Origin of this scene comes from ambitious project of creating complete classical apartment, renovated and filled with furniture in very modern style where we wanted to model everything possible inhouse, fully custom content. During this project Veronika Demovicova and Juraj Talcik were contacted by editor Lynnete Clee from 3dArtist magazine, ask...
Learn about a new "superpower" that isn't being taught in in 90% of US schools. Promoted by Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, will.i.am, Chris Bosh, Jack Dorsey, Tony Hsieh, Drew Houston, Gabe Newell, Ruchi Sanghvi, Elena Silenok, Vanessa Hurst, and Hadi Partovi. Directed by Lesley Chilcott, executive producers Hadi and Ali Partovi.
Curious about the inside cover of Daft Punk’s upcoming album ‘Random Access Memory’? Have a look at the video below to view the packaging of the gatefold double LP and hear a brief glimpse of the opening track ‘Give Life Back to Music’. Download the album: here Daft Punk and Giorgio Moroder Hedi Slimane
"What's new with Hue?" Philips' connected light bulb just picked up a bounty of fresh tricks, thanks in no small part to the Hue 1.1 app update. The refresh, available for download today on iOS, brings a variety of additional features. Most significant, perhaps, is a partnership with IFTTT, which lets you create macros (called "recipes") for an ...
The search giant unveiled a new project Thursday called Timelapse that visualizes how different parts of the earth have changed during the past 28 years. You can watch the trends in deforestation in the Amazon from year to year, or see just how much the city of Las Vegas has grown in a little more than two decades. NASA and the U.S. Geologica...
Flat UX is becoming the new standard. So will Apple follow or show us the new future? The folks over at digital agency Simply Zesty have been thinking about what iOS 7, the upcoming new version of Apple’s mobile operating system, will – or should – look like based on the typical rumours and speculation that precede every major Apple eve...
Archive is a documentary focused on the future of long-term digital storage, the history of the Internet and attempts to preserve its contents on a massive scale. Part one features Brewster Kahle, founder of the Internet Archive and his colleagues Robert Miller, director of books, and Alexis Rossi, director of web collections. On a mission to...
In 2008 Pieter Henket made a photo of pop star Lady Gaga that was also used for the cover of her debut album. It marked Henket's breakthrough as an internationally recog-nized glamour photographer. In 2010 the photograph was exhibited as an icon of the 21st century in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the city where he arrived in 1998 ...
Morphees are thin, electronic displays capable of automatically changing shape to perform certain functions. Researchers say that if brought to market, the devices could usher in a new era in mobile computing, breaking down the physical barriers that have traditionally defined smartphones, tablets, and gaming consoles. Scientists in Europ...
Ric Kaner set out to find a new way to make graphene, the thinnest and strongest material on earth. What he found was a new way to power the world.
A beautiful parallax website that show the magic behind the scenes of the movie 'Life of Pi'
KIBARDIN presents a new product - levitating wireless computer mouse. The Bat is a set that consists of a base - mouse pad and floating mouse with magnet ring. One of the goals of this product - to prevent and treat the contemporary disease Carpal tunnel syndrome (Median nerve dysfunction / entrapment). Мany active computer users can be ...
When was the last time you ever checked out yahoo.com? Been awhile, right? I’m sure by now you’ve at least typed that url in once to check out the new homepage design. How long did you stay and check it out? Probably not long at all. You see, Yahoo! needs to do a lot more than just simplify a few things here and there. They need change — e...
Dimension: 344cm x 180cm x 5cm Number of single clocks: 288 Material: aluminium + electric components Electricity: standard 100-240V, 50-60Hz socket Operation system: customized software to be controlled via iPad Finish: powder coated white + black hands, screen printed dials Engineering: David Cox
"When the first email was sent in the early 1970's there was no big difference to the email we know today." - And this is the problem. Be one of the first of using .mail here!
Viktor & Rolf have decided to re-design their new website (it was about time), not just cosmetically but they have taken the opportunity to re-think or in the Dutch manner re-conceptualize the essence of the Internet itself. In the world of Viktor & Rolf the “world wide web” is not a rectangular shape like we know it but actually c...
Stockholm-based designer Tobias van Schneider has developed what he calls the “most honest & human weather app” out there. Called ‘Authentic Weather’, the app tells you exactly what you need to know about the weather—nothing more, nothing less. “The app is pretty simple, it’s just the fucking weather outside if you don’t ...
Want to see how Glass actually feels? It's surprisingly simple. Say "take a picture" to take a picture. Record what you see, hands free. Even share what you see, live. Directions are right in front of you. Speak to send a message, or translate your voice. Get the notifications that matter most. Ask whatever's on your mind and get answers with...
'New York Biotopes' deals with abstract plants and creatures, which change their forms because of insufficient living space and adapt themselves to the surroundings of the metropolis New York City. A type of metamorphosis, where the newly developed vegetation assimilates elements of the city and makes them useful for their own purposes. These cr...
Stardust, is a story about Voyager 1 (the unmanned spacecraft launched in 1977 to explore the outer solar system). The probe is the furthest man-made object from the sun and witnesses unimaginable beauty and destruction. The film was triggered by the death of Dutch graphic designer Arjan Groot, who died aged 39 on 16th July 2011 from cancer. ...
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A media project explores the properties of light and perception of space, for the purpose of digital media art and product design, presented at IDAS (Hongik University) as my thesis project.
A stretched sheet of spandex acts as a membrane interface sensitive to depth that people can push into and create fire-like visuals as well as expressively play music.
When overlaying ARART onto a well-known masterpiece, a new story will unfold, as if time trapped inside the painting has been stirred alive.By overlaying the camera of a mobile device onto objects, the ARART-system will detect images and objects that are registered and will display an animated image on top of said object. Enjoy a whole ne...
The 18 minute 'Connecting' documentary is an exploration of the future of Interaction Design and User Experience from some of the industry's thought leaders. As the role of software is catapulting forward, Interaction Design is seen to be not only increasing in importance dramatically, but also expected to play a leading role in shaping the comi...
Facebook is by far the largest networking platform around but the design (& UX) still feels old skool (and not in a good way). Then we came across a concept by Fred Nerby. He has s conceptional and systematic design approach encouraging user behaviour and a greater control of data within a responsive grid. So we say: "Mark wake up and hire t...
With wearable tech a bit of a buzzphrase right now and talk of a possible Apple/Intel smartwatch doing the rounds, this concept for what a Google watch might look like is right on cue. Using Google’s latest design language, this ‘Google Time’ concept by Adrian Maciburko is a nice idea for a super-simple take on the kinds of feat...
You are about to enter the Big Internet Museum. Explore an interactive and ever-growing collection about the Internet and its remarkable graphic interface: the World Wide Web. By the way, Rhey don’t have a building. The reason is simple: their collection only exists online. Aside from that it’s a museum like any other – with curators, a...
Using a series of cautionary (and hilarious) YouTube videos, Google Analytics shows examples of poor web design and digital marketing -- but in real life. Specifically, the service counsels companies on landing-page optimization, site search (see video above) and online checkout, by re-imagining these tools as situations in a grocery-...
A precise and beautiful set of devices designed to measure and play with the hidden qualities of your environment. "IT’S REALLY AN ACCESSORY… IT’S ANOTHER PAIR OF SHOES, OR ANOTHER BAG, OR ANOTHER PAIR OF NICE GLASSES." Although Lapka was designed in Moscow, Marmeladov and co. decided that the US would be a great place to launch ...
Skataviz is an experimental prototype developed by Design I/O which uses an iPhone or iPod touch attached to a skateboard to record its motion and visualize its movement as 3D data augmented over live video. Using the gyroscope and accelerometer sensors of the iPod, the software is able to recreate the motion of the run, detecting moments of...
A film from the Competitive Enterprise Institute, adapted from the 1958 essay by Leonard E. Read. Because, as Charles Eames famously noted, “Eventually everything connects — people, ideas, objects… the quality of the connections is the key to quality per se.” For more about I, Pencil, visit http://www.ipencilmovie.org
Best of all, you can play with me... from anywhere in the world! Play Together Invite friends and family to control Romo from anywhere in the world, using a simple, private URL invite. Grandparents can play hide-and-seek with grandkids! Evolving Behaviors Help Romo grow. The more you use him, the more he learns. Unlock new featu...
Companies like Apple are making design impossible for startups to ignore. Startups like Path, Airbnb, Square, and Massive Health have design at the core of their business, and they're doing phenomenal work. But what is ‘design’ actually? Is it a logo? A Wordpress theme? An innovative UI? For his love for startups Wells Riley created startups...
Art and design studio Universal Everything created this animated digital sculpture in a commission for Hyundai Motors. ‘Made by Humans’ is the first in a series of 18 video sculptures that will be released over the next few weeks in Hyundai’s Vision Hall, South Korea. The project emphasises the importance of capturing the human spi...
One of Japan's most stunning displays of light called Winter Illuminations at Nabana no Sato, a botanical garden turned light theme park on the island of Nagashima in Kuwana. The park really outdoes itself by using millions of sparkling LED lights all over the vast grounds including on the water and in the gardens. This year's theme is "nature" ...
Dubbed "the world's smartest LED bulb," the new Philips hue is an iOS application-controlled lightbulb that will be available only in Apple retail stores. The hue app also features what Philips has called "LightRecipes," which are four pre-programmed lighting settings based on the company's research regarding the biological effects that lighting...
Discover new images by exploring the Kuvva collection or by checking out our featured artists. If you like an image, preview it as your lock screen or homepage. Love the image? Download it to your iPhone photo album and set it as your lock or home screen. You can share the images you really love using Twitter and Facebook. It's that easy....
The Consumer Barometer is a global effort by IAB Europe in partnership with TNS Infratest and Google to quantify the role of online in the consumer journey from research to purchase. To better understand this journey, the Consumer Barometer provides insight into past purchase behaviors and, as well as a perspective on how consumers interact with...
We are joining the movement! We love this start-up and love the Dutch connection: The founders, New York & the first artist they selected is Dutch-Brazilian artist Rafaël Rozendaal (which we follow with great interest). WHAT Simply put, Times Square Art Square (TSAS) is looking to stage the world's largest public art exhibition inside t...
'Art Games' boldly transforming some of the most famous objects at the Louvre into digital masterpieces. The Mona Lisa appears on an iPad. Large-scale history paintings become the backgrounds on computer desktops. Sculptures hold iPhones. Bas-reliefs become the Photoshop canvas attached to a tablet as a guest scrawls a layer of graffiti on top. ...
Cinemagram, a free iOS app that creates animated “cines,” lets users add filters and apply effects to clips before animating. The result is a GIF file the company calls “part-photo and part-video.” As the popularity of photography apps continues to rise on mobile platforms, people are finding creative new ways to share special mom...
Hop is a suitcase that follows the user. Represents the next generation of luggage, the following. The suitcase contains three receivers that are able to receive, identify and triangulate different signals coming from the user's cell phone. A microcontroller interprets these signals calculating the phone's position regarding to the suitcase. The...
Wow! Mark, I hope you're are reading this because there is an "old kid" on the block. And her name is Myspace, founded in 2003 which is a year earlier then Facebook, and they are about to launch their new Myspace. And we like what we see! Above all, wich is the most important, the UX is great: Visual & Focused. They use the full potential of ...
To promote the online radio platform Coca-Cola.FM in Brazil, agency JWT turned a magazine into an amplifier.
MARBLES are large colored moulded shapes which interact with people via sound, light and color. Each MARBLE contains LEDs and smart sensors that instinctively respond to human touch, changing their mood from 'bored' to 'excited'. MARBLES are also able to multiply these interactions between themselves, communicating with each other. ...
With a running time of less than three minutes the film Lost Memories makes a powerful comment on digital versus analog living as well as the nature of memories—especially when they are all tweeted, blogged or committed to a digital archive somewhere.
A friendly visual match between two cities told by a lover of Paris wandering through NewYork. Details, clichés, contradictions : This way, please.
A very modern and amazing traffic crosswalk in central Germany that allows you to play a game of pong with someone on the other side of the street while waiting for the light to change.
The 'Water Light Graffiti' is a surface made of thousands of LED illuminated by the contact of water. You can use a paintbrush, a water atomizer, your fingers or anything damp to sketch a brightness message or just to draw. Water Light Graffiti is a wall for ephemeral messages in the urban space without deterioration. A wall to communicate and s...
Facebook check-ins are a powerful mechanism for businesses to deliver discounts to loyal customers, yet few businesses—and fewer customers—have realized it. A search for businesses with active deals in our area turned up a measly six offers. The odds we’ll ever be at one of those six spots are low (a strip club and photography studio among...
Sport is the ultimate game, and athletes are the ultimate players. Nike introduces a whole new training platform. Measure your score against your self, against your friends, against the world. The more you play, the better you get. The world is your playground. Nowadays, we quite often find ourselves complaining about how there’s never ...
Like any other map, The Internet map is a scheme displaying objects’ relative position; but unlike real maps (e.g. the map of the Earth) or virtual maps (e.g. the map of Mordor), the objects shown on it are not aligned on a surface. Mathematically speaking, The Internet map is a bi-dimensional presentation of links between websites on the Inte...
Readymag allows you to create, publish and discover truly amazing webzines. Readymag is based on three pillars... Constructor Everything is a Widget Keeping this idea in mind we've created an amazingly simple &easy-to-use instrument, and it is this idea that helped us to take a fresh look at what the modern web application can be. ...
A short futuristic film that show what our world can look like when our eyes are connected to 'TheWorld'. This is a graduation project by Eran May-raz and Daniel Lazo for the Bezaleal academy of arts.
Normally we don't show every showreel we come across, but if the ones & zeros are so good we make an exception. Animal has been busy the past year, it's nice to see some of their blood sweat and tears in the form of a flashy little reel. We like it. You will too. Samples include our directoral work, visual effects & animation, color, finishi...
In this beautiful animation you can watch 60 years of F1 design condensed into a minute. Each car is the winning chassis from the respective seasons. Made by Rufus Blacklock & the music is 'Together' by She. The steering wheels over time... And the full infographic tracks the history of F1 cars across the circuit at Monza...
Nowadays, social media is literally everywhere and is so varied that it’s quite easy to find the one (or many) that suits your needs. And when you think that you have it all set, another option appears out of nowhere. This time it’s called Wander and it asks you to share “the places you’ve been and the places you dream of - all t...
Google Fiber starts with a connection speed 100 times faster than today's average broadband. Instant downloads. Crystal clear HD. And endless possibilities. It's not just TV. And it's not just Internet. It's Google Fiber. The next chapter of the Internet starts here. Google Fiber starts with Internet speeds 100 times faster than what ...
Better late than never: TheWorldIsOn is now mobile friendly! Get the same experience & design only optimized for your small screen. We also made it webapp enabled so you can add it to you homescreen of your mobile device. Enjoy en route!
Paper was designed from the ground up for touch and creating on the go. It keeps you in the flow with no fussy buttons, settings or other distractions. Paper works the way you think, like a familiar notebook or journal. Have all of your ideas with you in one place.
Chrome launched in September 2008, and its journey has been filled with inspiring & beautiful achievements of developers using the modern web. Google is just getting started though, and we can't wait to see where you take things next!
The internet is incredible. It powers our lives everyday. It allows us to explore the world without leaving our homes. It gives us access to infinite information. But all this magic is invisible to us. Until now. The web has evolved from simple text pages to rich, interactive applications. Google developed Chrome from the ground up as ...
Like the best TEDTalks, TED Books are personal and provocative, and designed to spread great ideas. TED Books are typically under 20,000 words — long enough to unleash a powerful narrative, but short enough to be read in a single sitting. We like! Download the free iOS app from the App Store here.
@StanleyPiano makes his worldwide debut at Seattle's Capitol Hill Block Party. Stanley is a precocious instrument who takes song requests via Twitter. Stanley can play a lot of songs, but he loves indie music. He even went out of his way to learn a song for each of the bands playing at the Block Party. Stanley bares all as his moving parts (gear...
What should the online services of a bank look like nowadays to meet the clients needs? At ABN AMRO they strive to optimize their services. Therefore they launched their new website! Wecanbeheroes was asked to think about what the (online) service nowadays should look like. Based on customer insights, Wecanbeheroes developed the concept & de...
Stratocam, designed by ex-Google employee Paul Rademacher, takes Google's aerial photography and allows visitors to up-vote or down-vote user-submitted 'finds'.
Sound and imagined ink exploring Supercollider generative sound algorithms. The author is grateful to Alberto de Campo, Julian Rohrhuber and James McCartney for the inspiration on some Supercollider algorithms. Major noise sounds were recorded in a custom made software, developed in Processing, using an EEG interface, doing brain signal analy...
For quite some time, publishing companies thought they were safe from the digital tidal wave that ruined the music industry and is now threatening Hollywood studios. Our fondness, as readers, for the printed format and the reputation of old, well-established publishers was supposed to protect writers and those who work hard to publish them. Yet,...
This is the latest project of Pieter Henket. In 'Just a thought', starring Thekla Reuten & Thomas Acda, he uses his signature of photography but now putting the time dimension (back) in the mix. We say back in the mix because his love for pictures started when he left for New York in 1999 to study at the Film Academy there. However, his fascinat...
Dev Harlan has used that versatility to show that no matter how much we see of it, there’s still plenty of room to be awed by what can be achieved. His stunning light sculpture Parmenides I, which formed part of his solo exhibition “The Astral Flight Hangar” at Christopher Henry Gallery in New York, is a beautiful, fluctuating sculpture t...
This piece is the first one, japanese New York based artist, Yoshi Sodeoka made with his music partner Daron Murphy. It was actually premiered at the New Psychedelica at MU in the Netherlands this spring. It’s a lot mellower piece than what Yoshi usually makes. It’s sort of channeling Miles Davis. And Yoshi thinks it’s still got that in...
Architectural photography is often biased towards a certain composition, usually one featuring the tyranny of shortened perspectives and vanishing lines, giving a stylized but slightly inaccurate visual of the room or building it’s portraying. So why not take this skewed perspective and generate something entirely new from it? A project fr...
These Batman and Robin Nikes are just the latest set of custom kicks from Brass Monki (featured previously), which is actually just the trade name for Daniel Reese, one very enterprising and super-talented 22 year old from the outskirts of Liverpool, England. But we suspect that if he keeps putting out stuff like this, he’ll probably find ...
Utilising cutting edge techniques and taking advantage of market-leading expertise, Digital Life offers both a lens on the digital world and the frameworks required to make actionable business decisions within it. It can be used to drive global strategies or inform local tactics. Just see it for yourself >> What is unique about...
In bed with his wife, Mad Men's Don Draper reads The Best of Everything — Rona Jaffe's 1958 chick-lit classic about women trying to make it in the office world. Before getting into bed with his Jewish client, he reads Leon Uris's Exodus. And before he gets into bed with anyone in the second season — literary spoiler alert! — Draper is s...
In line with everything that has been discussed so far in the Brainwaves, brands are moving from a static to a more dynamic presence. My strong belief is that once a brand is given a LivingLogo, the brand has made the first step in becoming a living organism. In the figure above you can see the spectrum of different types of logos. The more ...
I found this great ad again during some research. Still loving it!BMW premium selection: a great way to name and advertise your used cars!
A new approach to strategy driven branding by combining multiple sources of intelligence. See it as a collaborative cooking session together with top chefs. Cooking brands in this kitchen involves all your senses. More info? see this post.
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