A really interesting and thorough look at the new Wells Fargo ATM interface (designed by Pentagram). Lots of good UI tidbits to be found here.
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Lots of good stuff out on the ol’ interwebs this week. In no particular order:
The Orange Underground - an interesting campaign for Cheetos by Goodby Silverstein. There are a lot of nice little touches, like the pattern overlaying the video and the cheap “paper” and felt-tip pen drawings in the cookbook.
Exiled!, a new show from MTV. Take the Super Sweet 16 kids and send them to live with tribes in Africa and Antartica. It sounds like a joke, but the Fallon Planning Blog has the skinny.
Guinness, Life of a Dot, a nice progression of their award-winning Evolution spot. I think these pieces complement each other nicely without trying to rehash the exact same idea.
CP+B’s Holiday Card - made for a select group of their clients, this card features a nice little customizable video and some surprising interaction at the end. (Use this code: 547WERT)
More on the CP+B tip, they’re doing some nice work for Domino’s now; taking them back to their “30 minutes or it’s free” guarantee.
Cool Flash-based website for Soïa & Kyo, a fashion outerwear maker. Love the 3D space mixed with the hand-drawn elements.
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Looking for a highly addictive way to kill some time over this cold and snowy holiday weekend? During those times when the power wasn’t flickering, VML’s Hand Bell Hero helped me and mine flitter away big chunks of the day. Enjoy!
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TripAdvisor, the travel site that has never let me down, has cracked the lid on their new site — see it here. Overall, it’s a huge improvement — the effort and planning involved are evident in the information design and user experience. It’s much easier on the eyes thanks to the wider layout, increased whitespace, rounded corners and more. Congrats to the design team, whoever you are.
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Refill7 is a very cool project from Refill Magazine (I’m not afraid to admit I’ve never heard of it.) — they’ve asked 50 artists to design their own decks by lasering through 7 layers of plywood.
There’s a ginormous gallery of the decks at Flickr that highlights the really cool and highly detailed designs with Laser cutting by Precision 20|20.
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I finally made it to the new Puma store at my local mall to grab a fresh pair of kicks and when I got them home I was pleasantly surprised to find this clever message on the bottom of my shopping bag:
It reads:
“CAUTION: THIS IS NOT A TOY. Obviously, it’s just a bag. OK, we didn’t really think you would mistake it for a games consol. [sic] All we mean is don’t fool around and put it on your head, you’ll just look silly.”
It’s always fun to find little bits of unexpected humor in seemingly mundane places… kudos to the copywriter! Shame on the proofreader though… unless there’s an alternate spelling for “console” that I’m not aware of.
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This definitely falls into the “so bad it’s good” category: Arngren
I’m sort of impressed that they managed to achieve a layout like this using absolutely positioned DIVs.
via Get Elastic
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