Posted by KSD Designs on Saturday, January 15, 2011,
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Advertising
Can cars play the drums?
Apparently, they can- with a little help from mathematics. Lexus' ad campaign "Music Track" wanted to convey the car's "precision handling" by driving over each beat of a drum so precisely, it created a tune.
In order to convey this kind of precision, they needed to hire a mathematician to develop a method for the car to perfectly hit each note. LMU math professor Bennett designed an equation to determine how far apart to place the sensors to conduct the "beat". Check ... Continue reading ...
Posted by KSD Designs on Thursday, January 13, 2011,
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Design
Super awesome creativity.
To build excitement around the 2nd Generation Intel® Core™ i5 processor, Intel is launching an action-adventure video titled "The Chase." The spot demonstrates the performance capabilities of the new processors by creating an action-movie style chase sequence that takes place through a wide variety of program windows on a computer desktop.
Posted by KSD Designs on Tuesday, January 11, 2011,
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Photography
"I thought I could shoot people on the street the way designers looked
at people, and get and give inspiration to lots of people in the
process" - The Sartorialist
The Sartorialist gives new meaning to street photography by shooting well dressed people on the streets of NYC, Milan, to Paris using a canon 5d and 50mm f 1.8 lens. Check out his blog here.
Posted by KSD Designs on Saturday, January 8, 2011,
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Advertising
The new year brings new opportunity and new innovations. The presentation highlights some of the coolest things to arrive in 2011. I'll be looking out for #1, #17, #98, #35 which are ones that could revolutionize advertising and web.
Posted by KSD Designs on Friday, January 7, 2011,
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Advertising
Advertising has been the obvious way of monetizing web companies. Check out this presentation which shows 10 innovative ideas to monetize a web company. It features examples from Groupon, Spotify, and PatientsLikeMe. Enjoy!
Posted by KSD Designs on Friday, January 7, 2011,
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Infographics
Daytum is an App developed by Ryan Case and Nicholas Felton that allows you to collect information about you day to create infographics. The App just launched this month, check it out.
Posted by KSD Designs on Wednesday, January 5, 2011,
In :
Design
Starbucks started the new year off by reinventing their logo to a more minimalistic look. What's missing from the design? The company decided to strip the logo of the Starbuck's name. Take a look at the design as Howard Schultz explains the creative process:
Minimalism has been a trend for many corporate logos and packaging designs. Check out some others here.
Legos are used to recreate famous photographs including this one of Tienanmen Square. View this NPR post about the explosion of creative lego art using video and other media.
