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BusinessWeek today announced the winners of the IDEA awards and our frogware LED light bulb concept won Gold. Check out the online version: http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/toc/08_30/B4093idea_best_product_design_awards.htm You should see the bulb prominently displayed on the landing page, and here’s another link directly to the bulb story:http://images.businessweek.com/ss/08/07/0717_idea_winners/112.htm Read the case study on our web site.
One thing that stinks about Apple TV is the on-screen keyboard. You don’t need to type often, but when you do — like for searching YouTube, or entering a Wi-Fi password — you get a crummy on-screen keyboard (ABCDEF rather than QWERTY) that you have to navigate using the up/down/left/right buttons on the little remote. But it ends up Apple’s new Remote app for the iPhone solves this. Any time you need to type on Apple TV, if you have the [...]
As part of the iPhone SDK developer program, I’ve been running a seed of the GM build of the new OS on my original iPhone for a few weeks now. Overall, there are surprisingly few visible changes to the system. Many of the built-in apps are, at least visibly, identical to the versions in iPhone OS 1.1.4. This includes Safari — if anything has changed in Safari’s user interface, I haven’t noticed it. But under the hood, MobileSafari 2.0’s performance is [...]
“Almost any issue, idea or fact can be expressed in a comic. This kind of visual storytelling is flexible, attention-grabbing and relatively inexpensive.” World Comics is a non-profit organization in Finland and India that promotes the use of local comics as a means for social change. Grassroots Comics: A Development Communication Tool is a free, downloadable manual for other non-governmental organizations about developing comics with community activists for use in their campaigns. See examples of grassroots comics in India and [...]
Aggressive Expansion from The Dark Knight Soundtrack by Hans Zimmer & James Newton Howard What makes for a great sequel is knowing what should be incremented and how much. Nolan nails the incremental changes in this film. There are hundreds of examples, from the score to the suit to Gotham City itself. There are no major leaps here, things are very much nearly right where we left them after Batman Begins. But things have incremented, in the most appropriate ways possible, [...]
Hilcon is a construction firm in Norway, and it was my role to create their identity package, including a logo, business card and letterhead design. At the time of writing, their website is undergoing a re-design, following the identity launch. Here I offer a brief insight into the design process. My contact at Hilcon was Vidar Einlien, and he answered my questions before any design work took place. Brief company background Hilcon specialise in domestic housings built in wood or [...]
Twenty 120 is back with another collection of 20 120 second shorts. Featuring hamburger flybys, everyday truth and lies, moonlanding conspiracies and the littlest matryoshka doll that cried wolfie. Via Quipsologies.
Elegant, exquisite, and extreme details on these sites that are sure to please. Welcome to this week’s Friday Focus! Designs of the Week This creation is just a delight to look at. Everywhere you look there are design elements that carry the underwater theme brilliantly. More importantly, those elements break the mold of straight borders and rectangular image frames and buttons. This business website is simply well-done. I love that the company logo is inlaid into the rotating photos below the [...]
Three Minds @ Organic |
Jul 18, 2008 03:41PM
As some readers of this blog know, I am stepping down as Editor-in-Chief of ThreeMinds. Today is my last day at Organic.It's been a great five year run. In many ways my career here took off as I became more involved with ThreeMinds. There are amazing synergies between coalescing my random thoughts into cogent posts and bringing a strong point of view on digital marketing to... Read more
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Jul 18, 2008 03:40PM
The Disappearing Art of the Mix Tape Broadcaster and journalist David Quantick celebrates the home-produced compilation cassette, a disappearing art form in an age when music can be readily downloaded. (tags: radio bbc radio4 mixtape muxtape tape cassette compilation) Leo Bodnar HID USB boards Range of small, cheap analogue and digital interface boards that work as generic HID devices over USB. (tags: electronics interface usb hid controller joystick sensors)
That's Right |
Jul 18, 2008 03:40PM
Very nice pieces from 66 Degrees.That's Right, Thanks to Design Milk.
I was torn, and actually in the Open Source session at #blogher08, so I missed the Content Syndication session, which was running concurrently. Luckily, Beth Kanter was live-Twittering it. Here are the resources she noted. kanter Sharing http://socialmedia4change.p... kanter Building traffic and using technorati - here's some step-by-steps http://tinyurl.com/6e4hlk kanter Here's one of my favorite posts re: twitter by Tara Hunt - gives you ideas of what to tweet http://tinyurl.com/4dzwef kanter At content syndication session - [...]
Only the coolest front-end developers can wear this. :)
UT GRAND PRIX 2009 UNIQLOâs annual T-shirt design competition since 2004, the 5th âUT Grand Prixâ will call for entries from July 15th. Submission Period: July 15th - September 21st, 2008 MORE INFO AMUSE ARTJAM 2008 AMUSE ARTJAM, a new art competition by a Japanese agency for all-round entertainment âAMUSEâ, will open calling for entries from August 1st. Submission period: August 1st - 31st, 2008 MORE INFO 12TH JAPAN MEDIA ARTS FESTIVAL CG-ARTS Society with Agency for Cultural Affairs and The National Art Center, Tokyo will start calling for entries [...]
“Dark Knight is so good it’s painful. The world just drips and I’m still covered in it three days after seeing it. I can’t get it out of my head. It connects with my childhood fantasies with an electric shock that won’t let go and it’s all pure joy. I will see this movie many times.” - Shawn Morrison, regarding The Dark Knight
Kanardo |
Jul 18, 2008 02:57PM
Above: Keyboard. 40 000 computer keys, tape, acrylic. LINK: www.timfishlock.com
Brent Simmons: The secrecy makes it difficult. For Mac programming, there are all kinds of resources — mailing lists, bits of code posted on the web, wikis, other developers — to help out. It makes a difference. For iPhone programming, no. We’re not supposed to discuss actually programming on the iPhone with anybody — even though that would raise the quality of the apps. ★
Dave Thomas on how the NDA surrounding the iPhone SDK is preventing Pragmatic Programmers from publishing books and screencasts on iPhone Development: So, to write a book about the iPhone SDK, you have to download it. In order to download it, you have to accept the agreement. And the agreement says that the download will contain confidential information that you can’t pass on to third parties. That makes it hard to publish the book. And, if that wasn’t enough, it also [...]
One of the smartest investor-oriented pieces about Apple I’ve seen, from Andy M. Zaky. ★
decor8 |
Jul 18, 2008 01:55PM
I've completed all of the packages to giveaway for the Inspire Me giveaway. Originally inspired by Creative Thursday's Marisa Haedike and Emily from The Black Apple, I wrote this post about sponsoring a giveaway here on decor8 that would inspire readers and donations started to flood in from all over the world within days. Packages filled with scraps that may have otherwise ended up in the trash arrived and as I opened them I immediately saw potential in everything. I've spent [...]
Photoshop Killer Tips |
Jul 18, 2008 01:47PM
Here’s a tip if you are zoomed way in on your document and want to erase one pixel at a time. Download here
I've mentioned to you before to be careful of John Nack's blog as it can lead to missing time experiences, due to the endless sources of amazing content he links to. A few days ago he linked to a new Batman The Dark Knight poster and I find it so inspiring. It's the work of the BLT & Associates team. Look under Print > Theatrical in their menu bar for more posters. Here's a link to a large version of the [...]
My thanks to Tap Tap Tap for sponsoring this week’s DF RSS feed. Tap Tap Tap makes “tasty bits for your iPhone”, and their first two apps are very well done: Where To, a $3 app for finding nearby restaurants, stores, services, and more; and Tipulator, a $1 tip calculator. A year ago I wrote was dismissive of the idea of a dedicated “tip calculator”, but I got a bunch of emails about that from DF readers who clearly didn’t enjoy [...]
With the bulk of our correspondences now taking place digitally, it's no wonder letter openers have been relegated to the luxury gift category. But the humble object remains one of those iconic pieces of design; Enzo Mari designed a whole series of them for the Italian company Danese in the '60s. Now comes the advent of the carbon fiber letter opener. Designed by the Austrian studio Purisme, this ergonomic opener is both an office accessory and a weapon for self-defense. It [...]
