Haptics & Sound Design by BMW
The amount of time & effort BMW takes to develop the way a button feels like (haptic) and the sound of each of their cars is astounding.
The Artist and The Computer
Pioneer of computer-mediated art, the artist Lilian Schwartz
Dance Yrself Clean
LCD gets the boogie-woogie treatment
Richard Meier X Massimo Vignelli
How to Design Breakthrough Inventions - David Kelly / IDEO
David Kelly on using a Human-Centred Design Processes for the Node chair.
excerpt from Steelcase's research process
Understand
Phase one of the process is to understand the client, market, and industry through the use of secondary research identifying trends and patterns. The secondary research helps us to become smart listeners when we go into the next phase which is observe.
Node: the reinvented classroom chair
Steelcase's research process
Plankton's Heist
Music can really uplift a great flick.
Blue Sky Black Death - Our Hearts of Ruin
Found this gem a couple of days ago through Rdio, traced the entire album to only come to one conclusion - having kept it continuously on auto-repeat - that this is one hell of a magnificent album that keeps on astonishing me.
Noir - Blue Sky Black Death on bandcamp
Tunable App
Tunable, the intuitive visual toolkit for musicians.
Great for peeps who know how to utilise an instrument.
tip from @zuppaman
Backed - The 10-Year Hoodie
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The 10-Year Hoodie on Kickstarter
Christoph Niemann's Petting Zoo app
It’s an even greater challenge to design it in such a way that the user will intuitively know what to actually do with it.
The Story of My App - the New Yorker
christophniemann.com - Petting Zoo ios app
The Private Eye
Set in a future where privacy is considered a sacred right, everyone has a secret identity or two and paparazzi's (detective + journalist) help you dig up your dirty laundry. Created by Brian K. Vaughan (Saga, Y: The Last Man & Ex Machina) et al..
One hell of a comic with a massive cliffhanger and i know this is going to be my favorite comic this year.
The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces
A 1980's movie by William H. Whyte regarding open city spaces and what kind of effect it has on human behaviour.
Scratch Massive Mixtape
Thursday Tunes
Playlist:
01 - John Maus - Hey Moon
02 - Dangers of The Mouth - Dangers of the mouth
03 - Gold Zebra - Love, french, Better
04 - Khan, DjT - Leaving Me - David August Remix
05 - John Talabot - Missing you
06 - Code 61 - Drop The Deal
07 - John Talabot - Depak Ine
08 - Djuma Soundsytem Vs Kolombo - Cherimoya - SM Edit
09 - Mario Basanov - Do you remember - (The revenge drama remix)
10 - David Shaw and The Beat - Trance in Mexico
11 - Metronomy - Loving Arm - Get A Room Remix
12 - Kolombo - Disco Under Moon Influence
13 - Esperanza - Ink
14 - Azari & III - Into the Night - Nicolas Jaar remix
Olars
An electronic interactive toy inspired by Karl Sims' evolved virtual creatures.
Advice For Designers - Hartmut Esslinger
Introduction by frog’s founder Hartmut Esslinger for his upcoming book Design Forward: Creative Strategies for Sustainable Change
WebFonts & Photoshop: What's missing?
A Photoshop Plugin for webfonts!
For a recent project i sourced the internet searching for a solution on how i could use webfonts in Photoshop without having to download the entire google web fonts library or buying a lot of fonts (yes, i do buy fonts) that sadly can't be used on the web.
After some scavenging i bumped into the WebINK plugin plugin by Extensis and decided to give it a spin. Once you install the plugin and login with your WebINK or Extensis credentials, you are read to start. Well not really, the panel needs to sync with the online font library and can take a while.
The plugin is a bit buggy (apparently FMCore is the little culprit that throws up the "Your disk copy of image was changed since last opened or saved" message in Photoshop) and does take some time to activate the fonts. The additional surplus of being able to access Google Web Fonts through the panel is a bonus point.
Overall the experience with this plugin is quite good. The only gripe i had with this plugin is that you are not able to combine multiple webfonts in a Type layer. I hope this will be ironed out in the next update. My bad, it does work. You can use different fonts & weights by accessing them through the Type Options Bar.
A little remark; after the 30 day trial period you are kindly pushed to add your credit card to your account so that they can start billing you. I understand that nothing is for free but they should advertise this clearly on their homepage. However if you haven't added fonts in any enabled WebINK Type drawers you won't have to pay for using their service.
I really hope that in the near future other webfont providers will release their own photoshop plugins where you can try before you buy and make it easier to access other beautiful designed webfonts to use and create websites/interfaces/...
FontShop recently released it's Photoshop plugin.
Niki & The Dove - The Fox
Found this hurling on the interwebs and completely loved the animation. And yes, the music won't hurt your ears either.