Archive for the ‘Connected’ Category

- Came across the work of artist David Jon Kassan who’s got some stunning portraits on his portfolio site.
- Sliding House – A house in Suffolk designed by architects dRMM that has a sliding outer shell which slides over three fixed buildings.
- Lego challenge – As part of Scottish Design Awards, five architect firms have been tasked with designing a building out of lego. The designs can be voted for online with the winner announced on 29th May. My vote’s for the Mondrian inspired villa from gm+ad.
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- Vision 2019 – Video from Microsoft Office Labs exploring existing and imagined technology concepts. There’s a good breakdown of the project here.
- Redesign Mozilla – Happy Cog share their design process for mozilla.org.
- Liking Mark Boulton Design’s redesigned site for Belgium’s De Standaard
- The periodic table of typefaces – Listing 100 of the most popular, influential and notorious typefaces today
- Ego – Stats app for the iPhone. Doesn’t work with Google Analytics yet but apparently that’s coming.
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- Deckpeck – Online custom design store service that lets you sell your designs on a range of products including skateboard decks, t-shirts and snowboards.
- How Twitter Was Born – Dom Sagolla on the birth of Twitter. From a handy micro blogging tool to a valuable business tool, 2009 looks like it’s going to be Twitter’s year.
- Stefan Sagmeister’s ‘Sagmeister: Made You Look‘ gets a second printing in March. Worth while addition to any designer’s bookcase.
- Colour Scheme Designer – Handy web colour tool with the option to display colour deficiency simulations.
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