From a quick glance, I'd say that Engelhardt's dissertation is pure design gold. Highly recommended reading.
Really clever: »Post-it notes that can be searched, located and can send reminders and messages, and help us to seamlessly connect our physical and informational experiences.« (Be sure to check out the video!)
Lovely crocheted toys from Nicole Gastonguay.
Ok, speaking of Romain Gavras here's another superb video he did for »Signatune« by Mehdi & Thomas Bangalter. Sorry for being late on this one, I'm catching up.
Rather intense new video for Justice's »Stress«, directed by Romain Gavras.
Great spot visualizing the carbon dioxide emissions in your household.
Word Clock is a typographic screensaver for Mac OS X. It displays a fixed list of all numbers and words sufficient to express any possible date and time as a sentence.
Interesting piece by Cristobal Mendoza: an (audio)visualization of every word that the artist has written in his various computers since 2002.
Great work from Peter Piller. My favorites are »Verlorene Kleidung im öffentlichen Raum« (lost clothes in public space) and »Internetzugang« (internet access).
It's kind of sad, but yes, this app might be something for me.
Incredibly interesting article on the design decisions and process behind Monocle.com.
Absolutely great stuff: »These are photos of one Russian online community members of which enjoy making some staged photos with creepy plot.«
»What Michael Jordan is to basket ball, Bob Munden is to the quick draw.«
Dutch artist Theo Jansen demonstrates his amazingly lifelike kinetic sculptures, built from plastic tubes and lemonade bottles. His "Strandbeests" (Beach Creatures) are built to move and even survive on their own.
»The new MacBook Air is hot. Really hot.« Dallas Penn shows some serious Apple loving...
Ok, this is the single most awesome music blog of the decade.
Oliver Reichenstein reviews Edward Tuftes analysis of the iPhone interface that he recently published on his website. I'm completely with Reichenstein here. »To understand interaction design, you need to practice it.«
Study finds U.S. music awash in booze and drugs.
Bicycletron has the right to children. Simple ignore the fact that we´re quoting one of our deeply adored childhood films and games from the 80´s by switching to real players out from the computer straight to a given matrix of game space.
2012…New York…Wolff Olins have never been far from controversy over the past 12 months. Adrian Shaughnessy was one of the 2012 logo’s most prominent critics, so we sent him along to find out just what has been going on at the design consultancy…
J.J. Abrams traces his love of the unseen mystery back to its own magical beginnings, which may or may not include an early obsession with magic, the love of a supportive grandfather, or his own unopened Mystery Box.
Edward Tufte: "To clarify, add detail. Clutter and overload are not an attribute of information, they are failures of design. If the information is in chaos, don't start throwing out information. Fix the design."
Interesting studies in mobile phone design. I like 'sorato' in particular.
Oh so beautiful: »The Feltron 2006 Annual Report is the definitive summary of a year in the life of Nicholas Felton.«
»Ha ha. Your medium is dying.«
»Ouis thailändischer Besitzer behauptet, dass Oui es liebt mit Kinderspielzeug zu spielen.«