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France vs. Ireland controversial goal video
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Best and worst light beers
20 Nov 2009 | 10:25 pmMost bar dwellers would argue that the phrase “best light beer” is total oxymoron, much like “highbrow Natty Light,” but the dudes over at Men’s Fitness decided to tackle the challenge of finding the tastiest reduced calorie brewskies. So, what beer leaves the least funky aftertaste while still keeping those rock-hard abs in perfect form? Corona Light, Sam Adams Light and Coors Light all made the grade, while Rock Green Light, Heineken Light and the carb-conscious Michelob Light failed beer yumminess 101. Cruise over to Men’s Fitness for a full list of what… -
How the Telegraph uses social media
20 Nov 2009 | 9:53 pmOver on econsultancy is an interesting Q&A on social media with Julian Sambles, the Head of Audience Development at the Telegraph. According the interview, the Telegraph uses social media to 1) broaden their audience reach and 2) increase reader engagement with the newspaper's editorial. As a result, they've attracted some 75,000 unique visitors per day, solely from social media channels. I've always wondered about the pay off for newspapers in social media channels. If the Telegraph is truly pulling in so many readers and also buildling loyalty among online consumers, it looks like there… -
Fattest counties
20 Nov 2009 | 9:27 pmBut what will the neighbors think? The Center for Disease Control and Prevention conducted the first county-by-county obesity survey. And the most obese are: • Green and Dallas counties in Alabama and Holmes • Humphreys and Jefferson counties in Mississippi Looks like they won the potbelly. Check out HuffPo's article for more on the CDC's fat findings. Permalink | Leave a comment » -
YouTube debuts automatic captioning for deaf users
20 Nov 2009 | 9:23 pmGoogle announced this week that YouTube has started rolling out automatic captions across the video sharing site. The initial roll-out only includes 13 channels, including National Geographic and Columbia, but will eventually extend across the site. The technology has special meaning to the software engineer heading up the project because he is deaf. In a post on the Google blog, Ken Harrenstien wrote, “The majority of user-generated video content online is still inaccessible to people like me.” The system still needs to work out some kinks (a demo of the feature captioned…
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Yanko Design
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Are You Green Hanger Savvy
20 Nov 2009 | 4:17 amDon’t tell me you didn’t get a tad bit influenced by the movie 2012 or seek out the 2012 phenomena? With dark notions like this looming ahead, it really makes me want to do good stuff now, this instant. Stuff like recycling paper and using it in many different forms. One such is the HangSavvy Eco-friendly Recycled Waste Paper Hangers. Stable enough to hold up to 10 kgs of weight and with the same lifespan as the normal steel or plastic hangers. Good quality, reasonable pricing and efficient packaging makes it a winner! Designer: James Chu [ Buy it Here – Premium pack of 10 hangers… -
A Very Social Phone
20 Nov 2009 | 2:58 amIt was about time that someone came up with the concept of a phone that was dedicated to social networking. YD’s resident designer Shane Crozier is on top things and has his finger on the pulse. 31337 (Elite) Phone connects to Facebook and Twitter and hooks up to the contacts to fill up the address book. Usual suspects like camera, speakerphone, music, video and internet functionality have been removed for the sake of functional transparency and ease of use. This minimal phone is good for inbound and outbound calls! Details: All functions are controlled by the minimal 2 button, 2 dial… -
Hang On The Rim
20 Nov 2009 | 2:30 amAll it takes is a hook-shaped carving in a paint brush to quantify it as an ingenious idea. Something that I’m willing to endorse! I may not be a house-painter but I can foresee the situation of someone getting this itch to scratch his nose (or butt). If he were using the Hanging Brush, then naturally he would just hang it by the rim of the paint can and scratch …. Superb! Designers: Bang Jun Mo & You In Sik -
The New Clarity
20 Nov 2009 | 1:36 amThe Mac. He is back. He’s clear again. He is so clear this time, you’ll just want to get out the windex just to see if the glass is actually there. Two concepts. One is a phone, the other is a desktop computer. Made with the real intention of creating something straight out of a sci fi for the greater good of your eyeballs and future humanity. Mac is one of those fellows who, for two main reasons (amongst quite a few others,) continues to hit hard on the online publishing circuit with his amazing designs. ONE: because his designs are so innovative, they’re on the verge of… -
Put That Baby in the Trunk!
20 Nov 2009 | 1:32 amOK all you moms… OK all you dads…! Listen up! It’s time you knew about putting your baby in the trunk! The “Trunk Stroller,” that is. Made by design geniousness in Seoul, this stroller folds down to the space you’ve got left over! And when you need to put the baby in it, it comes back up in a jiffy! Now I’ve got a stroller to stroll my baby in, and when I need it back down, it fits in the trunk of my car with plenty of space left for holiday presents! This stroller is weird at first glance. It’s weird to take basically anything out of a trunk,…
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The Big Showcase Of Online T-Shirt Stores
20 Nov 2009 | 5:22 amT-shirts, as you’ll surely agree, play a big part in the design world. Sometimes, we designers don’t get the kinds of projects we want, and so we are left to apply our creativity in some other way, many of us opting to submit graphics in t-shirt competitions or printing them ourselves and selling them through shopping cart systems such as BigCartel. In this post, we bring you a showcase of online t-shirt store Web designs, all of which serves as a great source of inspiration for Web designers, graphic designers and even illustrators.You may be interested in the… -
The Death of The Boring Blog Post?
19 Nov 2009 | 6:34 amLet’s face it: the classic blog post is boring. Barring the text and images, each one generally has the exact same layout. We see little originality from one post to the next. Of course, consistency and branding are extremely important to consider when designing a website or blog, but what about individuality? Does a blog post about kittens deserve the same layout as one about CSS hacks?Too Easy?Because installing a WordPress theme is so easy, anyone can have a blog up and running in minutes. While this is great, and we now have a wealth of blogs on countless topics, perhaps… -
Designing CSS Buttons: Techniques and Resources
18 Nov 2009 | 7:23 amButtons, whatever their purpose, are important design elements. They could be the end point of a Web form or a call to action. Designers have many reasons to style buttons, including to make them more attractive and to enhance usability. One of the most important reasons, though, is that standard buttons can easily be missed by users because they often look similar to elements in their operating system. Here, we present you several techniques and tutorials to help you learn how to style buttons using CSS. We’ll also address usability.Links vs. buttonsBefore we explain how… -
Designing Social Interfaces: Overview and Practical Techniques
17 Nov 2009 | 8:20 amThe standard approach to interface design is to craft a channel that allows you to easily and efficiently control hardware or software; it’s all about the interaction between people and computers. But today, the two entities on each side of the user interface are changing: it’s no longer about people interacting with computers, but rather about people interacting with people through computers.This is the nature of the social Web. Social news websites, message boards, social networks, online stores and blogs all have some sort of user interaction going on, whether… -
Brushing Up On Photoshop’s Brush Tool
16 Nov 2009 | 9:54 amWhen laid by a learned hand, brush strokes can convey a sense of energy, tactility and humanness. These qualities speak to your audience’s subconscious, whispering ideas that words alone can’t convey. In the digital realm, a website with beautiful brushwork is a welcome break from the stark precision of most corporate websites.Mastering the digital brush is by no means easy. It carries the same difficulties as the sable brush hidden at the bottom of your art bin. In fact, the difficulty is multiplied by the disconnect between the hand and monitor. Developing Photoshop…
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bird by andrew zuckerman
21 Nov 2009 | 1:34 amlaughing kookabura photo © andrew zuckerman bird is a book by andrew zuckerman who photographically documents and records the family, species etc., data of more than 80 birds. capturin the birds with a contemporary and minimalist approach, each flying creature is showcased on a background of pure white illuminating their color and plumage in a way that is rarely ever seen. blue-throated macaw photo © andrew zuckerman inca tern photo © andrew zuckerman king bird-of-paradise photo © andrew zuckerman nicobar pigeon photo © andrew zuckerman western screech owl photo © andrew zuckerman via… -
yaacov kaufman: running in circles
21 Nov 2009 | 1:00 amcontinuing on with his studies in basic geometric formations, designer yaacov kaufman is currently holding an exhibition within his studio called 'running in circles'. on show are a selection of studies in the morphology of the circle, through various applications - art, design, mechanics, architecture etc. he has created various typologies of the round form, emerging and vanishing, the circle as a technical device and typography. installation view detail -
fresco di lana by laura boffi
21 Nov 2009 | 12:15 amfresco di lana by laura boffi this air conditioning curtain concept designed by recent graduate from the design academy eindhoven. made from wool felt from native sheep in sardinia, italy, 'fresco di lana' is meant to be kept wet thanks to water pumped from a tank on the floor leading to one positioned above a door or window, which resembles inverted curtain swag. the tanks are to be made in ceramics. by putting the wool curtain in front of open windows / doors, hot air filtering in from the outside passes between the wet honeycomb weave, and through evaporative cooling freshens the air as it… -
nendo: '24 issey miyake' concept shop
20 Nov 2009 | 12:29 pmthe shop in nihonbashi photoby daici ano '24 issey miyake' is a new concept shop designed by nendo, which offers a brightly colored selection of items selected from issey miyake's lines, along with new and original products created especially for the shop. the concept for the store is derived from the 'harmonious chaos' of the japanese convenience store. the name in itself '24', is a direct highlight to this association, and the logo features the kind of stripes which you might find on the facade of a convenience store. in order to keep the space as small as possible and pack it with a range… -
medicine and art: imagining a future for life and love
20 Nov 2009 | 7:33 ammedicine and art: imagining a future for life and love mori art museum, tokyo 28 nov. 2009- 28. feb. 2010 l'hospice / the nursing home by gilles barbier, 2002 six wax figures, television, various elements dimension variable martin z. margulies, miami, usa courtesy: galerie g.-p. & n. vallois, paris, france since time immemorial, people have sought to understand the mechanisms of the human body. on the basis of their discoveries in medicine and science, people have attempted to counter the effects of disease and injury and to resist death, seeking the ultimate secret of longevity. the…
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SourceMap
SourceMap is a outstanding venture sponsored by different groups within the MIT. As they state on the site: "When you invite people to an event, buy the ingredients for a recipe, or design the parts of a product, your choices have a significant impact. Some things have vast supply chains that stretch across the world while others are completely regional. Understanding the reach of our sourcing is fundamental to improving economic, social and environmental conditions."Sourcemap is a tool for producers, business owners and consumers to understand the impact of supply chains. The site is a… -
Mo Money Mo Problems
The images shown here were generated by evaluating and interpreting the 1997 music video "Mo Money Mo Problems" from the first disc of the Notorious B.I.G. album, Life After Death. The algorithm detects edges in the image and attempts to trace motion from frame to frame, using the initial frame as their starting point. The output is rendered as a vector image, the curves represent the motion. The points represent the pixels detected in the edge, their size determined by the distance from their previous location, the further, the larger the circle. The color and location of the points are… -
del.icio.us visualization
In a paper entitled "Visualizing Social Bookmarks", Joris Klerkx and Erik Duval describe how it's often hard in most social bookmarking tools to discover implicit structures between tags, users and bookmarks. This is mostly due to the flat nature of tags, and an intrinsic trait of folksonomy in opposition to traditional hierarchical structures.In an effort to solve this problem, the authors designed a system that "attempts to visualize these structures, so that end users can explore the social bookmarks in a playful, efficient and flexible way." In this work, a cluster map visualization… -
Visualization of Vessel Movements
On September 18th, 2009, New Scientist posted some striking images from the Eurographics Symposium, held in Berlin, which brought together researchers across the globe with new ideas on mapping a diversity of phenomena, from the dive profile of penguins to signature recognition systems.The one that caught my attention was the visualization of vessel movements, by Niels Willems, Huub van de Wetering, and Jarke J. van Wijk. "The sea seems an open playground, but regulations hold, and furthermore, safety (collision prevention) and security (thread prevention) need to be ensured. Operators… -
OneDotZero Identity
OneDotZero is an international moving image festival, showcasing a variety of work from innovators across the globe. For this year's festival in London, September 9-13, Wieden+Kennedy UK, together with generative artist Karsten Schmidt, were responsible for all the identity and branding efforts. For this purpose, Schmidt authored a generative engine for producing a series of randomized visual systems, which were recorded for use in the trailer and festival posters. The results were astounding.From the OneDotZero website: "The heart of onedotzero's festival ethos of 'convergence and…
