I’ve been using the Fliqlo clock screensaver for quite some time and must say it’s my favorite. Following along the same aesthetics as Fliqlo are 3 other great visual screensavers. Dropclock has dropping numbers into liquid, Minnow puts a pond into your screen, and Wordclock expresses the time in words within a sentence.
very cool!
via holiday matinee (source monomoda)
What happens when you take an accelerometer controlled product like the wii fit, and strap it onto a 4 wheels, then put a baby seat on top? We’ll based off this video I bring you the Segway for babies. I find this both a bit scary, but then the geek side of me says, awesome!
Interesting project to start kids early in the thinking process in saving for charity! Very cool and needed.
“The power of piggy:
We believe that this simple product, Piggy, can truly make the world a better and more compassionate place.
Piggy helps teach kids about charitable giving, with the hopes of inspiring new generations of caring, sharing, philanthropic citizens.
With 12,000 children born each day in the US, imagine the social impact if just a fraction of them learned powerful lessons
of gratefulness and kindness to others.”
See the full project at goodlittlepiggy
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Hehe, so if your struggling to pick a typeface and don’t have a graphic designer to help you out, here’s a fun little infographic that might save you some thinking time in choosing a font.
“Sao Paulo ad agency Moma Propaganda created a wondeful series of retro future ads for Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, and Skype as part of the “Everything Ages Fast” ad campaign for Maximidia Seminars.”
I’d really like an embossed large print of these posters… what a great project! Somewhat reminds me of Back To the Future.
via LaughingSquid (This Isn’t Happiness & Ads of The World)
See all the Retro Future ads after the jump!
Wow, check out this space in japan.. makes me want to be at peace with nature, relax, an live a very simple life… though it needs a small pool or Onsen somewhere.
“The Minimalist House in Itoman-shi, Okinawa, Japan, was designed by Shinichi Ogawa & Associates / Urbanist Architect. Just have a look a the floor plan and you’ll understand why it’s called the minimalist house.”
More images mirrored via todayandtomorrow after the jump.
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I started Designverb on January 18th, 2006 as a quick experiment to jot down the many things I found to share with my friends and anyone else curious. Today, August 1st, 2010, marks my 1000th post, and this one being the 1001’st.
I’ll admit the the opportunities, friendship, community, and insights I’ve received throughout the years has been amazing and it has surely kept me busy after a long day of work and on weekends. There are times where I’m flooded with work and have very little time to post, but I started a Facebook Fan page where I post quick fun links and have recently found some extra contributors to help find more great things to post about.
The Above picture is of sushi at O Ya here in Boston. I tend to eat sushi to celebrate so maybe I’ll go there this week again.
Anyhow, I had no plans to really celebrate, but I thought I’d share some of the most popular posts since starting Designverb.
1. Tunnel House
2. Stuck At Heathrow Airport
3. Paint Chip Card Holder
4. Red Bull Headquarters
5. Mark Khaisman Brown Tape Art
6. Stefans Stormtroopers a Day
7. Heineken World Bottle: Beer to Bricks
8. Creepy Snow Globes
9. Color Changing Mini-Cooper
10. Burj Al Arab: Tennis Court in the Sky!
11. Non-Metric Countries
12. Shoes That Make Everyone the Same Height
13. How 315 Billion Dollars Looks
14. GadgetOff 2007 and 2009 Recaps.
15. TerraCycle Inc
And one of my fun little trips came from GM here.
What a great installation in Tokyo! Wish I were there to experience it…as if I were inside a big snow globe!
“‘sensing nature‘, an exhibition which rethinks the japanese perception of nature, has just opened at the mori art museum, tokyo with interpretations of the subject made by takashi kuribayashi, taro shinoda and tokujin yoshioka. the three japanese artists / designers give abstract or symbolic expression to immaterial or amorphous concepts as well as natural phenomenon such as snow, water, wind, light, stars, mountains, waterfalls and forests. their ideas of nature suggest that it is not something that is to be contrasted with the human world, but that it is something that incorporates all life-forms, including human beings. the exhibition consists of newly commissioned works by each of the three artists, each attempting to stimulate our sense of nature through large-scale installations.
designboom gave a preview of some of the works that would be on show in the exhibition, now here’s a look at the final installation of tokujin yoshioka’s ‘snow’ that is on show.”
more images after jump mirrored from designboom
A few weeks back I met up with Dan Ariely of Predictably Irrational who just launched his new book the Upside of Irrationality. Though I have not read the new publication Dan gave me insight on the Online Dating world and how broken it is. Anyhow, I stumbled upon this great 30+ minute video of him talking a bit more in depth about Online Dating and bits on his new book. View it above or on BB.
The talk our buddy Dan Ariely gave at Poptech2009 is finally up. Watch it here, and be sure to pick up Dans books Predictably Irrational or his new book The Upside of Irrationality.
I’ve seen some pretty creative proposals (ie, the designers proposal), but when the person proposing is in the film/entertainment world, this is what you get! How awesome. Watch the entertainment proposal above or here.
“In this poignant, funny follow-up to his fabled 2006 talk, Sir Ken Robinson makes the case for a radical shift from standardized schools to personalized learning — creating conditions where kids’ natural talents can flourish.”
His talk from 2006 where I got to hang out with him quite a bit after the jump.
