Posts Tagged ‘Design’

Good Idea: Designing for Multiple Screens

(source: locamoda.com)
Content has changed. It’s no longer the passive programming of years past. Thanks to new-and rapidly fragmenting–media channels, today’s audiences demand interactive, personal and customized experiences.
I’m not just talk…

time tuner clock: analog face, digital brain

Istanbul-based Antrepo design industry took the classic analog radio tuner and gave it a sleek makeover with the time tuner alarm clock.

Instead of frequencies, the scale on the clock’s face has the hour marks arranged in a line. Keeping with the th…

The REK Bookcase Grows to Accommodate Your Collection [Bookcase]

Like the Platzhalter bookshelf I discussed yesterday, the REK features an ingenious design that is both visually interesting and practical for those who accumulate a lot of books.

Instead of splitting down the middle like the Platzhalter, the REK expands and collapses like an accordion to eliminate negative space on the shelf. As you book collection grows, the shelves can be pulled apart in a configuration of your choosing. To be honest, I love the design—but if you have ever tried to move even a small bookshelf you know that trying to alter something this large when it is laden with books would probably be more trouble that it is worth. [Dezeen]


Making Second Hand Fashionable

Goodwill thrift shops are not just for strict bargain hunters anymore. Theyve witnessed an increase in sales as re-branding initiatives to change perceptions of the second hand emporiums have taken hold. Several Goodwill stores have begun advertisi…

Copypaste Character

Its annoying to have to google keyboard shortcuts or html code for special characters. This simple site ingeniously solves that problem. Its basically a list of special characters that you can copy as text or html. Ive been using it a lot lat…

Object-oriented futuring

Designer and researcher Julian Bleecker of The Near Future Laboratory and Nokia is currently airing some interesting ideas under the title “Design Fiction” (a Bruce Sterling coinage that t.s.f. readers may recall previously seeing here and here). In th…

Pic: Evolution of the Pepsi Logo

We got a little package from Pepsi today showing off their new can. But, what we liked best were all the other cans they sent along showing the evolution of the logo.

Jeff Squires for PSFK, 2008. |
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The Joyful Bewilderment.

New work by Marcus Walters. Hyper talented illustrator and designer Marcus Walters has new work featured in an upcoming exhibition along with work by a whole host of international image-makers and illustrators. The exhibition entitled The Joyful Bewil…

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