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April 26, 2007
Photoshop CS3 review
Ars Technica review Adobe's recently released version of Photoshop CS3
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Chrono_shredder
Susanna Hertrich's 'Chrono_shredder' slowly shreds a paper calendar roll slowly over 24 hours, producing a never-ending mess of time gone by.
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New Moleskine city
Moleskine have released a new form of diary, the Moleskine City Notebook Each notebook contains a map of your chosen city with various stickers to help your day to day manoeuvres.
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MacRabbit
A great new tool that helps with designing css websites on the Mac - MacRabbit
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April 25, 2007
Camera phones -v- Digital Cameras
Cnet compare the picture quality from a Nokia 6300 (2 megapixel camera phone), Sony Ericsson K810i (3.2 megapixel camera phone) , Nokia N95 (5 megapixel camera phone) , Canon IXUS 70 (7.1 megapixel compact digital camera) and the Canon 400D (10 megapixel digital SLR) - the results are interesting.
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April 23, 2007
Music Aggregation
Following along the theme of the 'wisdom of crowds', Critical Metrics aggregates and serves up the favourite music of artists, DJs, music tv networks, newspapers, magazines, retailers, and bloggers - Critical Metrics
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Romantic Loft
Apartment Therapy show off Victor & Soeun’s Romantic Loft
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Pol Oxygen Milan 2007
As always Pol Oxygen have put together great coverage of the Milan Design Week 2007
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April 19, 2007
Shopping by text message
By promoting numbers in magazines, commercials and other forms of advertising, companies are now starting to look at the possibility of selling directly to customers via text message.
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News aggregation
How is technology changing the way we obtain our news?
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Niche video sharing
Cooking site Rouxbe, comedy sharing site - Funny or Die , think tank TV - FORA.tv
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Latest work from Marcel Wanders
Marcel Wanders' latest work for the Milan Furniture Fair 2007 is now on his website.
There are references to his resin knotted chair as well as his ornate baroque designs from a couple of years ago.
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April 17, 2007
Sol Lewit sentences on conceptual art
In remembrance of the passing of the conceptual minimalist Sol Lewitt, here are 35 sentences on Conceptual Art (1968)
some of my favourites:
Rational judgments repeat rational judgments.
Illogical judgments lead to new experience.
Banal ideas cannot be rescued by beautiful execution.
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United Visual Artists
Some stunning lighting design from United Visual Artists
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Adidas Y-3 2007
The latest Adidas Y-3 range from Yohji Yamamoto doesn't disappoint and their website design just keeps getting better.
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April 12, 2007
Digital Creatures
An interesting slideshow by Gary Stasiuk on constructing 3D forms that interact with each other within a 3D space using Flash - Digital Creatures
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Blue Vertigo
A good resource for stock photography, fonts, vector clip art, icons, photoshop brushes.... it's all at Blue Vertigo
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No one belongs here more than you
A fun, interesting use of photography to get across the message. No one belongs here more than you.
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Flickring the News
An interesting proposal for giving newspaper websites the web 2.0 treatment. Hop studios suggest making the content more interactive and granular with a more Flickr style of interface/architecture - they call it tickr
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20ltd.
20ltd. is an online shop which stocks 20 unique, beautifully designed objects from some of the worlds top designers. Each product is a limited edition.
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April 10, 2007
Graffiti and its relationship to the (built) environment
Amos Klausner at Core77 looks at the way graffiti has evolved out of the 'modern' urban environment to parallel deconstructivist thought in architecture.
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Sol Lewitt
American conceptual minimalist Sol Lewitt died yesterday in New York aged 78
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April 04, 2007
Pixelator
Make your own public art work - the Pixelator is a simple grid like screen that can be made cheaply and placed over the top of public video screens.
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Communicating Information
Stanford Magazine looks at Edward Tufte's drive to communicate the beauty of communicating information.
Meanwhile a study at the University of New South Wales has discovered that basic display techniques more commonly used in Power Point (Matching what is said with the same words on the screen) actually muddles the information instead of re-enforcing it.
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Neue Haas Grotesk
International Herald Tribune takes a look at that great font Helvetica: The little typeface that leaves a big mark.
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April 03, 2007
David Lynch on product placement
David Lynch has a go at product placement - youtube link
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Plagiarism Museum
On April. 1, a new museum of counterfeit goods opens in the German city of Solingen, near Cologne. The museum will permanently exhibit 300 original products together with seemingly identical rip-offs. These items range from fashion and household products to electrical and medical equipment.
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April 02, 2007
curator:photo
A simple new system for the displaying and swapping of 6"x4" photographic prints.
Designed to encourage the swapping of images so only your most up-to-date images are on display - the curator:photo
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April 01, 2007
TateShots
Short video collection of interesting art discussion - from Rodin to Gilbert & George - TateShots
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50 years of Helvetica
New MOMA exhibition, celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of Max Miedinger and Edouard Hoffmann’s design Helvetica. 50 Years of Helvetica April 6, 2007–March 31, 2008
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The complete guide to earphones
iLounge have put together a detailed look at the many different types of earphones on the market. A great introductory article for those that don't know the difference between your canalphones, earbuds and clip-ons.
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