Year 2011, (frankly its the end of January) I now share with you a monthly ritual of (trumpets, please!): DESIGN QUOTE OF THE MONTH
For the month of January, brought to you with limited interruptions by Cute Squirrels, I present you this quote:
A camel is a horse designed by a committee. — Sir Alec Issigonis
Finally! A 16 minute and 50 second explanation on what is DESIGN THINKING! Its not black turtle necks, choosing color palettes or fashion design. I wish I had this every time I have to explain what I want to study. [ted id=646]
love.
Tokyo-based artist Koshi Kawachi recently demonstrated his "Manga Farming" technique -- which uses old manga as a growing medium for vegetables -- by cultivating a crop of radish sprouts in an installation at the Matsuzakaya department store in Nagoya.
Provided by Pink Tentacle
These little suckers always get me. How are they supposed to work? I'm supposed to yank it up using the slippery little plastic tab? Am I alone on this rant?
Do you pull up? Do you pull to the left? The right? SO MANY WAYS TO FAIL.
Sadly, I am not really a baker. Nonetheless, this app makes me want to bring our the flour and eggs.... It's pretty spectacular. Martha, you really are good. Martha Stewarts iPhone + iPad app. Check them out on iTunes.
Check out the one above! Cookies for Hedonists!!
Thankfully provided by Gizmodo: Dieter Rams, a designer working for Braun in the 1960s, influenced the work of Apple’s design mastermind Jonathan Ives. Its pretty evident by the picture below, that Ives obviously is an admirer. More at the BBC.
Some Rams Principles to Live By (ONLY 10!):
• Good design is innovative.
• Good design makes a product useful.
• Good design is aesthetic.
• Good design helps us to understand a product.
• Good design is unobtrusive.
• Good design is honest.
• Good design is durable.
• Good design is consequent to the last detail.
• Good design is concerned with the environment.
• Good design is as little design as possible.
A little audio clip from All Things Considered on NPR on Creative Partnerships: The Behind The Scenes Partnership At Apple
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bt9F7tKcZcU&fs=1&hl=en_US]
Hilarious!! Provided by: Comic Sans is a Galactic Menace; Here's How We Can Kill It
Here it is: TADA!
[vimeo vimeo.com/17695336]
Article: fastcodesign.com
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFabjc6mFk4&fs=1&hl=en_US] True perfection.
Experiments that we and other researchers have done in cafeterias at high schools, middle schools and summer camp programs, as well as in laboratories, have revealed many ways to use behavioral psychology to coax children to eat better. Here are a dozen such strategies that work without requiring drastic or expensive changes in school menus.
For all the interesting finds play with the interactive map on the NYT! I'm not going to lie, it was better in print form....
Looking for a little crime? A little impressionist art? Some political fiasco and bad bad Philadelphians? I've got the movie for you! [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnyVcegi2i8&fs=1&hl=en_US]
Its on Netflix. Watch it. And strongly dislike Judge Ott. Philadelphia just stole a mans art to make a Disneyland.
m.u.s.t. s.e.e: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjWJHEmFfPA&rel=0&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&version=3]
Give you endless potential for decorating.
Set to the Tron Legacy Trailer and made with lights on a turntable- geeze, so cool and so simple. [vimeo http://vimeo.com/14980662]
part of Kim Pimmel's Light Studies
[vimeo http://vimeo.com/14955603]
Science is inherently cool, but gross science is even better. Using a combination of computer tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), scientists Kasper Hansen and Henrik Lauridsen of Aarhus University in Denmark were able to visualize the entire internal organ structures and vascular systems (aka "guts") of a Burmese Python digesting a rat.
More pics @asylum
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Pantone visa cards! hahaha. pretty great.
