Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Taryn Simon

Taryn Simon exhibits her startling take on photography -- to reveal worlds and people we would never see otherwise. She shares two projects: one documents otherworldly locations typically kept secret from the public, the other involves haunting portraits of men convicted for crimes they did not commit. Via TED

dailybunny

Tough day at work? Feeling down? need a little "awwwwww". How about the daily bunny

Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Quique

Meet Quique, a guerilla marketing campaign for diesel helmets.

100 greatest youtube hits in 4 minutes.

100 greatest youtube hits in 4 minutes, so many memories of completely wasting time when I should be working. Enjoy!

Monday, September 28, 2009

pentagram House of Cards

Fifty-three of the UK’s leading artists and designers have created a unique collection of art inspired by Shelter’s House of Cards campaign. Shelter is a UK charity that works to alleviate the distress caused by homelessness and bad housing

SlickPlan

SlickPlan is a web-based sitemap/flowchart generator that allows for the creation of free sitemap and flowchart design.

10 Tips for Wedding Beginners

10 Tips for getting great pictures at a wedding.

Thursday, September 24, 2009

content aware image resizing

Content Aware Image Resizing is a way to re-target an image size without modifying its content ratio, in other words : non-linear image resizing.

12 Best Adobe AIR Applications for Web Designers

Here is a list from webdesignledger of 12 AIR apps for web designers that really stand out in terms of functionality and usefulness.

Dust storm in Sydney

Boston.com the big picture collected a few photos of the worst dust storm Sydney has seen in 70 years.

Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Year of the tablet

Looks like 2010 maybe the year of the tablet. Mac is rumored to release the apple tablet and micorosoft has a device in late development called courier.

Tuesday, September 22, 2009

French Law require shop'd disclaimer

A number of French deputies are proposing to pass a law requiring all published photos that were modified by means of an image manipulation program to include a statement indicating that "the photo was altered in order to modify the appearance of a person."

Trendsmap.com

Trendsmap.com is a real-time mapping of Twitter trends across the world. See what the global, collective mass of humanity are discussing right now.

Friday, September 18, 2009

Deep Green & Augmented Reality Pool

The RCVLab at Queen's University demonstrates Deep Green, a pool playing robot, and ARPool, an augmented reality system for teaching the science of pool.

Wednesday, September 16, 2009

The Evolution of Apple Ads

Here’s a stunning compilation of some of Apple’s most notable advertisements from the 70s until the present day, including a few videos ads.

Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Google Fast Flip

Google Fast Flip is a new reading experience that combines the best elements of print and online articles. Like a print magazine, Fast Flip lets you browse sequentially through bundles of recent news, headlines and popular topics, as well as feeds from individual top publishers.

Monday, September 14, 2009

Color Picker Pen Concept

Innovative concept pen by Korean designer Jinsu Park allows you to scan any color from your environment and instantly use it for drawing.

Thursday, September 10, 2009

Kreative news

Kreative news is a new news aggregation site just like design float and digg with all the latest web design related news and articles.

GOBELINS YouTube channel

The YouTube channel for GOBELINS school of visual communication. via haha.nu. Some really amazing shorts produced by students.

Tuesday, September 8, 2009

10 Terrific Web Apps for Teachers

Mashables 10 Terrific Web Apps for Teachers. Teachers now have a host of web-based tools at their disposal to help them stay organized and make their jobs easier.

Monday, September 7, 2009

11 Firsts In Internet History

A great look back at eleven first in internet history. Most intriguing is the story of the 1st porn site, sex.com.

Wednesday, September 2, 2009

Pop-up Agency

Y&R opened a temporary agency outlet in London. It occupies an empty storefront and provides a wide variety of marketing services to business owners in the neighborhood. The Instant Local AD Agency! Wondering if this can be a stand alone concept?

Tuesday, September 1, 2009

Poladroid: Instant Experience

A lot of us grew up with Polaroid's instant photos. We got used to the excitement of waiting for the image to appear, we enjoyed sticking them up the fridge or keeping them in our notebooks. Yes, special moments! The Polaroid company was sold off in 2001 and they will stop producing the films end of 2009 ... Now, there seems to be hope via the Poladroid. A fun and serious way to raise funds to save the film while giving away a free tool to crop your images in a polaroid way.