The jury is still out on whether the star-studded viral outbreak movie Contagion will be a Hollywood blockbuster, but don’t blame Patrick Hickey if it isn’t. The Scottish mycologist recently led a team that used living bacteria and fungi to create two sinister-looking billboards meant to lure, or scare, people into seeing the movie.
via Don’t Call It Viral Marketing: The Story Behind Contagion’s Microbial Billboard – ScienceInsider.
When Target announced that its next big designer collaboration would be with the Italian fashion house Missoni, fashionistas everywhere were thrilled at the prospect of scoring one the designer’s iconic zigzag knits—which usually retail for thousands of dollars—for around $40 a piece.
via Ad of the Day: Target’s Campaign for Its New Missoni Collection, With Margherita Missoni | Adweek.
Our world is get instrumented, augmented, and enhanced at a stunning rate. Digital displays, touchscreens, and sensors are blooming on even the most mundane surfaces from laundry machines to taxicabs. Each of these interfaces seem to have an internal logic that is not self-evident. It is like they are speaking slightly different languages from each other.
via Why Does Interaction Design Matter? Let’s Look At The Evolving Subway Experience | Co. Design.
The creative folks over at MoonToast have created a wonderful infographic aptly titled “The Anatomy Of A Facebook Fan†which clearly and concisely lay outs exactly how the entire journey of engagement begins and its ultimate outcome.
via The Anatomy Of A Facebook Fan | INFOGRAPHIC | So Bad So Good.
Pop Chart Lab, one of our favorite creators of infographics, has done it again: a poster which every gamer should get RIGHT THIS SECOND. Having already tracked everything from wrestler names to beer, they’ve created what is surely the definite history of the video game controller, all presented in a superb family tree showing when everything was made, what it came from, and what it begat.
