Digital Schweinshaxe

So here it is, for the second year: our '20things' from 2011!

We've taken 20 seminal (or just mental) events from the year on the internet and carefully weaved them together into a single illustration - this year crafted by Peter Jaworowski.

This week we opened our new office in lovely Frankfurt, located immediately adjacent to the Stock Exchange, right in the heart of the city. If you are around, please stop by and say hi!

Seventh Sense is an awesome performance where once again dance and interactive digital environments have been merged to create this beautiful connection.

From the uprisings across the Arab world to the devastating earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster in Japan, there was no lack of news in 2011. Reuters photographers covered the breaking news events as well as captured more intimate, personal stories. In this showcase, the photographers offer a behind the scenes account of the images that helped define the year.

This fantasstic video essay exploring what may be the most singular visual element to Steven Spielberg films: the face.

A drawing composed entirely out of 3.2 million ink dots. Just amazing and insane!

Using a variety of visual tricks, including projection mapping, props, and motion-tracking, Sony have managed to bring to life a sort of crazy virtual "holodeck" experience.

To celebrate the release of the long-awaited book "Saul Bass: A Life in Film & Design", Ian Albinson put together an inspiring brief visual history of some of Saul Bass's most celebrated work:

Andreas Gursky is one of my favorite visual artists known for his enormous architecture and landscape color photographs.

Out for a little while now this unconventional game by Krystian Majewski tells the story of a young woman who survives a car accident.