Songs in Charts

Songs as information design? Here is a wonderful new thing to do with piecharts, flowcharts or other diagrams: turn song lyrics into visualized information.

SONG CHART is a Flickr Group that has originated from preserving a Live Journal meme. Many of these musical infographics posted are just brilliant. I love this simple idea:

Friday Im In Love The Cure

They are pure genius when they not only catch the lyrics but also the character of the song, like this one:

Around the World Daft Punk

More here, check it out: Flickr Group: Song Chart

I figured this would be a could drill and I added a couple of charts myself. But I couldnt help wondering what Tufte or Maeda would do for this.

heinztocotronic biginjapanlovewilltearuspart yellow

via Fontblog



Februar 26, 2008 | Filed Under Input, Output | Leave a Comment 

Hello Elky. Hello Spreadshirt-Shop.

I had planned this for longer and now got into do-mode. I just finished a T-Shirt Shop (via Spreadshirt) with the first motive (also the result of a little drawing session over the weekend). It was about time. There is a link on the left…

thenausner apparel

 

Hello Elky

 



Februar 21, 2008 | Filed Under Improving, Output | Leave a Comment 

We can sell them anything. ANYTHING.

I have just started a new category: From Hell. This will be dedicated to showcase the highlights of Austrian advertising. It was sparked when I walked through the supermarket of my choice when I ran into this: Aha. Arnold. Prominently placed before the exits.

 

 

 
 

Wow, an Ahnold endorsed product…this must be good… Styrian Power… awesome! What could this be?

The secret recipe behind Arnold’s muscles? Steroids?

 

 

 

 

 

An Apple? Just how stupid do people believe consumers are? Pay 1 Euro for one apple, while two metres away you can get 2 kilos of the same natural, Styrian apples probably even from the same farm for 2 Euros. And some Ahnold packaging will make people do this? 

WHO believes this? Who of the marketing people responsible would fall for an offer like this themselves? Why is it that the conviction still persists that advertising can just TELL things and whoever hears BELIEVES them? Why is there nobody to stand up and say: “This will not not work. I would not buy this, you would not buy this and we know it. What leads you to believe that people in stores are any different?”

Are Powerpoint slides and business suits of advertisers that intimidating?

This is for real. They even have a website, but I am not going to link there. http://www.arnoldapple.com

 

Edit: A week later that thing is gone. I can only hope they went bankrupt.

 



Oktober 21, 2007 | Filed Under From Hell | Leave a Comment 

APSotW Assignment Feedback

Gareth Kay, planning director at Modernista!, posted his feedback on the last assignment of the Account Planning School of the Web. There were 6 entries discussing Mr. Clean and Gareth has taken the time give useful critique to all. Brett and Hayley were named winners.

Here is my entry:

 

  

And here is Gareth’s feedback:

Visually I think this is the best presentation and kept my interest levels up - good way of showing competitive clutter, etc.  I like the implicit call for brand humility.  But here I had a real problem in understanding your recommendation - I see the issues you raise but don’t get a sense of what the recommendation is.  What are the things you would recommend the brand to do? Just saying make better product is not the answer.  Some seeds here, but I would have loved to have seen the flower.

Yeah, when I put the finishing touches I pretty much knew this was not complete. I guess it is a limit of the format: 10 slides without any written coming with it. You just can not add everything that swings between the lines.

The recommendation really is that Mr. Clean should try become part of the process of cleaning. Right now, people spend more time with brooms, buckets, cleaning cloth than any cleaning detergent. The P&G Swiffers of the world come with those special brooms, while Mr. Clean just handed out a license to a broommaker in the US to produce Mr. Clean branded cleaning utensils. So you see what caught my attention.

I figured that a “New Formular!” would not really help. But a brand that would start saying “We work to improve cleaning!” and does everything to relieve us of the nuissance would have impact. Instead of that magical thing out of the bottle that never cleans like on TV, Mr. Clean should become a strong, physical support. Does that make sense?

Thanks very much to Gareth for taking the time.

 

 



September 23, 2007 | Filed Under Account Planning | Leave a Comment 

The brick walls

The brick walls in life are there to see how badly we want things



September 20, 2007 | Filed Under Notes To Self | Leave a Comment 

Lost

A Lost-Note outside my house. It says:
Small RC-Plane.
If found, please return Monday Block 20c Flat 5 from 1pm.
P L E A S E
Hope they found it.



September 19, 2007 | Filed Under Diary | Leave a Comment 

Weekend Activities: Walk in the Alps

Spent the weekend in Salzburg. First of all, to meet Lisl and Sameel with whom we had stayed in Brisbane. It was so nice to see them again. On Sunday we took the opportunity of fabulous sunny weather for a hike up the Nockstein near Salzburg with Heidi’s parents. We were rewarded with a beautiful panorama of the Northern Alps.This is one of the really nice things about Austria. Heidi and I renewed our vow to get out in the mountains more often.And we found mushrooms while walking. It has been a while since I found so many. That was a perfect dinner for five people.



September 17, 2007 | Filed Under Diary | Leave a Comment 

Floating Ideas on my birthday

We went to dinner at Midori. Pretty neat asian place beneath the Schlossberg. Miso soup, noodles. Very nice.Best thing though was the lamps above the corner tables. Lots of notes attached to the lamps. Many ideas, quotes, poems, maybe shopping lists in a multitude of different languages.



September 10, 2007 | Filed Under Diary | Leave a Comment 

Happy Birthday

Don’t you get bored after 30 birthdays?A day like any other.Except for the Birthday Muffin in the morning.And the phone calls, messages, E-Mails.



September 10, 2007 | Filed Under Diary | Leave a Comment 

Weekend activities. This week: Boiler replacement.

The total lack of warm water and the recent drop in temperature forced us to replace our warm water boiler. With the professional help of Herbert and Stephan. The DIY heart of mine jumps with joy and pride looking at our new archievement. However, the soup we retrieved from our old boiler was quite a view. To think that we washed ourselves with this and felt clean afterwards…



September 2, 2007 | Filed Under Diary | Leave a Comment 

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