Photo: Robert Stolarik for The New York Times What’s your dream project? I asked this question to a former employer of mine and was told the following, “I’d love to do something with hockey… Some sort of augmented reality that compliments the at-game experience.” This wasn’t so surprising considering that his firm is always at [...]
Method is gradually rolling out beautifully designed white papers illustrating insights they’ve gained over their first 10 years of operation. I just read David vs. Goliath which is about OTT services (like Hulu, Boxee, etc.) vs. Big Cable. Aside: if you’ve noticed food network briefly being unavailable or the threat that ABC 7 will leave [...]
Barbairan Group, Fantasy Interactive, Huge, Big Spaceship, R/GA and Organic all have non-flash sites. Why isn’t Flash the best platform for an interactive agency to present their work? If you look around these days it seems that all of the leading interactive agencies (from my perspective in NYC) are switching over their Flash sites to [...]
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about what we all know is just around the corner when it comes to Near Field Communication. Especially in light of the talk I was fortunate to attend at Adobe Max. Given the following video, I think we’re about to think of things a little bit differently. Let me [...]
And I like it… AR Business Card from James Alliban on Vimeo.
I was jut reading a post on Autoblog about how Codemasters’ FUEL features 5,000+ square miles of drivable terrain. Evidently its a world record. And it got me thinking about automating the level-creation/mapping process for video games. Essentially taking Google Maps or Google Earth and assigning roads/topography/features references to 3D objects in the video game [...]
Did a little Roundarch Blog Post: At Roundarch we often work behind the firewall – which for people not familiar with our terminology, means we work on projects we’re not allowed to discuss, much less show publicly. As designers, not having a public audience/forum for our work can be both liberating and frustrating. So when [...]
There are a few components that will prime the pumps in the technology/media/lifestyle sectors and allow for enormous corporate growth in the next 18-24 months; and Amazon realizes this. At first-glance it would appear that Amazon just wants to join the media party and continue to offer feature-set parity with iTunes, and maybe that’s all [...]