JESS3 posters for Google LA is jam packed with memes

Posted on 7 November 2011

As part of Google’s consolidation of it’s offices in Los Angeles into one location at in Venice Beach, they commissioned JESS3 to create a series of posters for each of the 14 engineering areas focused on at the LA campus. I love the creativity and geekiness gone into these. The creative agency’s attention to internet memes is hilarious. I especially love the statement on the bottom of the YouTube Social poster: “Because these cat videos aren’t going to share themselves.” Nice one JESS3! ♺ Google LA Office Posters by JESS3, no date. ★ Google LA Posters: How we got it done! on JESS3 Blog, no date. Images (top to bottom): Google LA posters by JESS3. © Copyright 2011 JESS3/Google (?). Permission pending.

Categories: I'll filter this later

Tagged: Google, google chrome, Google Los Angeles, Google Plus, YouTube, YouTube Social

Picture’s worth a thousand words as they say

Posted on 27 September 2011

With tonight’s re-invention/release of Delicious under its new owners Chad Hurley and Steven Chen (aka guys behind YouTube if you’re unfamiliar) comes a new, highly visual way of navigating called ‘stacks.’ Dubbed ‘playlists for the web’, stacks are essentially user-created bookmarked content clustered together thematically and displayed with a heavy reliance on images drawn from the source locations. Here’s the intro video (just ignore the totally-hip-right-now choice of ‘moustache’ as the topic :p): This new nav approach reminds me of a number of other visual-orientated ways of discovering things on the internet include. Some notable examples include: Feedly, a navigation skin for Google Reader; Google+ sparks; and Read It Later‘s new preview. Does make me wonder though whether this visual-orientated navigation trend is a leaching across of necessary…

Categories: Desktops & devices, Ideas & big thinking

Tagged: bookmarks, Chad Hurley, Delicious, Delicious stacks, Feedly, Google Plus, Google Reader, mustaches, Read It Later, social bookmarking, social media, Steve Chen, YouTube

Better late than never Google

Posted on 28 July 2010

Google’s website for the 2007 Federal Election was one of the many sites I relied on heavily in the lead up to that election. That world-first service included an election mapplet—with the electorates marked out and information including the incumbent member, the candidates contesting that election, the margin, links Google News, YouTube, the ABC and other services, and a history of the seat—for Google Maps, links to the party’s YouTube channels and Google’s Australia Votes channel and a string of iGoogle gadgets. Such a service from Google was sadly lacking from this election. Until this morning of course when Google launched their 2010 Federal Election landing page. Another outcome of Google’s 20% rule, the 2010 suite includes: A Google Maps mapplet with electorates, colour-coding to indicate tipped outcome and…