September 04, 2012

Nissan’s crazy-long flipbook animation

Heh—this takes me back to my painfully ambitious childhood attempts at flipbook animation: the Nissan Note site tells a story as you scroll (and scroll, and scroll) down the page. In all my years online I can’t say I remember seeing this done before—and that’s saying something. [Via]

Mars Rover’s wheels embed Morse Code

This is some of the most unique typography (if you can call it that) I’ve heard of in a while: the wheels of the Curiosity Rover feature a custom pattern that spells out “JPL” (for Jet Propulsion Laboratory) in Morse Code in the vehicle’s tire tracks.

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