Tweetping
Impressive data visualisation. Web designer Franck Ernewein‘s real-time Twitter visualization, Tweetping, drops a bright pixel at the location of every tweet in the world. Read more on Wired.
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Paper cuts
What this designer does with paper is simply brilliant. Very nice illustrations using only cut paper and great lighting from Eiko Ojala.
Facebook Redesign
This nice re-imagining of the design of Facebook has a bit of Windows Metro feel going on, but nonetheless a very clean design with some imaginative elements.
Seeing the World Through an Airplane Window
An amazing collection of photos taken from the window of an airplane. Take a tour around the world from the sky.
Happy Faces
Nature or even an image that represents it can help us calm down our stressed brain. With his graduation project Happy Faces, Dennis van Gaalen gave the top 10 monumental trees of Rotterdam a visual identity. Each face serves as an infographic to explain specific details of the tree it represents. 10 trees makes 10 beautiful faces.
Redesigned
So Microsoft has redesigned its corporate logo, the first large-scale logo redesign since 1987. Described by some as ‘Meh‘, it’s definitely an improvement on previous attempts. Read some interesting arguments on the pros and cons in this article.
Olympic pictures
The London Summer Olympics are in full throttle. Everyday hundreds of photographers from official ‘suppliers’ Getty and Reuters follow the more than 10,000 athletes in every step. Or crotch. Each day the NYTimes makes a nice round up of the thousands of images taken that day.
Road trippin’
When German former Lufthansa executive Gunther Holtorf retired in 1989 he and his wife decided not to enjoy a quiet life. They packed their Mercedes Benz G-Wagen – named ‘Otto’ – and set of for a 18-month trip through Africa. Now, 23 years later, 74-year old Gunther is still driving, having visited over 200 countries. Along the way Gunter made some great pictures with his pair of Leica camera’s.
Star Trails
Australian photographer Lincoln Harrison shot these amazing star trail photos over the Australian Outback. If you’re interested in photographing star trails yourself make sure you check out this tutorial.
They See Me Rollin’
If your parents had lived in Los Angeles in the 1970′s, they’d probably been rollerskating at Venice Beach. Take a step back in time with this gallery featuring vintage photos of the ‘roller revolution’ at Venice Beach in the summer of 1976.