Colour me bad

This is genius.

It’s a collection of 10 million Creative Commons images that Flickr has defined as ‘interesting’. The genius part is the bar on the right hand side, which allows you to search the images by combinations of up to 10 colours. The proportions of each colour in the found images can even be boosted by selecting individual colours multiple times.

Probably won’t be used a huge amount day-to-day, but a great little bookmark to keep tucked away for mood boards and the like.

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Body talk

Typographic anatomic awesomeness from Ork Posters

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If it bleeds … we can cry about it

Clever use of a cut-out part of the background photo to create melancholy monsters by the Commando Group. Tremble in fear before the Emo Predator

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Wise Words

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All in the mind

Darryl Cunningham draws amazing comics about psychiatry and mental illness, drawn from his time working as a student nurse on psychiatric wards. The strips are brilliantly written and drawn, and do something quite rare in discussion of mental illness – they manage to capture both the experience of people with psychiatric difficulties and the experience of the staff caring for them.

via Mindhacks

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The loneliest number

Morgan Moore’s alter ego Adrenoline is a prolific artist and designer. His posters show off a range of styles and inspirations:

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Taykat

You know when you see a line at the bottom of a poster that says Text FOP to 82958 for more info? Well Taykat lets you set up one for yourself. It’s simple and free… You register a word and the associated message (e.g. times and locations of your band’s upcoming gigs, or the location of the next poster for a secret trail, etc). When someone texts the word to 82958, Taykat reply with the message you’ve set up. The person who texts-in is charged 25 pence + their standard network fee. That’s it. Mint.

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Lulu

Lulu are an online printers who have made going into print easily accessible, both in terms of simplicity and price.

To make your book, you simply select your book options (size, black & white/colour, saddle-stitch/perfect-bound/hard-back), upload your pages, design your cover, and you’re done. Pricing is massively reasonable – an A5, perfect-bound, colour book costs £1.28 + £0.137 per page. Getting something printed is no longer some epic step. Thinking about writing a novel? Bundle all your notes and rough thoughts together and stick them in a book. Carry it round, make amendments, even get other people to do the same. Personal photo albums, collections of doodles, self-designed colouring-in books for your kids; all possible.

I’ve really only scratched the surface of Lulu here – for example, they also offer on-demand printing and links to book-sellers such as Amazon, meaning that they can print your book only when it’s ordered, side-stepping the barrier of expensive print runs…

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Augmentation

Moving Brands are an agency who’ve published a brochure that, when combined with a webcam, becomes a virtual browser through the continually updated information on their website. This video explains it rather better than I have:

What it shows is that static media, such as Moving Brands’ brochure, don’t have to be fixed once they’ve been printed. Instead, they can be constantly updated, by acting as a portal to the information rather than containing the information themselves

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Digital & Physical

The Botanicalls device is a simple moisture sensor that sits in your plant pots. What makes it relevant is that it’s also connected to the internet. This means that it can post messages to Twitter whenever it needs watering, which in turn can text your phone. Once watered, it texts you to thank you for the attention (again via Twitter).

As a demonstration of the ways in which technology is being used to link the physical and digital worlds, it opens up a whole world of potential…

Both Tower Bridge and the Shipping Forecast Tweet autonomously, so why couldn’t a patient’s pill-box? Simple sensors could indicate when each day’s lid has been opened (the technology is regularly used in drug compliance trials) which the pill-box could then post on Twitter. This would allow relatives or carers of elderly patients to check that they’re taking their pills, even if they can’t be there in person. If linked to a timer, the pill-box could tweet if the lid of today’s pills hadn’t been opened, and Twitter would then text a reminder to the patient, their GP or their carers.

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