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With recomendation and shared bookmarks like stumbleupon and ffffound! and listings sites from the dreamer to phirebrush all vying to fulfill our every spare desire for inspiring design and interaction, it’s easy to forget the gems that turn up when you step outside and just look in the local charity shop. This guy found box of 35mm slides of old advertising posters from the fifties and sixties and took the time to scan and share them on flickr. Glorious.

FFFFOUND! is like having a mate who sends you amazing, interesting & inspiring images. Hundreds of them. Every day. And, if you’re an aesthetic ephemera junky like me, you probably can’t get enough of it either.

Basically it’s an image-bookmarking service that allows users to post and share their found images and it dynamically recommends others to tickle your fancy. The “everyone” feed is a cornucopia of eye-candy from FFFFOUND! and enough to trigger a good hour or so wasted a day.

Currently invite only, but you can still get the public feed.

FFFFOUND.com

While trying to track down a particular game for a project I have in mind, I found this from Finnish developer Petri Purho - but the site has gone down. For one year Petro a grand plan: to create games in 7 days (12 in a year) and it produced one of the simplest and most beautiful games I’ve ever seen - Crayon Physics Deluxe - reminiscent of the complex mousetrap like drawings some of us drew as kids.

Petro’s tenet that all games should be made “within a 7-day limit, Ö. made by me alone and test some new form of gameplay” might not be everyone’s cup of salmiakki but it seems to have produced some fantastic results, earned him the respect of his peers and got him nominated for numerous awards - I just wish I could find the games now!

Jaarko Laine did a short interview with Petri Purho in 2007 which gives more detail but the relevant links from there are dead now. Pixelrage a download link, but as I’m Mac based, I’ll have to wait till I’m back in the studio and can borrow a PC to have a go.

Oh well, I’ll have to make do with the highly addictive flash games at the Science Museum’s Launchball site, part of thier Launchpad section, and made by the folks at Preloaded

Do Tank Digital Creative Agency created an interactive TV mash-up for Dutch TV channel 3Voor12’s weekly White Noise music show. The iTV show features a DJ set from Dave Clarke where the audience are given the ability to become the VJ by pulling user-generated images from Flickr. Our Flash-based iTV application spools the images and plays them back, synched in time with the music. It rocks, seriously.

Watch 3Voor12 on YouTube

“Missed Friendships” is the third in a series of corporate animations we’ve just produced for Genesys, the audio & web conferencing company. Written & created by Kate Dickins with character design by our very own Julian Parry, this episode tackles incompatibility problems often experienced by user of (ahem) other companies’ products, but not by the users of Genesys’ products.