Hello, I am a 24 year old interaction designer currently residing in San Francisco. I am into Alexey Brodovitch, Bruno Munari, Archigram, Christopher Alexander, Dunne and Raby, Droog, and Seth Godin. I hope to infuse a bit of everything into this page - inspirational thoughts, images, and quirky insights - enjoy!
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Was reading this and got thinking:
http://www.doorsofperception.com/archives/2009/11/farmville.phpKey Quotes"FarmVille players outnumber actual farmers in the United States by more than 60 to 1""FarmVille Freak, a blog, has a simpler slogan: “I can’t stop watching my crops!”"Now if only there was a way to create an addicting game where people could help farmers look after their REAL crops...as part of a a game.Crowdsourcing can learn a thing or two from game design.This is just cool. Nikon and DDB Japan deserve mad cred for this one.
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I've been thinking about the HPV Vaccine a lot lately, if I should take it or not. Been reading both sides of the story, how the vaccine hasn't had enough time for development and those that take this first patch are essentially going to be the trial users. On the other hand, the H1N1 flu is quite easy to transmit so any help in protecting against it would be welcome.
I have never willingly got a flu shot in my life before, and am still deciding if I should start now, but this infographic gives me pretty good perspective.
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The audio book "Free" is now free on iTunes, US link is here
http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAudiobook?id=322470568&s=143441
For those outside the US, download the MP3 at wired.com
http://www.wired.com/techbiz/it/magazine/17-07/mf_freer
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This is one of the most remarkable pictures I have ever seen. The Big Picture never disappoints - see the rest here:
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/11/scenes_from_antarctica.html
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This is EPIC.
Core77 just blogged about a list of Design Manifestos dating back 100 Years posted by John Emerson of Backspace, a design consultancy focused on public interest. Also check out his blog called Social Design Notes.
I noticed my favorite manifesto missing from here, so I want to post this one personally
Manifesto of Futurist Architecture by Antionio Sant'Elia
The rest of the list is here:
• 1909 Futurist Manifesto
• 1922 Taller de Grafica Popular Manifesto of the Painters’ Union
• 1923 Topology of Typography, El Lissitzky
• 1923 The New Typography, László Moholy-Nagy - a call for design against the bourgeois, in support of the proletariat.
• 1959 The journal "New Graphic Design," though not explicitly a manifesto, called for a radical rethinking of design along more scientific lines.
• 1964 First Things First
• 1971 La coscienza del designer, by Albe Steiner
• 1978 Atlante Secondo Lenin - not so much a design manifesto, as a designed manifesto. The innovative infographics visualize theories for gaining power.
• 1979 Ahmedabad Declaration on Industrial Design for Development
• 1983 The Free Software announcement, later clarified in 1985’s GNU Manifesto
• 1987 Design memorandum. Dall’etica del progetto al progetto dell’etica.
• 1989 Carta del progetto grafico
• 1991 The Social Role of Design, Pierre Bernard
• 1996 Viewer's Declaration of Independence
• 1998 Ne Pas Plier statement
• 1998 People's Communication Charter
• 2000 First Things First update - not just about advertising this time, but setting new values.
• 2000 Bruce Mau's Incomplete Manifesto for Growth (though I thought Dean Allen did a tidy job ofdemolishing this.)
• 2001 AIAP, diseno etica e comunicazione
• 2001 Socialist Designer's Manifesto - a series of ideologically driven limitations along the lines of Dogme 95.
• 2002 First Declaration of the St. Moritz Design Summit
• 2004 The Free Culture Manifesto
• 2006 The Public Role of the Graphic Designer
• 2006 Owner’s Manifesto, The Maker’s Bill of Rights
• 2008 Metahaven, White Night Before A Manifesto
• 2009 The Repair Manifesto from Platform21
Original Link : http://backspace.com/notes/2009/07/design-manifestos.php
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Hope you were able to watch the Eclipse that happened a couple hours ago online at least. If not, as (@waynelo) states, there will be some awesome HD videos coming out online for sure in the coming days and weeks.
Until then, The New York Times has a good collection of Eclipse related information and photographs online already.
Check it here it out here - http://tierneylab.blogs.nytimes.com/tag/eclipse/?ref=global-home
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Check out the recently updated portfolio of Dave Hill. (http://www.davehillphoto.com/) You've probably already seen his work as he's well known for his creative, colorful, and surreal photographs.
The reason I wanted to post this was because I recently stumbled upon a video (Thanks abduzeedo.com) of some behind the scenes work showing the his picture taking process and it's pretty interesting, especially to aspiring photographers.
Take a look here
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This is a sick sketch.
Piece is called Fast Food Mafia by ~silentsketcher on DeviantART
Original artist link is here,
http://silentsketcher.deviantart.com/art/Fast-Food-Mafia-130006145
Be sure to leave HIM some comments :)
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**UPDATE 2** It's Over
**UPDATE** ITS ON RIGHT NOW - http://sems1.cs.und.edu/~sems/index_Video.php
The VLC Link is http://semsb.cs.und.edu:80
via Wired Science
"The century’s most dramatic solar eclipse will be visible along a narrow swath of Asia and the Pacific Ocean later today. And, thanks to some University of North Dakota researchers, it’ll be visible on the internet, too. The live webcast begins at 5:15 p.m. Pacific time.
The eclipse will last six minutes and 39 seconds, which is near the theoretical maximum duration for a solar eclipse of seven minutes and 31 seconds. For everyone except Ray Kurzweil and the other singulatarians, this will be the longest eclipse of our lifetimes. The Earth won’t see an eclipse this long until June 13, 2132."
Read the rest here
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/07/eclipse/
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