Ever since I read their Pro-Am report, Demos became one of my favourites knowledge references. The latest report of the UK based think tank, elaborates on why Brazil earned its letter at the ubiquitous acronym BRIC.
Some numbers on scientific research are quite interesting. I’m still sceptical, but I must say it does feed my optimism.
Add comment August 2nd, 2008 posted by nako
Design Mind is a new (and worth reading) design magazine around, edited by Frog Design. Really interesting article on China’s mobile market. Lately I’ve been dodging from design specific reading, but seems like finally Monocle has a company in my library.
Add comment July 21st, 2008 posted by nako
It’s worth checking the winners of I.D. Mag. No surprises on best product: iPhone.
My favourite was definitely The Datum Line by JWT New York (Greg Matson and Phil Arias, creative team).
Brilliant idea: for a night, corporations instead of keeping their massive high-rise buildings with all lights on, they would leave just the 8th floor. That’s where the sea level would rise up to if Antartica and Greenland ice sheets would melt.
Add comment July 8th, 2008 posted by nako
Rolando is a cute iPhone/iPod Touch game developed by Simon Oliver (under the name Hand Circus). I was at his lecture at the last This Happened and I must say it was impressive for everyone around. Thumbs up! Btw, I should have asked why the latin name!
Reminder via ComputerLove, posted by Chris O’Shea by the way :)
Add comment July 2nd, 2008 posted by nako
It gets complex, but I like it. Hyperwords is a neat Firefox plug-in that makes pretty much everything into a link. You can select a word, a sentence, you can opt to go straight to a Wikipedia entry or even translate a block of text (with the usual crap translation though), keeping the new text in the page layout (probably caching an html and editing it on the fly). The initial setting is quite annoying – it replaces your toolbar and make any selection call the plug-in – but you can push it to the background and only opt to call it with a shortcut key.
Funny, found it via old media: Rummaging through the internet - The Economist.
Add comment June 19th, 2008 posted by nako
Fleet Foxes @ ULU…a day to remeber… possibly my best concert of the year so far.
video by raggedwords
Add comment June 13th, 2008 posted by antonio pedro
Stop motion has been more used than ever. Perhaps it’s because other technologies just bore our eyes; everything is pretty much possible nowadays. I’ve been looking at so many examples these day which made me remember Willian Kentridge’s animations and drawings. This south-african artist is really inspiring.
Add comment May 14th, 2008 posted by daniel
Tip from Piloto
MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo.
Add comment May 14th, 2008 posted by info
The article at Wired describe exactly my feelings:
“Ready to taste envy? To burn with regret? Meet Paddy Donnelly and Lee Munroe. They’re selling words at a buck per letter.”
Simple, sarcastic, self-sustainable (well, not sure if there is some level of moderation), and the money flows in. The Big Word Project is a new dictionary which let’s you own the mean of a specific word, paying US$ 1 for each letter. Similar to The Million Dollar Page which sold each pixel for US$1, this project is more clever (define clever?) and for sure more ambiguous: they could get way more than a million. Just during the time I’ve monitored it (well, yep, I am working), they managed to sell 30 words over a couple of hours.
1 comment May 13th, 2008 posted by nako