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The library for professional-quality creative coding in C++ (ça m'a l'air puissant, caramba)
Will Insley
"Create and collaborate (in real-time) interactive UI mockups for your software and websites."
"Cinematic and exquisitely colored, Luxigon's work certainly puts them at the very top of their field: they produce knock-out images of unbuilt architecture in as accurate and seductive a way possible"
"Corridors make science-fiction believable, because they're so utilitarian by nature - really they're just a conduit to get from one (often overblown) set to another. So if any thought or love is put into one, if the production designer is smart enough to realise that corridors are the foundation on which larger sets are 'sold' to viewers, movie magic is close at hand."
on Blade Runner, the future, and paper
Olly Moss rules!
"because all Microsoft is really doing is hiding complexity, not removing it" - and an interesting criticism of OSX UI philosophy
"I put the shirt on and it fit fine. I couldn’t stop smiling. The whole thing was so damned surreal. Here I am in a Paul Smith changing room trying on a shirt that features a design element stolen from my Flickr site!"
the amateurish mascots frequently employed by local governments and others in grassroots PR campaigns. “Yuru” means “loose” or “weak,” while “kyara” means “character.”
ui designs
collects votes on word/colour associations
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"Diablo and TQ and WoW and the like are deliberately designed to be annoying, forever holding the tempting carrot of less-annoying over you."
social websites users are always reluctant to change : proofs
"The man who designed the Pringles potato crisp packaging system was so proud of his accomplishment that a portion of his ashes has been buried in one of the iconic cans."
"Sun jar collects and stores sunshine so that you can use it at night"