REFLECTEUR – Issue 81
Posted by Lizzy Bogacki | April 7, 2011
There’s a lot of data out there about us. In fact, it’s easy to forget just how much information various companies and organizations (and the Internet in general) know about us. The first page of Reflecteur this week looks at the ways two separate sites used infographics to display a huge amount of information with very different results:
* Where Americans are Moving looks at 2008 IRS data to map county to county moves. It’s your one stop shop to US migratory information and it only takes a few minutes of playing with the maps to realize that there are a lot of stories hidden within this data. Just click on ‘Detroit’.
* Watch a Phone Company Stalk a Customer is, not surprisingly based on the title, far more disturbing. This site maps, via a video, all of the data a phone company in Germany gathered on one of their customers over 6 months. It seems more spy movie thriller than real life.
Travel over to Page 2 for a bit more fun:
* Classic Arcade Game Deaths is just that, a video of the death/Game Over scene from numerous classic games. We love that it ties into the nostalgia so promenent within digital culture but remains original. A large reason it stands apart from the countless other 90s video game tributes is the fact that it focuses on an often ignored (but important) part of these games while also playing with its context. Together these attributes help make this such an amusing and captivating view.
* The Reflecteur April Fools Overview discusses our opinion on why this holiday has taken off within digital culture. (Hint: because it shares so much in common with digital culture.) We also include links to some of our favorite website and brand April Fools Day efforts.
As always, Reflecteur is part of VivaKi’s intellectual capital and can be shared with outside parties including clients and partners. Reach out to Ellen Bird, , or your assigned agency lead for more information about the publication or the other Reflecteur assets.
Download Issue 81 of Reflecteur here.
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