-of-bounds by a purely commercial criteria. Created initially as a direct response to the pretty commerciality of the London Design Festival, the festival will shift the focus from bums-on-seats to brain food, and from taste and style to experiment and risk.”

Go check it out.

A very brave piece of guerrilla marketing from Heineken. On the night of the biggest football game in Europe, Real Madrid v AC Milan Heineken decided to stage a fake concert event and recruited 200 people to try and get 1000 people away from their televisions to watch the concert.

The reactions of the boyfriends, husbands and friends is superb.

Well it finally made an appearance yesterday!

A brilliant quote to start the proceedings by The Wall Street Journal “Last time there was this much excitement about a tablet, it had some commandments written on it.”

It was obviously one of the best leaked or worst kept secrets ever. The best description I have heard of the iPad is that it’s basically an iPhone on steroids.

I think that Apple have found themselves in a difficult situation with the iPad, if it did too much (multitasking as everyone presumed) then they would have potentially wiped out demand for their MacBook range and possibly the MacBook Air.

The biggest revolution with a screen of this size and resolution must be how we’re going to be able to consume more effective rich media. Newspapers and magazines will become far better engaging experiences and with Apple’s desirability factor making their products mainstream could this be the biggest opportunity for brands to push personalised content and advertising based on profiling?

This collaboration between The Wonderfactory and Time, Inc. is an example of how people have been pushing the engagement levels of the digital versions of magazines.

The worst thing about the iPad – still no support for Flash?

Steve really mustn’t like someone at Adobe.