Dieter Rams
1960s+ German industrial designer that influenced the design of the iPhone 4
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Innovative design always develops in tandem with innovative technology, and can never be an end in itself.
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Redirect your hatred of Flash to the W3C, whose embarrassingly slow pace forced devs to use a plugin because the standards were so weak. Also, I am looking at you, developers who bitch whenever a browser offers “non-standard” but innovative APIs. Browser makers need to go nuts with non-standard APIs and let the W3C standardize later. Waiting for the committee to innovate is suicide.
Joe Hewitt, engineer at Facebook and creator of Firefox
Everything’s Amazing & Nobody’s Happy
As everyone is discussing the latest technology announced today, it’s always good to put things into perspective.
Reblogged from Jarred Bishop and ckck
Nike True City
Created by AKQA, True City provides users with a unique insight into six European cities, making the hidden visible through the knowledge and insight of Nike Insiders. Download the iPhone app (Europe only).
The brilliant part of this campaign isn’t the use of technology and augmenting the city with data, but rather relying on select, local tastemakers to reveal culture throughout the cities. In 2008 and 2009 we saw the rise and evolution of social media, but I believe 2010 and beyond will be focused on using the social media as a tactic rather than strategy to allow brands to create and curate culture.
If you don’t make mistakes, you’re not working on hard enough problems. And that’s a big mistake.
Frank Wilczek
Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir men’s blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will never die, but long after we are gone will be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistency. Remember that our sons and grandsons are going to do things that would stagger us. Let your watchword be order and your beacon beauty. Think big.
Big news overnight is the launch of Square, a mobile app supporting multiple devices that enables anyone to take credit card transactions without the hassle of merchant accounts or complicated fee structures. It’s the brainchild of Twitter inventor Jack Dorsey and with the likes of Buzz Andersen involved, it’s going to be huge. Impeccable website design by Bobby Andersen.
The concept of transferring credit card magnetic data through the audio input jack is quite interesting. I can’t wait to try it out.
Building Projections
NuFormer Digital Media put together a reel of their video projections on buildings. Using 3D video and software to map the building they bring the architecture to life. NuFormer also posted up a live presentation of the projection as well as a performance for Volvo produced in cooperation with Saatchi & Saatchi.
This example is similar to the 555 Kubric facade projection I posted three months ago.
2009’s “Did You Know?” video
