7 Productivity-Boosting Tools to Fight Procrastination
By Sarah Ang from Mashable.com: You’re doing it again — spending too much valuable time on Twitter and Facebook. So we’ve narrowed down seven free and convenient browser plugins and extensions to help you stop procrastinating — now. Ed.: I’ve picked out a sound-masker, a page-blocker, and of course positive reinforcement with kittens. Other tools have […]
Quantum Invisibility Cloak Hides Objects from Reality
By The Physics arXiv Blog from MITTechnologyReview.com: Physicists have worked out how to cloak a region of space from the quantum world, thereby shielding it from reality itself. Invisibility cloaks are all the rage these days. Over the last few years, this blog has followed various attempts to develop invisibility cloaks for earthquakes, acoustics and […]
A Complete Lack of Privacy: Yves Behar’s New Office Design
By Joseph Flaherty from Wired.com: OK, OK, the actual title of the article is “An Office Landscape Designed to Kill Boring Meetings.” But to me the most striking feature of Béhar’s office design is its complete lack of privacy. The article’s one nod to this: “… in an age of noise canceling headphones, small groups […]
Thickness of the Ice Sheets 21,000 Years Ago Compared to Modern Skylines
From the brilliant comic xkcd: Data adapted from “The Laurentide and Innuitian ice sheets during the Last Glacial Maximum” by A.S. Dyke et. al., which was way better than the sequels “The Laurentide and Innuitian ice sheets during the Last Glacial Maximum: The Meltdown” and “The Laurentide and Innuitian ice sheets during the Last Glacial […]
Travel Posters Inspired by the Silver Screen
By Alex Santoso from Neatorama.com: Let’s go on a vacation! South Africa design studio MUTI collaborated with ad agency Foxp2 to create these retrotastic posters featuring places from King Kong, The Shining, Avatar, and Lord of the Rings for South Africa’s Ster-Kinekor theaters. Links: MUTI’s Behance page
Beautiful Photographs of Trash, Inspired by Botanical Drawings
By Margaret Rhodes from FastCompany.com. Visit BarryRosenthal.com for botanical photos and artist portraits. Barry Rosenthal’s series of jewel-toned garbage collections sheds new light on litter. Before photography and the Internet, developments in botany depended heavily on artists, rather than on foragers and scientists. Painters would create painstakingly technical illustrations of flora and fauna found in the wild, […]
10 Things Designers Need to Know About iOS7
Very helpful article for interface designers from creativebloq.com: Apple has revealed a radical new vision for iOS – but what does this mean for designers? Sam Hampton-Smith delves into the official guidelines to find out… Apple has long been criticised for the slightly haphazard approach it’s taken to the user interface design of its apps, […]