Culture Moves

The BMW Culture Book, by designer Stefan Sagmeister, features information about the culture and history of BMW. It’s also sneakily built with four hidden wheels and a remote control for maneuvering around the city. The 1,500 books in total — each with a unique cover design — together form an image reminiscent of the famous BMW headquarters building in Munich.

Via Sagmeister Inc.

Fractal Lab

Using 3D rendering your browser can do on it’s own — WebGL, the stuff that makes iPhone apps do little flips in 3D — this “Fractal Lab” allows you to build and view awesome 2D and 3D fractals as if your browser were a 3d rendering program. http://fractal.io/

This post on Creative Applications Network provides some insight as well: http://www.creativeapplications.net/webapp/fractal-lab-webapp/

Pencil: a Firefox Plug-in for Prototyping

Check out Pencil — a free, open source tool for making diagrams and GUI prototyping.

The Dali Museum Goodpak for Hipstamatic

Goodby, Silverstein & Partners teamed up with Hipstamatic to release the Dalí Museum Goodpak in celebration of the grand opening of the new The Dalí Museum. All proceeds from the 99¢ Salvador lens+film add-on for the popular Hipstamatic iPhone app will go to The Dalí Museum, which opens in St. Petersburg, FL on 1.11.11.

Photoshopping Life

What it would be like to be able to photoshop the real world in I Have PSD (Photoshop Dexterity) from Hyperakt.

via laughing squid

Arrrgmented Reality Pirate T-shirt

Threadless has a t-shirt with a pirate QR code. Alas, it doesn’t actually work if scanned, but that probably won’t stop people from trying.

via laughing squid

Photoshop in Real Life

The digital application, Photoshop, recreated in physical space.

via flavorwire

Projeqt: A Creative Storytelling Platform

Projeqt aims to enable people to share their stories by providing a simple way to create a website viewable on any device. TBWA created the publishing tool and used it to build their own website.

iPad Light Painting

Following their “Making Future Magic” creative initiative, the London-based agency Dentsu and the design agency BERG developed this impressive method of using iPads to create moving typography. The short film features animated light shapes and words that travel playfully through the dark urban landscape.

Via The Huffington Post

Toyota 3D projection mapping

An installation of the new Toyota Auris with Hybrid Synergy Drive uses projection mapping to bring to life the technology within the Auris itself. Glue Isobar used seven projectors to project a CG version of the car onto the real car, allowing observers to walk around the car and experience the effect.

Thanks to Glue Isobar for sharing.