iconographic news headlines

20 November 2007

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a real-time news "translation machine" representing appearing & disappearing information about our times. the news content is reduced to the most frequent headlines & their according keywords. the reduced news headlines are then visually translated in a dynamic pictogram language that is considered to be universal & instantly understandable. online users can add keywords to an icon to determine which news will be displayed.

"Falling Times refers to the heavy InfoPollution we live in. the InfoSociety has created a new kind of consumer – the InfoConsumer!"

[link: fallingtimes.info|thnkx Michael]

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These arent symbols, these are low- res black and white bad drawn pictures of the news. Shame, if the symbols where much better these would be something more then just a flashy animation. Very bad execution of an interesting idea.

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