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.
I thought I had blogged about this a little while back, but a helpful search turned up nothing. So, for the two of you who missed it, here it is: the concept video for the Microsoft Courier. It feels weird to me to say that I really, really would like to have one of these. It’s more or less the perfect design gadget from the looks of it.
After the impressive shame that was the launch of the Microsoft Retail Store, it’s nice to see Microsoft come up with something that is well-designed, but has a unique flavor apart from Apple. If Apple’s rumored tablet is nothing more than a Kindle-sized iPhone, the Courier could give it a run for its money in my book. Let’s hope this thing escapes from the bowels of Microsoft unscathed. *crosses fingers*
Seriously, Microsoft, if you need someone to beta-test one of these bad-boys, you know who to contact.
Hit the jump for another, lesser-seen video that details how the UI will work a little more in-depth. Read the rest of this entry »
First off: how awesome is that picture? Next up: check out Typekit. Pretty rad. It apparently allows you add one line of code on your website and be able to choose from hundreds of fonts. Not sure how it works exactly, and haven’t tried it out myself. If you give it a shot and want to navigate back here and leave your experiment in the comments, please feel free to do so.
Welcome to Monday everyone. In celebration of the return to the workplace, we will be viewing an awesome workspace. Hit the jump for some more pics, or check out their awesome website for some more.
One thing I really enjoy about their space is that it encompasses the “non-trad workplace” theme that seems to have been popularized by places such as Google and Pixar (and most recently Facebook) yet still carries a strong emphasis on branding. mlicki nicely combines the whimsical workplace of somewhere like Google, but ties everything together with extremely cohesive branding. Everything down to the lines in the parking lot (which are part solid yellow line, part type) are part of the branding experience.
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.
Happy Columbus Day everyone. Like most people, you probably woke up this morning and thought, “hey…I’ve got an extra day off work, I’m going to fill it with a semi-difficult home project to impress my friends.” Well, dear readers, you’ve come to the right place. I present the answer to your call. Mike Galloway undertook a recent project to create a ceiling full of stars for his soon to be born child. He’s posted a full look at what it took to do this undertaking. Along the way he dispenses useful pictures, as well as the occasional bits of wisdom…which includes a heartfelt suggestion not to deal with insulation in your 120 degree attic while wearing minimal clothing.
acob Cass of Just Creative Design has published a list of the 30 Best Fonts Designers Should Own and Use. This list is great because it not only presents the typefaces, but also links to places to purchase them as well as suggests where and how to use each of them.
And from the lovely @hot_on_a_dime comes the link to Daily Drop Cap. DDC is the work of Jess Hische who is apparently outputting a drop-cap every single day (you can see the J from Oct 6th at the beginning of this post). Some odd letters so far, we need some RSTLNE’s right away Jess!
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. For more info about this site, check out my About page.
acob Cass of Just Creative Design has published a list of the 
