Doodling for thinking
Hugh MacLeod’s Microsoft Blue Monster is featured in a Businessweek article on “doodling” as a tool for business. There is more to business than Word and PowerPoint! gapingvoid: "cartoons drawn o...
Design and Art
Amazing Paper Airplanes
This recent post on A Welsh View appealed thanks to my Paper Airplane obsession … A Welsh View: Japanese Scientists, Origami Masters Hope to Launch Paper Airplane From Space Shinji Suzuki, a pro...
2001: A Computer Graphics Discovery, and farewell Arthur
Farewell Arthur: I had this in draft form ready to post on 6 April. That would have marked the 40th anniversary of the release of the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey . However after today’s news it see...
The Story of <strike>the</strike> a Ribbon
It’s the year of the Ribbon, but why? Jensen Harris, of the Microsoft Office User Experience Team, has posted a recording (and PowerPoint) of his awesome presentation at MIX. He tells the story of...
Fiat embrace the new media - Geneva 2008
Fiat have gone a bit web 2.0 crazy for the Geneva motorshow including a Blog, Flickr YouTube. Among the car shots, and motorshow eye candy, you can see the design model and cad drawings for their “Gia...
Fiat 500 Abarth - Re-inventing a design classic
Fiat does small cars best. Abarth has returned to it’s roots, making Fiats fast. The Fiat 500 Abarth is nearly here. It’s small, it’s Fiat, it’s Abarth and it will be a classic*. Fiat 500 Aba...
18 Stunning Bridges...
Bridge design can result in some beautiful combinations of engineering and aesthetic excellence. Frikoo have a brilliant review of amazing bridges with photos and information. I’m not really surprised...
The MacBook Air - Form without function?
It looks lovely, but then you see at all the compromises in spec and wonder… If Apple are so smart why can’t, or won’t, they design a user replaceable battery ? I’d rather have one of these
Design and Art
Bertone Saved?
RobiNZ Personal Blog: Bertone Sold, Bertone Saved?
William McDonough's "Tower of tomorrow"
Autodesk University AEC Keynote speaker William McDonough was commissioned by Fortune Magazine to design a “Tower of tomorrow” . It’s nice to see his ideas applied to a multi-story city building....
Sabine Heine - Architectural Illustrator
I really liked these Architectural illustrations found via swissmiss swissmiss: Sabine Heine | Illustrator
Play-Doh, <strike>coming soon...</strike> is here!
2.5 tonnes of plasticine on set. 40 animators. 3 weeks. 189 2ft bunnies 150 1ft cubes 10ft x 20ft purple wave 30ft giant rabbit. 6 cameras. 40 animators working through 4 ho...