Marcel at Provokateur let me know about their latest project, a really fun and insightful look at tackling climate change. Watch the video and keep an eye out for the book in June.

This one has been in my links for a while, but I was just reminded of it today and then I loved the postcard above so I thought I’d post it.

PostSecret is an ongoing open project where people send in their secret thoughts on the back of a self decorated postcard. Check them all out here, and if you’re feeling brave (you’re safe – it’s anonymous), send in one of your own…

I thought I’d post these amazing images, which visualise data from the globe, the above graphic showing global population density. I originally found them appropriately on Ffffound! They’re based on data from the G-econ project. I just thought they were a lovely way to visualise the data, better than a spreadsheet anyway…

Here are a couple more:

Average annual rainfall:

Distance from the coast:

See more in this Flickr set.

Head on over to the 1000 Frames of Hitchcock project to see what looks like all the great man’s films, each presented as a series of 1000 stills. Be warned, if you haven’t seen any of the films, then this might give away some of the plot lines…

They all look fantastic presented like this, taking on a textural quality – and it’s nice to see the more obscure ones like Murder! which I remember dissecting as part of my graphic design dissertation on Hitchcock’s visual style. Did you know that Hitch was a graphic designer before he went into films? (Before they called us graphic designers) Maybe that’s something to do with the way I’ve always been drawn to his work, every frame of his films feel like an exercise in composition.

On a related note, I started a ‘Hitchcockesque’ Flickr group a while back which is progressing nicely but could always do with more contributions…

Found on the always interesting Johnson Banks Thought for the Week

This is an oldie, well it’s an oldie where I come from. A lighthearted project to create a calling card, not a business card exactly, just something to be an ice breaker. I think it was for the first day of a new class at Uni. I dusted it off a few years later for my CV and animated it in Flash too.