Just saw this in IDN magazine by Harper Collins publishers
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A friend of mine has been working on this for the past 10 and a half months – this is the beta version… Curious to see how it works-
“Glass is a virtual sheet of glass over the entire web where you can literally place notes on any website.
Now, instead of sending a link, your contacts see your thought together with the moment that inspired it, in context, allowing you to share the experience of being there.”
Who knew that not only Jeff Bridges but also Collin Farrel could sing country twang?! As much as I’ve always appreciated old country music from the ’40’s – 60’s, something about this film made we appreciate country music all over again. I’m really not into it. really. But maybe it’s a sign of just how simple and fun country song stories can be that is refreshing in comparison to the ‘trying to be significant’ indie music that the kids all rush to these days. I like them both but simple strumming can be nice and pure every now and again. Check out the Crazy Heart movie… you won’t be disappointed.
http://gizmodo.com/5452501/the-apple-tablet-interface-must-be-like-this
speculation of home screen before iPad was launched
Worldwide Telescope website
“The WorldWide Telescope (WWT) is a computer program created by Microsoft running under either a Microsoft Windows client or a new cross platform web client based on Silverlight which allows its users to view outer space. It was announced at the TED Conference in Monterey, California in February, 2008. Users are able to pan around outer space and zoom as far into any one area as the data will allow. Images are taken from the Hubble Space Telescope and approximately ten earth-bound telescopes. It is possible to view the sky in many wavelengths of light.” – Read about it more on Wikipedia.
As I review the latest IDN, Print and Communication Arts magazines, I see this evolution from the resurgence of Swiss/Dutch: minimal design aesthetic towards a more artistic, illustrative, and expressive new phase- that (er, uhm) regurgatates the 60’s overprinting techniques with the cookiness of early 70’s marketing illustrations with the fashion of the 80’s but the indie-hipsterness of the now-2010.
What I want to know is how this new ’style’ (for lack of a better word) will fit in to what we do at our studio. We don’t make posters for bands for a living. I don’t see the next-gen interfaces hand drawn with pencil. So when illustration becomes mainstream design, I’m feelin a backlash- aren’t you?! It’s not that I don’t love it- maybe I’m just jealous…
For when you need inspiration, photo resources or to pass the time:
Found on ffffound.com, quoted from: today and tomorrow
The blog is ready to be debuted! Please let me know if there are any bugs that I can fix. I think we’re in for an exciting new year!
The team being very productive