Yes, I know. Making a statement like this (check the punctuation) is bold, and not even what this post is about. I also realize that the discussion behind the life and, more talked about, decline/death of print is vast, one that may warrant a future post. However, the purpose of all this is to point [...]
The screen graphics of the classic video game Tempest represent a kind of summit of design and beauty—the finest expression of a very limited language. In the case of Tempest that language was vector based rendering. Vector monitors were used in video games from the mid 70′s to the early 80′s. The technology was derived [...]
Every Friday afternoon, Coudal Partners in Chicago, in collaboration with Adobe, facilitates a designer vs. designer game of Layer Tennis. It involves one of the creative-types creating an image, and then the “partner” (opponent) responding in some way with a visual response of their own. It’s all live, in 10 rounds of 15 minutes each. [...]
Wise words found on the walk into work this morning.
This is a crop of a photo of Lena Söderberg, the centerfold of the November 1972 issue of Playboy. In 1973, engineers at the USC Signal and Image Processing Institute used it as a test image in their research. The data they collected from the image, specifically the red, green, blue color channel data, have [...]
Check out this fashion site, The Streethearts, showing the well dressed people of Norway. Nice photos by Eirik Slyngstad and Andreas Schjønhaug.
