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The Logitech mice that weren’t
BBGadgets presents failed mouse designs from Logitech’s 20 year history.
Logitech is getting a bit nostalgic, but they deserve it: they’ve just shipped their billionth mouse. As part of their look back over the last 20 years of the company, they have provided this fantastic slideshow showing many of the prototype mice they developed yet wisely chose not to produce.
No comments. Posted by tanner in conceptual, industrial design on 16 December 2008.
For her thesis at MIT, Anita Lillie developed some interesting software for visualizing music libraries.
I finally had the time (and the computer!) to put together a demo video of MusicBox. This video, more than the others on this site, shows a wide range of features, all from the most recent version of the software. I hope you find it a helpful introduction to my thesis project.
Check out the MusicBox demo video.
No comments. Posted by tanner in music, visualization on 15 December 2008.
A clock for identity designers
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Last month, I wrote about the day I spent obsessively chronicling all the brands, logos, identities and symbols - all 1,035 - that I interact with throughout the day. This research was done for a project I was working on at the time in the Visual Communication Design program at Arizona State University under Professor Al Sanft. …Read more →
13 comments. Posted by tanner in branding, clock project, featured on 15 December 2008.
Cool little app from aBowman
Click to feed the fish. Pointless and fun.
Tibor Kalman’s “Sky Umbrella” is available at the MoMA store.
Humor and surprise are two of the designer Tibor Kalman’s hallmarks, as witnessed by this view of a blue sky on a most probably gray day. MoMA’s witty umbrella with an eternally cheerful sky is known and enjoyed throughout the world. Designed by EFM for the Museum with the cloud design by Mr. Kalman. Black nylon exterior; wood shaft and handle.
1 comment. Posted by tanner in concept, industrial design on 13 December 2008.
The Arcade Fire have posted an interactive video for “Neon Bible.” In it Win Butler appears against a black background; you click on his hands, mouth, and eyes to affect his voice and motions. Check it out. (Via VSL)
1 comment. Posted by tanner in experimentation, motion, music on 9 December 2008.
So, Pantone announced its color of 2009.
PANTONE® 14-0848 Mimosa, a warm, engaging yellow, as the color of the year for 2009. In a time of economic uncertainty and political change, optimism is paramount and no other color expresses hope and reassurance more than yellow.
I don’t know about you, but I usually react fairly violently to things like this, the idea that everyone should be using any set element because its “in style” bothers me. If yellow, sorry mimosa, is called for in a project, then I’ll use it, but I’m not going to go out of my way to jump on a bandwagon, just because Pantone painted it.
What do you guys think? (<— Thats my attempt to get more comments here. Pretty lame, I know)
4 comments. Posted by md in fashion, pantone on 8 December 2008.
This video is insane, watch til the end.
via Lined & Unlined
