Focus, people!
What if you could snap a photo and then, after you look at it, adjust the focus? Your daughter’s sparkling eyes not quite sharp? No problem. You really should have […]
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Designing music
Got a little time to explore? Batuhan Bozkurt has designed a simple, fascinating music player you can easily program yourself. Just click a few boxes in the grid to generate some […]
Be Green wins Platinum Award for packaging
Our amazing client, Be Green Packaging — along with their customer, Gillette — just won Platinum (the highest level) at the 23rd DuPont Awards for Packaging Innovation. There were 250 […]
Some people get it, some don’t
Thank you, Amy!
Soul pancakes with visual syrup
I’m a big fan of what Rainn Wilson has started with SoulPancake. Turns out, he also has a Tumblr blog with some very cool, conceptual images he’s collected. It’s here. […]
Newspapers are even deader than you think
One analyst says that, if the New York Times stopped printing right now and went solely to electronic distribution, they could afford to give every single subscriber four Amazon Kindles for free. Russell Viers thinks that assumption is probably off, but that the principle is correct. Newspapers have permitted non-newspaper, web-based innovators to decimate their business model. Now even the small local rags are in trouble.
Corporatese
Listening to Jon Stewart’s (brilliant) audiobook “Earth: A Visitor’s Guide to the Human Race” I found myself bursting into laughter at this (brilliant) segment on corporatespeak.
New Be Green Packaging website is live!
Be Green is an innovative manufacturer of tree-free, compostable packaging. If you’re a CSO (Chief Sustainability Officer) that statement will perk you right up, because you’re charged with finding new […]
Design making a difference
Disaster strikes, and we think, “What can we do to help?”. The answers are “not much” and “a lot”, and often both are true at once. A few designers have […]
Car of the Future
Techno-geeks unite! General Motors has been pushing the idea of a hydrogen powered car for a generation. Now we’re getting somewhere. True, making hydrogen for fuel cells at the moment […]