March 18, 2010 - 6:00 pm
Tags: blur-or-making, design, effect, entry, graphic-design, image, image manipulation, mimics-the-way, multimedia, odds-and-ends, photos, review, shift-focus, tilt shift lenses, tilt-shift-focus
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Filed under: Multimedia , Software , Odds and ends , Graphic Design Got a desire to mess with some pictures you have by controlling blur or making full-sized objects look like miniatures? I’ve just played with some software called Tilt-Shift-Focus that mimics the way tilt shift lenses work. By artfully applying selective blur, you can make objects look they are part of a train set
March 18, 2010 - 5:00 pm
Tags: archives, blur-or-making, design, effect, entry, graphic-design, image manipulation, multimedia, photos, review, tilt-shift-focus
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Filed under: Multimedia , Software , Odds and ends , Graphic Design Got a desire to mess with some pictures you have by controlling blur or making full-sized objects look like miniatures?
March 17, 2010 - 2:18 pm
Tags: combining, design, eco, environment, filled, from-last, sink, toilet+sink, w+w, water
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Combining a sink with a toilet in the interest of the environment isn’t a new idea, but remember the disastrous results from last time? More
March 17, 2010 - 11:26 am
Tags: braille, braille rubik's cube, braille-rubik, complete, cube, design, none-solid, rubik, Times, toys, yanko-design
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Somehow, I think this braille Rubik’s Cube would be a lot harder to solve than that other blind-friendly touch cube with different textures for each panel.
March 17, 2010 - 9:48 am
Tags: architecture, director, evident, history-evident, kosinski, movie, movies, production, shots-show, tron, tron legacy
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There’s still nine months until Tron: Legacy hits, but already we can’t stop talking about it .
March 16, 2010 - 5:20 am
Tags: concept, curved-frame, curves, design, even-graphed, graph, home furnishing, none-solid, posts-tagged, sofa, stop-thinking, thoughts
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Sometimes something as simple as a pile of metal frames and cushions can be so inexplicably appealing that we can’t stop thinking about it. This curved frame sofa was one of those things and we even graphed out our thoughts: More
March 16, 2010 - 4:40 am
Tags: concepts, design, moment, past, present, proof, she-turns, the-present, time, watches, wristwear
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You’re wearing the Past Present Future Watch on a date with a beautiful woman. You lean in to kiss her; she turns away, unsure
Filed under: Features , Cool tools I’d wager that most of you spend as much of your time on the web as I do, and that it’s one of the first places you look for answers to just about any question. As a web designer, I look there for inspiration, solutions and am constantly learning how to improve my design and my code with the help of the internet community
Filed under: Features , Cool tools I’d wager that most of you spend as much of your time on the web as I do, and that it’s one of the first places you look for answers to just about any question. As a web designer, I look there for inspiration, solutions and am constantly learning how to improve my design and my code with the help of the internet community. It’s become important, over time, for me to be able to re-locate the answers I’ve found, and to archive things that have made a difference for me
March 13, 2010 - 7:34 pm
Tags: design, lego, projects, punchline, punchline-functionality, sawaya, the-work, took-some, work, working-flat
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We’re no strangers to the work of Lego master Nathan Sawaya , but his latest creation achieved the impossible: making a Blackberry exciting. It incorporates a working flat screen TV for comfortably displaying video. Clearly he took some artistic liberties
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I couldn’t be more envious of Google engineers working out of Switzerland. Despite the tacky wallpaper in its library, the new EMEA Engineering Hub is the most fun looking office environment I’ve seen in a while.![Googles Swiss Headquarters Blend A Lot of Fun With Some Function [Architecture]](http://www.hirdyman.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/226ac3e48d.gif?eui=2226 "Googles Swiss Headquarters Blend A Lot of Fun With Some Function [Architecture]")
