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Martin Parr’s new book called Parking Spaces is out. For € 95,- this latest binded photographic artwork can be yours.

Maybe we should port the voornopnaarpop.nl-concept from free music tickets to books. There is a lot of promo-material available out there. As long as you can create a certain reach.

Just make sure a publisher sends you a book, you publish the excerpt and some links to reviews. People sign up if they want the book. After X weeks you give the book away to a random subscriber.

Or maybe you can just write a review yourself or give it away and ask a review in return. It is all about creating the right (valuable) community / context.

Tip: Listen to an interview with Martin Parr, about how he works and about his new book.

Wieden + Kennedy, the guys behind the slogan ‘Just Do It’ redesigned the website (launched april 2nd). And they used 37signals collaboration software, that’s how I found out about it.

I like the new Wieden + Kennedy flash based website. The interface focus on information sorting by time in combination with tags. Different colors highlight people, companies, etc.. By clicking a keyword you enter a never ending 3d network with nodes. The focus is on discovering instead of retrieving.

I think good information design and storytelling will be the things that can really make a difference in the upcoming years. Websites are starting to look more similar due to effective user and usability research.

The great Phill Knight / Nike photo was found here.

This Friday the Next Web conference will be held in Amsterdam. On the website there is a 20 minute teaser movie with ‘people from the web’.

The New York Times writes about AddArt, a Firefox plugin that replaces banners with art.

What a great idea, the ad-block plug-ins are extremely popular. I’m not an ad-blocker myself and I’m not sure why people block ads? To fight the corporate world, Adbuster style? Or just to block the different intrusive information on a webpage? I guess the last one. Art instead of ads can also be intrusive, although this could be a reason for me to install an ad-blocker/art-replacer.

I wonder how this would work in print? I would love a newspaper with art by young artist instead of advertisements. The question is, how much would you pay extra for a newspaper like this?

I once read in a book about information design that in WWII the American soldiers where supplied with ad-less newspapers from home. The reason was simple. Local ads are irrelevant if you are stuck in a forest in France. The soldiers complained about the ad-less newspapers, because the positive ads balanced the news, even when irrelevant.

Download the AddArt plug-in here.

The photo above is linked from the New York Times website and is taken by Joe Fornabaio. His photos are great, make sure to check his portfolio.

Via: Marco Raaphorst

A lot of updates around voornopnaarpop this weekend. We started to spread the word ‘old-skool’ offline ;) and we presented the first KindaMuzik tickets on the website.

We updated the website with some default out-of-the-box background-grass. Festival season, here we come.

I didn’t know there was a Google patent search. This is great you can find the 1978 draft for the first patented sneaker, submitted by Aldo Gucci.

There is also a 1975 version, called sportshoe.