Noteworthy Branding from 2012

Fast Co. revisits some clever branding campaigns from 2012.

Pin-able Banner Ads

Gucci recently went live with a series of banner ads with “Pin It” calls to action. You can save the branded glamour shots to one of your boards on Pinterest (and from there link to Gucci’s e-commerce site).

With the engagement challenge that banners pose, who knows, this could be a clever approach.

via Mashable

GIF-ITI

Here’s some awesome animated street art from UK artist INSA.

These start out as street art paintings, then the artist photographs them at various stages and compiles them into a GIF so that when viewed online they become a moving image! For the full experience, check them out here.

via Laughing Squid

A field guide to web apps

An interactive book of guidelines for designing web apps:

http://www.html5rocks.com/webappfieldguide/toc/index/

Contributed by Jeremy Adirim

Frisbee Rush – Mobile to Desktop/TV Game

Unit9 premiered a new gesture-based, multiplayer, mobile-to-desktop synced game called Frisbee Rush at a few weeks back and are now finishing the app to be released in the coming weeks. More details on vimeo.

If this then that

If this then that puts the internet to work for you. The free service allows users to set up a number of ‘recipes’ that fit the structure: if this happens, then do that. For instance, if rain is in the forecast, then send a text notification or if there’s a new post on Craigslist for a certain item, then send an email. Simple utility.

Give a smile, get a smile

On the site Two of Us, anyone can take a picture of themselves smiling and share it with another smiling stranger.

Amazingly simple, but still a fun way to connect and add some humanity back to the Internet.

Evolution of the Web

Most of us are familiar with the current technologies and buzz words of the Web — various browsers, APIs, HTML5, WebGL, etc. But how many know how we got here?

The Evolution of the Web beautifully charts this history. An interactive timeline, it invites you to poke around, browse screen shots of antiquated programs, and click to learn more about different technologies.

CodeAcademy

Awesome free tool for learning how to code in Javascript!  http://www.codecademy.com/

JIG: Social Site connecting needs with solutions

This just makes a lot of sense. People post needs, others who can help post solutions.

Needs vary from anything like “a dog-friendly hotel in Orlando” to “a good book on Python” to “an inexpensive, non-hydrogenated, corn syrup free powdered coffee creamer.” And if you’re not currently in need, you can browse and follow other peoples’ needs, loop in other friends who might be helpful or agree with posted solutions — all with a clean, easy to use interface.

https://www.jig.com/

Contributed by Sosia Bert