A charming new storybook concept makes you wonder: Why aren't we trying to figure out what's possible with the tech we already have--rather than focusing on the future?READ»
"Voices of Liberty" is a soundscape of voices of immigrants -- among them Daniel Libeskind, Henry Kissinger, Holocaust survivors, Soviet refuseniks, Rwandans fleeing genocide -- telling stories about arriving in America for the first time. Neil Diamond would approve.READ»
The keeper of Google's homepage told an audience of shocked graphic designers that the company trusts user testing data over the intuition of its own designers.READ»
A simple, intuitive touch-screen interface rewrites a laborious process. Could it represent the first flickers of a new way for designers to collaborate?READ»
To promote their new song, "I've seen enough," the Cold War Kids produced a regular music video. But they also hired Tool of North America to create an interactive version of the video, which lets you remix the song while ...READ»
Nine Inch Nails' performs on a stunning interactive stage, a massive panel of lights that reacts to sound and the band's movements. Created by Montreal-based Moment Factory, it was picked as one of the best projects of 2008 by Creative Review (check out the making-of video). But Moment Factory isn't alone in making amazing light and music installations. READ»
MSNBC.com has quietly launched an experiment that re-engineers how Web stories are consumed. Here's Craig Saila, an interactive designer at MSNBC.com, describing the changes:
The primary goal is to showcase what msnbc.com ...READ»
The National Design Awards, adminstered by the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, are the most prestigious in the U.S. The 2009 winners were just announced. Some of them you may have heard of, others you probably haven't ...READ»
Obscura Digital transforms building facades into multimedia light shows--and you have to check out their latest work, which used San Francisco's U.S. Mint as a backdrop
The piece was sponsored by McAfee, ...READ»
A couple months ago, BMW released what was perhaps a decent but not necessarily superb ad for their Z4 convertible, which showed the car racing around on a white surface, it's tires leaving colorful marks--turning the hot-rod driving ...READ»
Coroflot, a job-listing site for designers, has published the results of its 2008 salary survey. It confirms, once again, that design is pretty good work if you can get it. Top flight graphic designers, interaction designers, and ...READ»
All-star graphic designer Rick Valicenti, the founder of Thirst, gave a mesmerizing preview this week of his upcoming collaboration with furniture designer Arik Levy, for the latter's first solo exhibition.
Valicenti revealed ...READ»
At the very moment Barack Obama was sworn in by Chief Justice John Roberts, his IT department flipped the switch on a brand-new Whitehouse homepage. Any designers out there want to weigh in?
Here's a screen-cap of the old design, ...READ»
