Task: Find 5 examples of products that appeal to you from a design perspective and post images and descriptions of them. Discuss the elements that make them appealing to you. Be specific.
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Over a Month Ago
Over a Month Ago
It has been far too long since the last post on this blog. Largely due to other aspects of Per and my lives, the updates have slipped by the wayside. In an attempt to revitalize the use of this space, we have made a decision to change it’s direction slightly.
I will be taking a course on speculative design in which one required element is blog posts. Since the content of the course is somewhat inline to what has been posted on intwo in the past, I will be updating intwo with the required posts for the class. As always, discussion is very welcome, we would love to hear what you have to think about the material posted.
Over a Month Ago
Grids are a designers best friend. Trusting, working with, and breaking the grid are all things that you should be familiar with if you are doing communication design. In most graphics programs it is easy to set this up and there are many different ways to do it. When working with the web, though, there are not as many commonly known tools to achieve the pixel perfect results that you want.
Over a Month Ago
It was probably two years ago that I stumbled across Folkert Gorter. I found him because I liked the work that he did, but I bookmarked his site for another reason. One of the sites in his body of work was named SpaceCollective. I clicked on the link and found a glowing orb with the words “Coming Soon”. When I provoked the orb with my mouse it subtly changed to reveal a log in form. I thought that this was quite peculiar.
Over a Month Ago
Things used to be easy and unambiguous. You found advertisements in magazines and on billboards, art in galleries and museums, and people expressing themselves by means of graffiti and defacing of private/public property was thought of as a nuisance by most. This is an oversimplification, but bear with me.
Over the years, as the urban environment got denser, it also got more cluttered with ads, and street art took on a new poignancy and presence. Today, anyone in an urban environment is subjected to thousands of commercial advertisements, but also non-commercial messages per day.
Over a Month Ago
A while back, I made a post about crowdsourcing, an internet buzzword that identifies the productive path of online networking. Recently, I stumbled upon CrowdSpring, a site set up to align creatives with clients. It is providing a great entry for any designer or client that wants to get involved with a creative endeavor.
Over a Month Ago
A band called Francis and the Lights has made a video for their song The Top. I really appreciate the simplicity of the video and so I thought I would share.
They are led by Francis Farewell Starlite. They have sold out the Mercury Lounge twice. Their short record A Modern Promise is now available at amodernpromise.com, where Francis performs his song The Top on 35mm film.Video After the jump.
Over a Month Ago
With this post, I send many apologies for the time between this and the last post. I hope you won’t hold a grudge. A great friend of mine sent me this video a couple of days ago thinking that it would be good for a discussion, and I agree. What I find most interesting about this concept is:
Over a Month Ago
As a science, creating robotics that are self aware is a field that is on the verge of creating artificial intelligence. Hod Lipson has a great TED talk in which he introduces two robotic experiments that touch on self awareness and evolution. One is a four legged machine that becomes self aware and teaches itself to walk. It is a fascinating and somewhat scary thought that we can create machines that have an understanding of a goal and not only have the means to reach the goal, but have the means to teach themselves to reach the goal.
Over a Month Ago
![muto animation by blu [blublu.org]](http://intwo.ca/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/muto-tape.jpg)
This animated short by street artist Blu, was drawn on public walls in Buenos Aires. Needless to say, this animation technique has a lot of constraints, and the result is organic and jawdropping. The theme reminds me of the fractal bubbling infinity of life. Go full-screen on this one, and turn on your sound.
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