Visualising large sets of information, such as complex schedules, is a challenging task. When given this task for, e.g., a web site, the easy way out would be to create tables and indexes and some kind of navigation system like a menu to access the data. This approach would lead to a web page that would quickly bore the user and would finding what you need an annoying job. Not so with the example shown here, which is a very clever way of giving an overview of the World Championship's schedule of matches. Without a single click, the user can navigate the schedule and get instant information while keeping a very clear overview. A great and innovative interface.

HTML has been around for quite some time now and the current version that is regarded as standard is version 4.01. This version first appeared at the end of the last century(!) in 1999, so it's time for a new version: HTML5.

ZON Multimedia has recently opened a competition on Creativity in Multimedia. Big prizes to win, including a scholarship for one year of study in the USA. Read all about it on this web page: http://www.zon.pt/premio/

The United Nations Regional Information Centre in Brussels is launching a European print advertisement competition open to all European citizens. In 2000 world leaders committed to reducing poverty by half by 2015. There are only five years to go. World leaders are meeting again in New York in September. Unleash your imagination to remind our leaders of their promise.

Create an Ad Against Poverty

Stitching is the art (and technology) of putting together multiple photographs taken from a single location but with varying orientations, in order to produce a much larger image of that location. The technique to do this encompasses more than just cutting the photographs and matching them at the edges - it requires complex transformations and processes for blending the overlapping areas. All this is taken care of by sophisticated software and the problems that the artist faces are quite different. For example, to take these photographs you need a sunny day, but on sunny days the air warms up and creates atmospheric turbulences (the Fata Morgana effect you see in the desert or when driving along a highway on a warm day).

From time to time we still encounter something that can really surprise us, make us look twice, and still let us doubt our eyes... The Danish artist Peter Callesen is capable of doing that; he creates amazing sculptures from just an A4 sheet of paper.

These are some selected pictures from the National Geographic's International Photography Contest 2009.

Great photographs, reminding us of how beautiful Earth is and of the art of photography.

If you've got 20 min. and feel like being entertained by an intelligent guy talking about creativity, watch this:
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativ...

He's funny and absolutely right.

"You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself."
  - Sam Levenson