24ways.org
Just when you thought, ‘Actually, can’t we just skip Christmas for a year and jump straight to Easter?’, along comes a website to make you giddy about the advent countdown all over again. 24 Ways is running its fourth annual series of articles from leading web designers and developers, releasing one piece daily for 24 days in December. A solid-gold RSS subscription for the festive season.
This Is Where We Live from 4th Estate on Vimeo.
I really enjoyed this promotional video for 4th Estate, especially viewing it in Vimeo’s luxurious full-screen HD. The producers used 1,000 4th Estate books and spent 3 weeks holed up in a flat during the summer to produce the movie, which cleverly plays on the themes of the books on display and re-enacts key moments within them (I particularly liked Albert falling off a boat papered with Jonathan Franzen’s The Corrections – 1min 02 secs). Only a serious bookworm could spot all the ‘bits’ first time round, but you can read more on Times Emit, the Fifth Estate blog or on the new 25thestate.com website.