Vol: 001 | Issue: 003
The bv02 creative digest is a compilation of thoughts, links, musings, and inspiration that has caught the eye of our creative team over the past week. A combined effort from Matt Davidson (New Media), Paul Wright (User Experience), Matt Ernst and Daniel Bianchi (Creative)
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UX news this week
UX Blog “52 Weeks of UX” released a new article this week, entitled “The Ghost of Decisions Past”, with Josua Brewer discussing design process, saying “… as a project goes on and more people get involved, decisions continue to informed by constraints that existed at one point in the process but either no longer exist or have changed in such a way to be virtually unrecognizable.”
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Blog post of the week
How Bots Seized Control of My Pricing Strategy
Its a pretty technical article, but dont be afraid. This post explains some of the methods and systems in place behind Amazon’s massive “used” book market, and how a price war is being fought over books that sometimes dont even exist.
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Inspiration of the week
How New York Pay Phones Became Guerrilla Libraries
John Locke has started a new manhattan art project, turning phone booths into mini public libraries. This really reminds me of the swap boxes in Ottawa, or the knitivism, but with a slighly intellectual edge. No word on if the books remained for long, but I am sure these were turning heads all over Manhattan.
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Illustration of the week
That’s an impressive illustration by Charis Tsevis. The artist creates a portrait of Steve Jobs using only images of Apple devices. Very nice.
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Photo of the week
Life Magazine just published a slideshow of their best photos from 1937 to 1972:
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Video of the week
Glowing Man HD from Jacob Sutton on Vimeo.
What happens when you take a 4K camera, 2000 LEDs, and a snowboarder outside at night. This epic piece of digital cinematic art.
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Web-font pick of the week
http://nodeca.github.com/fontomas/
Not a traditional web font, but the ability to create an icon font on the fly is really neat!
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Interesting website of the week
An art project by Jon Rafman, 9-eyes documents interesting photos captured by Google Street View from all around the world, from scenes of war, crime and sometimes just funny.
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