Probably old news, but I just discovered AIGA has published many of its lectures online as audio pod-casts.
Entries Tagged as 'TECHNOLOGY'
AIGA Podcasts
May 20th, 2008 No Comments
Tags: DESIGN · LECTURES · LETTERING · TECHNOLOGY · TYPOGRAPHY
Beats and Barcodes
April 7th, 2008 No Comments
Barcode Beats is a system that converts barcodes into music through an interpretation of the numbers on the barcodes.
Check out the video
Tags: MUSIC · TECHNOLOGY
Slice and Dice and Annotate Online Videos with Omnisio
April 2nd, 2008 No Comments
Bunch of Aussies moved to San fran to get on on the web app start ups…they have been living off nothing for the last 5 months and developing a new video web app which has already had a write up on the industry blog Techcrunch. check out Omnisio
Via Design Is Kinky
Tags: TECHNOLOGY · VIDEO
‘Augment’ Reality with ‘Videogame’ Contact Lenses
March 20th, 2008 No Comments
Today, a handful of soldiers with advanced gear can see a few digital maps, through helmet-mounted monocles. Some pilots can get data about their world, on heads-up displays. But one day, troops could see an info-”augmented” reality all around them, with contact lenses that provide “first-person shooter-type video game” environments to those that wear […]
Tags: TECHNOLOGY
for bikers: jacket turning signal
March 14th, 2008 No Comments
Leah Buechley designed this using LED’s and her self-developed wearable e-textile technology, LilyPad Arduino. The controls are located on the wrist.
Via swissmiss
Tags: DESIGN · FOUND THINGS · TECHNOLOGY
Apples Design Process
March 14th, 2008 No Comments
A Businessweek article reports on an interesting presentation at the SXSW conference by Apple senior engineering manager Michael Lopp. He describes Apple’s design approach in coming up with their products
Tags: DESIGN · TECHNOLOGY
Pic Lens
March 12th, 2008 No Comments
Download the PicLens plugin for Firefox and take your image searching full screen. A small button gets added to your browser bar and when you click it you get a beautiful fullscreen wall of the images on that page. You can even image search directly from PicLens by typing in the search field. The results […]
Tags: IMAGES · TECHNOLOGY
Design and the Elastic Mind
March 9th, 2008 No Comments
MoMA - February 24-May 12, 2008
In the past few decades, individuals have experienced dramatic changes in some of the most established dimensions of human life: time, space, matter, and individuality. Working across several time zones, traveling with relative ease between satellite maps and nanoscale images, gleefully drowning in information, acting fast in order to preserve […]
Tags: DESIGN · SHOWS · TECHNOLOGY
Frame That Spam! Data-Crunching Artists Transform the World of Information
March 5th, 2008 No Comments
Alex Dragulescu
Title: Spam Architecture
Software: Maya, Mel, PHP
Website: www.sq.ru
Dragulescu presses the spam he receives into service as a blueprint for digital sculptures. First a script breaks the message into chunks of text he calls tokens. Each token is assigned a value (based on the sum of its characters), which triggers different modeling operations-adding elements to the […]
Tags: DESIGN · FOUND THINGS · TECHNOLOGY
Newton Virus for Mac
March 5th, 2008 No Comments
The Newton Virus by Troika is a Mac ‘virus’ that turns on gravity on your desktop. Great video of it in action.
Via FormFiftyFive
Tags: TECHNOLOGY
Dual Boot Leopard & Tiger?
February 24th, 2008 No Comments
Has anyone tried this?
I have been running Leopard since its release. At first I hated it but after a few months of use, I can deal with the Bugs in Leopard because I can’t imagine not having Quick look or Spaces. It drastically speeds up productivity and I depend on it as much as […]
Tags: TECHNOLOGY
Apple Depicts Advanced Multitouch Gesturing Control Panel in Mac OS X
February 18th, 2008 No Comments
Apple Multi Touch Expose Preferences
This would no doubt make it pretty hard to not consider a new laptop
“In case there were any doubts that Apple was exploring the use of advanced multitouch gestures under Mac OS X, a recent Apple patent application authored by Wayne Westerman (of Fingerworks) shows mockups of a Mac OS X […]
Tags: TECHNOLOGY
