Meet Henderson Sans and Henderson Serif, a family of two typeface by the Porchez type foundry. Says the website:
Henderson is a proprietary typeface who will never be made available to the general public.
I suspect slope of the italics is 11°.
Here is a 48-page report, probing what the world will be like in 2020, gathered together by The Pew Research Institute, from the comments and interviews of 895 experts and stakeholders in the interactive industry (not just internet).
“Already my iPhone functions as the external, silicon lobe of my brain. For it to help me become even smarter, it will need to be even more effective and flexible than it already is. What worries me is that device manufacturers and internet developers are more concerned with lock-in than they are with making people smarter. That means it will be a constant struggle for individuals to reclaim their intelligence from the networks they increasingly depend upon.” – Dylan Tweney.
The registration for the EUROPRIX 2010 will start in April. The Festival will take place in Graz, Austria. Lots of creativity and innovation for you! Ulterior details to come still in February!
Yuppie or a student, you must be under 30 to enter.
One of last years winners:
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More info after the jump.
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Albert Shum, one of the key thinkers behind the new Windows Phone 7 Series design, admits that 12 years at Nike doesn’t sound like an obvious springboard to becoming director of Microsoft’s Mobile Experience Design team.
There’s a very interesting video on the blog (follow link above), but I am unable to post it on this blog. Guess it needs authorization from MS.
Meanwhile, I also stumbled upon this very interesting blog post by Luke Wroblewski (currently the Chief Design Architect at Yahoo Inc.)
While the Windows Phone 7 Series user interface may not be optimized for high information resolution, it does make interesting use of teases and transitions as highlighted in the video below.
Because it is a touch-based device, the Windows Phone 7 Series uses a Natural User Interface (NUI) paradigm that turns actual content into interface controls. NUIs frequently need to let people know what elements are interactive. (Ideally everything is interactive in a touch-based UI but that’s a different point.) NUIs should encourage exploration and give people “permission” to touch things. Teasing people is one way of encouraging interactivity and exploration.
Here’s a new video by Julien Vallée* and Nicolas Burrows. It’s kind of a nice summary of what we learned in those four days with him. Only done more nicely.
*the fellow that came up to Umeå last November to give the IxD 2 students a workshop on stop-motion video.
One of the best documentaries, I have seen on the world we design. Do you have the attention span to watch it all, or are you distracted  all the time? Seek help, if you are.
Click to watch on PBS.
via Motherboard (with interview!)
James Bond was so last decade.
With the AR Parrot Drone (discovered via Mike Kruzeniski), I believe we’ll take the baton from Mr.007 when it comes to controlling our helicopters (!) with iPhones.
Read about how it works here.
Spy away! Take no prisoners.
…and if you don’t have a particular reason to do so, Athens Video Art Festival might be one!
Athens Video Art Festival, Greece’s biggest festival of digital arts and new media, invites you to participate and present your work at 6th-8th May 2010 [at “Technopolis†of the City of Athens] in different categories like Video Art, Performance Art, Video Installation, Installation Art, Digital Image Art, Web Art and Animation Art.
Deadline for submission: 15th February 2010
Entry forms and information can be found at www.athensvideoartfestival.gr
A, nice, simple idea for controlling audio softwares.
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Saw this really nice project by Rhea Jeong on Pixelsumo’s blog.
So says Jeong’s website about the Hello Haptic project:
‘Hello Haptic’ is a flash card kit for the blind children to learn various haptical experiences about nature.
Visually impaired children are able to self-educate themselves about different parts of nature with this learning aid. They will be properly stimulated about diverse characters of nature as well as fulfilling their curiosity through their first-hand tactile knowledge.
Old news (2 weeks), I know, but still… me want!
Product page with a longer demo video $399
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Remember the guys who brought us Wolfram Alpha, the know-it-all search engine. Now they bring us WolframTones, a music composition tool, that makes loops based on mathematical formulas. It creates these funky looking graphics for each loop. All I managed to get out of it, is just some pretty horrible noise, maybe you guys will do better.
Hello everyone,
UID has nice workshops, teachers equipped with mustaches and turban, olympic-grade ping-pong table and coffee machines that spit out the worst brown liquid I know of, but one thing it is lacking is a proper web ninja. The web at UID has always been a somewhat low priority and it shows. I’ve been trying to do my share to reverse this planed cataclysm, but it’s clearly not enough. I alone cannot counter the school’s high latency on the issue.
Things might change soon as we now have an official position open for a web coordinator at UID. Yéééé! Read it all on the Current Vacancies page.
So if you are reading this post and thinking that this could be for you, email UID right away. Otherwise, please circulate the ad around so we can find the best candidate possible. I do hope that UID will evolve positively its web presence with the help of this new person. The slope is long and steep, I agree. But let us pray the HTML5 gods and the AJAX goddesses that it will happen.
I’m throwing in a nice picture to inspire us all!
Nicely done and it was just a matter of time before we get to this point. The “I Love You” on the blade, ah nice attention to details!
[via Makezine]