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June 30, 2005
Memory Systems
If you need help with remembering things then this memory system is a great way to learn.
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June 29, 2005
Buying and selling on eBay
Tips on how to buy and sell on eBay from a student in Canada
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Using solar power
A nice set of instructions on how you can make an DC powered appliance into a solar powered appliance - for less than $300
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Jeff Koons turns 50
ArtNews looks at how Jeff Koons pulled together a group of dealers and art buyers to help invest in his expensive art projects.
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Owning the consumer -v- Owning the advertiser
An interesting look at the current competition between 'Yellow Page Publishers' who 'own the advertisers' and Internet publishers who 'own the consumer'.
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June 27, 2005
The Best product designs of 2005
The Industrial Design Excellence Awards for 2005 View over 150 of some of the best product designs for 2005.
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New York 70's Nightlife
Allan Tannenbaum caught some interesting moments of the New York nightlife in the 70's
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Yotophoto
A stock photography search engine - Yotophoto
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The world's healthiest food
A site full of information and recipes to help you feel good - whfoods
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5 simple steps to better typography
Mark Boulton looks at typographic hierarchy (size & weight), the measure, ligatures and hanging punctuation.
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50 Coolest websites
Time magazine has released it's list of the 50 coolest websites
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Business Inteligence
Capturing the consumer zeitgeist is becoming easier by following the blogosphere, the Wall Street Journal looks at this new marketing tool.
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June 24, 2005
Sense in Media Evolution
An interesting essay by Douglas Galbi on photography, telephony and virtual worlds - sense in media evolution
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The Big Picture
The Feature talk to John Poisson, leader of Sony Corporation's mobile media research and design groups in Tokyo, about the use of mobile phone cameras.
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Smart Goggles
A new design for swimming goggles that include a lap counter and timer
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June 23, 2005
Kodak to discontinue B&W paper
With Black and White photography only one click of the mouse away, Kodak have decided to stop producing black and white photo paper.
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IFDA Winners 2005
The International Furniture Design Awards from Asahikawa have been announced.
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Sellers moving away from eBay
The Wall Street Journal has an interesting article looking at the trend among e-tailers to move away from selling their goods on eBay
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June 20, 2005
Put an iPod in your car
Rather than using the radio or cassette adapters, this site has a quick and cheap way to create a direct 'line-in' to you car stereo from your iPod.
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June 18, 2005
Design objects and furniture
A good resource for some commercial design products from some of the worlds top designers - Magis
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Tom Dixon
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The importance of aesthetics
The often overlooked and under-rated area of the aesthetic appearance of medical instruments.
Patients make decisions on the quality of care based on how the instruments look - this perception can then play a major role in patient outcomes.
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Time travel paradox debunked
A team of physicists from the US and Austria have used quantum mechanics to explain away one of the most confusing areas of time travel.
They are suggesting that if there is a certainty in the present you cannot go back in time to change the outcome. So the 'Back to the Future' movies were all wrong.
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People prefer to see movies at home
A new poll of 1000 Americans conducted by the Associated Press and AOL News has found that 73% of those interviewed prefer to watch movies at home
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June 14, 2005
Form us with love
Some good looking furniture concepts based around laser cutting and bending - Form us with love
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Intrigue at Saatchi and Saatchi
The story of Mike Burns, creative director at Saatchi NY who clashed with CEO Kevin Roberts - cheerio
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Google will eat itself
A new project where a company is set up to make money via google advertising. This money is then used to buy shares in google.
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The Movie Trailer
The Guardian have a good analysis of the movie trailer and it's role in selling the feature film.
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June 10, 2005
Electron Microscope Imagery
Some beautiful imagery from under an electron microscope
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Font design
Some basic tips on designing your own font
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Why smart people defend bad ideas
Essay by Scott Berkun that looks at how logical processes for arguments can be used by smart people to defend bad ideas.
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The secret to a thriving city
Joel Kotkin author of "The City: A Global History" talks to the csmonitor on what makes a city thrive. He suggests it is not about creating cultural hubs but more about providing basic family supports.
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Logo Trends
Graphic Design USA lists the top logo design trends for 2005
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Authentic stories
Seth Godin talks about making the product better by telling a good story, an authentic story and a story that is different from your competitors.
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June 09, 2005
OOOMS
Furniture and object design from Guido Ooms
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TypeTalk Fonts
An interesting project where the font controls the content by changing what you type to suit the context of the font.
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Delete!
In the summer of 2005 Christoph Steinbrener & Rainer Dempf will cover all signage in a Viennese shopping street – For a period of two weeks all advertising signs, slogans, pictograms, company names and logos will be covered in monochrome.
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The Karl Lagerfeld diet
Unapologetically superficial Karl Lagerfeld has released his new diet, and it has all the qualities of a Ben Stiller film;
"I enjoy eating what my chef prepares for me. ... I also appreciate his little discoveries such as mixing my protein supplements with sauces, soups, or soufflés" he says, apparently unaware that his readers may be flambéing the quail themselves. With regard to leftovers, the book urges, "Throw them away! That way you won't be tempted to finish them." Hardly a cost-effective solution when you're dining on guinea fowl and veal.
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June 08, 2005
Art interviews
Peter Brook talks about his life and the Theatre.
Brian Eno talks about his new album 'Another Day on Earth'
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June 07, 2005
55 visual illusions
Some fun optical illusions and explanations
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Changing the photography business model
The advent of digital technology has greatly changed the distribution and production of photography. Because of this some Photolabs are refusing to print professional looking photographs out of fear that they will be breaking copyright. Professional photographers are also having to change their business model from a 'per print' model to an hourly rate.
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Feld
Some good furniture design from Antwerp, including this piece called 'Fence' by Alain Berteau - Feld - via mocoloco
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Augmented reality games
Researchers in Singapore have developed a way for people to play pacman by running around streets collecting 'cookies' that they can only see through the glasses they are wearing.
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June 06, 2005
Gwarsh
Some quality Australian design - via dik
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Top 100 font downloads
A good list of free fonts to download
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Edward Tufte
Essays and writings from the information designer Edward Tufte
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Finding enoughness
IDFuel have a nice look at growing the areas that are important
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Giles Deacon
Giles Deacon is the new bright young thing in fashion
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June 03, 2005
Toxic chemicals affect generations
New studies at Washington State University have found that toxic chemicals that affected your grandparents' health 50 years ago could also be affecting your health today.
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Companies are google bombing
To counter bad press, companies are setting up 'link farms'. This dubious technique then places their message ahead of their critics' in the important first page of search engine results.
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The upside to BitTorrent
The Guardian looks at how BitTorrent can be used in ways that go beyond illegally downloading copyrighted movies and music.
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Who owns culture?
An interesting audio torrent of Wilco's Jeff Tweedy discussing free culture with Lawrence Lessig - via BB
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June 02, 2005
Design Interviews
On the Massive Change site there are a number of good interviews with top designers and intellectuals that can be downloaded in mp3 format to listen to at your leisure.
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More Co-Logo
In the tradition of Stella McCartney and Adidas - Alexander McQueen is collaborating with Puma
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June 01, 2005
Masters of Design
Fast Company's latest issue is all about the Power of Design.
The Table of Contents
The Business of design
Better by Design
Masters of Design
And if that's not enough try Business Weeks 'The Power of Design' - all via core77
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Donna Wilson
Some great alternative knitted creations to enjoy from Donna Wilson
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See Free
Block out unwanted billboard advertising with the 'See Free' glasses and see public space free of visual pollution.
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