an animated documentary (mockumentary) about the presence of Evil in Western civilization from Ancient Greece to present day.

see also infosthetics' youtube channel for more infographic movies.

Barcelona (Spain) - Based on the response and requests from the design community, Design for the World has extended the deadline for participation in the 'Push-Pull' pictogram project to 15 June 2008.

The project is soliciting submissions to develop a 'push-pull' pictogram to fill a gap in the codified systems of pictograms. Currently, it is necessary to use words, even written in different alphabets, which vary according to the language of a given country. The pictogram would facilitate better communication between peoples who speak different languages.

Submitted proposals, sketches and ideas will be grouped, according to their conceptual or visual affinities, into “families”. All sketches, ideas or proposals in each of these “families” will then be synthesised into one sign which reflects its essence, so that there will be as many unique signs as there are “families”.

The different synthesised signs will then be sent to all designers contributed ideas, sketches or proposals. The outcome of this phase will address cultural or semiological incompatibilities and rank the proposals by preference.

If you are interested in participating in this project, please send your ideas or sketches with a completed form to Design for the World.

W: http://designfortheworld.org

LightBox: a JavaScript application used to display large images using modal dialogs. The script has gained widespread popularity due to its simple yet elegant style and easy implementation. Lightbox uses the Prototype Javascript Framework and script.aculo.us for its animations and positioning.
Official Lightbox website

• Shadowbox Media Viewer A “cross-browser, cross-platform, cleanly-coded and fully-documented media viewer application written entirely in JavaScript”. It can be used to extend the Prototype+ Scriptaculous, as well as YUI, Ext, jQuery and MooTools frameworks.

• Synapses Lightbox A PHP Based lightbox solution that uses one image, and one image directory for your lightbox galley. As opposed to having a thumbnail image for previewing, Synapses Lightbox auto resizes proportionately on the fly with the use of the PHP GD technology.

• Slimbox A lightweight alternative based on the MooTools framework.

• The Lightbox Clones Matrix A matrix comparison of 30+ lightbox alternatives, based on various Javascript frameworks (jQuery, MooTools, Prototype...)
• lightview : Lightview was built to change the way you overlay content on a website.