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interactive feature highlights

krautland — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 11:50:15 -0800

Journalism may be going through a painful period but thanks to the web the once lowly information graphic is finally growing up to be all it never could on paper. Especially the New York Times seems to currently stand out in how frequently and quickly they build amazingly detailed and insightful interactive features. Consider the tracking of US Airways Flight 1549 or the piece on raising its engine from the Hudson. Other recent highlights: 9,955,441 parking tickets issues in NYC mapped by street, The Ebb and Flow of Movies: Box Office Receipts 1986 — 2008, Ansel Adams's Yosemite, the view from the 10-meter platform explained, A look at the language of presidential inaugural addresses 1789 to the Present, A Map of the number of medals that countries won in summer Olympic Games, Going to the End of the Line, The 44 Places to go in 2009, an explanation of how the Pentagon responded to criticism of then-Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld, The Soyuz Spacecraft, How the Towers Stood and Fell and many, many, more. I am of course aware that it's not just the NYT that's doing great interactive work these days. one example I particularly like is the Los Angeles County Homicide Map but they closed down the accompanying blog. please do feel free to add more great examples. I'm merely trying to get the ball rolling.

Pixel Inspiration

netbros — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 07:27:38 -0800

RGB Garden is a purely design based web design gallery and web designers community featuring beautiful CSS and Flash based websites. They also feature design related articles and downloads. Check out the developer's personal garden while you're at it.

Poland's Cultural Heritage in nifty flash site

peacay — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 21:12:57 -0800

"Commonwealth of Diverse Cultures: Poland's Heritage is an international educational exhibition which presents the history of tolerance and cohabitation of various ethnic groups in the territory of Polish-Lithuanian Commowealth and is addressed primarily to foreigners all around the world". This is achieved via a very beautiful flash site.

Paper Pilot: Battle of the Air

spock — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 06:33:09 -0800

Flash Friday Fun: Design a paper airplane and then see how far you can fling it. (Sound warning)

Slow Flash interface that's actually worth it.

IronLizard — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 17:19:06 -0800

Very cool demos in Flash (can be very slow loading).

The Whale Hunt

mkb — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 19:31:19 -0800

A photographic catalog of a traditional whale hunt. (Flash, photos include whale hunting in all its bloody detail) In order to develop an experimental interface for storytelling, photographer Jonathan Harris accompanied a family of Inupiat Eskimos on a subsistence whale hunt. During his week long journey, he took 3,214 photographs, including pictures taken every 5 minutes while he was sleeping. The navigation allows for for very quick navigation through the series, using a heartbeat metaphor and a number of filtering constraints so that you can narrow your search to cast members, locations on the journey, and even something as loose as a photo's "concept". via

Best of Web... or so it claims

psmealey — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 08:20:58 -0800

Best Web Gallery is an inspirational gallery site where we collect a wide range of quality design websites (Flash & CSS). What is quality design means to us? Quality Design = Visual + Technical + Creativity. Also, Best of CSS design for 2007.

It's alive!

Blazecock Pileon — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 09:16:11 -0800

Gary Stasiuk's beautiful Digital Creatures pulls the curtains on the kinematics of geometric objects, after which he plays with the mathematics and user interactivity of generative art and shows how to build the appearance of AI behaviors into Flash objects.

A title's pointless. Who wouldn't click on a link called that?

dobbs — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 08:47:30 -0800

Architecture and the Velvet Fist of Happiness - click 'view the book" in the top left. {Flash, slight sound, NSFW}

Wednesday Flash Design Fun

loquax — Wed, 26 Apr 2006 08:35:43 -0800

Leo Burnett Ad Agency - A pretty cool site, and, says this rank amateur, the best implementation of Flash I've ever seen (and I hate Flash).

Talent

tellurian — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 22:10:54 -0800

Dave Werner has an awesome portfolio site. He uses Flash video to present the back story on his projects.

Open Source Flash

Tlogmer — Mon, 15 Aug 2005 20:08:20 -0800

Open Source Flash

DONTCLICK.IT - Interface Experiment

signal — Fri, 08 Jul 2005 16:15:53 -0800

dontclick.it : what would you do if somebody stole your mouse button? Yes, it’s flash, and it’s annoying, but that’s the point.

Did you find the alien?

Alison — Thu, 28 Apr 2005 12:26:12 -0800

Safeplaces is an interactive playground. Mushrooms twitch and squeak, trees react and the environment shifts between day and night. It even has its secrets. Further, less adorable work can be found here.

myData=myMondrian

sjvilla79 — Fri, 08 Apr 2005 21:58:30 -0800

myData=myMondrian is an interactive art interface in which the personal data provided by viewers is translated into a Piet Mondrian-like composition. Here's an example image.

Related: Rhizome.org: myData=myMondrian

neurobion

crunchland — Mon, 04 Apr 2005 21:12:30 -0800

neurobion [note: flash]

Yugop Relaunches

gwint — Fri, 06 Aug 2004 09:31:11 -0800

Flash guru Yugo Nakamura relaunches his site.

ArtDesignFilter

Gyan — Thu, 29 Apr 2004 23:31:08 -0800

Design exhibits, design guru, and designologue.
Flash required.

intentionalles

the fire you left me — Mon, 15 Dec 2003 14:52:20 -0800

Tokyo design for the softly blind. Interior to industrial.

Beautiful, open source creativity at levitated.net

taz — Wed, 02 Jul 2003 03:47:10 -0800

Walking Things is an environment that generates small, walking computational organisms. "Each walking thing is built up from totally random conditions. Appearance, behavior, and walking characteristics are all assigned from a range enabling effective, functional mobility. Click on a walking thing to permutate its characteristics".

Just one of the very many wonderful (open source) creations at levitated.net (more bugs with bling here). Kick off your shoes, fill your coffee cup or wine glass, and dip in.

clever flash experiments

crunchland — Tue, 17 Jun 2003 00:13:47 -0800

a collection of clever flash experiments

Provertising

Niahmas — Sun, 25 May 2003 10:24:08 -0800

Flash Animation A response to an article about Advertising.

The power of presentation.

Vidiot — Fri, 21 Mar 2003 17:48:39 -0800

Decoding Visual Language Elements in News Content is an MFA thesis examining how layout, cropping, image selection et al. influence the way the content is perceived. The interactive demo is especially interesting; you can take some TV and magazine layouts and switch out pictures and other elements. It's fascinating to see how different cropping and tints affect your impressions of the content. Media literacy -- especially right now -- is a good thing. (Link via Stan Chin.)

vacapinta — Wed, 08 May 2002 10:19:32 -0800

16thandmission: Urban Data Stories is "an investigation into the interplay of data, interactivity and narrative in an urban environment. It takes as its focus the corner of 16th and Mission Streets in San Francisco.... Depending on the state of the bus system at any given moment, the narratives interrelate to a variety of degrees with the map framework." [For you non-san-franciscans, 16th and Mission is a well-known intersection - lively, multicultural, gritty]

wklang — Fri, 28 Sep 2001 23:05:07 -0800

Praystation 3 - The latest from Joshua Davis I'm sure many of you are familiar with praystation.com and its stunning use of flash and/or imagery. Check out his new release.