Inspiring work from 2011

It’s been such a busy year that I’ve found it impossible to post regularly, so here’s a round-up of just some of the business/brand/communications/design ideas that caught my eye in 2011.
1. O2 Academy TV
Having recently become a Dad, it’s been difficult to get out to see many gigs in 2011. O2 Academy TV has been [...]

Sketch2Photo

Not sure I totally agree with Devin Coldewey’s albeit “tentative” comment that this new technology from students at Tsinghua University and the National University of Singapore appears “to be the greatest thing of all time” but it is undoubtedly very cool.

Sketch2Photo: Internet Image Montage from Tao Chen on Vimeo.
It will be interesting to see how this technology develops [...]

The Next Wave of Social Networking from Google

Looking forward to having a play with this new communications platform from Google. Even at beta stage, it’s already massively hyped as the rival to Facebook, Twitter, FriendFeed and possibly also Webex in the business community.
Put very simply, the platform is a type of live chatroom with a facility to share/amend/display documents to participants in real [...]

SixthSense: Paving the way for a new type of brand interaction?

MIT’s Media Lab have unveiled their take on ‘Minority Report’ style technology in the form of ‘SixthSense’. Notwithstanding the mixed film references, the wearable technology is pretty clever: allowing the user to merge the ‘real world’ with the ‘digital world’ by projecting interactive content onto the surface of virtually any object.

SixthSense is essentially hybrid of [...]