Thursday, March 31, 2011
Not the usual Van Goghs
Van Gogh was astonishingly prolific, particularly in light of the fact that his active career barely spanned 10 years. Linesandcolors takes a look at Not the usual Van Goghs.
25 Amazing Flash Portfolio Sites
Today designm.ag has a roundup of 25 Amazing Flash Portfolio Sites.
A Panoramic Lens System For The iPhone
The GoPano adds a panoramic mirror to the iPhone’s video camera, thereby allowing you to take panoramic video in real time.
How To Catch a Lightning Every Single Frame
Andras Schaeffer and Viktor Takacs came up with a clever way to capture lighting.
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Color Picker Pen by Jinsu Park
Korean designer jinsu park designed a concept pen that adopts the eye drop per tool of pho to shop for real life.
Top 5 Innovative Digital Marketing Agencies
mashable takes a look at five interactive agencies behind some of 2010′s best digital marketing campaigns, which promoted a new TV show, a community giving project, gum innovation and more.
Monday, March 28, 2011
Spectacular Yosemite
Quang-Tuan Luong’s new book, Spectacular Yosemite, is a journey through one of the country’s most scenic national parks.
A Crash Course in Typography
noupe breaks down typographic theory and practice, starting with the basics. Highly recommended if you want to start to learn more about design.
Fifteen Years of Flying United
Pentagram has a great post today on their series of design projects with United Airlines that started in 1996 that eventually touched nearly every aspect of the way the company is experienced by their customers.
Thursday, March 24, 2011
Top 20 Ultimate Ways to Use a Disposable Camera
Here is photojojo's top 20 list of didn’t-know-you-could-do-that ways to use, abuse, modify, and make the most of your disposable camera!
Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark
The most expensive and possibly worst musical in Broadway history. Even more amazing is how many actors have been injured during performances. So far I think the tally is five.
How did a British polytechnic graduate become the design genius behind Apple?
Jonathan Ive has helped turn Apple into the second biggest company in the world, with a higher turnover than Google or Microsoft.
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Stolen laptop
Two great stories about brilliant guys stealing laptops, Defcon 18 Pwned and Mark Bao, the 18-year-old entrepreneur and student at Bentley University.
strartup advice
If you are actively trying to get your startup off the ground, I found this great post on hacker news, AngelList founder Naval Ravikant talks about recent changes to the early-stage fund-raising process and how entrepreneurs can use these trends to their advantage.
Amazon Appstore for Android goes live
Amazon's proceeding full steam ahead with the rollout of its Appstore for Android.
Monday, March 21, 2011
Embracing and Using CSS3 Pragmatically
John Macpherson at sixrevisions explains how CSS3 makes it easier to work with things that typically involved more work, more technologies, and more software.
Sites to make you a better logo designer
Jeff at paper-leaf.com writes about 9 websites that have helped him improve, specifically, as a logo/visual identity designer.
Thursday, March 17, 2011
Real life UP house
National Geographic decided to try its hand at recreating the balloon house from Pixar’s Up, and used hundreds of eight foot tall weather balloons to take a 2,000 pound brick house (complete with passengers) skyward.
Who was St. Patrick?
One of the most famous legends of St. Patrick describes how he banished all snakes from the Emerald Isle into the ocean and they drowned.
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
Html5 Color cycling
Color cycling is a technology often used in 8-bit video games during the 90's to achieve interesting visual effects by cycling (shifting) the color palette. Back then video cards could only render 256 colors at a time, so a palette of selected colors was used. But the programmer could change this palette at will, and all the onscreen colors would instantly change to match. It was fast, and took virtually no memory. Thus began the era of color cycling.
Cool character
Cool character illustrations by Stanley Lau aka artgerm, singapore. Via designyoutrust.
Robert Hunt Fine Art
During a nearly thirty year illustration career, Robert Hunt’s work has appeared on the covers of books by many of the worlds leading authors. Parallel to his illustration career, he created personal artworks, many of which are in private collections, but now has turned to creating artwork that is available to the public.
Technical Web Typography
smashingmagazine has an incredibly useful post for anyone who wants to learn CSS and typography.
19 Things You May Not Have Known About Star Wars
You may or may not know James Earle Jones was the voice of Dark Vader, here are 19 fun facts about Star Wars from nerdbastards.com.
The History Of Web Browsers
The first web browser, WorldWideWeb, was created and introduced by Tim Berners-Lee.
Monday, March 14, 2011
Friday, March 11, 2011
Core77 Design Awards
Core77 Design Awards, An Annual Celebration of Excellence, Enterprise and Intent
Thursday, March 10, 2011
goodreads
Get great book recommendations from people you know, keep track of what you've read and what you'd like to read and form a book club, answer book trivia, collect your favorite quotes.
CSS Typography
A three-part series at sixrevisions of guides on CSS typography that will cover everything from basic syntax to best practices and tools related to CSS typography.
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
subway cars being thrown into the ocean
Stephen Mallon snapped the MTA's train-dumping trips up and down the Eastern Seaboard over the course of two and a half years. The result, Next Stop Atlantic, was on view at the Frontroom Gallery in Brooklyn.
Monday, March 7, 2011
Vote for morguefile
Only one day left to Vote for 2011 About.com Readers' Choice Awards for free photos. Please go vote for us.
Travel Photo of the Week
Looking for a little inspiration, National Geographic Travel Photo of the Week.
The 50 Greatest Opening Title Sequences of All Time
IFC presents The 50 Greatest Opening Title Sequences of All Time with videos.
Angry Birds Game Coming to Facebook
The immensely popular Angry Birds game is coming to Facebook next month with “completely new aspects to it that just haven’t been experienced in any other platform.”
Friday, March 4, 2011
Happy Fasching
Happy Fasching, I recommend going the the nearest biergarten and having a massive glass boot full of frosty beer. Have a great weekend.
placekitten
A quick and simple service for getting pictures of kittens for use as placeholders in your designs or code. If you are not a developer- its nice to see some kittens.
Amusing Short Film about a Man Figuring Out His Camera’s Features
Camera features can be tricky, a fun film about a man playing with his new camera.
messagehop.com Kim Komando's cool site of the day!
Today our other site messagehop.com is Kim Komando's cool site of the day! Thanks Kim.
Thursday, March 3, 2011
Setting Up an E-Commerce Site with WordPress
If you have considered setting up your own storefront on the web, here are 15 Resources for Setting Up an E-Commerce Site with WordPress
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
sheen family circus
I promised myself I wouldn't post about this guy- but I can't resist this, winning!
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
Press Pause Play
Press Pause Play, A documentary film containing interviews with some of the world’s most influential creators of the digital era. Via ugmonk
Apple Tablet History
Apple’s history with tablet computers dates back to at least 1979, Ryan Vetter takes an interesting look at Apple: Their Tablet Computer History.
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