Venables Bell & Partners: Explore your World with Google Maps
- Date
- 16 January 2012
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- Rob Alderson
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Google has a good track record for realising their services in the real world with a certain panache – who can forget this superb Google Analytics in Real Life video – and the latest effort by continues that venerable tradition. Venables Bell & Partners have recreated Google Maps on a giant gyroscopic model which allows two players to explore the world via the famous little blue dot we all know and love from the service. It’s fun, it’s creative and it makes its point beautifully – a surefire sign of success.
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Rob Alderson is a freelance writer, editor and strategist. He was previously editor-in-chief of It’s Nice That and WePresent, and editor of Design Week. He publishes the newsletter Undo, which tries to make sense of how AI is changing design work, the design process and the design industry.