Letter Universe -> “The design:project” Budapest

Letter Universe Installation from Gregor Hofbauer on Vimeo.

This is a nice example of a projected typography project hosted by Mercedes-Benz at their “The design:project” (held in Budapest). What I like is the amount of depth in the projection as different letters float about the screen, transforming colors, assembling, disassembling and then drifting off once again. [...]

Design Simplicity -> Shacklie Umbrella

In this week’s “Mac’s Petit Inventions: Unique Ways of Protecting” (Johnny Holland Magazine) post, Mac Funamizu displays his simple but genius Shacklie Umbrella design. I can relate to the inspiration behind this design because I have also lost many once loved umbrellas while out hopping around with friends on rainy NYC evenings. At least with [...]

OMGPOP.com -> Casual Gaming Social Net

OMGPOP is a casual gaming site formerly known as iminlikewithyou. You know the drill, sign up, create a profile chat and compete via multi-player games. This kind of gaming portal is not entirely new. Sites like candystand.com have been around for almost a decade now (which blows my mind b/c I worked on it for [...]

LED Powered ARS Electronica Museum -> Linz, Austria

lights on from thesystemis on Vimeo.

The Ars Electronica Museum in Linz, Austria is completely blanketed with 1085 LED powered windows. The lighting is composed and synced to music that plays on large outdoor loudspeakers. All together the effect creates a pulsating martian landing of sorts amongst Linz’s other river front architecture that I enjoy greatly. [...]

Humans Since 1982 -> Clock Sculpture

Above you see 24 separate analogue style clocks that have been programmed and combined to display as one large functioning digital clock. The real design genius is what is happening behind the scenes with the programming that controls each set of arms to emulate different parts of the digital read out. This to me is [...]

Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix/1901 -> Midweek Music Bump

I’ve started to post music every Wednesday in an effort to keep the week rolling (We’ll see how long this lasts). Here’s how I’ll call it out, “Band X -> Midweek Music Bump”. I’m pretty much doing it already, I may as well make it “a thing”. Right? I’m not looking to create a theme [...]

Artist -> Amy Bennett

Someday You'll Long for This, oil on canvas, 40 x 60 inches

Amy Bennett was born in Portland, Maine in 1977 and currently lives in Brooklyn NYC. Her work has a signature style to it that cuts through the art world clutter with ease. Her paintings are rendered from scale models that she builds from [...]

Tim Berners-Lee -> The Next Web

This is a must see for those who spend their days working on the ever transforming web. Tim Berners-Lee discusses his next project and provides knowledgeable foresight on the future of the web and linked data.

Notes from TED:

20 years ago, Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web. For his next project, he’s building a web [...]

InBflat.net -> A Darren Solomon Project

InBflat is an interactive/online music and spoken word experiment created by Darren Solomon from NYC based melodic electronica group Science for Girls. The 4×4 stack of videos act as an interactive keyboard of sorts. As you play and pause each YouTube video you add and remove the complexity of your composition. It’s actually a lot [...]

Volkan Ergen -> Beklemek 2

// BEKLEMEK 2 \\// EXPECT 2 // from VOLKAN ERGEN on Vimeo.

There is little information to be found on this art film, all I know is that it was filmed by Volkan Ergen in and around the city of Istanbul. I like the split screen effect and the well cropped scenery that sharpens and blurs [...]

Human Empire -> Graphic Design/Illustration Studio

Here’s a bit of Friday/EOW creative inspiration. I came across the above poster called “big brother’s watching you.” by Human Empire on one of my favorite design/trend blogs Yayeveryday.com. Human Empire is Hamburg based graphic design and illustration studio, started by Jan Kruse and Malte Kaune in 2003. Their work is playful, innovative and a [...]

Recession Powered Vending Machine -> Ellie Harrison

Vending Machine from Ellie Harrison on Vimeo.

I’m not exactly sure what to make of this but I’m still intrigued by it’s potential. I’m also a bit confused by the overall political message that this contraption sends me as well. Is that not the sign of true art? I’m not sure. This vending machine is powered [...]

TipSpot -> Mobile Social/Events Calendar

TipSpot introduction – Making sure you stay in the loop from TipSpot on Vimeo.

This mobile concept is not yet available and is currently being tested in private beta. Given the current times of the “iPhone app gold-rush” there are a lot of companies and start-ups out there trying to break through the clutter with similar [...]

D90 -> City Of Lights

D90 : City Of Lights from Prart™ on Vimeo.

This moody depiction of The City of Lights otherwise know as Paris was masterfully directed by Paul Rojanathara. The piece not only showcases some of the beautifully lit architecture found in Paris it also pays tribute to all of the culturally diverse people who live there. The [...]

Spezify -> Visual Web Search Filter

For people like myself who prefer to learn, search and discover visually this is a pretty cool way of doing so for the web. Spezify aggregates all of your usual social media suspects, twitter, flickr, Yahoo, etc., and allows you to enlarge each topic of interest for more information. Just enter the topic of concern [...]