Google Creative Lab

Google just added closed captioning to everything on your phone

Twitter. Facebook. Podcasts. Voicemails. You name it.

Ambient Lit: The ambitious project to redesign fiction for phones

Designers and writers are finding ways to create new forms of stories–all on the smartphone.

Google’s Oscar Night Ads Aim For A More Human Side Of A Tech Future

The Dead-Serious Strategy Behind Google’s Silly AI Experiments

Google’s AI Experiments are part fun, part marketing–and a reminder of how nascent AI still is.

This Disintegrating E-Book Cleverly Shows How Blockchains Work

Originally invented for the safe transaction of Bitcoin, blockchains have come to the art world–and now, they’re hitting publishing, too.

From Google, A Giant Psychedelic Sculpture Visitors Control With Chrome

Google Creative Lab wunderkind Aaron Koblin partners with installation artist Janet Echelman on an interactive floating sculpture.

From Google And Berg, A Superb Concept For Better Video Chatting

In 2011, Google Creative Lab brought on Berg to develop a video chat appliance unlike any the world had seen. The project was scrapped, but it still makes for a great story.

How Fiction Influences Science, According to Google Creative Lab’s Robert Wong

A new video from Future of StoryTelling, and Google Creative Lab’s Robert Wong illuminates the effect fiction has on science. Wong tells Co.Create why it’s not enough for technology to just be awesome. (It also needs a great story about why we should love it.)

Google And Berg Team Up To Create An Internet Of Things

In 2011, Berg worked with Google to imagine the service’s manifestation in real life. Here’s the remarkable, working prototype they came up with.

Google Exec’s Hobby: Installing Tiny Dioramas on Empty Ceilings

MTA.me: Google Engineer Turns Subway Lines Into Musical Instruments