We’re excited to announce the launch of Exploring ETFs, a site for Barclays Global Investors designed to educate financial advisors & individual investors about Exchange Traded Funds. It’s been a culmination of over 6 months of collaboration between the IQ team and the folks at iShares, and we’re ecstatic with the way it’s all come [...]
Archive for July, 2008
July 30, 2008
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Barcode Plantage
By IQ in design, technologyThis visual data experiment by Daniel Becker explores a more colorful approach to translating barcodes into human understanding. The award wining execution Barcode Plantage is another great testament to the potential of Processing.
Operating mode:
Once a bar code is keyed or scanned in, the program sends a request to the database, which returns a [...]
July 24, 2008
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Building Radiohead’s House of Cards
By Mason Poe in NewsRadiohead recently released a new video for its song “House of Cards” from the album “In Rainbows”.
No cameras or lights were used. Instead two technologies were used to capture 3D images: Geometric Informatics and Velodyne LIDAR. Geometric Informatics scanning systems produce structured light to capture 3D images at close proximity, while a Velodyne Lidar system [...]
July 21, 2008
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Grab Up
By Mason Poe in designGrabup Software Demo from jon on Vimeo.
GrabUp is a new application designed to simplify the process of taking and uploading screen-grabs. The idea is whenever you take a screenshot on a mac (CMD+4), GrabUp then uploads the file to the net and adds the link to your clipboard. In the future, the development team plans to [...]
July 17, 2008
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Bringing Utility To The Banner
By Mason Poe in IndustryOne of the limitations of the banner space is that the click is instant. That is, the call-to-action is immediate. And while an effectively executed banner can get people to change their tact on a dime and commit to an experience (or a sale, or whatever the goal of the marketer is), there is an [...]
July 10, 2008
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When the going gets tough, the tough go digital
By IQ in NewsLife, like a good football game, is usually decided by what you do when the going gets tough. Marketing is no different. Great success is often achieved in the midst of adversity. That’s because during challenging economic times most brands pull back and go quiet to protect themselves.
But a few brands, anticipating the silence in [...]
July 9, 2008
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NBC’s Test Case, a.k.a. The Olympics
By Mason Poe in IndustryAccording to ArsTechnica, how we watch this summer’s Olympic Games could significantly shape the future of online and on-demand video, and NBC knows it. The network plans to track viewership of the Games on broadcast and cable TV as in past years, but this time around will also closely track online and mobile users. The [...]
July 8, 2008
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Pulse – Emotion Visualization Organism
By Mason Poe in design, technologyPulse is a fascinating live visualisation of recent emotional expressions written on the private weblogs published on blogger.com. Emotional expressions are parsed according to a list of synonyms, which then physically transform an abstract shape-shifting object.
Textual expressions are assigned to 1 of 8 basic human emotions, which are represented as a 3D cone consisting of [...]
July 3, 2008
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Outstanding Web Characters
By Mason Poe in NewsThe fine people over at Noupe have organized a collection of outstanding character illustrated that have been used in many of our favorite websites.
Having a unique design is a must to get your visitor’s attention. Vector characters can establish a memorable image of your site in the reader’s mind. So if you are looking for [...]
July 2, 2008
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Dirty Car Art
By Mason Poe in designTexas artist Scott Wade turns dust covered cars into works of art. Check out his online gallery for tons more.
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