November 2011
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The 6 Pillars Of Steve Jobs's Design Philosophy
Beyond some phenomenal products, Steve Jobs helped define exactly what good design meant for the computer age. Here are his most enduring ideals.
[This is the second installment in a series of posts that we’re doing as we read Walter Isaacson’s Steve Jobs biography. Click here to read the first.—Ed.]
Everyone who cares, even modestly, about design can name a few decisive...
October 2011
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Simple Genius: A Desk That Grows With Your Kid
Kids grow. Their belongings do not. Which sucks for parents who could be spending dough on a hot new car college fund but instead have to buy new shoes, bedroom furniture, and the like every time their offspring sprouts a few inches.
Enter the AZ desk. Designed by Lyon-based Guillaume Bouvet, it includes a chair and writing surface that get taller as your child morphs from a shrimpy toddler...
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10 inspiring Steve Jobs quotes
Steve Jobs not only changed the way we interact with technology, but also inspired a loyalty that went beyond mere branding—he created a lifestyle for Apple customers. And, as NPR points out, helped shape popular culture.
Along the way, Jobs also provided inspiration on a variety of other topics. Many of these quotes come from The Wall Street Journal, which compiled them in August when Jobs...
September 2011
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Underground art welcome on the underground
Art should belong in the public arena right? What better canvas than a subway train? Wrong? It wasn’t long ago that subversive artists were “doing” their art in these places… illegally. These artists [admittedly not all were artists] were the scourge of the New York and subsequent subways. Now they’re emerging as recognised artists throughout the world. Although some prefer to remain...
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Textile Field by Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec
French designers Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec have laid a stripy field of fabric inside the Raphael Court of the V&A museum as part of the London Design Festival. You can see an animation of the project over on Dezeen Screen.
The Textile Field installation covers 240 square metres of the gallery floor and encourages gallery visitors to lie down when looking at the renaissance...
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In Progress: King’s Cross Station
© Hufton Crow
“It’s incredible to watch the reinvention of the station taking shape into a compelling piece of place-making for London. You can already see how the Western Concourse – Europe’s largest single span station structure and the heart of the development – reconnects this much-loved Victorian terminus to its context. It’s immensely satisfying to see the project move forward at...
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Vision Without Obstruction: What We Learn From...
Illustration: Oscar Ramos Orozco In recent days, everyone has taken the news of Steve Jobs’ resignation and illness in different ways. For me, it has conjured up admiration and curiosity. More than anything else, I have always respected Jobs’ clarity. True, the man has always shunned the status quo, but I believe his rebel ways were only a consequence of his efforts to stay true...
August 2011
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Baboo | A Great Therapeutic Toy
Baboo is the final project of Shahaf Ben Abu who recently graduated from Hadassah College. This is such a cute and creative project. Baboo is a kit made of clips to which kids can attach drawings, allowing them to be more creative by making their own dolls and action figures.
Designed primarily for therapeutic and diagnostic use, I can also see Baboo being used by just about any kid with...
July 2011
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Back To Basics
Great idea and execution of old school electronic devices made of paper. Created by French based graphic designers duo Lucie Thomas and Thibault Zimmermann, founders of Zim and Zou studio.
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June 2011
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Haroshi | Recycling old used skateboards
Haroshi makes his art pieces recycling old used skateboards. His creations are born through styles such as wooden mosaic, dots, and pixels; where each element, either cut out in different shapes or kept in their original form, are connected in different styles, and shaven into the form of the final art piece. Haroshi became infatuated with skateboarding in his early teens, and is still a...
Anti-Flat
Artist Gerry Judah’s paintings are massively and aggressively three-dimensional, piling up, away, and out from the canvas to form linked cities, ruins, and debris-encrusted bridges, like reefs. They are perhaps what a tectonic collaboration between Lebbeus Woods and Jackson Pollock might produce: blasted and collapsing landscapes so covered in white it’s as if nuclear winter has set...
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You Should Date An Illiterate Girl
Date a girl who doesn’t read. Find her in the weary squalor of a Midwestern bar. Find her in the smoke, drunken sweat, and varicolored light of an upscale nightclub. Wherever you find her, find her smiling. Make sure that it lingers when the people that are talking to her look away. Engage her with unsentimental trivialities. Use pick-up lines and laugh inwardly. Take her outside when the...
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Sal Con Una Chica Que No Lee
Sal con una chica que no lee. Encuéntrala en medio de la fastidiosa mugre de un bar del medio oeste. Encuéntrala en medio del humo, del sudor de borracho y de las luces multicolores de una discoteca de lujo. Donde la encuentres, descúbrela sonriendo y asegúrate de que la sonrisa permanezca incluso cuando su interlocutor le haya quitado la mirada. Cautívala con trivialidades poco...
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A Historic View
For a moment there was a sense of déjà vu and I thought the Papyrus was a refined View Trans. Apparently I was wrong; while the View Trans was a digital visual translating device, the Papyrus is a medium to view historical buildings and sites with a restored vision. Kinda was-before and is-now images using digital restoration techniques. For example, besides giving historic snippets about the...
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10 Excellent Advice for Designers
Today we’d love to share with you guys some really helpful advice. Helpful not only for designers who are just starting out in the industry, but also for experienced designers with an open mind to new things that could boost your career and take advantage of your skills.
1. Make a working portfolio site
There are creative platforms like Behance, but don’t let them be your main...
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Self-Portrait Made Up Of Ecstacy Pills
Artist Scott Blake, a Savannah College of Art and Design graduate, specializes in unique forms of digital mosaic and bar code art. A few years back, he created this self-portrait comprised of Ravers favorite drug, MDMA or 3,4-Methylenedioxy methamphetamine, more commonly known as Ecstacy or simply “e”. Scott collected all of the XTC pill images from Dancesafe.org, a harm...
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Van Gogh Painting is a Vertical Green Wall
Photo: B. Alter
It’s the first living painting in London’s Trafalgar Square, and maybe the first anywhere. A Van Gogh picture has been turned into a green living vertical wall.
Depicting Van Gogh’s painting, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, it’s a new way to draw people into the National Gallery to see the real thing.
Photo: National Gallery: A Wheatfield, with...
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Terracycle ¡Aprovecha la Basura!
En plena euforia por el supuesto éxito de los sistemas de reciclaje oficiales, resulta que hasta el 80% de los productos de consumo acaban en incineradoras y vertederos de medio mundo por falta de tecnología para darles una segunda vida. Dos dificultades mayores tiene el reciclaje tal y como está concebido ahora: se genera excesiva basura y la que se crea está compuesta por materiales...
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May 2011
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30/100 Incredible Views Out Of Airplane Windows
21. Austria sunrise
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22. Selangor River, Malaysia
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23. Grand Canyon, Arizona
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24. Great Salt Lake, Utah
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25. Talbot Bay, Australia
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26. Oahu, Hawaii
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27. Great Plains, USA
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28. Bali, Indonesia
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29. Nebraska, USA
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30. Los Angeles, California
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April 2011
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A Simple Switch - A Simple Idea
“A Simple Idea”, ayudará al medio ambiente cada vez que alguien lo descargue. ¿Cómo? Gracias al acuerdo entre Philips y la Fundación + Árboles, por cada 20 descargas del ecoBook se plantará un árbol.* ¡Tu descarga cuenta! Para que te hagas una idea del éxito, en apenas una semana hemos superado las… ¡5.000 descargas!
El equipo de A Simple Switch presentó este ecoBook el pasado 13 de...
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20/100 Incredible Views Out Of Airplane Windows
11. New York, New York
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12. Midwest, USA
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13. Greenland
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14. Mount Pico, Portugal
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15. Mount St. Helen, Washington
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16. St. Elias Icefields, Greenland
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17. Cairo, Egypt
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18. San Luis Obispo County, California
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19. Fuel depot explosion in 2006. London, England.
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20. Southern Wisconsin
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10/100 Incredible Views Out Of Airplane Windows
1. London, England
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2. Mount Everest and Makalu, Nepal
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3. Cargill Salt Ponds in San Francisco Bay
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4. Skagway, Alaska
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5. The Alps
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6. Sokongen Island, Greenland
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7. Midwest, USA
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8. Lagos, Nigeria
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9. Mount Ranier, Washington
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10. Madison, Wisconsin
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Coat Check Chair by Joey Zeledón →
March 2011
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Where Children Sleep by James Mollison
With the book ‘Where Children Sleep‘ English photographer James Mollison presents a very interesting series of photos featuring children from all over the world, alongside photos of their bedrooms. The photos are accompanied by the stories about the lives of the children, their families and the places they live, resulting in some intriguing contrasts.
There’s the story about Bilal the...
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Backpack of the Future
In the future, our electronic devices will be more than just rectangular screens in our pockets. They will be bolder and more integrated into the fabric of our lives – literally. The Androcell backpack is an electronic communication device designed with a “Cradle to Cradle” approach.
With an Androcell backpack, one can exchange, store, create, and view digital data and perform several...
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WatchFourPlus Showreel 2010
Better late then never – our motion work from 2010. Comercial+Free projects in the mix.
Credits: Jelio Dimitrov, Radoslav Mitkov, Pavel Pavlov
Drum Machine - Music Video by Drew Cope -... →
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“Modernity: We created youth without heroism, age without wisdom, and life...”
– Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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