RafaelFajardo

Category: words

  • 4,242 Rubik’s Cube, 5 colors, 1 subject

    kuvva: Using 4,242 Rubik’s cube and just 5 out of the 6 possible colors, Pete Fecteau succeeded on creating this massive mosaic piece named ‘Dream Big’. Having been a long-time fan of this piece of toy for years, it took him a year of playing around with it to be able to solve the puzzle…

  • monoscope: (via Deconstructed: Lowercase g in Gill Sans)

  • jacobmahaffey: Rubik’s Cube Font Generator  jas bhachu at the liverpool school of art & design created the ‘rubik’s cube font generator’ earlier this year for a brief that asked students to produce a visual representation of the word ‘move’. The design uses a standard rubik’s cube with stamps on four of its sides so that users can make their…

  • BLINK(1), THE WORLD’S BEST INDICATOR LIGHT blink(1) is a super status light: it packs three dimensions of information (color, brightness and pattern) into a single tiny package that fits into any USB port on nearly every device. It makes it incredibly easy to connect any data source in the cloud or on your computer to…

  • Celebrated creators – artists, writers, scientists, inventors – have always known the power of the synthesizing mind and have advocated for embracing the building blocks of combinatorial creativity. “Stuff your head with more different things from various fields,” Ray Bradbury encouraged students in a 2001 address. “You should stay alert for the moment when a…

  • In my time working [at Apple], I must personally have seen years-worth, probably decades-worth (and, from afar perhaps even centuries-worth) of work simply discarded because it turned out not to be ‘right’ or ‘good’. This was done with very little animosity towards the people who did the work. There was a distinct difference between working…

  • explore-blog: Tony Fadell, who designed the iPod and iPhone, on setting constraints, ignoring experts, and embracing self-doubt. Also see famous creators on doubt and the fear of failure. (Source: https://player.vimeo.com/)

  • If there’s something that I can pretend to have learned from modern art, it’s that you can’t make something beautiful by trying to make something beautiful. It becomes beautiful in the process of being something else. Steve Martin (via austinkleon)

  • The conventional wisdom here is that while “craft” can be taught, “art” remains a magical gift bestowed only by the gods. Not so. In large measure becoming an artist consists of learning to accept yourself, which makes your work personal, and in following your own voice, which makes your work distinctive. Clearly these qualities can…

  • underwatermess: Starting over. Again.