12 BRAVE LOCAL #CREATIVES, #ENTREPRENEURS & #CHANGEMAKERS will inspire, entertain & educate us with dynamic and captivating presentations (PKN-style: 20 slides x 20 seconds) with a wild variety of topics!
I'm actively telling my students to NOT use #Adobe products and to look for other options. It's way too expensive for what it is and its subscription-based. I like #Affinity - although I will watch closely and see what Canva does to it... I hope they keep the non-subscription #design
A couple of weeks ago I finished a beast of a project.
The interactive installation (titled InStability) is an artistic endeavor to demonstrate how seismic stations in Iceland detect earthquakes.
Visitors are invited to touch the map, triggering "earthquakes", and observe how LEDs, representing seismic and GPS stations, light up as the seismic waves propagate across Reykjanes peninsula.
I've been seeing so many different cats, that I keep getting the "10,000-Year Earworm to Discourage Settlement Near Nuclear Waste Repositories" song by Emperor X stuck in my head:
In case you don't know the story: this song was commissioned by the 99 Percent Invisible podcast for their episode on how to warn people in the far future to stay away from nuclear waste deposits.
The idea is that no civilisation existed for as long as the time that radioactive waste remains dangerous. Hence, we need ways to warn people that are robust for lost of language, symbols, etc.
One idea was to breed cats that light up in the presence of radiation, and to then create a folk song about the importance of keeping cats, and the importance of leaving (with the cat) when the cat changes colour.
There is so much bad #UX#design here that I hardly know where to start.
If you are a professor, this is an excellent design exercise: improve this. I'm sure ANY student could make this far simpler and easier to use.
I have a short video using this that makes it ever more clear this was designed by a dysfunctional design team. This is a #Dodge#Durango if you're curious.
For design inspiration, I'm trying to gather a list of desktop apps that are fun/enjoyable and don't have a corporate/enterprise feel to them.
Not games or streaming apps though. It feels like desktop app design hasn't kept pace with modern web app design but maybe my searches aren't using the right terms.
I realize this is subjective, but I'd still like more examples. 😁 Thx!
#VisibleMending is not only for #clothes. This #colourful#handbag with abstract roses helped me against dark winter days. Suddenly I discovered this terrible hole and decided to mend it. It was not easy to find the fabric (more in the Alt texts) but I saved my handbag! 😊 And now it's a unique piece of individual design! @visiblemending@sewing
"a bunch of [...] Twitter usernames that are not controlled by people that are just robots that are programmed to release information related to all these different things and that's really interesting, it's kind of cool [...]"
In all the boxed-book kerfuffel, don’t overlook Ephemeral City’s remarkable cover design by the excellent Julia Favaloro who used the eight stories as the starting point and recurring numerical motif for this restrained and elegant design. #books#design#bookdesign#coverdesign#coverart#books