Straw Dog Design is a hub for designer and blue sky day-dreamer Josiah DePaoli. It contains a blog, and a link to a portfolio and resume (you can find those above under "My Stuff"). It will change your life.
Another Friday, another set of awesome Vimeo videos. This week I hunted around in the New Ways of Interaction group and found some sweet videos for your viewing pleasure.
LOOMO PROJECT 01 MYSLEWICKI PALACE by Loomo
Showcases some awesome work with architecture projection on a palace in Poland. Check out some of the other Loomo videos for other projection experiments.
Not really “design” but I think this recent Disney development is quite cool. The Disney Blog reports that Disneyland now offers “Audio Description” for their rides via a Disney Handheld Device that guests can borrow for free by visiting guests relations.
Audio Description provides narrated audio for Guests with visual disabilities by describing visual attraction elements such as actions, settings and scene changes. It works seamlessly with existing show audio, enhancing each attraction with rich detail and immediately involving Guests into the experience.
Disney World has apparently been using the service for about a year, but it has just been added to Disneyland + California Adventure. According to The Disney Blog, in addition to Audio Description, the device offers services to Guests with hearing disabilities, including Assistive Listening, which was added in August and provides amplified audio at several attractions, and Handheld Captioning, which displays text in specific attractions and areas.
Hit the jump for a video that give you a sample of the experience. Read the rest of this entry »
I flipping love these. During the creation of Up, Disney comissioned artists Eric Tan, Craig Foster, and Paul Conrad to create posters to be hung up around Pixar for inspiration during production. I totally love the style of all the posters. They have a great retro feel and some of the posters detailing South America remind me of some of the art Disney churned out during the era of The Three Caballeros. If you’d like to see the rest of the collection (and you do)hit up SlashFilm and marvel at the rest.
Public Gothic is a new type family in beta from Antrepo. They say it, “is little industrial, little vintage, little condensed, little bold.
Public Gothic is our new font family and beta release is free to use in all your designs, commercial or non commercial.” I say, “It’s awesome. Go download it.” I like the subtle differences between the different fonts in the family. Not sure where I’ll have use for it yet, but rest assured that I will use it someday.
Note: Still haven’t been able to actually download it. Anyone find an alternative link by any chance? Stupid Rapidshare…
According to @ev_rowe he has seen this linked enough from various twitter feeds and blogs that if someone else links him to it he will start punching things. It may be over-saturated on the net, but it’s just too cool to pass up. If you can’t tell what’s going on here, flickr user dutchct created a larger than life version of his own head using paper. Inspired by the “big head mode” from videogames, he created a huge version of his own head using 3ds Max 2009, Mudbox 2010, Photoshop CS3, Pepakura. Awesome enough that I’m sure many will try it, complex enough that I’m sure many will fail.
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