Posts
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Photo post: Tiago Hoisel’s illustrations
Based out Sao Paulo, Brazil, Tiago Hoisel specializes in creating hilarious animated illustrations. Aside from being incredibly eye-catching, each of his pieces has a strong, clever narrative.
Photo post: Human pylons carry electricity across Iceland
An architecture and design firm called Choi+Shine has submitted a design for the Icelandic High-Voltage Electrical Pylon International Design Competition which proposes giant human-shaped pylons carrying electricity cables across the country’s landscape.
Photo post: Twister Restaurant, Kiev
Twister is a newly opened restaurant in Kiev, the capital of Ukraine.
Photo post: Bike Hanger project for urban areas
A bike hanger concept designed to save space for bicycle storage in dense urban areas.
Video post: 2011/03 Mike Monteiro | F*ck You. Pay Me.
A CreativeMornings San Francisco talk in which Mike Monteiro, co-founder of Mule Design Studio, argues that designers need contracts and should insist on being paid for their work.
Link post: Audio Sprites with HTML5
Stoyan Stefanov combines several sounds into one file and uses the HTML5 audio API to play selected segments, reducing separate HTTP requests.
Link post: Roots for WordPress Development
Roots introduced a cleaner WordPress starter theme and grew into an open-source toolset for structured, modern WordPress development.
Link post: Opera 11.10 Barracuda
Opera 11.10, codenamed Barracuda, brought an updated Speed Dial, improved plug-in installation, and broader web-standards support.
Link post: Android Gripes: Why do apps look worse on Android than iPhone, a programmer's perspective
A programmer’s perspective on why fragmentation, inconsistent platform conventions, and tooling made polished Android interfaces harder to produce.
Video post: Float4 - Wisconsin Institutes - Interactive Wall
Float4 collaborated with several partners to build a natural-user-interface interactive wall for the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery, a research hub for campus and community members.
Link post: Syncing Content With HTML5 Video
One of the main changes from HTML4 to HTML5 is that the new specification breaks a few boundaries browsers had been confined to. HTML5 promotes multimedia with richly specified video and audio elements and JavaScript APIs.
Link post: Lorempixum Placeholder Images
Lorempixum generated random or categorized placeholder photographs at dimensions specified directly in the image URL.
Photo post: Grace Santorini Hotel
The Grace Santorini Hotel in Greece, designed by Architects Divercité in collaboration with M+M.
Photo post: Real-Life Star Wars
Laser Towards Milky Ways Center. The color of the laser is precisely tuned to energize a layer of sodium atoms found in one of the upper layers of the atmosphere — one can recognize the familiar color of sodium street lamps in the color of the laser.
Photo post: In Search of Something Epic
Here’s one of my favorite quotes from him when he talks about photography. “It’s how I define myself. Everyone needs something that they can be proud of. I need something that I can put out in front of me and say ‘this is what I am capable of.’”.