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(via Brooke Gladstone’s The Influencing Machine: A comic-book manifesto about the state of the American media. (2) – By Brooke Gladstone – Slate Magazine)
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gregmelander: A GOOD DESIGNER “Designers have the ability to visualize what has never been.” As Bruce Nussbaum said, “Many firms are plagued by articulate and persuasive ‘smart talkers’ who sound good in meetings but get bogged down in abstract complexities.” Good designers are good at what I call inspirational tangibility, “making it real,” whether it be by concretizing with a sketch what…
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charlottledarwin: Why Old Books Smell Good “Lignin, the stuff that prevents all trees from adopting the weeping habit, is a polymer made up of units that are closely related to vanillin. When made into paper and stored for years, it breaks down and smells good. Which is how divine providence has arranged for secondhand bookstores to…
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http://www.motion-beam.com/videojs/flowplayer-3.2.7.swf bashford: MotionBeam by Disney Research links a pico projector with the motion sensors in an iPod Touch – allowing interaction with projected characters. (Source: http://www.motion-beam.com/)
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(via Science fiction: Images from other worlds – in pictures | Books | guardian.co.uk)
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laughingsquid: Hypotamoose by Simon Marmorek
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Call for Workshops Theory and practice of research-based processes where art, design and science overlap As part of the “Conference on Practice-Based Research in Art and Design”, which will take place at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar from 1 to 3 December 2011, we would like to encourage the productive exchange between theory and practice of research-based…
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Practice Based Research in Art & Design Conference, 1-3 December, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar Since the 1990s, numerous art colleges and universities in Europe have established degree programmes in Artistic Research and Design Research. These programmes encourage artists and designers to develop their own epistemological and methodical approaches to concrete problems which differ from purely scientific and…