I’ve just been listening to Coldplay’s latest album “Viva la Vida” and reading some mixed reviews, most of which I can’t help but agree with. One of the funniest has to be from Mark Beaumont from NME: Why is it that all major league UK rock bands end up turning into U2? Has Bono personally [...]
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!
R2D2 Projector: Surely the coolest geek gadget ever
by Grant on 13 June 2008 in Fun, Geeky
I know it’s wrong, but I actually felt my body ache for this the first time I saw the video of it in action. Screw the iPhone, if I had the spare cash I’d order this puppy immediately. If anyone can think of a cooler geek gadget then you gotta let me know about it.
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.
Ouch!
by Grant on 22 May 2008 in Design
People getting punched in the face in slow-mo. What’s not to love?
TimesMachine – Browse 70 years of NY Times archives
by Grant on 20 May 2008 in Design
Wow. It’s only available to home delivery subscribers at this stage but there’s some great previews available.
Web 2.0 and the end of advertising
by Grant on 19 May 2008 in Design
Read here. Well not the end really, but an interesting reminder about why ads don’t work that well for apps, and why the better (albeit harder) route is to connect buyers and sellers directly.
