Category Archives: kids

Choose Your Own Visualization.

Written by Peter. Posted on November 12, 2009. Filed under consumer, design, flash, interactive, kids, user interface. No comments.
Choose Your Own Visualization.
Children of the 80s may remember those awesome ‘Choose Your Own Adventure‘ books, in which the reader determines the storyline by choosing to follow plot path options.  This site features some incredible Flash visualizations of the plot possibilities as motion animations.  Select a Title, and then hit the ‘Play’ button to watch the magic.

Social Media Ghettos.

Written by Peter. Posted on November 3, 2009. Filed under brand, business, consumer, interactive, internet, kids, technology, trend. No comments.
Social Media Ghettos.
I’ve noted before that the vast, competing social networking sites seem to be aligning to members based on socio-economic status. The Globe And Mail’s Lisan Jutras continues the topic: Last year, Facebook overtook MySpace in numbers of members. If you are like me, you made the switch because information was better organized on Facebook, and the [...]

True Friendship.

Written by Peter. Posted on May 8, 2009. Filed under consumer, kids, technology, trend. No comments.
True Friendship.
Saw this on PopUrls this morning and thought it was sweet. Reminds me of hanging around the White Hen Pantry as a kid, reading their Marvel comic books.

Each Footlocker Contains:

Written by Peter. Posted on November 25, 2008. Filed under advertising, consumer, design, kids, magazine. No comments.
Each Footlocker Contains:
This is an ad that ran in Marvel comics when I was a kid. I remember seeing it in hundreds of issues in the 1970s.

Feed the Animals.

Written by Peter. Posted on July 15, 2008. Filed under brand, consumer, guerrilla, kids, technology, trend, uncategorized. No comments.
Feed the Animals.
Great much-anticipated post-Night Ripper studio album from Girl Talk, available here at illegal art.

Banned in the U.K.

Written by Peter. Posted on July 1, 2007. Filed under advertising, brand, business, consumer, design, kids, politics, trend. No comments.
Banned in the U.K.
An ad campaign that promoted a computer game using the slogan “inner peace through outer violence” has been banned by the Advertising Standards Authority. The posters for the Electronics Arts game Burnout Dominator were created by advertising agency Wieden & Kennedy Amsterdam and appeared throughout the London Underground. [read more] from MediaGuardian.co.uk