GigantiCo™ is the blog of Chris Grayson, Digital Creative Strategist, writing at the intersection of art, technology & business – art, design, culture, architecture, technology, trends, data visualization, transhumanism, robotics, augmented reality, virtual reality, the metaverse, the tech-industry, gadgets, mobile, d.o.o.h., digital marketing & advertising – in short, whatever piques his interest. Chris Grayson is Director of Digital at Humble. Views and opinions expressed here at GigantiCo are his own. For inquiries about interviews or speaking engagements, write to email[at]chrisgrayson[dot]com.

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SITES OF INTEREST:

Augmented Reality —
ARmeetup.org | Video Hub
Twitter AR Peeps
Games Alfresco
Curious Raven
UgoTrade
The Connected World
AR Times
Augmented
Augmentation
Augmented Planet
Augmented Environments
Organized Chaos
The Future Digital Life
Augmentality
Augmented Reality 3.0
AR Newsroom
AugmentPro
The Augmented Blog
AR at ReadWriteWeb
Augmented Reality Network


Virtual Reality / Metaverse —
3pointD
eightbar
Ian Hughes’ ePredator
Gwyneth Llewelyn
distilling the metaverse
Reubens Thoughts
Daneel Ariantho’s Lab
Tao Takashi’s life in SL
Metaversed
Second Life
Second Life Topsites


New Media, Marketing
& Trend Spotting —
Seth Godin
Jaffe Juice
Greg Verdino
Meme Huffer
Mashable
Presentation Zen
Darren Herman
Idea City
Guy Kawasaki
Sramana Mitra on Strategy
Techno//Marketer
Ad Holes
Web Strategy by Jeremiah
Third Way Blog
AdverBlog
Ad Freak
Every Dot Connects
ExperienceCurve
Global Neighbourhoods
MicroPersuasion
AdFreak
TrendHunter
Steven Berlin Johnson
Malcolm Gladwell
Rand in Repose
The Long Tail
Kevin Kelly
Bob Parsons
Ted Blog
Marian Salzman
GrowBrand
Interactive Mrkt Trends
AdLiterate
Advergamez
Common Craft
CK Blog
BrandNoise
Deep Jive Interests
Digital Biographer
Roo Reynolds - What’s Next
Conversation Agent
The Client Side
SaaStream: CRM Strategy


Culture —
Burn Lab
Dark Roasted Blend
Architectradure
Brass Goggles
Juxtapoz
Positive Ape Index
Supertouch Blog


The Counter Media —
BoingBoing
Laughing Squid


Design/Lifestyle Portals —
Notcot
Moco Loco
Curbed
reBang
Core77
Design Addict
Apartment Therapy
Uncrate
design:related
Cool Hunting
Contagious Directory
Swiss Miss
Uppercase
electro^plankton


Architecture Zines —
[pushpullbar]²
Archidose
ARCspace
Bldg Blog
Arkhitekton
ArchiNow
Archinect
Great Buildings
Emporis Database
Five Foot Way
uno punto seiscientos dieciocho
eye candy
materialicio
WorkSpace
The Architects Paper


Information Graphics —
Visual Complexity
Infosthetics
Information Architects
XPLANE
Nicholas Felton Blog
FlowingData
Aaron Koblin
Nixon Now
Think Map
Many Eyes
Edward Tufte
Topicscape Mindmaps
Periodic Table of Viz.
Prefuse Toolkit
TouchGraph


Website Design lists —
The F.W.A.
Cool Home Pages
The Best Designs
Adobe Showcase
Ultrashock


Graphic Design —
A List Apart
ping mag
Bartelme Design
Be a Design Group
Before & After
BittBox
Brand New
David Airey
Designer Daily
Design Inspiration
Designologue
Designers’ Toolbox
Designers Who Blog
Etcetering
LogoPond
Under Consideration
Zeldman


Color Tools —
Adobe Kuler
Colour Lovers
Stripe Generator
Palette from Image 1
Palette from Image 2
NASA Color Tool
Shade Generator
Color Jack
Color Blender
Color Mixers
VisiBone Color Tools
Easy RGB
Color Conversion


Stock Asset Sites —

Stock Images:
   Getty Images
   Corbis
   Veer
   iStockphoto
   Shutterstock
   British Library
   Acclaim Images
   StockXpert
   PhotoShelter
   Jupiter Images
   World of Stock
   FotoSearch
   Photos.com
   Rubberball
   FotoLia
   Snap Village
   Crestock
   123RF
   StockPhoto
   Blend Images
   PhotoLibrary
   ShutterPoint
   Photographic Libraries

Free Stock Images:
   Free Range Stock
   Yoto Photo
   EveryStockphoto
   FreeFoto
   Free Digital Photos
   Free Photos Bank
   Open Stock Photography
   Stock.XCHNG
   The Stock Vault
   The Morgue File
   American Memory
   NASA Research Aircraft

Stock Vector Art:
   Go-Media Arsenal
   iStockphoto Illustrations
   Shutterstock Vector
   FlavaFX
   Art Bitz
   VectorStock
   The Vector Lab
   StockVectors
   Clipart-Design
   Vector Cafe
   Clipart Lab
   Digital Auto Library
   Presentation Maps
   Digital Vector Maps
   Map Resources
   Illuminated Manuscripts
   Coat of Arms

Free Stock Vector Art:
   All Free Logo
   Brands of the World
   SeekLogo
   Share a Logo
   Deviant Vector Art
   Free Vecotrs
   Vecteezy
   Snap 2 Objects
   Open Clipart
   Webchantier

Sound FX:
   Minimal FX
   Sound Snap
   Sound Rangers
   Sound Dogs
   Sonomic
   Flash Den Audio

Stock Music:
   AudioSparx
   Partners in Rhyme
   Abstract Beats

Free Audio:
   Sound Snap
   Free Sound
   Free Sound Effects
   Free Loops
   Flash Kit Sound FX
   A1 Free Sound Effects

Audio Web Search:
   Find Sounds

Stock 3D Models:
   3d02
   DAZ 3D Models
   3D Science
   TurboSquid 3D
   The 3D Studio
   Poitra
   3A Games
   3D Export
   The 123d, 3D Models
   3D Model Works
   Objects Library
   Alfaville Automotive
   3drt Game Models
   Precise 3D
   Amazing 3D
   Altair Models
   Arch Objects
   AXYZ Design

Icons:
   Icon Factory
   Fast Icon
   iconaholic
   DeGraeve Favicon Maker

Stock Flash Components:
   Flash Den
   Swish Zone
   Screen Time
   MultidMedia.com

Stock Video:
   Pond5
   RevoStock
   Getty Footage
   Corbis Motion
   iStockvideo
   Photo Library Footage
   Thought Equity
   Advance Flash
   Footage Firm
   Shutterstock Footage
   Royalty Free HD
   Footage House
   Footage House HD
   Video Tape Library
   Always HD
   avc HD clips
   DV Cuts
   Feedback Video
   Livid Instruments
   Motion Loops
   World Clips
   Wrightwood
   Ocean Footage
   Global Cuts
   Nature Footage
   Wilderness Video
   Timelapse
   Extreme Storms
   Storm Stock
   Mt. Hurricane
   Teton Gravity Research
   e-Aerials
   America by Air
   Tony Monk Films
   Pro Aerial Video
   Aeronautic Pictures
   

Fonts —

Font Houses:
   Adobe
   LinoType
   Hoefler & Frere-Jones
   Blambot
   Font Bros.
   House Industries
   T.26 Fonts
   Device Type
   Emigre Fonts
   Fountain
   P22 Online
   Comic Book Fonts
   Jukebox Fonts
   Self Built Fonts
   TypeCo
   Intl. Typeface Corp. (ITC)
   Alias
   Garage Fonts
   Elsner + Flake
   Shinn Type Foundery
   Font Menu
   Letterhead Fonts
   Letterhead Logos Type
   Classic Font Company

Pixel Fonts:
   Fonts For Flash
   Flash Den
   MiniFont
   04 Bitmap (free)
   Pixilate
   Alpha Omega
   Kottke Silkscreen (free)
   Atomic Media
   BitmapMania (free)
   Fonts by Cal Henderson
   OrgDot (free)

Handwriting Fonts:
   Dephitro (free)
   Pixilate (handwriting)
   vLetter Ready-Made
   Teacher’s Fonts (free)
   Educational Fontware
   Fontifier

Font Stores:
   Veer
   Font Haus
   Fonts.Com
   MyFonts
   Font Shop
   HighFonts
   House of Type
   The Font Pool

Free Fonts:
   Simply the Best Fonts
   daFont
   1001 Free Fonts
   Dieter Steffmann’s Fonts
   House of Lime Fonts
   SpoonLoads
   HighFonts Free
   04 Bitmap
   BitmapMania
   Wanted Fonts
   Kottke Silkscreen
   DincType
   Get Free Fonts
   Download Free Fonts
   OrgDot
   Dephitro (handwriting)
   Font Shop Free
   Flood Fonts Free
   Better Fonts
   Search Free Fonts
   Urban Fonts

Font Identifiers:
   by partial name
   by appearance
   from a reference image

Typography Websites:
   Typophile
   TypeNeu
   Type Directors Club
   I Love Typography
   Design & Typo le Site
   Car Type
   McGill U., Typography
   

Gadgets —
Gizmodo
Think Geek
engadget
Oh Gizmo!
WIRED Gadgets
Gadget Review
Coolest Gadgets


The Future —
Ray Kurzweil
Foresight Institute
Institute for the Future


Robots —

Robot Clubs:
   Survival Research Labs
   Carnegie Mellon Robotics
   List of International Clubs

Robot Blogs/Zines:
   Robotics at NASA
   Robot Dreams
   Robot Advice
   BotMag
   Go Robotics
   Inst. for Robots in Edu.
   Walking Robots

Household Robots:
   Probotics
   UBOT
   iRobot - Home
   Karcher

Mobile Robots:
   Inuktun
   Autonomous Solutions
   iRobot Industrial
   American Standard
   RoboProbe
   Roper Resources

Walking Robots:
   Honda ASIMO
   PLEN
   Austrobots
   Lucy
   Kawada HRP-2 “Promet”

Flying Robots:
   Rotomotion
   General Atomics
   ACR Tucson
   DIY - UAV
   DIY Drones

Factory Robots:
   RobotWorx
   Robot Co.
   Used Robots
   Industrial Control Repair
   Epson Robots
   ABB Robotics
   Antenen Research
   Fanuc, FA & Robot

Robots Kits:
   Arrick Robotics
   LynxMotion
   Science Kits, Robots
   Robots Direct
   Hobbytron Robots
   

N.Y.C. Art Museums —
MoMA
The Guggenheim
The Metropolitan
The Whitney
New Museum of Con. Art
EyeBeam
National Design Museum
Chelsea Art Museum
The Brooklyn Museum
The Queens Museum
The Bronx Museum
Int. Center of Photography
Neue Galerie (German/Austrian)
Austrian Cultural Forum
The Asia Society Museum
The Jewish Museum
The Skyscraper Museum
Museum of Art & Design
American Folk Art Museum
Museum for African Art
ArtSlant - New York


Buy Affordable Art —
Etsy Art
Raandesk Gallery
Artocracy
GigPosters Classifieds
Expresso Beans Store
U Gallery
Poster Bomb
Art Prostitute
Illustration Mundo
HANG art
imagekind
Tiny Showcase
deviantART
Fine Art @ Shana Logic
PhilaArts
ebay Art

GigantiCo is the blog of,
CHRIS GRAYSON
Creative Strategist
Art Director, Design Director
New York City

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