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Being a designer. (Helsinki, ‘08)
A simple invention from MIT that really does make sense.
Also, electric bikes might finally get that little appeal they really needed until now.
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.![]()

Jump-hour watches; a functional philosophy, according to which the time constantly flows. Despite being hip in the late 60s and early 70s, they’ve almost disappeared now.
Could we ever accept the fact that measuring every second, each coming with its own precise tick, is mostly useless?
If you’re a real designer/graphic designer/person, you simply have to test your colour recognition skills.
You can actually even use it to practice, and hopefully improve.
The lower the score, the better. Mine is 6. :) beat that!
Sagmeister inc., an amazingly high-level design studio, owned by the Austrian graphic designer Stefan Sagmeister, has an interesting page (well, it’s more of an interview..) full of suggestions for all of us design students out there.