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The Mountain by Terje Sorgjerd

2011-04-21T09:38:00.002+05:30

Tue, Apr 19, 2011 3:00 AM EDT - 3:08 This was filmed between 4th and 11th April 2011 on El Teide, Spain´s highest mountain. Follow on http://wwwfacebook.com/TSOPhotography for more videos.also see here

Doyald Young, Logotype Designer

2011-04-09T10:05:00.000+05:30

Doyald Young, Logotype Designer | by Doyald Young View this entire Creative Inspirations course and more in the lynda.com Online Training Library®.

Hans Rosling at TED: Civilization depends on washing machines

2011-03-24T11:14:00.002+05:30

There's an open conversation with Rosling on TED.com through March 28.

Pranav Mistry: The thrilling potential of SixthSense technology

2009-11-19T13:34:00.000+05:30

At TEDIndia, Pranav Mistry demos several tools that help the physical world interact with the world of data -- including a deep look at his SixthSense device and a new, paradigm-shifting paper "laptop." In an onstage Q&A, Mistry says he'll open-source the software behind SixthSense, to open its possibilities to all.

Digital cloud plan for city skies

2009-11-11T15:17:00.002+05:30

By Jonathan Fildes Technology reporter, BBC News

Change by Design

2009-09-29T11:11:00.003+05:30

Book Excerpt September 24, 2009, 5:00PM EST Change By Design - BusinessWeekIn his new book, the CEO of design shop IDEO shows how even hospitals can transform the way they work by tapping frontline staff to engineer change As the center of economic activity in the developed world shifts inexorably from industrial manufacturing to knowledge creation and service delivery, innovation has become

Free! Why $0.00 Is the Future of Business

2009-09-28T15:53:00.000+05:30

Free! Why $0.00 Is the Future of Business By Chris Anderson 02.25.08 Wired Magazine

Masters of Design 2009

2009-09-22T11:03:00.002+05:30

See this list of Masters of Design 2009 from Fast Company

Data Visualization: Stories from the Information Age

2009-08-26T14:15:00.008+05:30

Eye on Design August 12, 2009, 12:14PM EST - Business WeekArtists and designers are turning to data visualization to interpret the deluge of information around us, often with unexpected resultsBy Maria PopovaAt the intersection of art and algorithm, data visualization schematically abstracts information to bring about a deeper understanding of the data, wrapping it in an element of awe. While the

Augmented Reality-1

2009-08-26T14:07:00.000+05:30

If You’re Not Seeing Data, You’re Not SeeingBy Brian X. Chen see: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/08/augmented-reality

Augmented Business Card

2009-08-26T13:26:00.019+05:30

How does the augmented business card work?First you create a presentation file for your portfolio, using a frontend tool (which is still in development at the moment). You can import various media like images, video clips and 3D-models. The application will export this presentation as a XML file.This XML file is then uploaded to a webserver, together with all the necessary assets. left: XMLFrom

Post-Capitalist

2009-08-26T10:57:00.003+05:30

Peter Drucker, the father of modern management, discusses how knowledge, not capital, is the new basis of wealth.By Peter Schwartzsee the article at: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/1.03/drucker_pr.html

from World Science Festival - fascinating, some great videos on this site, must see...

2009-08-24T16:13:00.007+05:30

World Science Festival 2009: Signature Animation from World Science Festival on Vimeo. World Science Festival 2009: Avian Einsteins, Part 1 of 5 from World Science Festival on Vimeo.World Science Festival 2009: Avian Einsteins, Part 4 of 5 from World Science Festival on Vimeo.World Science Festival 2009: Bobby McFerrin Demonstrates the Power of the Pentatonic Scale from World Science Festival on

The Demise of ‘Form Follows Function’

2009-06-06T10:56:00.011+05:30

June 1, 2009 By ALICE RAWSTHORN If there was a (booby) prize for the most misused design cliché, a firm favorite would be “form follows function,” with “less is more” coming a close second. Not only is “form follows ...” often quoted incorrectly, it is not even accurate: the original wording was “form ever

The Worst Magazine

2009-06-06T10:11:00.000+05:30

Open publication - Free publishing - More art

Edmund McMillen

2009-03-19T09:02:00.003+05:30

Very interesting work by indie game developer Edmund McMillen. You can get his 10 year anthology for $10 here.

Ideo's David Kelley on "Design Thinking"

2009-02-05T22:37:00.009+05:30

Article location:http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/132/a-designer-takes-on-his-biggest-challenge-ever.html January 14, 2009 Tags: Design, Stanford D.school, Marriott, David Kelley Ideo's David Kelley on "Design Thinking" By Linda Tischler The smell of ramen noodles wafts

Do Humanlike Machines Deserve Human Rights?

2009-01-30T12:00:00.006+05:30

from Wired Top Stories by Daniel Roth During the 20 months that Fisher-Price spent developing the innards and software of its latest animatronic Elmo, engineers gave the project the code name Elmo Live. And sure enough, they made him more animate than ever: He moves his mouth in time with the stories he tells, shivers when he gets scared, and has a fit when he sneezes. When they were finally

Jan. 30, 1975: Rubik Applies for Patent on Magic Cube

2009-01-30T11:55:00.001+05:30

from Wired Top Stories by Randy Alfred1975: Erno Rubik files for a patent on his twisty toy cubes. He'll get the patent and, later, fame and fortune. Rubik, who'd been schooled in sculpture and architecture, taught interior design at an art college in Budapest, Hungary. His initial interest in building the cube was structural: to see how he could let the little cubes (called "cubies" or cubelets

Reading Graphs: How we do it, and what it tells us about making better ones

2009-01-30T11:28:00.009+05:30

Cognitive DailyCategory: Attention • Reasoning • Research Posted on: January 28, 2009 4:43 PM, by Dave Munger Take a look at this graph showing population distribution by county in a fictional U.S. state: ratwani1.png ResearchBlogging.orgHow do you read such a graph? Is this the ideal way to depict this sort of information? If you wanted to know which part of the state was most populous, how

Robert Lang: Idea + Square = Origami

2008-08-07T11:31:00.004+05:30

Robert Lang merges mathematics with aesthetics to fold elegant modern origami

magnetic movie

2008-07-29T19:55:00.003+05:30

This is amazing...Magnetic Movie from Semiconductor on Vimeo.

Theo Jansen - Kinetic Sculptor

2008-07-24T17:38:00.004+05:30

Theo Jansen - Kinetic SculptorSource: www.youtube.comTheo Jansen is the Dutch creator of what he calls "Kinetic Sculptures," where nature and technology meet. Essentially these sculptures are robots powered by the wind only.

Assume The Position with Mr. Wuhl

2008-07-13T14:11:00.000+05:30

Off The Grid; Sustainable Habitat 2020 - Philips Design

2008-07-10T14:16:00.002+05:30

Lots of people bemoan the sexism of bikini drenched beer ads...

2008-05-31T11:07:00.001+05:30

Lots of people bemoan the sexism of bikini drenched beer ads...from kottke.org by cliffkuang@gmail.comLots of people bemoan the sexism of bikini drenched beer ads and overtly sexual marketing. Turns out, the marketers might just be rationally exploiting a fact of the male brain: A recent study shows that men who watched sexy videos or handled lingerie sought immediate gratification--even when

The Arrow of Time in Scientific American

2008-05-31T10:28:00.000+05:30

The Arrow of Time in Scientific Americanfrom Cosmic Variance by Sean Greetings from Paris! Just checking in to do a bit of self-promotion, from which no blog-vacation could possibly keep me. I’ve written an article in this month’s Scientific American about the arrow of time and cosmology. It’s available for free online; the given title is “Does Time Run Backward in Other Universes?”, which wasn’t

The Purpose of Harvard is Not to Educate People

2008-05-31T10:22:00.001+05:30

The Purpose of Harvard is Not to Educate Peoplefrom Cosmic Variance by Sean Harvard University’s endowment is $35 billion, and some people aren’t happy about it. Massachusetts legislators see money that could be theirs, and are contemplating new taxes. Social activists see money that could be going to charity, and want to divert it. Distinguished alumni who have landed at public universities

Nina Paley's "Sita Sings the Blues"

2008-05-24T10:55:00.006+05:30

"The Gods Affirm Sita's Purity" Sita is a goddess separated from her beloved Lord and husband Rama. Nina is an animator whose husband moves to India, then dumps her by email. Three hilarious shadow puppets narrate both ancient tragedy and modern comedy in this beautifully animated

● Enlightened

2008-05-24T10:47:00.000+05:30

● Enlightenedfrom kottke.org by jason@kottke.orgAt the very moment that humans discovered the scale of the universe and found that their most unconstrained fancies were in fact dwarfed by the true dimensions of even the Milky Way Galaxy, they took steps that ensured that their descendants would be unable to see the stars at all. For a million years humans had grown up with a personal daily

Substance vs. style: a cognitive science approach

2008-05-24T10:21:00.000+05:30

Substance vs. style: a cognitive science approach from TED | TEDBlog Fans of Vik Muniz may be interested to learn the results of a recent study which shows that, when we look at a painting, our brains process its content before registering its style. In the study, paintings were presented in pairs for different time lengths and the participants were asked to judge the similarity within each pair

Anthropometric modules

2008-01-11T11:07:00.000+05:30

Ok, the comments on this one will be interesting...The work is made of 21 modules of human faeces, each measuring 215 x 75 x 20cm. The faecal matter was collected in New Delhi and Jaipur, after having rested for three years, which, from a sanitary point of view, makes it equivalent to earth. It was mixed with Fevicol, an agglutinative plastic, and dried in wooden moulds. Workers of the sanitary

Motion Mountain

2008-01-11T10:49:00.000+05:30

Inspiring physics textbook This is not your father's physics textbook. It is the self-published 1,500-page (!!), still-unfinished physics textbook written and designed by your polymath genius uncle who dwells on a mountain with the spirits of departed philosophers (whom he quotes, in German). It's what a physics textbook would be like if a poet wrote it and made no mistakes. The book is

Encouraging people to contribute knowledge

2007-12-15T10:49:00.000+05:30

from the Official Google Blog 12/13/2007 06:01:00 PM Posted by Udi Manber, VP EngineeringThe web contains an enormous amount of information, and Google has helped to make that information more easily accessible by providing pretty good search facilities. But not everything is written nor is everything well organized to make it easily discoverable. There

A child's view of the $100 laptop

2007-12-13T10:12:00.000+05:30

A child's view of the $100 laptop What will a child in the UK make of a laptop designed to help children in the developing world? Rory Cellan-Jones brought an XO home to find out. In late November I

Sugata Mitra - Can kids teach themselves

2007-11-22T18:58:00.000+05:30

Sugata Mitra discusses his "Hole in the Wall" project in India, which proved that kids, without education or instruction, can figure out how to use a PC on their own -- and then teach other kids. Given this, he asks, what else can children teach themselves?

3-D Printers Redefine Industrial Design

2007-11-22T10:22:00.000+05:30

see more at 3-D Printers Redefine Industrial Design

Birth of a Gadget: Inside the Industrial Design Process

2007-11-22T10:00:00.000+05:30

Wired News peeks into product design with Frog Design, a Palo Alto, California, consultancy responsible for such hits as Sony's first Trinitron and the case for the portable Apple IIc.see more at: Birth of a Gadget: Inside the Industrial Design Processhttp://www.wired.com/gadgets/miscellaneous/multimedia/2007/11/gallery_gadget_birth

Earth-rise and Earth-set

2007-11-20T19:04:00.000+05:30

The Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (Jaxa) has just released video footage taken by the the onboard high-definition camera of their spacecraft Kaguya, showing extraordinary images of the Moon's surface and the Earth "rising" and "setting" beyond the Moon's horizon. (Clicking on the link on their page opens up a second window: let the whole video download -- it takes a while -- before

Making Plastic out of Pollution

2007-11-20T00:04:00.000+05:30

News - November 8, 2007 from Scientific AmericanAn emerging crop of companies making plastic out of renewable resources and waste products promises to deliver an environmentally friendly harvestsee more at Scientific American

Cutting Edge Designers

2007-11-03T14:52:00.001+05:30

Here is Businessweek's look at cutting edge designCutting Edge Designers from Businessweek.com Pushing the Boundaries of Design Innovation often arises out of crossing disciplines and combining technologies. That's a focus of our look for the top cutting-edge designers Slide Show: Thinking Outside the Design Box Here are 10 professionals that are expanding the realm of

At Frog, Being Green Isn’t Easy; It’s Essential

2007-10-29T17:09:00.001+05:30

This article about Frog Design from Fast Company shows what can happen when we commit ourselves to 'green' concepts Committing to clean design.

2007-10-16T20:34:00.000+05:30

Keeping track of your TEDTalks Two weeks ago, TED.com hit a milestone: posting our 150th TEDTalk. To help you keep track of all the TEDTalks you've watched and want to watch, here's a simple, low-tech tool: a list of all the TEDTalks posted to TED.com so far, in the order they were posted. Let us know how this list inspires you to explore new ideas or re-watch old favorites. Get the list

busy time for design folk

2007-10-02T12:04:00.000+05:30

There are a lot of events scheduled for this month.See the Happenings list.rgb'075-7 OctoberICSID-ISDA Connecting0717-20 Octobericograda world design congress20-26 Octoberdot 07 Festival16-28 October

Elements of Branding - Kolbrener

2007-09-26T20:31:00.001+05:30

Built by Kolbrener, corporate branding experts

design notes wants to be ...

2007-09-25T13:46:00.000+05:30

Design is all around us. It is easy to experience but hard to define.Is ita plan?relationships between elements?organization of information?achievement of goals?creative process of going from intent to actualization?understanding and fulfilling needs?a way of using critical and creative thinking?open ended possibilities?Everyone has an idea of design.The natural world has design, everything