Thumbs and Ammo posits the idea: would it be funny to replace guns with thumbs up in stills from movies?
YES!
Finger Icons
Astoundingly creative.
Abandoned Houses in Rural Iceland
Run by R3 Radgjöf, Gláma-Kím architects and Stapi, "Abandoned Houses in rural Iceland" is an on-going research project that started in 2011 that aims at mapping all abandoned houses on the southeast coast of the country.
See also Abandoned Hotels Around the World
User Experience Designer's Bookshelf
I recommend Bill Buxton's Sketching User Experiences as a important book to read.
It very much pushes on the way both the imagined end result and the tools at hand play a huge part in the success or failure of a design. It has totally changed my mindset.
Tufte has become an icon for me in the space that often gets reduced to infographics, but really has to do with the meaning available through comparisons.
One of the concepts that came to me from him is roughly "information is all the differences that make a difference." And this title of his, Envisioning Information, explores the way changes and similarities, represented visually makes information accessible in ways numerical abstractions sometimes hide.
A further extension on this thought, is the way images and the information contained in them can be the heartbeat of a power, convincing and compelling narrative. His Visual Explanations challenges a lot of the notions I had about important and help me refine a key idea for all of my interaction and information designs: salience.
For the actual work of designing interfaces, Kim Goodwin's Designing for the Digital Age and Robert Hoekman, Jr.'s Designing the Moment have formed the basis for my process, moving from strategies and concepts through user insights to frameworks structures and finally interfaces.
Twenty20 - New Startup for Me, New Role
Twenty20 is a startup based in Marina Del Rey I recently joined as the Director of User Experience. I am working alongside a great deal of talent, all across the board and am excited for what's to come.
The way we explain ourselves is:
Twenty20 is bringing stock photography into the modern, mobile age. Our global community of over 250,000 creative mobile photographers have contributed over 40 Million photos for sale, making us the largest crowdsourced commercial image catalog in the world. We sell those images to digital creators, brands, and ad agencies who are looking for a more authentic alternative to traditional stock imagery. We are a 25 person team, have raised over $10 Million in financing, and are based in Los Angeles (near Venice).
Lion Cam Wildlife photographer Steve Mandel
Urban Ruins - Abandoned Dorm in the Middle of Tokyo
Five years after a fire ripped through Seika Dormitory in 2007, the lives of Chinese and Taiwanese students have remained largely untouched.
In 2012m two photographers and a videomaker: Belgium-based Suspiciousminds, Japan’s TomBoy and France’s Kitsuney visited the site and captured stunning imagery.
Photographer Captures Argentina's Perito Moreno Glacier Rupturing
In February 2014, Jakub Polomski was in Argentina at the Perito Moreno glacier on a day that it ruptured in a spectacular display that happens every couple years.
Miniscule Sculptures in Pencil Lead
Turkish chemical engineering student Recep Alçamlı carves these super tiny lead sculptures.
Also see Mini Sculptures On Pencil Leads »
Time lapse of October 8th's Blood Moon
If you didn't stay up into the wee hours the catch the blood moon, here is an amazing time lapse of it.
The Yoga Skeleton - 3D Animations of the Human Body
In close conjunction with medical experts, these animators have created this awesome 3D visual study of the human skeleton.
Marvel Themed Cereal Boxes
Crystal Bam Fontan (Bamboota) and Elliot Fernandez created this series of cereal boxes themed for Marvel characters
Beautiful Chemical Reactions Filmed in Ultra HD
Beautiful Chemistry is a work of Tsinghua University Press and University of Science and Technology of China that used a 4K UltraHD camera to capture chemical reactions in all their beauty.
Mud Murals on a Massive Scale
Artist and painter Yusuke Asai created a new mural made of mud at Houston’s Rice Gallery.
According to Asai:
“There are so many kinds of soil in Houston and Texas. Initially I had hoped for 10 different shades, and ended up with 27: the widest spectrum of colors representing a specific place that I have ever used.”
The Scottish Highlands on a Crazy BMX Ride
Mountain Bike crazy man, Danny MacAskill, shows us the limits of BMX skill in his native Isle of Skye in Scotland.
Magazine Covers Invade Classic Paintings
POTD - The City by C. P. CAVAFY
You said: “I’ll go to another country, go to another shore,
find another city better than this one.
Whatever I try to do is fated to turn out wrong
and my heart lies buried like something dead.
How long can I let my mind moulder in this place?
Wherever I turn, wherever I look,
I see the black ruins of my life, here,
where I’ve spent so many years, wasted them, destroyed them totally.”
You won’t find a new country, won’t find another shore.
This city will always pursue you.
You’ll walk the same streets, grow old
in the same neighborhoods, turn gray in these same houses.
You’ll always end up in this city. Don’t hope for things elsewhere:
there’s no ship for you, there’s no road.
Now that you’ve wasted your life here, in this small corner,
you’ve destroyed it everywhere in the world.
TRANSLATED BY EDMUND KEELEY AND PHILIP SHERRARD
Beautiful LEGO 2: Dark
LEGO artist and author Mike Doyle made a splash with his book, Beautiful LEGO, titled Beautiful LEGO 2: Dark.
Briefly:
The thought process post receiving the creative brief.
40 Dancers Assembled on Paris Rooftops by JR
On the rooftop of the Opera Garnier in Paris, artist JR photographed 40 dancers for this stunning series.
