The Heads of State’s Travel Posters
Nice travel poster series from the talented duo The Heads of States. I like a lot of their work, like the hypothetical Legal Weed packaging assignment from Print Magazine and the many book cover designs.
Archived entries for nice work
Obscura Digital: Touch everything
Checkout Obscura Digital‘s work — from tables to walls to mirrors…
Latest notables: The Hard Rock Cafe RockWall, winning the prestigious 2010 Communication Arts Interactive Annual award for entertainment. Read the details in Communication Arts.
If only we can make a whole building a touchable surface…
The not so Lonely Planet
Lonely Planet on mobile, TV, touch, web, social…
First, we start with the Lonely Planet mobile apps offering Guide Books and the audio Phrasebook, offering travellers help in multitude of languages, from Arabic to Swahili.
Then there’s LonelyPlanet.TV that produces and develops some of the best travel and factual programming, including its flagship series, Lonely Planet Six Degrees. This playful, sassy, streetsmart and unexpected show that connects viewers to what makes each city special – the people that live in it.
To match that spirit, One Planet. 100 million stories invites you to share your travel photos and win a round-the-world trip for two. Pretty cool interface once you get to the photos but it is a little slow. Another is a Twitter contest that harnesses the lightheartedness and the social nature of Lonely Planet audience.
And in a true Lonely Planet traveler spirit, they developed the BlogSherpa where bloggers can blog about destinations and in return, get traffic and paid in return via Google Adsense.
The latest addition is Lonely Planet on Microsoft Surface prototype developed by Amnesia Razorfish to go into Lonely Planet stores. The app allows shoppers to place a guide book on the table and interact with content from that book, along with additional video content. You can then take a Lonely Planet passport book from the front counter, place it on the table, and then drag content from the books onto the passport, which you can retrieve later on the website.
This iconice brand seems to be doing stuff right. It stays true to the founders‘ attitude. Very cool.
Keds gets cool
Who knew Keds is for the cool kids now? The Original Sneaker by Keds is a totally cool interactive time travel with story of the day teamed with Daily & Decade Facts and links to style gallery and other features. You can also quicky tweet your inspiration. The Flash interface is clean and simple to navigate with nice panel-flipping transition.
The Style Gallery is powered by Chictopia.com, a fashion community housing style gallery, personal fashion blogs, contest, etc. Just put the URL of your photos and you’re in. Chictopia.com also lets you shop, find sales and shopping deals, and connect with other stylista. And the more you interact with the site (post in forum, comments on photos, upload your own photos), the more “chic rewards” you get, opening more site features as your accumulate points.
Another feature of the Keds site is Design Your Own Keds Shoes. Powered by Zazzle, it lets your channel your inner artist and create your custom Keds. You can start from scratch or use others as inspiration.
Very cool, Keds. And I thought Keds shoes are something you have to be forced to wear! 🙂 What do I know!
BBC 2.0
BBC published a detailed account of their website redesign effort on their blog. Called Global Visual Language 2.0, the redesign aim is to unify the visual and interaction design of bbc.co.uk and the mobile website.
The new wider, centered page template takes advantage of wider screen resolutions and for the first time created an underlying grid. The hundreds of different banner styles are rationalized into a new global and local branding and navigation system. The redesigned homepage creates a visual style that began to ripple through the site and onto the mobile platform.
From grids to color to font to icons, not to mention the “Wall of Shame,” it is a very nice and detailed account indeed.
See the website redesign in pictures.
p.s.: Unfortunately, some people don’t react well to change , as reported by the Guardian. They’ll get over it.