06th
To celebrate the reopening of the Whitechapel gallery in London, five top contemporary artists took over the Art & design site of the Guardian newspaper. The first installment saw the Chapman Brothers filmed by their Staffordshire bull terrier Kylie.
Listening to the grunts and battles this beast has with the web cam, as well as the overall effect of the ‘dog’s eye view’, results in a playful and engaging video experience.
30th
“Our goal is to “democratize” visualization and to enable a new social kind of data analysis.”
Many Eyes has developed some great data visualization pieces, and are part of the IBM Visual Communications lab.

26th
“LucyandBart is a collaboration between Lucy McRae and Bart Hess described as an instinctual stalking of fashion, architecture, performance and the body. They share a fascination with genetic manipulation and beauty expression.”
Their website has a great flash landing page, in which the user morphs the image of a face between one of Bart or Lucy, depending on the mouse position.



“For me, the most important thing for people to learn from our work is that you can actually enjoy making art or design. I think that many people get really stressed about producing work, and they forget what creativity is all about.” – Bart Hess
I guess we started working together because we were talking about a lot of ideas, and it was not possible to realise these ideas in the brief of an electronic tattoo, which we were working on at Philips in the probes team. The Philips work is a far future design reseach programme looking fifteen to twenty years into the future. The programme explores the human body and suggests that our bodies are increasingly becoming a platform for sensitive and interactive technology, the project accelerates a vision for next generation sensitive technology mounted under the skin, where subcutaneous display could be augmented by human sensation, gesture and touch (www.design.philips.com/probes). So anyway, we started collaborating one evening doing fun things, wrapping our heads in sticky-tape and from there it all began… creating work together just in our spare time.” – Lucy McRae
Quotes supplied by Indigo Clarke
26th
- A pure catalog with no merchandising required
- Bookmarking an item is cookie based (requires no registration)
- Each page can be shown in HTML or PDF
- Powerful search, with accurate and minimal results
- Interesting cart features – when you select an item, basic options and the ability to add it to your order appears on the left
- Users can quickly build an order with known part numbers (great for power shoppers)
“An interesting experience given the audience: people who know what they need and want – engineers and hobbyists – people who just need the facts. It’s a great example of knowing your audience and
building a purposed experience around them.” G. Lewis
