Dave Ward - Designer in Edinburgh
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Photos of Leith Walk trams being laid the first time round on Historypin - a fantastic google maps mashup

How cool is this? 
Similar to the iPhone app created for the London History Museum, this website allows you to place images from a bygone age directly onto street view.
In the studio we spent a few hours looking at local landmarks, but the leith walk cobbles are fantastic.

Check out historypin

Historypin was created by the social movement We Are What We Do, in partnership with Google.
We Are What We Do is a global social movement that creates ideas, products and tools that make it easy for people to make a difference to big social and environmental issues.
Historypin is one in a series of projects created as part of We Are What We Do's campaign to get generations talking more, sharing more and coming together more often.
There has been a major trend in different generations spending less time together. Which is a shame. Old people know stuff young people don't. And young people know stuff old people don't.

While they're using Historypin, a lot of young people will be asking older people for photos, and a lot of older people will be asking young people when to click and when to double click.

Historypin is a global project. It was launched in London in June 2010 and in the next few years there will be Historypin events and projects held all over the world.

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Recreating photos from your parents albums - Like Mom Like dad

What a great idea, some of these are freakily similar.
Yet in almost every case, the parents photos are so much cooler.

     
Click here to download:
Recreating_photos_from_your_pa.zip (677 KB)

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Frank use motion graphics to bring Belfasts contested spaces to life

Well done to Damian, Stephen and the gang at Frank. Great work.

The Contested Spaces project emerged from themes proposed and discussed at the International Symposium of Electronic Arts (ISEA) which took place in Belfast in 2009. 

The purpose of the project was twofold. 

Firstly, to offer a creative, visual response to issues around urban redevelopment in the context of challenges put forward by ISEA. 
Secondly, to create the opportunity to invest in research and development, both technical and creative, within Frank's design team. Contested Spaces would allow Frank's designers to explore new techniques and further develop existing talents.

The brief for the project was as follows:

"As Belfast, Northern Ireland, emerges from a period of physical reconstruction, issues surrounding social reconstruction remain problematic and unresolved. There are particular spaces within the city that sit at the interface between the old and the new. On the fringes of new development projects or in areas where there has been a shift in the local demography these spaces hold dynamic tensions which challenge citizens to associate with new ideas and identities or with heritage and established thinking.

Document five of these spaces with video and create digital/virtual sculptures that address the issues arising within them. The five sculptures should inspire and incite further commentary. The tension between the real and virtual should be harnessed to create debate around the notional value of the spaces, their perceived ownership, and the degree to which that ownership affects the attitudes of those that use them."

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No Knives, Better Lives - the latest advert from the Leith Agency

I really like the new advert against knife crime by the Leith Agency.
The use of graffiti art to tie the message to youth culture works well, beautifully animated, great story telling and the music works wonderfully.

My only criticism would be how closely it resembles its influence, I have added some of the artist BLU's work below. 
Its a great chance to show his work, have a look on you tube, its fantastic stuff.

UPDATE: Leith Contacted BLU and received his approval for this piece, nicely done

 

MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU

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Check out Mr Baskervilles moustache

 

Love this poster, you can buy it at Old Tom Foolery

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An agency called Nation want you to fucking go out and do something this weekend

I love this idea, a simple, quick project from passionate creatives that create a reaction.
Plus, its also useful. Whats not to love.

Weekends are for expanding the mind and getting involved with diverse cultural and creative offerings, or sitting in your underwear eating cereal and fighting nazi’s in a room filled with only the flickering of a giant TV. To push ourselves out of doing the latter we decided to make a little website to display neat stuff happening near you.  The site uses the eventful API and an idea wholly inspired by http://whatthefuckshouldimakefordinner.com/. It throw’s up obscure, interesting and occasionally amusing stuff

   
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An_agency_called_Nation_want_y.zip (268 KB)

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Tom Rowe, aka Tweed Tom has some serious robotic design skills

Tom resides in London where by day he works as a creative for Antidote and by night draws 
and fascinates over obsolete mechanical marvels. 

               
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Tom_Rowe_aka_Tweed_Tom_has_som.zip (1222 KB)

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World of Warcraft avatars live and work in Dublin

This is short film directed by Gavin Kelly http://www.piranhabar.ie we worked on a while ago called "Avatar Days". What makes this one special is the fact that it was filmed, vfx'ed and comped all in just 4 days. It was made as part of the "4 day Film" catagory in the Darklight Film Festival.

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A rough guide to screen printing from Andrew Bell at Edinburgh College of Art

I have been going to the Edinburgh Print Makers for a while now, experimenting and learning the craft. This is a lovingly shot and edited overview of the process. Nice work Andrew! And props for getting your video on the mighty Swiss Miss!

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Just been on a tour of the Apple WWDC conference, from my sofa

My brother in law is at the Apple developers conference at the Moscone Centre this week, kicking off today with Steve Jobs keynote and launch of the iPhone 4. Knowing what a mac nerd I am he called me on iChat, he put me up full screen and walked me around the Moscone centre.

Sadly all the prototypes are behind closed doors, but what an impressive place. 
In one of the shots you can see the rows of large flat screens showing apps being downloaded in real time. They fall to the bottom and by the end of the conference the screen will be filled with apps.

Quite a few of the other delegates were either looking at me strangely or saying hello. One recommended I get an iPhone 4 for my next 'facetime' session, that name sounds wrong on every level.

Tomorrow he is going to the design awards, Wednesday is Pixar, Thurs Nasa and Friday CNN.
One lucky b*stard.

(p.s. Yup, I look a mess, but 2 mins earlier I was in my scratcher)

       
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Just_been_on_a_tour_of_the_App.zip (1554 KB)

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