May 2012
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Fühlometer
Facial recognition software to determine in realtime the happiness index of pedestrians. A giant smiley which reflects city mood in Lindau, Germany.
April 2012
1 post
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Crisis
December 2011
1 post
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November 2011
1 post
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September 2011
1 post
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“Information wants to be free. Information also wants to be expensive....”
– (Brand 1987:202)
August 2011
1 post
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Just in case!
May 2011
1 post
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March 2011
2 posts
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“a further phase transition,
in which peer producers
[…] will radically...”
– M. Bauwens, Neural 38, p.7.
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History of Title Design
Modern Times, The Pink Panther, Bullitt, Brazil, The Naked Gun, The Social Network and many more, they’re all in this well edited clip.
February 2011
2 posts
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How to present re-branding
Check out the excellent, euro-minded – as well as quite unexpected – repositioning of the VIVA brand. (by MTV Networks)
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Horrible Logos →
If you have to deal with that kind of clients too, this is the one link to forward to them all.
For only 5$, they can get a logo that’s guaranteed to suck. It’s an instant deal!
January 2011
1 post
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“Total communication equals peace.”
– Yoko Ono, via Twitter
November 2010
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a true 'design story'
October 2010
1 post
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Fontself →
August 2010
4 posts
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The Wilderness Downtown →
This is a very personal and intimate experience which involves daydreaming, and it has to be tried at least once.
Go ahead, click on the link, enjoy it.
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The empathic civilization
Illustrating consciousness, empathy and human narrative: a very powerful lesson by Jeremy Rifkin.
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Cut out the middlemen that arbitrarily recommend cost-efficient talent over the most deserving talent. Forget the corporate nepotism that appoints leaders based on relationships over merit.
I believe that advances in technology, online communities, and platforms that empower career independence will make this dream a reality in the near future.
Unfortunately, we’re up against centuries of...
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June 2010
3 posts
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“News networks giving a greater voice to viewers because the social web is so...”
– XKCD
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Twitter Parades →
Could this seriously be the future of democracy?
May 2010
2 posts
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“Games were created to give nonheroes the illusion of winning.
In real life...”
– N.N. Taleb (twitter)
April 2010
2 posts
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Complexity →
Those at the DensityDesign department of Politecnico in Milan are successfully able to explain how we’ve been dealing with complex factors and data in history, and what’s changing now. They deal with topics like patterns, the big picture, and awareness. Such factors should be in the designer’s mind at all time; so, it’s really worth taking a look at the excellent...
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Awareness Test
A clever campaign from ‘London Transport’, reminding us how our vision fails terribly at most tasks. Yet, we never seem to realize it.
March 2010
1 post
Logorama
A little world, with just logos populating it.
February 2010
6 posts
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Bergmönch
A great innovation in Mountain-biking from Koga. The whole concept of hiking uphill and riding down is simply brilliant, and doing it on your feet instead of an uncomfortable seat could prove to be loads of fun.
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5g wireless architecture
While we’re still waiting for 4G to arrive (around 2015), in order to get a proper global internet connection, 5G is what already promises to bring the real innovation. So says Vadan Mehta: “5G would be about “ubiquitous computing”, that is, having the ability to access the applications we want from any platform, anywhere, any time. […] Human life will be surrounded...
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“Those who don’t know what
to do, do what they know”
– Russell Miles
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Out of Ideas for 2010? →
This clever page will help you by suggesting brand new resolutions, so you’re ready to start the decade properly.
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Creativity, happiness, flow. Czikszentmihalyi (born in Rijeka/Fiume, 1934) has lots to say about life.
January 2010
3 posts
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Live from Antarctica →
from here: “Please note, this transmission is not optimized for easy listening, but for scientific research. […] Additionally, animal voices may be very faint. Amplifier settings are a compromise between picking up distant animals and not overdriving the system by nearby calving icebergs. So you might need to pump up the volume - but beware of sudden extremely loud events.”
see...
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The perfect winter soundtrack. ( Сергей...
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A quick brown joke for the lazy type designers.
December 2009
3 posts
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The Crisis Necklace →
Those were the days!
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A simple invention from MIT that really does make sense. Also, electric bikes might finally get that little appeal they really needed until now.
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The internet of things →
and the situation at the beginning of the century.
November 2009
8 posts
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Yatsutaka Tsutsui's 'How to sleep' →
“In the case of the person going to sleep being a man, according to his physiological status, a naked woman may suddenly appear in place of a sheep.” How idiot (but agreeable) does this sound? Go ahead and read the whole story.
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London 2012 Pictograms. British.
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“But in all my experience, I have never been in any accident… of any sort...”
– E.J.Smith, 1907, Captain, RMS Titanic via “the black swan”
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is this even possible?
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Breeding Tables →
A project where tables are designed by an algorythm, yet chosen by humans.
Are we finally starting to accept randomness in our lives?
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Here is what Open Sailing is all about: a totally new — but possible — lifestyle at sea, this whole system is sustainable and open to self evolution.
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The internet of things →
When hi-tech interfaces as we mean them will disappear, what will there be left?
A quick look at an environment populated by RFID, where data flows constantly, anywhere. Written by Rob Van Kranenburg.
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Podcast with Nassim Nicholas Taleb, 2007....
June 2009
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http://constantly.be/?
This is the new address just for this blog.
How are we constantly forced to be by others? How is it we’d like to become? You’ll find the answers to this – and many other questions – somewhere else. In the meantime, you’ll do allright with just a bit of widespread irony. Keep up!
Open Sailing →
“In order to live at sea, we’re pioneering an entirely new form of marine architecture. Open_Sailing acts like a giant organism, a cluster of intelligent units that can react to their environment, change shape and reconfigure themselves. They talk to each other. They’re modular, re-pluggable, pre-broken, post-industrial and self-sufficient.”
November 2008
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“Scream your lungs out,
wait for laughter -
You don’t have to wait forever;...”
– In Flames feat. Lisa Miskowsky