ghislain poirier: jusqu’en haut.

Punching is fun. Especially when there are beats involved, and the result is stars and birds and rays of moonshine. Montréal interactive design studio Departement created this interactive video for Ghislain Poirier’s “Jusqu’en Haut”, directed by Thibaut Duverneix. The official version is below, but the real deal is the interactive site – where you can get your punch on creating your own video beat down of Poirier’s face and then email it to friends. Perhaps as a warning.

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Via Design You Trust

gimme gimme: thinkmap visual thesaurus.

Right brainers unite! Thinkmap is an interactive visual dictionary and thesaurus where the imagination-driven among us can really follow their minds wherever they want to go. Enter in a word and as you drag and move various synonyms and antonyms around it the rest of it’s suggestions alter based on your preferences. It’s so intuitive that you don’t really analyze what you’re doing or how it’s working – which lets your purest word associations come to the surface.

You can either sign up online to use the web-based program or order and install it right onto your machine. The multi-coloured shifting web layout that it follows is very similar to brilliant music-radio site Musicovery.

Via Generate