Original source here

BBC News interactive

The BBC are using an interactive graphic with click-able areas showing photos here.

The official illustration

Found on a number of news sites including the BBC here.

The Washington Post

Found as part an interactive feature here.

The Sun

In the typical Sun newspaper style here.

Satellite Photography

The Guardian, as well as lots of other news sites, are using the satellite photo here.

A worthy animated story

From the guys at GOOD.

1. Hoover

We all do ‘the Hoovering’ yet Dyson has been making better selling and superior vacuum cleaners than Hoover for years. Perhaps there will come a time when we give the lounge a quick Dyson.

2. Sellotape

Remember in Blue Peter when they used to have to refer to Sellotape as sticky backed plastic? We all knew what they meant. Clearly I had know idea what they meant as Sarah pointed out below. Sticky backed plastic was actually referring to Fablon – sticky tape was the term used by Blue Peter.

3. Google

A new entry but Google is a brand name that this generation uses all the time. If we want to know something we ‘Google it’.

4. Jacuzzi

Leisure and Fitness expert Marc Diaper pointed out that Jacuzzi is a contender. We all have a soak in ‘the Jacuzzi’ at the gym but it’s worth remembering that Jacuzzi is actually a brand and not just hot tub with bubbles.

5. Tipp-Ex

Fading quickly is Tipp-Ex (known in the US as White-Out). Computers, emails and printers mean there is less call for this white correction fluid which is used to paint over things like spelling mistakes on paper. It deserves a mention though… out of respect.

Dentsu London use photographic and animation techniques that were developed to draw moving 3-dimensional typography and objects with an iPad. In dark environments, they play movies on the surface of the iPad that extrude 3-d light forms as they move through the exposure. Multiple exposures with slightly different movies make up the stop-frame animation.

Making Future Magic: iPad light painting from Dentsu London on Vimeo.

http://www.dentsulondon.com/blog/category/making-future-magic/

Taking into account the current state of the economy I’ve put together a list of things that could (and should) make a comeback next year.

The CB Radio

CB (short for citizen band) radios were all the rage in the 70′s. I had one and so did my dad. I spent more time thinking about what my ‘handle’ (your radio name) than I did actually using it and when I did get around to using it I had no idea what I should say or who I should say it to.

The concept of the CB radio isn’t that much different to Twitter really. You say something and anyone tuned in can read and choose to reply if they want to.

DIY Haircuts

People will be looking to save a bob or two next year so do-it-yourself haircuts are bound to make a comeback. It’s usually the kids that suffer but we might see a colleague or two turn up for a work with a suspicious looking Barnet. Not rubbish enough to be super cool but too rubbish for a visit to the barbers if you know what I mean.

Dodgy Hatchback Body-kits

Hot hatches were all the rage in the 90′s but the worst car theft rates in history meant high insurance premiums for teenagers and twenty-somethings which made the real thing out of reach for most.
Buying second hand basic models with the view to doing them up and making them look much worse sportier was popular… until the insurance companies cottoned on and bumped prices up for modified cars. With that said I still think we might see a few more ‘uninsured’ suspect looking body-kits on the streets.

Glass engraving

Another childhood memory of mine was my dad, after working a long day, would come home and engrave glass tankards to order. I didn’t really pay much attention but it looked like a tricky business that involved protective eye-wear, tracing paper and a steady hand. Lets all engrave something next year!

Inkscape as an alternative to Adobe Illustrator

http://www.inkscape.org/
An Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, CorelDraw, or Xara X, using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format.

Inkscape supports many advanced SVG features (markers, clones, alpha blending, etc.) and great care is taken in designing a streamlined interface. It is very easy to edit nodes, perform complex path operations, trace bitmaps and much more. We also aim to maintain a thriving user and developer community by using open, community-oriented development.

GIMP as an alternative to Adobe Photoshop

http://www.gimp.org/
GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed program for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring.

It has many capabilities. It can be used as a simple paint program, an expert quality photo retouching program, an online batch processing system, a mass production image renderer, an image format converter, etc.

GIMP is expandable and extensible. It is designed to be augmented with plug-ins and extensions to do just about anything. The advanced scripting interface allows everything from the simplest task to the most complex image manipulation procedures to be easily scripted.

Scribus as an alternative to Adobe InDesign

http://www.scribus.net
Scribus is an Open Source program that brings award-winning professional page layout to Linux/UNIX, Mac OS X, OS/2 Warp 4/eComStation and Windows desktops with a combination of “press-ready” output and new approaches to page layout.

Underneath the modern and user friendly interface, Scribus supports professional publishing features, such as CMYK color, separations, Spot Colors, ICC color management and versatile PDF creation.

Nvu as an alternative to Adobe Dreamweaver

http://nvu.en.softonic.com/
Nvu is the new Web editing environment based on the Mozilla platform and its Gecko layout engine. Primarily made for Linspire and other Linux flavors, its cross-platform architecture makes it available on a wide variety of other platforms.

Nvu binary test builds are now available for Linux, Windows, Mac OS X and FreeBSD. The easiest-to-use, most powerful Web Authoring System available for desktop Linux users.

Online tools

If you like to keep your software in the clouds, check out this site for some online alternatives – http://aviary.com/

What do you use?

Have you come across any good alternatives – please comment below.

1. UFC 100

2. UFC 94

3. UFC 92

4. UFC 91

5. UFC 89-90

6. UFC 83

7. UFC 75-76

8. UFC 73

9. UFC 71

10. UFC 66

Here is my top 5:

1. Sony Bravia (the bouncy balls)

Featuring 250,000 brightly-coloured rubber balls (not computer generated) and made by Nicolai Fuglsig
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Why it stuck in my head: Visually the advert was magical and the soundtrack (Jose Gonzales – Heatbeats) just topped it off. Whenever I hear that track I think of rubber balls and the fact that they actually threw 250,000 of them down a hill.

2. The Cadbury’s Gorilla

This advert was the centre piece for a £6 million campaign launched by Cadbury Schweppes. It was created and directed by Juan Cabral and starred actor Garon Michael.

Why it stuck in my head:It was just such an unusual concept i.e. a gorilla, sitting at a drum kit and having a moment to a Phil Collins track. Somehow you manage get sucked into the moment too which is… good advertising I guess?

3. Cog – The Honda advert

Six hundred and six takes it took, and if they had been forced to do a 607th it is probable, if not downright certain, that one of the film crew would have snapped and gone mad.

Read the full Telegraph article here

Why it stuck in my head:It’s the ‘how did they do that’ factor I guess. Was it really done without any CGI?

4. You’ve been Tango’d

How time flys eh! This video dates back to 1992 and caused quite a stir. School kids were slapping each other on the ears across the country and some kids got hurt.

The advert was eventually pulled and they remade it with the orange man planting a kiss on his victim.

Made by Howell Henry Chaldecott Lury & Partners

Why it stuck in my head:I was at school when this advert came out so I probably had my fair share of ear slaps. You never forget the shame.

5. Smash Mash

I remember this advert from childhood and it dates back to the 1970′s.

The advert by Boase Massimi Pollitt featured Martians watching humans making mashed potato in the conventional way and laughing. Another Cadbury classic.

Why it stuck in my head:This advert is probably one of my earliest memories. I remember looking at the Martians and thinking they were made of spoons.

Extra: The Hovis bike advert

This advert needed a mention. I remember this advert because of the music (Antonín Dvořák’s Symphony No. 9) and it pops into my head every time someone talks about how things used to be in ‘their day’. The advert was directed by Ridley Scott (that’s right, Ridley Scott) back in the 1970′s and was recently remade as part of a Hovis relaunch.