Design for thought

Cloud holder

UK based duncan shotton has designed ‘cloud’, a small puff-like object  that easily fastens to the wall, providing users with a place to set their keys. Embedded magnets secure two sets of keys beneath the cloud to represent  falling rain. …

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Cloud holder

UK based duncan shotton has designed ‘cloud’, a small puff-like object  that easily fastens to the wall, providing users with a place to set their keys. Embedded magnets secure two sets of keys beneath the cloud to represent  falling rain. …

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Salvaging discarded media

Artist and Central Saint Martins graduate Nick Gentry creates recycled art with obsolete media storage as his medium. After assembling canvases by puzzling together floppy disks with all kinds of different data, he paints portraits of over them. “The floppy …

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Salvaging discarded media

Artist and Central Saint Martins graduate Nick Gentry creates recycled art with obsolete media storage as his medium. After assembling canvases by puzzling together floppy disks with all kinds of different data, he paints portraits of over them. “The floppy …

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Music Democratizer

You’re in a good groove at work, feeling focused. Then all of a sudden….WHAM! Literally. As in George Michael screaming his heart out at top volume through the office speakers. There have been many attempts at trying to make office …

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Music Democratizer

You’re in a good groove at work, feeling focused. Then all of a sudden….WHAM! Literally. As in George Michael screaming his heart out at top volume through the office speakers. There have been many attempts at trying to make office …

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Interactive sketching notation

The interactive sketching notation is an emerging visual language which affords the representation of interface states and event-based user actions. Through a few simple and standardized rules, what the user sees (drawn in greys and blacks) and does (drawn in …

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Interactive sketching notation

The interactive sketching notation is an emerging visual language which affords the representation of interface states and event-based user actions. Through a few simple and standardized rules, what the user sees (drawn in greys and blacks) and does (drawn in …

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Typographic illustrations

A brilliant series by illustrator/graphic designer Dan Beckemeyer, that uses the ampersand to represent foods that are almost always associated, like peanut butter and jelly or hamburger and fries. Awesome stuff.…

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Typographic illustrations

A brilliant series by illustrator/graphic designer Dan Beckemeyer, that uses the ampersand to represent foods that are almost always associated, like peanut butter and jelly or hamburger and fries. Awesome stuff.…

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Advice to graphic design students

In this post Frank Chimero shares every little piece of advice he can think of he would give current Graphic Design Students.…

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Advice to graphic design students

In this post Frank Chimero shares every little piece of advice he can think of he would give current Graphic Design Students.…

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Brands and social media

Recently the meetings i have been, revolves around the issue of social media. Everyone seems to talk about putting a social media element to their websites. But wait, hold on, do you really know what you are actually getting into?…

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Brands and social media

Recently the meetings i have been, revolves around the issue of social media. Everyone seems to talk about putting a social media element to their websites. But wait, hold on, do you really know what you are actually getting into?…

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Shikisai Tee-shirts

The duet of Japanese designers Noto-Fused explores the possibilities of interactivity in term of creation of tee-shirt.…

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Shikisai Tee-shirts

The duet of Japanese designers Noto-Fused explores the possibilities of interactivity in term of creation of tee-shirt.…

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HTML 5

HTML 5 is here but it got most of us (especially client) in a state of confusion. This diagram will be a good intro for all those out there that need a better understanding of how it works in a …

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HTML 5

HTML 5 is here but it got most of us (especially client) in a state of confusion. This diagram will be a good intro for all those out there that need a better understanding of how it works in a …

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Future of UI

Minority Report science adviser and inventor John Underkoffler demos g-speak — the real-life version of the film’s eye-popping, tai chi-meets-cyberspace computer interface. Is this how tomorrow’s computers will be controlled?…

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Future of UI

Minority Report science adviser and inventor John Underkoffler demos g-speak — the real-life version of the film’s eye-popping, tai chi-meets-cyberspace computer interface. Is this how tomorrow’s computers will be controlled?…

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