Archive for January 2009

Rollins Interviews Shepard Fairey

In Discussions on 13 January 2009 tagged fundamentals, visionaries with View Comments

DIY/Punk icon Henry Rollins [official/wiki] interviews Shepard Fairey [official/wiki], creator of the OBEY Giant cultural phenomenon.

Lovegrove

In Discussions on 12 January 2009 tagged fundamentals, visionaries with View Comments

From 2005 – Ross Lovegrove talks in detail about his “D.N.A. – Design/Nature/Art” design philosophy at TED.

BUSH BASH // JANUARY 19th, 2009

In Services on 11 January 2009 tagged fundamentals, visionaries with View Comments

Lindsay Ballant who brought us Behind the Candidates (which I wrote about earlier) now brings us a fun idea to celebrate the departure of W: BUSH BASH // JANUARY 19th, 2009. HOW IT WORKS Post your party photos on Flickr, and be sure to tag them as “bushbash09″ or “bushbashparty”. Any of these will do, [...]

Lifehacker Posts their Top 10 CES and Macworld Announcements

In Discussions on 11 January 2009 tagged fundamentals, service, software, technology with View Comments

I don’t necessarily agree with all of these, but interesting nonetheless. 10. iLife/iWork new features and tweaks 9. Apple/Jobs won’t dominate Macworld anymore 8. Palm is back in the game 7. Built-in media streaming on TVs, DVD players 6. Better laptop batteries 5. Smarter voice-activated car systems 4. Wireless charging, for real 3. Picasa for [...]

Objectified

In Services on 7 January 2009 tagged fundamentals, visionaries with View Comments

Gary Hustwit, director of the documentary Helvetica is at it again. This time he looks at the oft hidden world of industrial design in a film called Objectified wherein he talks to the best industrial designers on the planet about what goes into creating a great product. The only information I could find on release [...]

Shape Search

In software, technology on 6 January 2009 with View Comments

Partbrowser allows you to search your 3D library using a rough 3D shape as a search query: PartBrowser – Browse-by-shape for CAD files from Andrew Sherlock on Vimeo. This technology will be REALLY interesting when we’re downloading 3D files and printing them at home.

Ideas About Innovation – Marissa Mayer at Stanford University

In fundamentals on 5 January 2009 with View Comments

Realtime Ridesharing – Optimizing Existing Automotive Infrastructure

In gps, service, software, technology on 4 January 2009 with View Comments

What if you could easily fill empty seats in cars on existing roadways? Avego is a good first step. Avego Shared Transport “Any car that travels while occupied only by a driver is inherently inefficient. And yet, 85% of the time, that’s how cars travel. With our use of iPhone GPS technology, web services and [...]

One New Typeface Everyday

In typography, visionaries on 3 January 2009 with View Comments

Christopher Papasadero of Fwis fame brings you one new typeface every day for the month of January, 2009. Type.fwis.com is for me to test myself and see if I can design a new typeface every day for 31 days. You will be able to critique me and download an EPS of the file. This will [...]

Space Collective

In science, technology, visionaries on 2 January 2009 with View Comments

SpaceCollective is a beautifully designed web community built to enable the exchange of ideas amongst forward-thinking visionaries. Rather than a standard “About this site” paragraph on a separate page, SpaceCollective has several videos at the top of the front page describing their mission and the site content. Here is the introduction video: Bonus video: Charles [...]