The European Space Agency (ESA) has released a short sci-fi movie to promote its audacious Rosetta comet mission.
Ambition is a collaboration between Platige Image and ESA. Directed by Tomek Bagiński and starring Aiden Gillen and Aisling Franciosi, Ambition was shot on location in Iceland, and screened on 24 October 2014 during the British Film Institute’s celebration of Sci-Fi: Days of Fear and Wonder, at the Southbank, London.
Angela Vogiatsoglou has posted on LinkedIn that the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS) has appointed Apple Computer co-founder Steve Wozniak as adjunct professor at the Faculty of Engineering and IT.
He will join the “Magic Lab”.
Being a UTS graduate, this is simply amazing news! :) I cannot wait to visit next year in 2015 and also see the new Frank Gehry buildings at the city campus for the first time.
Other related links
– AFR Financial Review on Steve Wozniak and UTS
– Silicon Republic
Photo credit: Srinivas Madhisetty
Sebastien Gabriel has written a useful guide on DPI including considerations for monitor Hertz, pixel density and 4K.
The guide also references the incredibly useful PaintCode iPhone6 screen demystified articles.
Image: Sebastien Gabriel
A new social network has launched this week called The Netropolitan Club which according to its website is intended for the world’s most affluent and accomplished individuals with a staggering $9,000 joining fee and $2,000 annual fee.
It is strictly for socialising and not for soliciting business.
LIGHT is TIME, is a collaboration between Tsuyoshi Tane of DGT Architects and watch manufacturer Citizen for the 2014 Milan Design Week.
Citizen Press Release
On the Installation at Milan Design Week 2014
DTG Architects
Installation for Citizen
Update (Nov/Dec 2014)
– Spoon Tamago report on the installation at SPIRAL in Tokyo from November 28, 2014.
– Visual News covers the story from Design Week in Milan
– Alex Wain from So Good So Bad has written a review of Light is Time
I love this Super slow-mo piece of Ronaldo, Neymar and Iniesta from The New York Times Magazine.
Kutlu Canlioglu, Creative Director for TV & iPlayer at the BBC has written an overview on the changes and principles behind the iPlayer redesign.
I published a post on the @bbcinternetblog about the redesign of #newiplayer. You can read it here: http://t.co/0OYqLhd8f6 #iPlayer
— Kutlu Çanlıoğlu (@kutluc) March 18, 2014
Sorcha Daly has written an insightful essay on the age of the individual in Issue 8 of The Human Layer.
As the quantified self movement has shifted the focus from big data to small data, businesses must start designing for a mainstream of individuals.
37 Signals, the web design firm founded in 2004 has today announced that they will be renamed Basecamp and their business will focus on 1 single product from today.
I revisit Muyueh Lee’s talk titled, Green Honey from the Open Data Workshop held in London in 2013.
This process represents some concepts that I believe are true in visualization: Keep testing different models and learn something new from your dataset… People are relying on us to see the world.Muyueh Lee - Open Data Workshop, London 2013
Some of the topics covered at the Workshop included, Discoverability, Transformation (to other formats), Different models, Quality and Human-readable “stories” from data.
Update: Fast Company has featured the visualisations covered at ODW2013 in an article titled, The Semantics of Colour.
British architect Norman Foster has unveiled a concept to build a network of elevated pathways above London’s railways to create safe car-free cycling routes, following 14 cyclist deaths on the city’s streets in 2013.
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Carlos Elena-Lenz from Frog has published an interesting blog post in Design Mind on 6 characteristics within the Internet of Things (IOT).
The Internet of Things is a double-edged sword for designers of all stripes because “things,” or endpoints, can take on a myriad of form factors. The variability is a blessing and curse.… six key characteristics surfaced that make products inherently IoT. Each characteristic encompasses of a set of capabilities that can be dialed up or down depending on tradeoffs and decisions made in your design.Carlos Elena-Lenz
By framing IoT design with these characteristics, multi-discipline teams are able to work across their domains to make tradeoffs in interaction design, software architectures, and business models.
Image source: Amber Case @ LeWeb in Paris 2012 from Flickr
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Update (Nov 2014): The article appears also on Medium part of a 3-part series.
A very handy article by CoDrops on Responsive Typography.
One of the most important aspects of responsive web design is typography. When it comes to responsive type on the web, there’s more to do than just resizing the text’s container and having the text reflow inside of it.
From choosing a font type and color, to achieving legible font sizes, line heights, and line lengths on different screen sizes, there are several ways to go about achieving fluid and truly responsive text on the web.