August, 2010

I’ve met David a couple of times now and its incredible just how he visualises complex datasets in to beautiful visuals. Oh and buy his book, its brills.

We have received dozens of logo mash-ups from all over the world following last week’s post. Here is our selection of the best ones so far.

Several people had the temerity to mess with the johnson banks brand, or our logos. Such cheek. The one above is from Stuart Price. Meanwhile look what Chris Jeffreys did to our Shelter logo.

We hope that Chris’s employer isn’t reading this because we got an avalanche of great ones from him.

And this one too. Now, back to work Chris.

A lot of people seemed to have, er, sex on the brain, including Mike Reed.

Here are some sportswear mash-ups from Andy Thorne and Amanda Grace Liu.

Food, drink and er, manga from Leigh Dunks and that man Jeffreys again.

Big Macs and TV? Perfect combination really (thanks to Matthew Robinson).

And to end part two, Obama and O2 (the British phone brand) from Ed, Chris and John at Lost in the Forest. Great stuff.

After striking deals with Lionsgate, MGM and Sony Pictures in the US and UK movie service Blinkbox, YouTube launched a free new movie service with an initial catalog of 400 full-length movies available on-demand.

Simply entitled “Films”, the new section has its own YouTube URL and offers mainstream releases, classics and also Bollywood hits. At the time of writing, the front page offers a couple of Jackie Chan films, Ridley Scott’s Life In A Day YouTube project and a number of independent films.

YouTube head of video partnerships, Donagh O’Malley spoke to The Guardian:

“This is one of many efforts to ensure that people can find all the different kinds of video they want to see, from bedroom vlogs and citizen journalism reports to full-length films and TV shows.

We hope film lovers enjoy the range of titles in this free library, whether catching up on a mainstream hit or delving into the vast archive of classic films from decades past.”

YouTube’s deal with Blinkbox sees around 165 of it’s films, normally priced at $1.99 and upwards, available for free. These films will have advertising incorporated into the films, I noticed a trailer for a 3D film on one of the videos I viewed.

via http://thenextweb.com/google/2010/08/27/youtube-launches-dedicated-full-lengt…