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Judging from the photographs I’ve seen, Zaha Hadid’s new opera house in Guangzhou, China, is a stunning tour de force of design and construction, a masterpiece by a gifted architect at the height of her creative powers. It is difficult to imagine that she or anyone else could top this building in its invention of…
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Just North of Something Important: The high insufferable period of indie games
Just North of Something Important: The high insufferable period of indie games davidcoopermoore: tomewing: “All the cows were whisked away. And all that was left were the little shadows where they had been standing. But the game continued to run. And, in fact, the game continues to run to this day. And there are still…
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Interaction design is about people: how people relate to people, how people relate to products, and how people relate to each other through the mediating influence of products. It is a synthesis of many traditional and new elements of design thinking, organized into intelligent and emotionally satisfying experiences that meet a wide variety of human…
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ollymoss: I am a graphic designer and in my contract it says that I have to make bad jokes about typography.
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Jean Schreiber, a self-described “block consultant,” advised the group to engage their children in building by photographing their work. “Don’t rush to help them with structural challenges,” she said. “You don’t have to ask them a million questions. Just sit with them and notice.” With Building Blocks, Educators Going Back to Basics – NYTimes.com
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The New Aesthetic: The Utah teapot is a 3D model created in 1975 by Martin Newell which…
The New Aesthetic: The Utah teapot is a 3D model created in 1975 by Martin Newell which… new-aesthetic: The Utah teapot is a 3D model created in 1975 by Martin Newell which has become a standard reference object in the computer graphics community. It is a simple, round, partially concave mathematical model of an ordinary…
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Studies dating to the 1940s indicate that blocks help children absorb basic math concepts. One published in 2001 tracked 37 preschoolers and found that those who had more sophisticated block play got better math grades and standardized test scores in high school. And a 2007 study by Dimitri Christakis, director of the Center for Child…
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Don’t give up the day job – how artists make a living
Don’t give up the day job – how artists make a living austinkleon: …for artists without a lucky early break, rich parents or benefactors, a day job is often the only way to survive. It needn’t mean that fame and fortune aren’t just around the corner: Joy Division’s Ian Curtis worked in an unemployment office…
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Notes on Being an Instructor In the role of the instructor, due to your own conceit there is much damage that you can do to a student. At the same time, due to your own sense of charity, there are many possibilities that you can open for the student. In the former case, it is…
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