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Papa Sangre

Papa Sangre is the first game to ditch graphics altogether; players navigate using nothing but their hearing. The iPhone title – something of a next-gen ‘murder in the dark’ - is still in production with a provisional release date of early June.

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Ponoko

By enabling creators to connect directly with the closest local fabricators, Ponoko promotes the localisation and democratisation of the manufacturing process and taps into a revived interest for DIY design.

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Umbra

A leading retailer of accessible and exclusive design dreams up a space that offers an interactive and stimulating shopping experience, and becomes a new landmark in the Toronto cityscape.

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Hero: 108 - Ani-media franchising from Cartoon Network

Launching soon on the Cartoon Network is Hero: 108, an animated series about humans and animals battling for supremacy and it’s been designed from the off to sit across media platforms.

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Granja Viana

Fabrizio Valente, chairman of Kiki Lab and founder member of Ebeltoft, analyses Wal-Mart's Brazilian eco-store - focusing on design choices that guarantee energy efficiency, economy, and speedy returns on investment outlay.

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[me] & goji

[me] & goji are a small artisan company creating custom blends of breakfast cereal. The broad appeal of this seemingly niche product is testament to the consumer desire for personalised goods with expert personality.

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Victor Churchill

Victor Churchill is a concept butchery in Woollahra, Sydney that combines expert traditions of meat curation and culinary expertise within a boutique retail environment.

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Echo bazaar

Echo bazaar is a browser-based web game which shuns all shiny, newfangled technology in favour of a simple yet highly addictive role playing storyline.

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Mag+

A slick and clever visualisation which elevates the digital magazine from a clunky, slow loading web experience to an intuitive, multilayered reading experience with several levels of interaction and an unobtrusive UI.

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San Francisco Panorama

San Francisco publisher McSweeneys spent five months gathering an impressive horde of talent in a spirited attempt to save newsprint – or at least, create a prototype of the perfect 21st century newspaper.

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Automatic in-game advertising

It might sound a bit techie, but procedural programming could herald a new era of in-game branding. Automatically generated design elements deliver huge replayability and allow realistic, effortless integration of brands into game worlds.

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Telling stories with screenshots

Advertisers who truly understand games are drawn to the medium's unique storytelling potential, communicating their brand’s story in a language shared and understood by the community around a particular game franchise.