N O U N : A design blog by Oliver Oike

I came across two unrelated pieces of media today that share a common story: the unsettling activities occurring in the Sudan. The first is the Amnesty International / Yoko Ono project entitled “Instant Karma: The Campaign to Save Darfur,” a collection of John Lennon covers by contemporary artists, including REM, Corinne Bailey Rae, Lenny Kravitz [...]

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Saw this for the first time last night and was riveted. I didn’t know whether I should poke my eyes out by the end of it or stand and applaud. In any case, it’s directed by Napoleon Dynamite’s Aaron Ruell, and commissioned by Leo Burnett.

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Lots of great work from this busy studio. You’ve seen their work everywhere – their reel is full of familiar stuff. Ventilate has a solid video interview with the Creative Director, William Lebeda.

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Taking the piss out of us designers. Pretty funny, I guess… hmph.
From Digital Kitchen. Their reel.

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Can’t really believe I’m posting a cool technology idea from Microsoft, but here it is. They acquired Seadragon and brought in house their image visualization application, which morphed into Photosynth.
Watch the demo from March of this year at TED.

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