An ingenious ‘old tech’ method of creating a three dimensional rainbow in your hands. Rainbow in Your Hand is book published in Japan that makes use of old style animation to generate a rainbow. “This book started as a personal project in summer 2007, and was soon published from a Japanese bookstore “Utrecht”. It’s a flipbook, but rather than seeing animation, it creates a 3D rainbow in your hand. Since being published it has been featured on Japanese TV, Newspapers, major news & blogsites like yahoo news, coolhunting and found. This book won this years NY ADC silver cube.” explains the author. read more… »
A Rainbow in Your Hand
Ubuntu Identity Overhaul
A new logo, a new identity. The upcoming release of Ubuntu 10.04 and Ubuntu is set to receive a major identity upgrade, from it’s logo through to its design. “We’re drawn to Light because it denotes both warmth and clarity, and intrigued by the idea that “light” is a good value in software. Good software is “light” in the sense that it uses your resources efficiently, runs quickly, and can easily be reshaped as needed.” explains Mark Shuttle worth who along with a small team of designers who are behind the recent Ubuntu re branding. read more… »
Prototype Microsoft Mobile Surface PC one-ups iPhone
Microsoft Corp. researchers have shrunk down its Surface tabletop computer into a pocket-sized package that, with the aid of a few accessories, one-ups conventional touchscreen devices like Apple Inc.’s iPhone. Via Computerworld, read more…
Pencil Printer
Putting those unusable pencil stubs to good use? A concept by Hoyoung Lee over at Yanko Design which marries old tec with new tec with their graphite pencil printer which uses standard graphite pencils as the ink cartridge for printing documents. The concept is great aesthetically and practically. Graphite pencils are pretty cheap so running out of a cartridge is much less of a hassle then with conventional ink printers. the pencil printer concepts also includes a built in eraser which allows you to re use paper, another plus for environmental responsibility. read more… »
A Collection of Inspiring Workspaces
A workspace is is a key factor in productivity, an effectively planned workspace allows for a more pleasant working experience, specifically for those who have a desk job. Lifehacker.com has taken the initiative to showcase a selection of well created workspaces submitted by their users, who have taken a pride in their space of work. read more… »
The Google Tablet Concept
Following the recent announcement by Apple to begin manufacturing and selling thier iPad tablet computer, Google decided to release some Google Chrome OS mockups illustrating how the Google tablet would look like, if it were to exist. read more… »
Common Misconceptions about Web Designers
As a web designer, I’m proud to be a part of an Apple-loving, forward thinking, technologically advanced group of people that devour tutorials and web design blogs, hoping to create a stellar design that that gets posted in every CSS gallery out there. Yep, we’re a group of people that works hard, plays hard and strives to meet our deadlines, while learning something new along the way.via Six Revisions, Read more…
Artistic Typography
Typography art, is perhaps one of the most beautiful ways to combine text and design into a beautiful composition. Deviant is treasure of artistic talent, out of the tons of outstanding typography artwork on deviant art, we have short listed these five as possibly the most creative and visually appealing pieces read more… »
The Fail Whale Strikes
The Twitter Fail Whale Strikes again. It has been some time since the Fail Whale was spotted. For those who are unfamiliar with the Twitter Fail Whale, it is the whale that indacates Twitter’s servers are under strain from an overload in internet traffic or that the site is experiencing down time. read more… »
Gimp 2.8 scheduled to release at the end of 2010
GIMP’s developer, Martin Nordholts aka Enselic, has announced the release of GIMP 2.8 on 27th Dec this year. The schedule is not really fixed, its an estimated release date. This new release promises to have a lot of new features along with the major advantage of a single window mode which has been a long-standing complaint by many users for this great tool. read more…
The Breathing Earth
The Breathing Earth is an interesting web simulation that demonstrates quite clearly and impressively the human impact on our Earth. Designed by David Bleja, the simulation tracks the amount of CO2 in tonnes released be each nation and how often a death or a birth occurs. Bearing in mind that it is a simulation is not 100% percent accurate however the author states that the simulation was built using reputable data sources, read more… »
Creative Time Pieces
Telling the time, something we rely heavily upon our devices to do so, time display is usually somewhat standard and boring in many cases. However when you mix time telling with innovative design, the result is some rather intriguing devices that are able to remain extremely aesthetic while sticking to their primary function of telling the time. read more… »
Unusually Creative Web Layouts
Web design has an unspoken rule of layout, sometimes for the better and sometimes for the worst. However it exists probably to ensure a semi standardized way of understanding and using the web. However ever so often these conventions are challenged, and while some may fail others will shine as designs of originality, worthy of mention. read more… »
Easily Funk Up Your Twitter Page
Easily customize your Twitter page, with help from Themeleon, compliments from colourlovers.com. One of the fun things about twitter is the ability to make it yours, by easily customizing your profile page design, from colours to background images. Though the stock background images on Twitter are quite beautiful, they are still generic, and chances are about 500,000 other Twitter users also make use of them. Now if you like many who insist on individuality, then you will understand the importance of creating a unique. personalized Twitter page. read more… »
