Posted in collaborate / participate, games / play, interactive, web / phunk on Dec 21st, 2005
Received a slightly different Christmas card to day. Two rather sexy girls proceeded to spell out my name and a Christmas message in lots of interesting positions.
No doubt this is flying around the web at the moment… its a very well executed idea, and totally intune with the Lynx brand.
Why not send a friend [...]
Posted in games / play, interactive on Dec 21st, 2005
I like this photo from the Game On Exhibition pages of the Barbican website.
Posted in artists / designers, games / play, innovation, web / phunk on Dec 13th, 2005
Yugo Nakamura latest project has been created for Tokyo FM, its called Honda Sweet Mission - Global Research Show.
The site enables blogging, podcasting, tagging and other social software tools - to connect Tokyo FM’s global audience. Its a very playful interface allowing you to interact with different xml feeds, by country, category and month [...]
Posted in games / play, web / phunk on Dec 8th, 2005
Vigin Digital, the music download service, have put together a rather nifty campaign that requires your full attention. Do your best to find 72 bands in this picture (larger version here).
There’s also a video, click the ‘do you see music’ lozenge on the right of the main Virgin Digital page.
Posted in artists / designers, games / play, installations on Dec 2nd, 2005
Interesting piece on Games becoming Art, or I suppose the merging of the two. Take for example the manipulation of the Quake engine to make a musical instrument… or the Sims acting out a mock commercial.
Its all about playing, and playing gets user and audience attention - which is a perfect platform for art. [...]
Posted in artists / designers, games / play on Nov 28th, 2005
“The PSP™ Design Club brought together fourteen of Europe’s most esteemed creatives – artist Chris Ofili (who also acted as team leader); architects David Adjaye, Julie Linke Bank; multimedia designer Ben Hooker; designers Shona Kitchen, William Rowe, Sami Khan, Onkar Kular, Martí Guixé (product designer) and Barrie K. Sharpe; creative director Shubhankar Ray; still and [...]