Unhappy Customers Want to Parachute From Adobe’s Creative Cloud
From Wired/Enterprise.com: Adobe’s move to the Creative Cloud isn’t sitting well with all of its customers. Over 5,000 of them have now signed a Change.org petition calling on the company to keep selling packaged software. The blowback started on Monday when Adobe said that it will no longer sell new versions of its Creative Suite […]
Memoto Camera Logs Your Life
From MIT Technology Review: [Video] Logging Life with a Lapel Camera A startup believes people will want a photographic record of their lives, taken at 30-second intervals. “We want to provide people with a perfect photographic memory,” says Martin Källström, CEO of Memoto. His startup is creating a tiny clip-on camera that takes a picture […]
What your Mac keyboard would look like if it was buried for a hundred years
After the excavation, everybody attending the 2113 meeting of the World Anthropology Association discussed what they’d found. It was a century-old midden pit, full of Apple devices from the days before the company had gotten into biological devices and cloning kits. Maico Akiba is an artist and illustrator in Japan who has created an entire […]
If Payphones Survive, Will They Look Like This?
From Mashable.com: When was the last time you used a phone booth to make a call? Odds are, not for several years at least. So are all of those city phone booths rendered useless, relics of a bygone era? Not necessarily — they might just need a bit of a makeover. Late last year, New […]
Images from a century of medical propaganda
Health, history, and design collide at the National Library of Medicine. The US National Library of Medicine is much more than a library about medicine. Founded in 1836, the Maryland-based NLM is home to the world’s largest collection of biomedical resources, including old books, videos, and scientific studies. It also houses a fascinating online collection […]
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Astronauts articulate some of the life-changing feelings brought up by their experience of space
Apollo and Shuttle/International Space station astronauts, as well as philosophers, talk about the haunting “overview effect” of seeing the Earth from space.
What Adobe Creative Suite’s Move to the Cloud Actually Means for You
By Adam Dachis from LifeHacker.com: Adobe Photoshop, along with all other Creative Suite applications, just made a move to the cloud. Adobe decided to discontinue software you can actually buy so they can force you to rent the applications for a monthly fee. This change comes with a number of problems but also some advantages. […]
Digital copies of The Hydra, magazine of Craiglockhart, the Edinburgh hospital where WWI poets Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon met
The Hydra was a journal written by patients at Craiglockhart, a World War I hospital in Edinburgh, Scotland. The hospital was for both officers and enlisted men suffering from “shell-shock” — what we’d now call Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder — with a variety of causes and symptoms. Patients included poets Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon. The institution […]
Cook. Charge. Go.: BioLite
By Rachel Martin from DesignEnvy/AIGA: An innovative business that converts waste heat into electricity—and integrates environment, people, economy and culture from The Living Principles for Design framework—is BioLite. BioLite, headquartered in Brooklyn, New York, was founded by Jonathan Cedar and Alex Drummond and has received numerous awards for their innovative CampStove. What’s so great about […]
Is Adobe making a mistake by moving to a subscription-only model?
From Lifehacker.com: Adobe announced the end of their Creative Suite software, instead choosing to focus on their Adobe Creative Cloud subscription service. CS6 is the last version you can buy and download, and if you want access to tools like Photoshop and Illustrator in the future, you’ll need a subscription to get them. Adobe says […]
Late Arrivals, Goldfish, and Guinea Pigs: Unofficial Soldiers’ Clubs of WWII
From Slate.com‘s history blog, the Vault: During World War II, soldiers serving in Allied armies formed several exclusive clubs honoring troops who survived harrowing ordeals. Though unofficial, these clubs offered a morale boost to their members, as well as to other soldiers, as proof that survival—against all odds—was possible. The Caterpillar Club, which was first […]
Will Google Glass be a commercial failure because you look like an idiot using it?
By Matthew Yglesias from Slate.com: Marcus Wohlsen wrote what I think is a fairly persuasive piece arguing that Google Glass will be a commercial failure because you look like an idiot using it. My good friend Tom Lee calls Wohlsen’s piece “truly awful” and goes on to write a fairly persuasive piece about the importance […]
Gorgeous Concept Designs for Underwater Cities
While some pieces of conceptual architecture guide out imagine toward distant planets, others plunge us into the depths of the ocean. These underwater cities concepts, dreamed up by illustrators, architects, and designers, imagine the sorts of structures we might inhabit beneath the watery surfaces. Syph, Australia A collection of specialised organisms function as a whole, […]
Submit your name and a haiku poem to be sent into Mars orbit on the MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution Mission) spacecraft
Who can submit a name and where will it go? Anybody on planet Earth is welcome to participate! However, to create a log-in you must be 18 or older. If you are under 18 and you would like to enter, please ask your parent or teacher for help. Your name will be written to a […]
Book Cover Warfare
Goggle Glass: Your Body Does Not Want to Be an Interface
By John Pavlus from MIT Technology Review: The first real-world demo of Google Glass’s user interface made me laugh out loud. Forget the tiny touchpad on your temples you’ll be fussing with, or the constant “OK Glass” utterances-to-nobody: the supposedly subtle “gestural” interaction they came up with–snapping your chin upwards to activate the glasses, in […]
xkcd: AirAware is the new drone technology
THE BEST COMIC EVER.
Baratunde Thurston and Brian Janosch Discuss Their New Web Series about Crowdfunding
From Slate.com. Baratunde Thurston is former director of digital for The Onion and the author of How to Be Black. Brian Janosch is currently writer-at-large at The Onion. Slate spoke with them about their new web series, Funded, which tells the stories of small businesses that have used crowdfunding to get off the ground. Slate: What’s the idea behind Funded? Baratunde Thurston: We—meaning Cultivated Wit, a company I helped […]
How Pretty Pictures Are Conquering Online Shopping
For its first 15 years, online shopping consisted mainly of typing words into search engines. Sellers would jockey for top position in the results, and buyers were at the mercy of search-ranking algorithms. That text-driven model of e-commerce is slowly but surely beginning to change, giving way to a more visual form of shopping, in […]
Incredible Pictures of Early Science Labs
From io9.com: [Full article]
Researchers Put Sense of Touch in Reach for Robots
By John Markoff from the New York Times. (Scroll down for video.) Finding and recognizing objects by touch in your pocket, in the dark or among items on a cluttered table top are distinctly human skills — ones that have been far beyond the ability of even the most dexterous robotic arms. Rodney Brooks, a […]
Install Google Fonts on Windows or Mac for Faster Web Browsing
Windows/OS X: Google is now offering a convenient way to download Google Fonts, its 1,000+ collection of free, open-source fonts, to your desktop. Not only will your downloaded fonts sync to Google, they’ll also help load websites faster if they use those fonts. Although there are other ways to download Google Fonts to your computer, […]
Penguin Books has released new covers of five of George Orwell’s works
My personal opinion about the cover of Nineteen Eighty-Four: Beautiful conceptual design with its “redacted” look, but the type isn’t visible except when held in your hand, so the effect is completely lost on a bookstore shelf or online. By Mark Sinclair from CreativeReview: Brand new covers for five of George Orwell’s works feature in […]
Infographic: The 7 Types of Digital Marketers
Which are you? The Data Whiz, the e-Artiste, the Social Media Master, the Beta Tester, the Marketing Megaphone, the Old School Advertiser or the Snarky Marketer? Infographic by Optify.
Perspective
By Whitevinyl: Here is today: Wednesday, 1 May, 2013 [Interactive art]
IBM Manipulates Atoms to Create the ‘World’s Smallest Movie’
By Pete Pachal from Mashable.com: IBM has created a short film where the actors are actually individual atoms. A Boy and His Atom would be just like any number of unremarkable animated shorts were it not for the fact that it’s only visible if you use a microscope that enlarges the action by 100 million times. […]