It’s just a concept at this stage, but Clayton Miller’s 10/GUI project is getting people’s attention. It proposes a way multi-touch might work in the desktop scenario – detached from the screen, like a giant trackpad, or tablet. It’s hard to see it working perfectly, or being as universally applicable as the trusty mouse, but [...]
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Media convergence XPLANEd
by Grant on 16 September 2009 in Design, Geeky
XPLANE are well known for their clarity-causing diagrams and illustrations. It’s nice to see them branching out into motion graphics like this one for The Economist’s Media Convergence conference.
The Crisis of Credit Visualized
by Grant on 23 February 2009 in Design
This is so well done. From now on whenever I hear someone talking about the credit crisis I’ll think of these diagrams. Also available in HD.
Introducing makeitshareit.com
by Grant on 23 August 2008 in Design, Fun
Over the past few months I’ve been plugging away at a new project of mine called Make it Share it. It’s a website that lets you easily make a drawing or animation and put it up your own website, blog or profile page. I’ve worked on a few personal and client projects in the past [...]
Graffiti that makes things cleaner
by Grant on 18 June 2008 in Design
“By removing the soot and grime from public spaces to create the outlines of nature, Moose makes a poignant statement about pollution in urban spaces and our reversal of the natural world.” From threeminds. Thx to John for the link.
The rise of 3D interfaces
by Grant on 16 June 2008 in Design, Flash, UI and UX
EcoZoo is a recent addition to an increasingly long line of impressive 3D interactives appearing online. Most of these have been made possible with performance and rendering advances in the Flash Player and 3D libraries such as PaperVision3D which have popped up to take advantage of them. What interests me is that it wasn’t that [...]
Latest concept car from BMW has flexible “skin”
by Grant on 13 June 2008 in Design
Practical? no. Cool? hell yes!
I am loving ScrnShots
by Grant on 12 June 2008 in Design
Bookmarks are great, but because sites are changing all the time they’re no good for capturing the design of a page or element. Over the years I’ve played with lots of different way to capture and keep screenshots. Flickr was working well for me for a while but it’s too slow and cumbersome. Last week [...]
Fake houseplants with solar cells
by Grant on 5 June 2008 in Design
There’s something incredibly sad but awesome about this.
