Harmony in Good Magazine
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Friday 17th July 2009, 4:58pm
by TimNorton in
I've just come across this and thought some of you might be interested in it - Good Magazine's Harmony interface. It's a great example of people using different interfaces and interactive measures to portray a message. The graphics are simple yet powerful, and each individual line in the story can be treated as its own timeline.
In this example, I was slightly disheartened to see the whole thing is largely sponsored by Toyota, and therefore has a large greenwash element to it, but nonetheless, it is a powerful way to tell a simple story, chain or other message.
Is this the sort of thing GreensBlog readers would like to see us develop? Are there other examples you'd like to point us to?
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The concept of "harmony" is misused here!
The world isn't and isn't meant to be harmonious. If it were systems wouldn't work. Indeed our universe would not be possible. Everything (naturally, socially and culturally) acts in choas, bouncing off each other and causing the necessity for adaptation and other processes to occur.
So the biggest problem facing the world today is not one of harmony but one of a potential inability to adapt to our chaos due to conflict between man made environments and the natural environment. If the natural environment can't adapt to our impacts on it there is no place for us.
And that's what e.g., Toyota are doing here. Making sure society doesn't change so much there is no place for them. In fact, the underlying connotations suggest that if they go under then the rest of us will too! Of course, I beg to differ....
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