Power of Data Visualization

Inspiration is EVERYWHERE. If you need more convincing, just take a look at the entrancing little blog Beyoncé Palettes. Here the singer’s many, many photographs are used as the source for inspired color palettes which harmonize with Queen Bey herself. Whether you’re painting the kid’s room, designing an event website, or searching for a look to set your latest poster apart, this creative exercise is a great example for any designer.

LEGO is building a social media following as inspiring as their little plastic bricks – and their LEGO Architecture brand is playing a major role. Part of their success is coming from innovative campaigns that capitalize on the creativity their product inspires.

A little while ago Kevin Ferguson went on a western film viewing binge. When he was done he’d seen 50 of the classic cowboy movies, a whole lot of John Wayne and a lot of riding off into the sunset. His western obsession didn’t end there. Intrigued by the color in each film, he compressed its imagery into a single frame – an analysis of its form and light. Each of his ‘summed images’ reveal the color palette, mood and dominant framing technique that make a film’s running length.

COMPRISING more than 13,500 islands sprawled across almost 2m square kilometres, home to 250m people speaking over 700 languages and practicing virtually every religion on earth, Indonesia’s only real rival for the title of “most diverse country on earth” is India. The World Bank considers Indonesia a “lower-middle-income economy”, but economically as in everything else, this masks huge differences. 

MEMORIAL DAY in the United States this year—observed on the final Monday of May—was the first in 14 years without American engagement in a major ground war. America’s military presence in Afghanistan, which once stood at more than 100,000 troops, has dwindled to a tenth of that number and may disappear almost entirely.

Ever since Jurassic Park wowed us in 1993, people have been dreaming about bringing an amusement park like it to life – or at least the dinosaurs in it. The website for the latest film Jurassic World will make you believe this actually happened.