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Leo’s Red Carpet Rampage

Get Leonardo DiCaprio an Oscar or die trying in Leo’s Red Carpet Rampage, an arcade style platform game where you race down the red carpet on a quest for the ultimate award. Collect as many Emmy’s and Golden Globes as you can along the way. But beware of pushy photographers and watch out for Lady Gaga… and Icebergs

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The Art Institute of Chicago Recreates Van Gogh’s Famous Bedroom to be Rented on Airbnb

Moving the art viewing experience from a linear surface to a three-dimensional environment, the Art Institute of Chicago is launching an interactive experience alongside their latest exhibition—entry to a full-size replica of Van Gogh’s painting The Bedroom. The room, available on AirBnB st

Source: The Art Institute of Chicago Recreates Van Gogh’s Famous Bedroom to be Rented on Airbnb

We’re Entering a Golden Age of Space Tourism Propaganda [Updated]

Whether they’re selling tickets to orbit or making sure the science funding keeps flowing, rocket companies and space agencies alike have a vested interest in getting the public jazzed about the cosmic beyond. So it’s no surprise that we’re now entering a golden age of space tourism propaganda—one that’s bringing back the beloved, classic design elements of long-past atomic age propaganda.

Source: We’re Entering a Golden Age of Space Tourism Propaganda [Updated]

Uber’s Head Of Design Steps Down

Andrew Crow, Uber’s head of design, has announced that he’s leaving the company. Since joining in 2014, he helped grow Uber’s design team from 30 to nearly 200 while leading “all aspects of design,” according to his LinkedIn, “including Product, Brand, Marketing, Content Strategy & Copywriting, and Design Research. “Before Uber, he was a global brand and design director at GE.Crow announced the news on Medium last week, saying he was leaving to spend more time with his family:

Source: Uber’s Head Of Design Steps Down | Co.Design | business + design

Centriphone: A Skier Uses an iPhone and Sling to Film Dramatic ‎360° Footage of Himself While Skiing

Screenshot at Feb 06 22-50-10After two years of tinkering and experimenting Swiss freeskier Nicolas Vuignier just shared a video of what he calls a centriphone, a device that works like a sling to hurl his iPhone 6 through the air while he skis down a mountain. Played back in slow motion the footage is incredible as Vuignie

Source: Centriphone: A Skier Uses an iPhone and Sling to Film Dramatic ‎360° Footage of Himself While Skiing | Colossal

FirstTouch, Inc.

Screenshot at Feb 03 10-03-26FirstTouch, Inc.は、ユーモアなスペシャリストが集まり、スマートフォンアプリなどソフトウエアの研究開発、テクノロジー・マーケティング・キカク演出などを行う総合デベロップメントカンパニーです。

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Taxi Fabric Fills Plain Cab Interiors with Vibrant Original Artworks

When thinking of decor inside an American taxicab, your imagination is probably limited to an LED payment screen blaring annoying ads and maybe a pine tree air freshener dangling from a rearview mirror. In India, a new firm is thinking a bit more creatively by helping cab drivers completely tran

Source: Taxi Fabric Fills Plain Cab Interiors with Vibrant Original Artworks | Colossal

30 Free Smart PSDs to Help You Create Easy Text Effects

Traditionally, the Photoshop Style was the tool designers used to share their text effects, but these days the Smart PSD has become the new weapon of choice for sharing pre-made effects. Smart PSDs make use of Photoshop Smart Objects, which allow the user to edit the source of a specific layer in order to update […]

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Scaling a Design Team, Episode #3: Feat. Melissa Hajj, Design Manager at Facebook

Screenshot_9← To all episodes iTunes Link: https://itunes.apple.com/il/podcast/the-hacking-ui-podcast/id1078107474 Feed URL (for android devices and other apps): http://simplecast.com/podcasts/1625/rss Get the Hacking UI Podcasts delivered to you via email, and enjoy more great content and resources from us → Join our Facebook discussion group → The Hacking UI Podcast, Season 1 – Scaling a Design TeamHi, I’m David Tintner, front end developer lead at a scaling startup, and with me, both in the podcast and working at the same company, is Sagi Shrieber – Product Design Director.  We are both entrepreneurs, bloggers, productivity/time-hacker maniacs, and all around tech geeks. So you see – these are the topics that we discuss in the Hacking UI Podcast. If you’re into the same things we are, we would love for you to join us and listen in. We think you’ll find it as interesting and insightful as we do.In season 1, which we’ve called ‘Scaling a Design Team’, we meet with leaders from top notch

Source: Scaling a Design Team, Episode #3: Feat. Melissa Hajj, Design Manager at Facebook | HackingUI

Istanbul Inception: Warped Turkish Cityscapes by Aydin Büyüktas

Turkish photographer and digital artist Aydın Büyüktaş turns the streets of Istanbul upside down in these warped cityscapes that appear to curve infinitely upward and outward toward the skies. While it’s tempting to draw parallels with stunning visuals from the 2010 movie Inception, the art

Source: Istanbul Inception: Warped Turkish Cityscapes by Aydin Büyüktas | Colossal

Expansive New Geometric Drawings Trampled in Snow and Sand by Simon Beck

Driven by super-human forces and undaunted by the powers of nature, artist Simon Beck (previously) trudges across sand or through knee-high snow to create massive geometric drawings left behind in his footprints. From sandy expanses on the shore of New Zealand to frigid outlooks in the Swiss Alp

Source: Expansive New Geometric Drawings Trampled in Snow and Sand by Simon Beck | Colossal

Watch Different Colors of Paint Spin Like Crazy on a Drill in Slow Motion

It’s like a beautiful, colorful ballet. The Slow Mo Guys dipped a power drill in different colors of paint and then captured in spinning in glorious slow motion and to see all the colors whip around like string is pretty great. It’s like a Jackson Pollock painting in moving 3D.

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Clever Projected Animations of a Tiny Chef Cooking Meals Atop Actual Table Settings

The folks over at Skullmapping created this fun series of animation projections that portray a miniature chef (Le Petit Chef) laboring to cook a meal atop a real dining table. Each clip is mapped perfectly to the table setting to create the convincing illusion the tiny chef is interacting with e

Source: Clever Projected Animations of a Tiny Chef Cooking Meals Atop Actual Table Settings | Colossal

The Ripple Maker – Coffeeripples

Screenshot at Jan 13 12-03-21https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/coffee-ripples/id1067750519?mt=8 theYou seek out the finest coffee. You train your baristas to be obsessive about every detail. When you finish off that journey of perfection with a Ripple on top, you honor the coffee below with the message above. Your coffee-mad customers will appreciate the extra step, the extra smile, the extra jolt of caffeinated […]

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Engineer Builds a Functional Miniature V8 Engine Using Only Paper

maxresdefaultIn a series of videos posted to YouTube, engineer Aliaksei Zholner demonstrates a miniscule V8 engine he designed that is built completely from paper (with minor bits of scotch tape to prevent friction). The engine is so tiny it fits inside the plastic container found inside a Kinder egg. In the t

Source: Engineer Builds a Functional Miniature V8 Engine Using Only Paper | Colossal

Beautiful LEGO: Wild!, a New Book Exploring Natural Brick Wonders

LEGO-based artist, author, and curator Mike Doyle (previously here and here) has collected another impressive set of LEGO masterpieces in his lastest book Beautiful LEGO: Wild! by No Starch Press, a book that explores natural wonders from undersea landscapes to a family of sea otters produced fr

Source: Beautiful LEGO: Wild!, a New Book Exploring Natural Brick Wonders | Colossal

TechTrends 2016 | frog

Screenshot at Dec 23 15-55-48With the start of a new year, the exciting question is: What technology trends will radically transform businesses in 2016 and beyond? At frog we help our clients digitally transform their businesses by identifying emerging technologies and realizing their potential. Here are 15 technology trends driving companies to reinvent themselves.

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Fornasetti

Screenshot at Dec 23 14-16-17Fornasetti is an Italian decorative arts company. A whimsical place where craftsmanship meets design, producing timeless handmade creations that inspire imagination and bring beauty to the world.

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Pouring a Thermos of Hot Tea at -40°C Near the Arctic Circle

Ontario-based photographer Michael Davies timed this impressive shot of his friend Markus hurling a thermos of hot tea through the air yesterday in -40°C weather. At such frigid temperatures water freezes instantly to form a dramatic plume of ice. For the last decade Davies has worked as a photogr

Source: Pouring a Thermos of Hot Tea at -40°C Near the Arctic Circle | Colossal

How Clients Get You To Charge Less (And Why You Shouldn’t)

Have you ever walked down the street and heard a stranger whisper to you from a dark alley, “Hey, come here! I have some really low-paying design work to offer you! It’ll make you famous! You can trust me!” So many of us step into those dark alleys again and again because those sketchy strangers in …

Source: How Clients Get You To Charge Less (And Why You Shouldn’t)

Micro Matter: Vertical Dwellings Inside Glass Test Tubes by Rosa de Jong 

For her series Micro Matter, Amsterdam-based designer and art director Rosa de Jong created towering houses and tall buildings inside the narrow confines of large glass test tubes. Perhaps comparable to a ship in bottle, the little houses and buildings are all handmade using natural objects and so

Source: Micro Matter: Vertical Dwellings Inside Glass Test Tubes by Rosa de Jong | Colossal

New Book by Chris Maynard Explores the Symbolism and Art of Sculpting with Feathers 

Delicately wielding a scalpel, Chris Maynard (previously here and here) slices into feathers to create images of the very creatures that shed them, reproducing birds of flight within his tiny found canvases. Not only is Maynard concerned about the material aesthetically, but is also interested i

Source: New Book by Chris Maynard Explores the Symbolism and Art of Sculpting with Feathers | Colossal

Grab me a beer, too!

The Flying Monkeys Craft Brewery leads the Craft Beer Revolution in Ontario. Brewing radical Beers and creative Ales right on the waterfront in downtown Barrie since 2004, the Flying Monkeys was the first Ontario Craft Brewery to truly recognize the need to overthrow the conservative regime of macro-brews and timid small batch taste-a-likes and create a new Culture of Craft Brewing in our province.

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The Freelancer’s Health Insurance Guide

Screenshot at Dec 10 17-42-13Freelance life is pretty great, but there’s one employee-life perk we haven’t managed to get over: employer-sponsored health insurance. Bummer. This means you must purchase an individual health plan to protect against unexpected (and very expensive) medical bills, and to avoid paying a government fine ($695 in 2016 for individuals). Your health plan has to fit …

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OnHub Makers

Screenshot at Dec 30 10-20-16Your router works better when out in the open, so we asked artists and designers to think about how they could make home internet feel even more like their homes. Starting with the original OnHub from TP-LINK, they poured resin, blew glass, and cut paper to create one of a kind shells.

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A Singapore Airlines A380 Model Plane Crafted Entirely from Manila Folders by Designer Luca Iaconi-Stewart 

A traditional paper airplane takes one sheet of paper and approximately 90 seconds. A Luca Iaconi-Stewart-designed paper airplane? 1,000 hours, 100 manila folders, 50 X-Acto blades, and an entire bottle of glue. The San-Francisco based designer has previously built a 1:60 scale Boeing 777 mo

Source: A Singapore Airlines A380 Model Plane Crafted Entirely from Manila Folders by Designer Luca Iaconi-Stewart | Colossal

Yule Log 2.015 – Happy Holidays

Your favorite digital holiday tradition is back! For the 3rd season in a row we’ve invited artists from around the world to re-imagine the traditional Yule log and bring one of the season’s greatest customs into the modern age. With Yule Log 2.015, enjoy burning brand new wildly-surprising, festive-inducing, merriment-making, cheer-bringing Yule Logs.

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Microcars

Microcars are both cheap and fuel-efficient. They were developed in the impoverished Europe of the postwar period and attracted the interest of people who couldn’t afford “real” automobiles.

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Byte

Byte lets your imagination go wild. Make awesomely rich collages out of photos, videos, GIFs, and more, then show off your creations. The world of Byte is weird, fun, and full of surprises.

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RESOLUTIONS

Starting from the first of december, every day until Xmas, we’re going to give you a new New Year’s resolution, visually and individually interpreted by Sehsucht Berlin’s artists as eye-popping animation loops.

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Clients Don’t Care How You Do Your Work – The nuSchool

You’re really good at what you do, you’re really talented, and you’ve got a great portfolio, so why aren’t new clients beating down your door? Many times, when we’re on an initial call with a client, we jump right in to telling the client about the features of our services instead of the benefits we …

Source: Clients Don’t Care How You Do Your Work – The nuSchool

Mark Zuckerberg and Wife Pledge 99% of Their Facebook Shares to Charity 

SAN FRANCISCO — Mark Zuckerberg, the co-founder and chief executive of Facebook, announced on Tuesday that he and his wife would give 99 percent of their Facebook shares “during our lives” — holdings currently worth $45 billion — to charitable purposes.

Source: Mark Zuckerberg and Wife Pledge 99% of Their Facebook Shares to Charity – The New York Times

Type Media 2015

Type Media 2014-2015 – Philipp Neumeyer, Benedikt Brambock, Tilmann Hielscher, Minjoo Ham, Katerina Kochkina, Tezzo Suzuki, Elliott Amblard, Bahman Eslami, Marko Hrastovec, Jasper Terra, Cristian Vargas, Heidi Rand Sorensen, Loris Olivier

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I Find Pictures Of Lost Memories In Flea Markets And Make Fictional Landscapes

I first started making Fiction Landscapes in 2010 after purchasing a large stack of photographs from the flea market and discovering I could draw a line through time using these discarded traces of the past. In 2012 I addressed memory and its relationship with objects in my Heirlooms body of work that takes a look at objects and their place in our lives emotionally due to their history and our associations with them.

Source: I Find Pictures Of Lost Memories In Flea Markets And Make Fictional Landscapes | Bored Panda

Colourful masses with a Memphis aesthetic in Mariano Pascual’s illustrated alphabet

As humans we have an innate urge to reinvent, this seems especially true for illustrators who continually reinterpret the world in their own way. Mariano Pascual’s response to the open brief 36 Days of Type perfectly encapsulates this notion as he visualises his own typeface. Set up by Nina Sans and “Rafa Goicoechea”:http://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/rafa-goicoechea the ongoing project asks creatives to design or illustrate one letter a day and post it on their Instagram feed.

Source: It’s Nice That | Colourful masses with a Memphis aesthetic in Mariano Pascual’s illustrated alphabet

UNMADE

At Unmade, we collaborate with up-and-coming to seasoned creatives who lend their expertise in prints and patterns — but that’s just the beginning. Using state-of-the-art technology, the finest materials, and you, our customer, we begin the one-on-one dialogue of how to create something together that redefines personal.

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Faig Ahmed Creates Glitched-Out Contemporary Rugs from Traditional Azerbaijani Textiles

Faig Ahmed distorts the patterns of traditional Azerbaijani rugs, dimantling their structure in order to build compositions that trick the eye by appearing to melt off the wall. By rearticulating the original design, he creates contemporary sculptural forms that look like digital glitches, patte

Source: Faig Ahmed Creates Glitched-Out Contemporary Rugs from Traditional Azerbaijani Textiles | Colossal

‘Os Gemeos’ Converts Industrial Silos in Vancouver into Towering Giants

Photo by roaming-the-planetPhoto by roaming-the-planetPhotos by roaming-the-planetFirst a Boeing 747, and now an industrial complex on a Vancover island; it seems no canvas is too large for Brazilian graffiti artists Os Gemeos who were invited to the Vancouver Biennale to turn six mult

Source: ‘Os Gemeos’ Converts Industrial Silos in Vancouver into Towering Giants | Colossal

TABLETOP

We are a family of creators – close knit and a little crazy – handcrafting goods at our workshop in Portland, Oregon. We make beautiful products from quality materials because we believe each one is a representation of who we are.

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Your Favorite Art, Gluten-Free

In one of the weirdest Internet art projects we’ve ever seen, French graphic artist Arthur Coulet has created a Tumblr called the Gluten-Free Museum that removes everything containing gluten from famous classical paintings. Some of the changes are subtle, while others are huge, but they all share one common vision – a world without gluten.

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There Are Only 12 Master Penmen in the World, This Guy Is the Youngest

My grandmother has some of the most beautiful penmanship I have ever seen. Her handwritten letters are something that I’ve always cherished, especially now that our world is becoming increasingly overrun by technology. For centuries, the wealthy and educated were recognized by their ability to create gorgeous handwriting on paper. But these days, handwriting and calligraphy are a dying art form. The act of putting pen to paper is happening less frequently. People would rather reach for a MacBook or iPad to communicate or design. However, the study of handwriting, called graphology, takes a while to master. It also takes passion. Just […]

Source: There Are Only 12 Master Penmen in the World, This Guy Is the Youngest | Peaceful Century

Things I’ve learned as a freelance designer – The nuSchool

nuYou wouldn’t see the “freelancer” title in my LinkedIn profile. But the truth is, I work as one since I was 17. I had my first paid project while I’m still in high school. It was a 3D design project of the Hebrew Temple of the Egyptian era. Then came an opportunity to do a freelance …

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One Hundred Patterns | Particular Intent

This book documents a collection of one hundred patterns designed by Ben Barry over the course of one hundred days—from August 27–December 5, 2014. It’s a large—9.5″ x 13″—and beautifully printed book. The entire book is printed using only three Pantone spot colors—blue, orange, and pink—and their resulting overprints. 216 pages. Limited edition of 500 copies.

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New Surrealist Sculptures by Ellen Jewett Effortlessly Combine Animals With Their Fantastical Surroundings 

Ellen Jewett (previously) effortlessly blends animals with elements from their environments, creating ceramic pieces that often balance unexpected species together in a singular piece. Each work is highly detailed—flowers, leaves, and vines wrapping themselves around animals from coyotes to cham

Source: New Surrealist Sculptures by Ellen Jewett Effortlessly Combine Animals With Their Fantastical Surroundings | Colossal

Julien Renvoyé

I am a senior interaction designer based in Austin currenlty working at Mixpanel. I also work as a freelancer for many startups on my spare time and help them create amazing online experiences. I am available for everyone who needs help with branding, creating websites, web apps and mobile apps.

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Starship Technologies – leading the revolution in local delivery

Starship Technologies is leading the revolution in local delivery. Starship robots are revolutionary devices that can carry parcels or grocery bags within a 3 miles radius. Starship’s technology and approach allows us to lower the cost of local delivery by a factor of 5-10x.

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Massive Junk Portraits By Bernard Pras Need To Be Looked Twice To Be Understood Fully

Bernard Pras is a french artist well-known for his massive visually deceptive art works made purely from the junk. He collects objects by size and colors and arrange them in such a manner that collectively, when viewed from a particular point of view, forms a massive portrait. His portraits are the recreated images of well-known incident or person.

Source: Massive Junk Portraits By Bernard Pras Need To Be Looked Twice To Be Understood Fully | Bored Panda

The Exquisite Detail of Traditional Chinese Dongyang Wood Carving 

Leifeng Pagoda / Photo courtesy Michael LaiWith origins that date back as far as the Tang Dynasty (around the year ~700), the Chinese craft of Dongyang wood carving is regarded by many to be one of the most elegant forms of relief carving in the world. The craft is still practiced in a few worksho

Source: The Exquisite Detail of Traditional Chinese Dongyang Wood Carving | Colossal