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Marc Newson Documentary

the idea collector — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 00:35:24 +0000

This BBC documentary on industrial designer Marc Newson offers great insight into his creative and production processes. It is available in 5 parts on youTube:

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One New Typeface Everyday

the idea collector — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 16:23:10 +0000

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 likely end in tears and embarrassment for myself.

I will not convert any of these to real fonts as I have neither the time nor the knowledge.

For the true-blue typography geeks who are ATypI members and are deeply offended by my blunders, I am quite sorry and you should feel free to hurl insults and old issues of Emigre.

Please let me know if you want to use any of these in a project, I would be honored. It is very likely I will give permission in exchange for a copy of the final piece. See the About section for more details, or contact me.

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Space Collective

the idea collector — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 01:17:35 +0000

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 and Ray Eames’ “Powers of Ten” used in the intro of the SpaceCollective video:

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I Love Sketch

the idea collector — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 08:30:31 +0000

ILoveSketch from Seok-Hyung Bae on Vimeo.

Described as an “As-natural-as-possible sketching system for creating 3D curve models,” three students at the University of Toronto have developed the most interesting 3D design interface I have seen in a long time. They call it “I Love Sketch.” One of the things that makes this application so compelling is the way the software behaves just as a designer would expect it to; anticipating things such as intended sketch planes, gesture recognition, auto-generating symmetric curves.
They are presenting their paper (pdf) on day 2 of the 2008 ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology.

A 3D curve sketching system that captures some of the affordances of pen and paper for professional designers, allowing them to iterate directly on concept 3D curve models. The system coherently integrates existing techniques of sketch-based interaction with a number of novel and enhanced features. Novel contributions of the system include automatic view rotation to improve curve sketchability, an axis widget for sketch surface selection, and implicitly inferred changes between sketching techniques. We also improve on a number of existing ideas such as a virtual sketchbook, simplified 2D and 3D view navigation, multi-stroke NURBS curve creation, and a cohesive gesture vocabulary.

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Wired Magazine Turns 15

the idea collector — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 17:26:29 +0000

Kevin Kelly is a fountain of great ideas. In celebration of Wired magazine’s 15th birthday, here are some of his thoughts.

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