And a lot of people think of design, when they hear the word design as visual, something that looks pretty.
Design is not just visual, design is efficiency. Design is making something simple. Design is epic. Design is making it easy for a user to get from point A to point B.”-jack dorsey, cofounder of Twitter.
Jack Dorsey comparing design to the Golden Gate Bridge.
Posted by KSD Designs on Monday, February 7, 2011,
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Photography
Watch this "Desert Motion" video and you'll never guess that it was created from still images. The photographer took still images over Canyon de Chelly National Monument in Arizona and Arches National Park in Utah and manipulated them using Photoshop CS5 and Apple Motion to create what looks like a soaring nature video. Superb and creative.
Posted by KSD Designs on Thursday, February 3, 2011,
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Art
Exploring museums just got easier as you can virtually view paintings via Art Project by Google. It works much like Google maps only for the inside of museums, allowing you to navigate each gallery and explore artist's work from multiple museums at a glance.
Check out this video.
It's the next best thing to visiting a museum in person as you can zoom in on paintings to see every detail.
See if you can guess which painting this image is from:
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 Kristen Schoeck on Saturday, November 20, 2010,
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Architecture
It's high tech. It's revolutionary. It's multi-sensory.
It's called architectural projection mapping and it has been popping up at major events all over the globe. Here is a look at four events that used architectural mapping as part of their display this year:
St Petersburg kicked off their Yota Space festival with a show by production company Drive.
Ralph Lauren transformed their London boutique into an architectural wonder to dazzle the crowd.
Posted by Kristen Schoeck on Tuesday, October 19, 2010,
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Advertising
Just when you thought that printers couldn't get any cooler, view the making of the Canon Pixma Campaign. Sound frequencies were used to create paint sculptures.
View the video in its entirety, and find more pictures here.
The campaign was created by agency Wieden + Kennedy and went viral instantly. How? Take a look at the recipe for success:
1. the freedom that the writers were allowed enabled them to upload new videos in real time- the anticipation of a new video made viewers want to keep watching what was coming next.
2. the personalization of interacting with real people on twitter. - although unlikely t... Continue reading ...
Posted by Kristen Schoeck on Monday, June 28, 2010,
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Advertising
The making of the Sony Bravia commercial: 170,000 bouncy balls are launched through the streets of San Francisco:
This commercial highlights the most important quality that customers look for when purchasing a TV: color. The creative team highlights color as the main focus of the ad by dropping bouncy balls of every color down the streets of San Francisco. The fact that no CGI or special effects were used to create the imagery makes it an ad like no other.
Posted by Kristen on Thursday, January 28, 2010,
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Art
He's a painter, but he doesn't use an easel or paint.
Jorge Colombo uses the iPhone, his fingertips, and the Brushes app to create fine quality paintings that have graced the cover of the New Yorker. The Brushes app works a bit like Photoshop, only it is a portable paint studio. Now, as Apple unveils the iPad in stores, the canvas is much larger and could possibly revolutionize the art world.
New Yorker
Painting "iPod Brushes air" instead of "Plein air".
