Ripley Rompela Flash(Mob)

This is the second good crowdsourcing idea I've seen in just as many days. Ripley, a Chilean clothing and footwear company, wanted their catalogue to be a little different than all the other catalogues. They set up a outdoor photo studio, and invited all their fans to come and be the photographers which meant photos shared on every social media imaginable. The final results were then uploaded by Ripley, and the photos with the most votes got to be printed in their catalogue, together with the photographer's name. Pretty good idea. 

Wind Map of the USA

Beautiful. "An invisible, ancient source of energy surrounds us—energy that powered the first explorations of the world, and that may be a key to the future. This map shows you the delicate tracery of wind flowing over the US right now."

The Listening Post - a Musical Poster

Thanks to Liverpool creative agency Uniform, and Bare Conductive, print is going digital. Or interactive, anyway. The Listening Post is a working prototype from this years SXSW festival that allows you to listening to clip of music directly from the poster. It can run from a single, small battery, and could be connected to Spotify, etc, so it could be updated regularly. Fascinating stuff.

Who said print was dead?