July 19, 2005
Forests Forever
Here's another great photography site that utilizes a world map. The photos are interesting, but I really appreciate the Flash design and animation which is so, so smooth.
Posted by richard ting at July 19, 2005, 06:05 PM
July 18, 2005
Wonder Wall
If you love dope-ass retail spaces, then check out Masamichi Katayama's Wonderwall. After completing his education and working for several years in design offices, Masamichi Katayama went independent as an interior designer in 1990. He formed H. Design Associates with Tsutomu Kurokawa in 1992, and launched his own office, Wonderwall, eight years later in 2000. His design projects have since spread beyond shop interiors to various other products, including furniture and lighting.
Wonderwall Masamichi Katayama Projects, a compilation of Katayama's works, was published collaboratively in 2003 by Frame Publishers of the Netherlands and Birkhauser of Switzerland. The compilation was the first volume in Frame's internationally known MONOGRAPH series to feature the works of a Japanese creator.
Posted by richard ting at July 18, 2005, 06:16 PM
July 15, 2005
My Social Fabric
Here's a social networking project by Steven Blyth from the Interactive Institue in Ivrea. It's called Social Fabric which is a representation of your social world, displayed as a single visual array on your mobile phone. It does not replace your address book or calendar but keeps you subtly informed about which relationships are prospering, which you have neglected, and the overall state of your social fabric. What a brilliant idea.
Posted by richard ting at July 15, 2005, 05:15 PM
July 14, 2005
Peepshow Collective
Peepshow is a collective of Illustrators and Designers who promote their work through a group website, exhibitions, projects, presentations and printed material.
Posted by richard ting at July 14, 2005, 03:58 PM
July 13, 2005
Information Aesthetics
Here's a link to a blog that tracks 'creative' information visualization.
Posted by richard ting at July 13, 2005, 01:27 PM
July 12, 2005
We're Not Afraid
Check out a similar project called sorryeverybody.com
Posted by richard ting at July 12, 2005, 08:39 PM
July 06, 2005
g8rally
Every person who joins the g8rally will have their names added to the Live 8 List, which will be delivered to the G8 leaders. It's a call to action to our leaders to end poverty.
The site was designed by agency republic, akqa, and glue. It reminds me a lot of the Wear Yellow Virtual Peloton that was recently designed by Odopod. The Virtual Peloton is no longer on-line, but here's a link to the description.
Posted by richard ting at July 06, 2005, 06:55 PM
All Wood
Check out Oregon-based, Swedx. They're all wood, all the time. Get rid of those bland plastic LCD flatscreen televisions and computer monitors, Swedx features electronics by Samsung and Swedish styling.
Posted by richard ting at July 06, 2005, 02:36 PM
July 05, 2005
A History of Photoshop
Here's another great set of screenshots from the Graphical User Interface Gallery. It's a collection of screenshots of Adobe Photoshop, from version 0.63 in 1988 to this year's CS2. You can view individual versions in isolation, or compare various interface elements across all the versions.
Adobe Photoshop is the de facto standard desktop digital imaging package, used for bitmap photo and image manipulation. It started in 1990 as a Macintosh-only application, and continues to be developed to this day. The latest, ninth version, was released in 2005.
