Nike Football 2008-05-01T10:11:35+00:00 Perhaps the greatest football ad ever made? Watching from the perspective of the player may not be a first, but this is done so perfectly and with an amazing array of star players that you can't help but be utterly lost for around 3 minutes. Anyone who'd ever played football will undoubtedly love this, but i think non-footballers will be impressed too. I could watch this over and over again. 151 0 Director - Guy Richie 1 1 0 0 2010-03-11T10:55:45+00:00 13 607 http://www.nike.com/nikeos/p/nikefootball/en__EMEA/index.html HEMA 2008-04-23T11:29:09+00:00 This is one crazy store. Just take a look. 149 0 3 2 2 0 2010-03-11T00:37:28+00:00 21 665 http://producten.hema.nl/ The UK Association of Online Publishers & numerous publishers, designers and developers 2007-10-05T11:15:47+00:00 I had the pleasure this week of attending the annual AOP Awards for Online Publishing at the Hilton Park Lane at the invitation of our clients CMP, publishers of Property Week, for the design of whose online magazine we were shortlisted for the Design and Usability Award. Regrettably we were trounced by the Murdoch millions: to coin a phrase, it was The Sun Wot Won It. And very usable it evidently is. Sour grapes aside, the event displayed an industry that is confident and dynamic and by and large the winners were impressive, including: Channel 40D for the Launch Award; silicon.com for Business Editorial Team; FT.com for Consumer Editorial Team; The Sun Online not only for Design and Usability but also for Use of Video (yeah, right); the Guardian's Islamophonic for Podcast; Trinity Mirror's Gazette Communities for Online Community; Channel 4's Lost Experience for Cross-Media Project. The Telegraph Group, much derided in the course of the evening by 800 drunken competitors for entering everything but never winning, confounded all at the death by scooping the premier prize - Online Publisher (Consumer) - in recognition of their determined commitment over the past year. 110 0 0 0 0 0 2010-03-11T19:51:31+00:00 22 687 http:// Jim 2007-09-19T04:22:54+00:00 "Your daily dose of design inspiration" although to be honest they could call it "your hourly fix of quality design" such is the regularity of the updates and consistently high standard of featured work. The tireless posting of work has lead to a vary large following for this simple yet perfectly formed blog. Subscribe and have something to inspire you during your lunch break. It also features a Directory of design companies which is a fantastic resource, and recently has spawned a new section entitled 'Redesigners' which offers public briefs to anyone who wants to answer them, and then publishes the entries for all to scrutinise. Admittedly there isn't a comercial drive behind it, but that's precisely why it works so well. Subscribe, stimulate, submit. 102 0 1 0 1 0 2010-03-11T10:12:11+00:00 13 692 http://www.serifpublishing.com/ The Maccabees Smiling Wolf 2007-08-03T08:43:43+00:00 I'm not sure I actually like The Maccabees' music, and must admit haven't really listened closely to it, but that's not the point. The functionality and freshness of this site made me sit up and take notice. At its heart I like the stop frame animation that sits behind the menus and content fields. It hints at the kind of integration between full-screen animation and interface that I'm sure we'll be seeing more of in the future. I'd love to see more variety in the imagery used. At launch it does that controversial thing of taking over the whole screen to display the animation to best advantage, which web purists won't like at all, and the execution of the somewhat primitive logo and the 'Buy It Here!' flash at top right rather let the side down a bit, but overall the site has a nice feel to it, and I'm sure Maccabees fans love it, and are delighted that they can get all the information and band interaction they need right here. Somebody said recently that with MySpace taking care of your web presence no band needs their own specialised website any more. I don't think I agree with that just yet. MySpace pages always look pretty much like everybody else's spaces, no matter what you do to them, and this site demonstrates that it's still important to distinguish yourself and maintain your individuality in an ever more crowded marketplace. 75 0 2 1 1 0 2010-03-11T13:47:29+00:00 21 729 http://www.themaccabees.co.uk Massachusetts Institute of Technology Artificial Intelligence Laboratory Human-Computer Interface 2007-07-09T02:59:22+00:00 A very useful online tool for finding the font you're after. Its a simple idea and its executed very well. You are asked a series of questions about the typeface you have: what are the serifs like? What shape is the dot above the lowercase i? And it eventually narrows down to a set of potential answers. Interestingly it can also be used in 'reverse' to suggest typefaces. If you have an idea of the characteristics of a typeface you'd like to use (whether you know it exists or not) you can use this to give you a list of options. 71 0 0 1 2 0 2010-03-10T08:29:08+00:00 13 680 http://www.identifont.com/