Go Play With Fonts
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Using letter-forms from the Asian character-set, Yugo and Tha Ltd. have created a fun and playful way of making images from fonts. Make, view and share your own.
Cool Twitter Friend Visualizer
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Twiter Friends Browser is a fun, simple and light application (5k according to the author) that allows you to browse through all your twitter friends. You can start by typing a particular twitter username to immediately see all their connections and latest updates. You can then continue clicking and dragging in an endless friend-of-a-friend network.
Destroying Value
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The financial services industry has claimed an ever-growing share of the nation’s income over the past generation, making the people who run the industry incredibly rich. Yet, at this point, it looks as if much of the industry has been destroying value, not creating it. And it’s not just a matter of money: the vast riches achieved by those who managed other people’s money have had a corrupting effect on our society as a whole. Read More
My friends in the financial sector call me a hater. Liz get’s dirty looks for echoing these exact sentiments on a regular basis. It might take someone like Krugman to get this notion accepted by the main stream…
CSS
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CSS is Bananas!!!!, originally uploaded by victor.brunetti
*Update: The original title for this post was “CSS is Bananas!!!” but due to diligent reader insight and analysis, it has come to my attention that the previous post is titled “MusicBox is Bananas”. And even though there is no “!!!” at the end, I feel like the two posts are too similarly titled. No memes allowed.
Painting With Light
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(via ColorLovers)
Like many of her peers and fellow ‘light painters’ or ‘light graffiti’ artists, Vicki DaSilva was inspired by the blooming hip-hop and graffiti culture that surrounded her while living in New York City during the 80’s. What differs about Vicki’s work from other artists, like LICHFAKTOR, as one example of many talented artists who work with time lapse photography, is her creation of geometric shapes and colorful patterns. While some of her photos are created in the more usual way of light movement by hand, many of her more impressive photos involved complex pulley systems and tracks for the light source to travel down.
This is Almost an Amazing Idea
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Getty Images now has an interactive mood board generator. It’s a great start of an idea but isn’t precise enough to be totally useful. Whereas I appreciate a more general approach will facilitate the unexpected, when I tried to use this tool to generate for me mood boards for a project I’m working on it came up flat. I also would want to be able to provide feedback and refinement while the stream is playing - to kind of set it loose and calibrate on-the-fly…
I recommend playing with it though - I think it’s a great start to a great idea - it just needs more strategic and feature-filled refinement.
FAIL Design
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FAIL Design on the JFK AirTrain:
Go Play With Drop.Io
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I had the opportunity to team up with the folks over at Drop.Io over the summer for a redesign and brand-study of their entire application and I can’t say enough good things about Chad, Sam and the entire Drop.io team. They’re a super-smart, super-passionate bunch of geeks and they deserve all the good things that will, I’m sure, flow their way as a result of their simple, private sharing platform. Check it out.
Holy Mother of Recap
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When going to a trade-show it’s natural to feel hyped about the products on display. Every car show I go to I leave convinced that now is the right time to buy that 2-seater I’ve always wanted - but it never is - it’s just the hype. Trade shows have been honing the craft of making you want what they’re hocking for years and they’re quite adept at it. The thing is, Adobe MAX was a little different. Of course I left wanting to run out and buy CS4, but not for shop-therapy or wanting something shiny or new.
When Apple launched their new Mac Books I wanted a new one - for about a minute. Then I looked down at my year-old MacBook with 4 gigs of RAM and thought how silly wanting a new one was when the one I have is bad-ass. Not the case with CS4. There are actually new tools to be used, new and easier workflows for creation and faster performance. We live in Adobe products and we make our livelihoods using their tools. Upgrades are key. The following is my recap of my thoughts at Adobe MAX this year:
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New Google Search Refinement Tools
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They’re subtle, but they’re there. Google has finally realized that users need to be able to refine their search and manipulte the data-set they’re returned not just see one very long list. I’m currently working on Search/Research for a client and now that I see this through the lens of the requirements we’re working with - it’s a very long time coming. Good job Google, even if it is a couple years late.
Still Enjoying SF
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Still Enjoying SF, originally uploaded by victor.brunetti.
Enjoying PTO in SF
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Enjoying PTO in SF, originally uploaded by victor.brunetti.
Urban Design After the Age of Oil
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(via Archinect)
This ground-breaking symposium has been organized to address the role of urban design in the face of one of the most profound and important challenges facing global society: the need to re-imagine and rethink how cities are designed and organized in a future without the plentiful and abundant oil upon which prosperous urban economies have been built. Go
Serial Consign by Greg J. Smith
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I’m loving this guy’s blog lately and I encourage adding it to your Google Reader. Keep an eye on this one.
Outside of his own design research blog Serial Consign, Greg co-curates and edits the digital arts publication Vague Terrain and is a regular contributor to Augmentology 1[L]0[L]1. He has also written and edited for various publications and websites including Rhizome, View on Canadian Art, Textura and NewAssignment.Net.
VISUALIZAR’08
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How can we use the data visualization and information design resources to understand the processes governing contemporary cities and better manage them? What can we learn from studying traffic and pedestrian movement flows through the streets of Madrid? What would happen if we filled the streets with screens providing information updated each moment about water and electricity consumption?
Man if I were in Madrid I’d be there.
Also check out the Medialab-Prado site - looks like an awesome program.
IdN: We [heart] Infographics
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(thnx forz for pointing this out)
A lot of designers regard the practice of infographics as dull and boring — but this is almost certainly because they’ve never tried it. The 10 we spoke to, and whose work we’ve used to illustrate this feature, love what they do and believe it offers as big a challenge and as great a satisfaction as any other kind of design.
This issue is a must-have for today’s designer/scientist. Go buy one.
Preventing Future Beach-balls
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“Shit the beach-ball!” I exclaimed. “I ‘got it too”, I heard from across the studio.
We might as well brew a pot of coffee - we’ll be here a while.
Adobe has made great strides in recent years to eliminate application crashes in their Mac suite of applications. Remember running CS/CS2 in Rosetta and Illustrator simply shutting off when you used the pathfinder - and viola you’re back at the desktop and out an hour of work because you forgot to Apple-S? Ya well Adobe on Macs is about where it was on PCs under CS1 - your machine will think really hard for a really long time - you may lose fidelity in your OS GUI - meaning some panels will go white and not refresh until Adobe is done thinking - but 99 times out of 100, if you wait long enough, the application will recover.
Back to the studio…
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The Work of Pitch Interactive
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Pitch Interactive, from Madison Wisconsin does some really nice Data Visualization work. The above image is from a spread they had in Esquire Magazine (the issue with the E-Ink on the cover). Check them out.
I’m In This Book
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Although I’m not attributed :-/ Season of Surprises is on p.286
Natzke has Prints For Sale
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More Christmas gift ideas for Victor. Go buy me one of those too :)
