Archive for the 'general' Category
The 99 Percent
Posted in general on September 23rd, 2009The 99 percent is a very interesting design magazine:
Stefan Sagmeister: Life So Far :: Articles :: The 99 Percent.

How Many People Are In Space Right Now?
Posted in general on September 18th, 2009Single service FTW!
How Many People Are In Space Right Now?.

more here:
http://ionoi.blogs.sonance.net/2009/05/28/single-serving-sites/
awesome online step sequencer
Posted in audio/music, general, interactive design on September 18th, 2009need dropular invite
Posted in general on September 17th, 2009i´d like to test dropular.net , but i got no invite – can anyone help me out? you can find my email under CONTACT
thanks!
YouTube – Bach, Toccata and Fugue in D minor, organ
Posted in art, audio/music, general, motiondesign on September 11th, 2009Gallery: A Second Serving Of Classic, Reimagined Game Covers
Posted in general on February 11th, 2009TED: MIT Students Turn Internet Into a Sixth Human Sense — Video | Epicenter from Wired.com
Posted in general on February 11th, 2009Flash and Augmented Reality
Posted in 3D, flash, general on November 21st, 2008using a webcam and flash as a tracking software, this guys manage to render a 3D character into any video – wicked!
Digital Pictures Interactive » Blog Archive » Papervision – Augmented Reality
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ionoi 1k
Posted in general on September 4th, 2008ionoi has reached 1000 posts!!
thanks to all students and readers for the links and comments!
please note that a large part of the image-postings moved to ffffound, so be sure to check them too:
http://ffffound.com/home/ionoi/found
so lets go for the next 1000;)

communication design
Posted in general on August 6th, 2008understanding this concept makes conversations a lot easier:
encoded symbol typo
Posted in general on August 6th, 2008amazing code generator for the alphabet from coldplays album xy
album:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X&Y
code generator:
http://www.ditonus.com/coldcode/

graphic design: gradients
Posted in general on April 29th, 2008year 2008
gradients: good
usage: a lot

lego 2.0: order bricks individually
Posted in general on April 16th, 2008ever wonderd how lego artists do have so many bricks from the same color? well thats why because you now can order every brick individually online:
http://us.factory.lego.com/pab/?
to make something like this:
http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/arvo/Legodreams/Alien/alien_01.jpg
software for your custom lego models:
http://factory.lego.com/getstarted/default.aspx

portfolio: ben lawson
Posted in general, portfolios on January 8th, 2008very many illustrations on fishes and other creatures of the sea, detailed and stunning!
http://www.trans-technical.com/
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comics: joshua middleton
Posted in general on November 20th, 2007a very broad portfolio of the comic artist joshua middleton
http://joshuamiddleton.com/
*thanks rainer*

games: landscape painting
Posted in general, illustration on November 13th, 2007a very interesting video, showing an artist painting a sifi backdrop in photoshop
http://mythicmktg.fileburst.com/war/us/media/videos/pp_Painting_BR1000.zip

you can find an low res version here:
video lectures: ted
Posted in algorithmic, general, interactive design, web 2.0 on October 27th, 2007ted is a site dedicated to speeches, based on sopnsoring
“Inspired talks by the world’s greatest thinkers and doers”
Here is one by stefan sagmeister:
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/50
and here a very interesting one from jonathan harris:
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/144

software: modding the iphone
Posted in general on October 25th, 2007although i am no programmer, perheps those who are can do something pretty with this one:
http://code.google.com/p/independence/

hiding images in images
Posted in general on October 24th, 2007an interesting idea from david fiedman, he had the idea to hide images within the histogram, josh millard took the idea even further!
http://www.ironicsans.com/2007/10/reader_takes_histogram_idea_ev.html
http://www.joshmillard.com/2007/10/04/retro-histo-making-an-image-fit-your-histogram/
*thanks manuel*

pictograms: german vs. chinese culture
Posted in general on October 18th, 2007a very interesting series of pictograms from a chinese designer named Yang Liu. She was born in china and studied design in germany. the pictograms compare the german and chinese way of life with each other
http://hellishhumor.com/hellish-pictures/
german-vs-chinesse-culture.php
here is the website of the lady:
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Definition of Beauty

making of bravia play-doh rabbits
Posted in general on October 10th, 2007and yes, its play doh (at least partly)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvbuUDUDEmU
if you did´t see the ad, watch it first:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLUAbkRUvVQ
edit:
here is another one with a pyramid covering with color
http://adsoftheworld.com/media/tv/sony_bravia_pyramid

motiongraphics: reel from adam gault
Posted in general on July 6th, 2007 impressive reel here:
http://adamgault.com/reel_solo/adamgault.com_reelsolo_01.html
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photography: chema mandoz
Posted in art, film/photography, general on July 4th, 2007chema mandoz has a very interesting way of finding objects, his photos are striking and ironic, so be sure to click by:
http://www.chemamadoz.com/ingles/gallery1.htm
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sculpture: m.c. escher with lego
Posted in 3D, art, general, perception theory on March 20th, 2007the impossible staircase from escher built with lego
http://www.andrewlipson.com/escher/relativity.html
http://bergoiata.org/fe/Escher-lego/10.htm
some works of escher on the net
http://www.math.technion.ac.il/~rl/M.C.Escher/

portfolio: arty: serialcut
Posted in general, graphic design, interactive design, portfolios on March 6th, 2007“Serial Cut™ is a Madrid based studio, established in 1999 by Sergio del Puerto”
they have a very arty and nice portfolio

graphic design: the history of playing cards
Posted in general, graphic design, paper engineering on January 16th, 2007best illustrators by slanted
Posted in general, illustration, portfolios on November 30th, 2006http://www.mcfaul.biz/main2.html /seems to be offline;(
http://www.davidfoldvari.co.uk/
http://www.4wall.co.uk/artists/container/
http://www.milesdonovan.co.uk/
http://www.paulwilloughby.com/

















