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May 31, 2006
The Photography Channel
Movies documenting the role photography plays in storytelling
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How to design like Web 2.0
If you want to give your site that 'Web 2.0' look then Tommy Maloney from Photoshop Lab has the tutorial to make that site shiny and new.
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32 qualified balls
32 balls, each one designed by bora.herke, made by Adidas and representative of the the countries that have qualified for the World cup
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How to back up your Mac
Something usually not thought about until it is too late - how to back up your Mac
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May 30, 2006
Inflate
British design group - Inflate - 10 years of designing the inflateable
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Photojojo
A great little photography blog/newsletter - photojojo
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DIY Concert photography
Some good tips on taking photographs at live concerts
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May 29, 2006
Ken Loach wins Palme d'Or
Ken Loach has won the Palm d'Or at Cannes for his film 'The Wind That Shakes The Barley', a film about the early days of Ireland's struggle for independence from Britain, which the director acknowledged was a critique of today's war in Iraq.
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May 26, 2006
ICFF 2006
International Contemporary Furniture Fair roundup: New York Times discusses the practical side of style - young designers coming to terms with costing, manufacturing and business models.
Design*sponge has a couple of long looks at the fair: part 1, part 2
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May 25, 2006
Yale Graphic Design MFA 2006
A flickr stream from the 2006 Yale Graphic Design MFA show
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Packaging and Music
David Byrne talks about the role of package design within the music industry and the current path designers need to take now that the physical package is quickly disappearing.
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Marketing photo clichés
The top 10 marketing stock photography clichés
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Super Robot
Japanese design group SuperRobot are interviewed over at ping mag
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Visual effects techniques
Digital Air give some good explanations behind the visual effects they use in their moving image work
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May 24, 2006
Music without DRM
As the major record labels try to compete with the Apple iTunes music store with their DRM (Digital Rights Management) embedded music, a smaller independent online music store has been selling indie music in mp3 format without any DRM. They are not only the second most popular online music store but you can also listen to the music you buy on your iPod.
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Atypyk
Funny, intelligent products from Atypyk
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May 23, 2006
Zero energy housing
According to Professional Builder, the first zero energy home costing less than $200,000 has been built in Oklahoma. ZDNet looks at how this was achieved
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Commerce and Culture
When commercial entities climb into bed with cultural entities how symbiotic is the relationship?
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The Architect and the Sculptor
Buckminster Fuller and Isamu Noguchi, long time friends currently showing their varied collaborations in an exhibition "Best of Friends: Buckminster Fuller and Isamu Noguchi," at the Noguchi Museum in Long Island City until October 15th
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Myers Briggs personality type indicator
In an attempt to make the theory of 'psychological types' described by C. G. Jung as accessible as possible Isabel Briggs Myers and her mother Katharine Briggs, developed a simple way to disect each of the four dichotomies specified or implicit in Jung’s theory - the Myers Briggs personality type indicator
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10 ways
A Getty Images project involving 5 leading design companies to develop interactive experiences that explore visual language - 10 ways
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May 19, 2006
Chris Bosse
Interesting forms from Chris Bosse
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The value of privacy
Is the erosion of personal privacy a necessity for the protection of those that are always in the right? Bruce Schneier from Wired thinks it goes beyond right and wrong.
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Seamless Pictures
Dreamlike, Escher-esque illustrations from Rob Gonsalves
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The Role of Research in Design
Maurice Biriotti has written an informative article looking at the role of research within the design process.
Looking at the three basic types of research; Generative, Formative and Evaluative - Maurice attempts to find a solid common ground between the innovative nature of creative design and the research we use to inform it.
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May 18, 2006
Uhuru
A table made from pre-cast iron fence pieces - the fenced in table
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Historical Sounds in Mp3
A nice collection of historical audio clips in mp3 format.
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Photography tips
If shutter speed, aperture and ISO confuse you then here is a good primer from Photography Jam
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Forest Grove
Forest Grove is a project by Maya Churi, inspired by a gated community in Texas. An enjoyable flash called 'Charlie's Story'
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May 17, 2006
Turner Prize short list
The short list for this years Turner Prize has been announced
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Sebastian Bergne
A great site design for design studio Sebastian Bergne
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May 16, 2006
Chi ha paura
Contemporary jewellery from the Netherlands - Chi ha paura
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We are the image makers
Issue three is out for the monthly online publication that showcases work by Australian designers, artists and illustrators - watim
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May 15, 2006
Fonts on Football Jerseys
Linotype take a topical look at the fonts that are used on some of the worlds top football jerseys
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The perfect mark
Wal-Mart are looking at trademarking the smiley face
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Starchitecture
Is the current marketing trend around building an 'architecture brand' good for architecture? Salon look at how modern architects are marketing themselves in the current realm of the starchitect
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Living without numbers or time
Brazil's Pirahã tribe do not have language that can explain time. They have no history and no numbers - their creationist myth is "Everything is the same, things always are." By studying them linguistic theorists are hoping to find the answer to whether the widely held belief that there is a 'universal grammar' in Human language is correct or not.
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May 12, 2006
Trends
The new tool for comparing terms, brands, products, ideologies...etc etc - Google Trends
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May 11, 2006
Typecast
A new documentary looking at the history and direction of Swiss design - Typecast
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Bubble or Boom?
Is the current web 2.0 hysteria about to burst or is the wave just beginning?
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Five Minute Flowchart
If you need to make flowcharts quickly and easily try this little technique of printing out graphics onto blank business card stock. Write on them and move them around - the five minute flowchart
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May 01, 2006
Global Interface
An interesting 3D global interface for accessing global data
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Excel Art
Danielle Aubert's soon to be released book of excel art
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Counterfeiting a company
When Japanese company NEC found out that fake 'NEC' CDs were being sold in Beijing and Hong Kong, they hired an investigator to track down the perpetrators.
What the investigator found was that these fake CDs were being sold by a fake NEC company. This fake NEC company had links to a network of more than 50 electronics factories in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan and had developed their own range of consumer electronic products - everything from home entertainment centers to MP3 players - counterfeiting a company
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