Enter the most prestigious juried competition for work being done for the Web, CD-ROMs, interactive kiosks and mobile devices!
Deadline for entries is October 2, 2009.
Introduce your work to the world. Enter Communication Arts magazine’s 16th Interactive Competition. Judged by the latest who’s who in interactive media, the jury’s selections will be published in the 2010 Interactive Annual and on the Communication Arts Web site, assuring a prominent place on the industry’s premier stage.
Found at Good Stuff NW: It’s one of those only-in-Portland but soon-to-be-all-over-the-country phenomenons. Bike enthusiast and Hopworks owner/brewer Christian Ettinger (above, piloting the monster) worked with Metrofiets of Portland and Steinbart draft technician Mike Moscarelli to build the first-ever Hopworks BarBike.
It’s going to make its debut at this Saturday’s all-bike, no-cars event at Hopworks Biketobeerfest at the brewery, featuring two new organic fresh hop beers as well as the regular Hopworks lineup, plus bands playing all day and lots of activities for kids and parents. Haul out the Schwinn and bike on down!
Details: Hopworks Biketobeerfest. Sat., Sept 19, noon-10 pm; free admission (bikes only, no cars allowed). Hopworks Urban Brewery, 2944 SE Powell Blvd.
Thanks to John Foyston of The Beer Here for the photo!
Burgerville says it is installing signs to direct bicyclists through drive-up windows at its 39-restaurant chain and alert motorists to watch for the pedal-powered vehicles.
The Vancouver-based company almost tarnished its customer-friendly image in August by refusing drive-through service to a cyclist at one of its Portland locations. Burgerville has since issued an apology to the bike rider and to all cyclists. The new signs are part of the company’s vow to open all of its drive-through windows to bicyclists. Found Here.
I heard about The Portrait Booth Project from my friend Stacy Korn and fell in love with the idea. Black and white photos taken on an old 1968 instant Polaroid camera in a simple 7-foot-tall canvas booth (imagine that). After getting my photo taken I asked John Ryan Brubaker about what he was doing. Basically he loves Polaroid images and started the project to keep the medium alive. I believe it’s creative people like John that makes Portland what it is. At around $5 a pop, the Portrait Booth Project isn’t making anyone rich but he gets to meet a lot of interested people and makes enough to keep clicking his Polaroid. Want your photo taken?
Silicone, rubber, titanium, polycarbonate. These are the iPod covers we know, the standard, long-lasting, hard-wearing materials which protect your player or stand it on the desk. But what if you want something a little more natural, something that can neither last for more than a few days, nor repel water or dust. What if you want a dock that will collapse after just a few careful uses?
Then you are in luck. Today we have the free, downloadable iPhone and iPod Touch Paper Stand slash Dock, and the Case-Mate iPhone Recession Case, both constructed mercilessly from the dead, pulped husks of previously healthy, living trees.
The stand comes from French designer Julien Madérou and is folded from a single sheet of paper into a “dock” which will hold iPhone and charging cable alike. You can download the pdf and make your own. Be sure to print several templates at once — you’ll be needing them.
The Case, while equally useless, is a for-pay item, although it will only cost you a dollar (a “bailout bundle” offers 10 cases for $8). With cutouts for the camera and switches, it is at least functional, right up until you spill a cup of coffee on the desk.
Of course, we kid. While undoubtedly short-lived, these low-tech gizmos show some smart thinking and a sense of humor: The cardboard case can even be personalized. With a Sharpie.
Product page case [Case Mate]
As part of a national campaign promoting McDonald’s restaurants, a downtown Vancouver lamppost became part of an out-of-home (OOH) optical illusion, appearing to pour coffee into a giant cup on the sidewalk. At the time, McDonald’s was giving away free small cups of its brew for a two-week period, in an effort to attract new breakfast customers. Ad firm Cossette’s Vancouver office developed the concept for a lamppost near 6th Avenue and Cambie Street. The post was wrapped in brown vinyl to resemble poured coffee, while an oversized carafe was attached to the end. Elsewhere in the city, a transit shelter was turned into an ‘hourglass,’ with an ever-diminishing number of coffee beans reminding customers of the promotion’s short-term nature.
Work Hard & Be Nice to People by Anthony Burrill
A full-sized LEGO house is bulding in the UK. By James May, a toy fanatic from the UK, he is builting a real two-storey building, it will make from 816 million Lego bricks. And when the house is finished, James May vowed to live in it! All I know is that my kid will FREAK if he sees this!
