This is lovely, a quirky game concept being developed by Ian Dallas which sets you the task of finding your way around in a completely white environment. Don’t worry though, you have some black ink at your disposal to pick out doors and objects. Could be loads of fun or completely baffling, one or the other. Whichever though, it gives rise to something very graphically distinct. Graham Linehan thinks it’s the next Portal…

Looks wonderful, it’s being coded in XNA though, so I’m unlikely to ever actually play it. Shame, could have been great as a PlayStation download, an iPhone app or even for the Pandora…

Just saw this over at FormFiftyFive very nice. Could form the basis of some great gaming ideas maybe, I’m thinking something along the lines of the excellent Echocrome:

At the least it’s a very cool demo. Come to think of it, there isn’t really a kosher demo scene for the iPhone, would be great to see an experimental visuals section to the App Store full of free goodness, instead of 50 versions of Solitaire…

Thanks to Sean for the link…

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