Month: July 2012

Updating the humble postcard for the Facebook generation

Have traditional postcards had their day? Quite, the opposite, say creators of ‘Cards In The Post’, a project from tech start up Electric Animal, which launched last month. “The problem with postcards is writing them, not receiving them, says Richard Neville from Electric Animal. “The old-fashioned way is too much effort and too little reward…

(Not quite 99) Red balloons used to create aerial city map

‘Walking the Sky’ is a project organised by the Watershed Arts Centre in Bristol and created by James Bridle, where participants walked around the Portuguese city of Guimarães sporting a bundle of massive red balloons each carrying a cameras attached to it, which will generate the imagery for the aerial maps of the city. The…