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"It doesn’t make sense to call ourselves ugly, because we don’t really see ourselves. We don’t watch..."

Fri, 24 May 2013 17:14:00 +1000

““It doesn’t make sense to call ourselves ugly, because we don’t really see ourselves. We don’t watch ourselves sleeping in bed, curled up and silent with chests rising and falling with our own rhythm. We don’t see ourselves reading a book, eyes fluttering and glowing. You don’t see yourself looking at someone with love and care inside your heart. There’s no mirror in your way when you’re laughing and smiling and happiness is leaking out of you. You would know exactly how bright and beautiful you are if you saw yourself in the moments where you are truly yourself.””

- - unknown

‘you don’t see yourself’

Seattle

Fri, 24 May 2013 11:06:15 +1000

Seattle

Photo

Fri, 24 May 2013 11:02:24 +1000

Edgeland House by Bercy Chen Studio

Thu, 23 May 2013 16:28:25 +1000

Edgeland House by Bercy Chen Studio

The One-Person Product

Tue, 21 May 2013 14:29:05 +1000

The One-Person Product

“A young girl can be seen standing alone on the train station...

Tue, 21 May 2013 13:37:01 +1000

“A young girl can be seen standing alone on the train station platform. Who’s she with? Is she travelling alone? Engrossed in her own world, she is still and focuses on the phone she carries. As a concerned member of the public approaches, her form appears to digitize and fragment into cubes.”

Voxelate is three-dimensional pixelated portrait that can be read from a distance - but as the viewer gets closer the object appears to fragment into cubes.

Commissioned by the Watershed it is being created for installation at the Bristol Temple Quarter.

(via Tom)

incredibly proud of this one: ‘a collection of bespoke...

Tue, 21 May 2013 13:37:00 +1000

incredibly proud of this one: ‘a collection of bespoke books for Qantas which match the length of the air routes’

The ABCs of Contemporary Creatives

Tue, 21 May 2013 13:36:27 +1000

The ABCs of Contemporary Creatives

‘Mazin’ Kinect portraits.

Tue, 21 May 2013 13:32:19 +1000

‘Mazin’ Kinect portraits.

swoon

Tue, 21 May 2013 11:26:55 +1000

*swoon*

Now that 3D printers are popping up everywhere I find that the...

Mon, 20 May 2013 16:48:34 +1000

Now that 3D printers are popping up everywhere I find that the word ‘extrude’ excites me in a way I could never had predicted in my non-3D print-possible-past.

The plastic extruded from this robotic 3D printer solidifies instantly, allowing it to draw freeform shapes in the air extending from any surface.

To Create The Future Of Brand Identity, IDEO Looks Inward

Mon, 20 May 2013 16:41:22 +1000

To Create The Future Of Brand Identity, IDEO Looks Inward:

Imagine it’s 15 years in the future, and you’re wearing Google Glass 3.0. The spectacles have matured far beyond their awkward picture-in-picture beginnings, now offering something much closer to true augmented reality. It’s a strange new hybrid world. You glance at a subway station and see an overlay of how long until the next train arrives. You look at a dog, wonder what type it is, and a voice in your ear identifies it as a Thai Ridgeback. Of course, commerce has kept apace. A window display at Macy’s comes to life when you look in its direction; a virtual billboard on top of the Starbucks facade rotates through a half dozen drink specials.

This future, or one like it, isn’t hard to fathom. But here’s something that’s a bit harder to pin down: What does the logo on that Starbucks look like?

That’s one of the things Hendrix hopes this project will get his designers to start considering. “We haven’t had to think about responsive identities,” he says. “We haven’t had to think about time or space. And I think those will all become more important dimensions.”

“The complexity of this conversation to this point has been: ‘Do we animate or do we not animate?’” he continues. But augmented reality—or really any interactive digital space in which a brand tries to do something more than simply announce its presence—poses all sorts of challenges. “How do you express [a mark] physically and digitally? What kind of life does it have? How is it born in that moment, and how does it go away? How does it tell you why it’s there? Those are all really interesting questions.”

But to see it as simply a matter of whiz-bang animated logos is too shortsighted. What Ideo’s really searching for is a better way of communicating in general—an identity system flexible enough to work in countless new situations, across myriad channels. “It’s a complex idea, but I think it’s actually a more human idea,” Hendrix says. “And that’s what we’re trying to work towards; a more human way of expressing identity.”

Customize your IKEA furniture | Mykea

Thu, 16 May 2013 16:22:36 +1000

Customize your IKEA furniture | Mykea

Virtues for a connected age

Thu, 16 May 2013 16:06:43 +1000

Virtues for a connected age

New App Lets You Boycott Koch Brothers, Monsanto And More By Scanning Your Shopping Cart - Forbes

Thu, 16 May 2013 15:27:35 +1000

New App Lets You Boycott Koch Brothers, Monsanto And More By Scanning Your Shopping Cart - Forbes

Kickstarting: ‘Melon’, A Headband That Measures Your...

Wed, 15 May 2013 13:44:10 +1000

Kickstarting: ‘Melon’, A Headband That Measures Your Mental Focus

“So my amazing daughter, Emma, turned 5 last month, and I had...

Tue, 14 May 2013 13:36:07 +1000

“So my amazing daughter, Emma, turned 5 last month, and I had been searching everywhere for new-creative inspiration for her 5yr pictures. I noticed quite a pattern of so many young girls dressing up as beautiful Disney Princesses, no matter where I looked 95% of the “ideas” were the “How to’s” of how to dress your little girl like a Disney Princess…We chose 5 women (five amazing and strong women), as it was her 5th birthday but there are thousands of unbelievable women (and girls) who have beat the odds and fought (and still fight) for their equal rights all over the world”

- Jaime Moore, Not Just a Girl

How can you not love this? The Amazings is a wonderful idea...

Tue, 14 May 2013 13:34:17 +1000

How can you not love this?

The Amazings is a wonderful idea that celebrates our elders, those with amazing life experience that they have to bestow.

From Guitar Lessons From a Punk-Rock Hero to Retro Hair Do’s, they offer a multitude of courses on skills and knowledge that might otherwise disappear from generation to generation.

The Amazings is currently based out of London. Fingers crossed for a branch everywhere else too!

Astronaut Chris Hadfield’s transmissions from space Couple of...

Tue, 14 May 2013 13:23:09 +1000

Astronaut Chris Hadfield’s transmissions from space

Couple of cool facts about astronaut Chris Hadfield, the commander of the International Space Station who’s been Tweeting, Reddit-ing, and YouTube-ing from space:

1) The idea to go behind the scenes with social media was hatched 3 years ago at the Hadfield family dinner table — the Hadfields were trying to figure out how to generate interest for the Canadian Space Agency, which is facing major budget cuts. Hadfield wanted is “to help people connect the real side of what an astronaut’s life is – not just the glamour and science, but also the day-to-day activities.”

2) Hadfield does the posting and responding himself, but Hadfield’s son, Evan, is his unpaid assistant, doing most of the maintenance work: “I make it so that he can simply float up to the computer and post without wasting any of his valuable time.” (I love his Twitter bio: “Internet janitor”) Evan also fed his dad tips about what was going on down on Earth, so he could snap photos.

3) When he gets back: “He’s gonna land on Earth, he’s probably gonna vomit on himself, and then he’s going to pass out. That’s what happens when you come back from space.”

I love this quote from Canada’s first man in space, Marc Garneau, who said he wished he’d had social media during his flights:

“You need that feeling that you haven’t been abandoned up there. You need to feel that there are a whole bunch of people on the ground that are watching over you,” he said. “I think the connection is much stronger now because [Hadfield] has all these people who are tweeting to him and he’s tweeting to them.”

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"Organizations need structure. Markets and enterprises need rules. As successful entrepreneurial..."

Wed, 08 May 2013 17:12:11 +1000

“Organizations need structure. Markets and enterprises need rules. As successful entrepreneurial businesses grow, they often come to believe that new, complicated processes will undermine their culture. But systematization need not lead to bureaucratization, not if people understand what the rules are for and view them as legitimate.”

- Creating the Best Workplace on Earth - Harvard Business Review (via rickwebb)