Category: words

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  • Here’s a fun motor you can make in a few minutes. You need a 1.5 Volt battery (AA or AAA), two safety pins, some tape, a small magnet, a foot of wire, some nail polish, and some Post-it Notes… Project: Make a simple motor – via: Boing Boing (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)

  • “The exhibition Robot Dreams is our second co-production with the Jean Tinguely Museum in Basel. Like the first, the successful Moving Parts exhibition in 2004, which featured contemporary kinetic art, it breaks new ground—this time in the field of artificial intelligence. It explores the political, social and artistic implications of new intellectual ideas associated with…

  • everydaycarry: submitted by mnmal Editor’s Note: Unfortunately a multitool this minimal, useful and awesome is illegal to carry in most cities. B(

  • Simple and light equals freedom, agility and mobility. (via packlite)

  • Creating Seamless Textures In Illustrator

    danmaxito: via vectips.com Illustrator is great for creating sharp clean graphics. I used to rely on Photoshop for creating simple seamless textures for typography, web, and illustration projects. Since the updates to the Appearance panel in CS4 and the updated crisp graphics for web in CS5, I create these textures solely in Illustrator and actually,…

  • idjordan: Jonathan Ive, Senior VP of Industrial Design at Apple. Clip from Objectified Film, by Gary Hustwit. (Source: http://idjordan.tumblr.com/)

  • What is Design? A lecture by Bill Moggridge

    dthinkingbcn: http://www.youtube.com/v/cOx_Zx95hxM&hl=en_US&fs=1?hd=1 Bill Moggridge, the director of the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum breaks it open in this lecture at the Smithsonian Design Institute Via Core 77

  • Short history of print in two pictures

    Short history of print in two pictures wonderful perspective on history of technology and of books as a part of technoculture, via: Kottke.org

  • The Affect of Animated GIFs (Tom Moody, Petra Cortright, Lorna Mills) – Art and Education Since the early 1990s, artists have chosen the internet as a medium, an environment and a forum. While some internet artists also maintain a gallery practice, the conditions and conventions that inform meaning in online art remain in many ways…