Archive for the 'Art & Design' Category

Word Clock screensaver by Simon Heys

Friday, August 15th, 2008

The image above is a screenshot of Word Clock in action. Word Clock is a screensaver made by Simon Heys that tells the date and time through a series of texts that get highlighted as the time passes.

Word Clock for Mac, PC, iPhone from Simon Heys on Vimeo.
Word Clock can be configured to show in [...]

Crumpler finally updates their website and online store

Friday, August 15th, 2008

Oh my goodness, this took way too long.
Crumpler has finally done away with their crappy website and caught up to modern times with a newly relaunched website and online store designed by Reactive. The new website looks very much like an actual store shelf with each product from Crumpler getting good exposure right next to [...]

I fail.

Friday, August 15th, 2008

So there I am, sitting on my floor with my homemade KRINK applicator, when suddenly I squeeze the bottle too hard and ALL of the KRINK comes flying out of the top. I mean, I guess I still managed to accomplish my goal of covering up that hideous Mooks logo, but I dunno, I didn’t [...]

Lots of locks on a bike

Thursday, August 14th, 2008

Lots of locks on a bike outside MEC in Vancouver.
This was supposedly a sculpture in Canada.
Thanks for this Simon!
Also, here’s a tip on how to better lock your bike up:
Mr. Drury certainly does seem to put a lot of thought into bike theft. Ms. Slota’s mistake, he said, was locking up to the horizontal bar [...]

GOOD: Oil Addiction

Thursday, August 14th, 2008

GOOD magazine has released yet another wonderful video that explains several situations that the US economy seems to fall into. One of course, is the rising price of oil, which ultimately effects the way we travel and consume energy. The other situation is the rising cost of agriculture as a direct result of the government’s [...]

Andrea Joseph’s sketchbook blog

Thursday, August 14th, 2008

The details in Andrea Joseph’s sketches are just incredible. [via]
If you want to see some brilliant artwork, this is your site to go to today. Also be sure to take a look at his Flickr, because he has some additional artwork there that isn’t on his blog.

New Dell Latitude laptops are sleek and beautiful!

Tuesday, August 12th, 2008

OMG. AWESOME.
Select Dell Latitude laptops can be configured to have up to 19 hours of battery life. The Latitude laptops are constructed with magnesium alloy and metal hinges. Also present in these laptops are ambient light detection and back-lit keyboard.
Read the press release and the specs for yourself. I’m just drooling over the design.
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