Last week Mulvey and I were talking about the mental fork created by Apple’s app strategy. Specifically, I mentioned I sometimes get confused when I want to “switch” my context from one thing on my iPhone to another – I’ll hit the home button and search for an app if I’m looking for a web…
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(from combustion)
Edward Tufte Presidential Appointment
Edward Tufte, March 7, 2010:
I will be serving on the Recovery Independent Advisory Panel. This Panel advises The Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board, whose job is to track and explain $787 billion in recovery stimulus funds:
“The Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board was created by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of…
As the TV wars heat up – to see more check out Method’s recent 10×10 article – more dumb stuff like this is going to happen. This is what I see when I turn on channel 7 (ABC in my market).
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Walk by anyone’s desk at my office and you’ll see TweetDeck running or minimized in the background. It started as a great piece of software for the hardcore Twitterer and has matured into a pretty good social feed aggregator. I never really loved the UI though. It’s treatment of the chicklet buttons across the top…
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From Engadget:
the interface appears to be pen-based and centered around drawing and writing, with built-in handwriting recognition and a corresponding web site that allows access to everything entered into the device in a blog-like format complete with comments
This is a fantastic idea. I’d imagine the same thing is possible with an iPhone or iPad via…
Big Bang is a new trend map from iA – the same folks that brought us the Web Trend Map poster series. This sucker takes a look at a level abstracted from actual domains – social networks.
I particularly enjoyed this quote:
Since twitter is becoming an alternative web protocol that—together with facebook—gets close and closer to…
Method is gradually rolling out beautifully designed white papers illustrating insights they’ve gained over their first 10 years of operation. I just read David vs. Goliath which is about OTT services (like Hulu, Boxee, etc.) vs. Big Cable. Aside: if you’ve noticed food network briefly being unavailable or the threat that ABC 7 will leave…
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Great typographic grid. Found on Site Inspire.
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If you’re looking to download some apps (mobile, computer, etc.) that provide playful and inspiring ways to experience sight and sound then I’d recommend taking a look at some of the applications listed over at Creative Applications.
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Checking out the Dubberly Design Office this morning I noticed a few infographics on their site that looked interesting. This one shows the Creative Process. I’m not going to quibble about the little things, but overall it’s nice to think about how interrelated everything is that we try to artificially break into stages.
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Seems like a lot of creatives are feeling the need to transition, change and get back to basics. Something’s in the water…
And so it goes with Def Jux – my favorite hip hop label of all time. El-P is putting the label on hiatus. I agree with forz, Cold Vein might be the most underrated…
I’m a little late to the party here (like 4 years!), but nonetheless I’ve set out to do some generative art work with photography, flash and painterly randomness. These are the first few outputs from the new program I’ve created. Still tweaking things, but you can see my first stab in motion below (it may…
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Absolutely beautiful personal data visualizations are now available to view in Feltron’s 2009 Annual Report. Don’t forget to buy a copy. Someone tell Mulvey his designer-crush just turned a new page (literally).
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Transparent polymer film that can be applied to non conductive materials and turn them interactive. Very thin, it uses projected capacitive technology, making it possible to apply on the back of a glass and detect finger touch on the front of the glass.
Just thinking about re-imagining the interaction relationship between input and view. Right now…
A former professor of mine told me “you can’t shit if you don’t eat”. What she meant was that I needed to learn a balance between creative input and output. As a designer if you work too hard for too long, you start to loose the joy in what you do and that’s a death-knell…
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