Ever wondered what the title sequence to Star Wars would have been like if Saul Bass had done it? No? Well here’s the answer anyway:

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Check out this video of some lovely touchscreen game design. Shapes drawn on the screen take on physical properties in the game, it’s lovely. Something this well executed would work brilliantly on the Nintendo DS…

Cheers to Jonny for the link…

I usually hate sites which change the size of my browser window when I visit them, or worse still, take over the whole screen without so much as asking. Rather than address the issue of various sized screens by an intelligent site design, the worst offenders enforce their own decisions on visitors and muck up the way they have their browser set. All too often it is us designers who are the culprits as we seem to love an opulent 100% Flash fullscreen extravaganza.

That said, here’s a wonderful use of the technique, it’s so imaginatively done, I didn’t mind at all…

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This lovely video reimagines some classic games using stop motion animation and general odds and ends. Make sure you have your sound on as the effects are spot on. It’s a really imaginative use of materials, and be sure to check out the other clips and shorts at The Twisted Films of PES.

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Here’s the Irn Bru Christmas advert, a Snowman pastiche and quite funny…

…personally I like the bit where he throws his nose away. (A carrot rather than an orange for contractual copyright reasons…)

This is a great example of information graphics, an ever changing graphic display of the time. Available as a screensaver for Mac or PC, as well as a Mac OSX Dashboard widget. Download it now!

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