Community-designed sustainable open source car project from Netherlands.

http://www.cmmn.org/nc/en/home.html

 Very nice online service from Harman Kardon.

 It’s an online route trip planner that generates also a playlist with music that fits to the journey. You can choose preferred artists or music styles, and export the playlist to your iTunes library.

http://www.amplifiedjourneys.hk/

get some inspirations on creating guerilla posters.
Most of them follow the same mechanic, but they are all strong and disruptive.

 Goto WebUrbanist.com

Link to YouTube
Link to the microsite

As part of the Axe Hair Crisis Relief effort, 100 beautiful girls gathered together to give their approval of guy’s hair and hopefully help a few guys out along the way. On the site, you can upload your photo and get a personalized recommendation for improving your hairstyle. Together with BBH New York, B-Reel set up a warehouse with 4 cameras to film the girls and all of the out-of-control shenanigans they get into.

Watch as the approvals are broadcast for all to see or try your own photo and see what they think!

These two card sets are old, but nonetheless very useful.

1. IDEO Method Cards

www.ideo.com

2. Creative Session Box (German only)

www.mariopricken.com

Wikitude is a mobile travel guide for the Android platform based on location-based Wikipedia content.

More Information

Eine paar nette Artikel zur Ideenfindung und zum Brainstorming:

25 Wege, neue Ideen zu finden

Erfolgsformel für Brainstorming

101 Wege, Ideen zu generieren

BrainR

Creative Session Box

Big spcaceship created a nice website, an archive of an endangered species, the preloaders.
Preloaders are a special kind of web-art, i haven’t seen often good ones, but there are some.
I think, a very nice idea.

Just visit the archive and submit that one, you have created.

Direct to the archive, click here

WHATs UP!

FluidTunes gives you control over your music using only a camera, and your hands, head or feet.

Swipe your hand from left to right or right to left over the screen center to scrub. Wave quickly at buttons to activate them.

Without using a keyboard or mouse, you can navigate through your music and play or pause songs.

Link: FluidTunes

and this is also very stylish, i like the coloured bubbles.

Link: iSight Screensaver

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WHATs UP! Wow, the Website from BBC using the aggregator logic, like netvibes or iGoogle. On the Homepage you can direct change and edit Content without login. Also other BBC Websites are easy integrated, e.g. BBC iPlayer the On-Demand Plattform from BBC with contains television broadcasts and feature films. More features on the Site are:

• Add and remove your preferred topics 
• Editing Content, e.g. Themes depence on the continent, number of themes, …
• Customised Display Option: e.g. Colours, Typography, …
• Uk and International Version
• Search BBC and Web

Link:http://www.bbc.co.uk/home/d/

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WHATs UP!

BBC iPlayer is a Online-Plattform from BBC and contains the hole program for seven days On-Demand via Flash streaming (Dec), added Most Popular, More Like This, etc. (Jan), and made BBC iPlayer available on iPhone (Feb) and Wii (April). You can find BBC-televesion broascasts und feature films and also radio content. The Content is only lincensed and available in UK.

Another interesting nformation. In the future there will use The new codec H.264 mit 800 KBit/s and replaced the mostly used On2 VP6 Codec 500 KBit/s (YouTube, etc.).

Link: BBC iPlayer

More details: BBC blog

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WHATs UP!

… flash design website and it’s really excellent fun!

Hints: There are really a lot to discover. Take a little time and search for the cat and move withe the loupe over the butt!   

Sound on! Click here! Do it! Do it now!.

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                                    Frischer Wind kommt immer von außen. 

I would like to have done that thing. Respect.
Can imagine how they felt on the set
Let’s concentrate on the next.

Goto The ad
Goto The making of

Amazon has launched Windowshop.com. 

A description of the site reads, "We’ve taken out the text and created an immersive experience to help you lose yourself in exploration. Trailers for bestselling movies. Insight into the hottest TV shows and video games. Track samples from Tuesday’s new music releases. Audio reviews of books you should read. Amazon Windowshop lets you get a taste of many titles." Every product has a direct link to Amazon.com where shoppers can purchase the item.

WHATs UP!

Tokyo Jogging is the name of a cool idea Ryo Katsuma, a renowned Japanese software engineer, single-handedly turned into reality in his spare time. Katsuma-san’s project is a mashup of Wii technology and Google Street View. Users can “run” through Tokyo by using a Wiimote (plugged into a PC) and with Tokyo on Google Street View as a background.

This is an awesome idea and you can watch a tuturial video on how to install and run the application here (subbed in English).

Go check the video on IO tube.

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                          Frischer Wind kommt immer von aussen. 

WHATs UP!

Zocken statt glotzen: Mit ein paar Tricks basteln Hobbyregisseure aus YouTube-Filmchen kleine Gratis-Online-Spiele zusammen. Der Spieler entscheidet per Mausklick, wie es weitergeht. SPIEGEL ONLINE zeigt die besten Videospielchen.

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ahyHfNqquQ&eurl=http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/web/0,1518,580883-2,00.html

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                          Frischer Wind kommt immer von aussen. 

Great idea and great execution from Eepy Bird guys (aka "The Mentos guys)
Don’t try this in our office… 

View video 

Cymbolism, Words and Colors.

Same mechanism as http://www.brandtags.net/ (another great ressource!). Such an easy and wise idea, so pity we didn’t had it.

Color is the ultimate tool a designer has at his or her disposal to communicate feeling and mood. Cymbolism is a new website that attempts to quantify the association between colors and words, making it simple for designers to choose the best colors for the desired emotional effect.