These pieces by Natasha Jen for fashion designer Tess Giberson have such a an effortless feel as they create visual typographic puns and are nicely complimented by the different fabrics.
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I am not a fan of social media, the public aspects at least. The different messenger services and group chats, I can get behind. Expressing my opinions to the world is not something I feel comfortable with and I have a lot of opinions. I've tried it, sometimes even getting into a nice rhythm of it on facebook. Twitter never hooked me, because, for the most part with facebook, I knew who I was talking too, being friends with at least half the people, in my "friends" list. That being said, I understand the importances of the social media and how for better or worse it is the voice of the future.
The importance can be seen in the US elections. Donald Trump won the US Presidential election and he won it through twitter, never before has someone so unfiltered made such a big impact politically. Regardless of what he said, his tweets were unpolished and too some unprofessional, but they were honest and mostly straight from him. This sense of connection felt true and real to his supporters, words which rarely seem to be attributed to politicians. Bernie Sanders, who after Hillary Clinton, would be his biggest opponent, even comment on how he connected with supporters and everything Sanders says can be found in Trump's tweets:
"....“Donald Trump tapped into the anger of a declining middle class that is sick and tired of establishment economics, establishment politics, and the establishment media,” Sanders said, echoing some of the themes of his own campaign."
http://variety.com/2016/biz/news/bernie-sanders-trump-win-president-1201914220/
However one of the biggest differences between Donald Trump and I is that Trump is an extrovert and I can consider myself an introvert. When you Google the definitions of intro and extroverts, there are a number of different ways they are defined.
http://www.lifehack.org/302237/5-reasons-why-blogging-good-for-Introverts
I am of the opinion that these are qualities that extroverts think introverts want. In this example, the 5 reasons give the impression that being an introvert is the same as being insecure, but it's not. I like contained, closed off conversations, I like engaging with people directly, debating, transferring opinions, learning and having a sense a conversation is over. I don't find this on facebook, if I post a status, it's out there for everyone to see, opinions are given, but a discussion is rarely had around the topic. I like when conversation end, with social media, something can go on and on, with a new reply every hour or so, and three hours later, I've generally lost interest in the topic. There's also a calming sense of being at home, on my own, socialising can be draining for me, after a night out I like to be left alone to relax. But with social media being constant, there's never that natural sense of the social part of the day concluding. Ultimately, I know I can do this: Quit social media | Dr Cal Newport | TEDxTysons
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3E7hkPZ-HTk
However, quitting social media to me feels too extreme a measure. Social media may be marketed as a one size fits all medium, but within the medium, there are different aspects for everyone to chose to use or ignore. The public aspects aren't for me, social media to me is how we communicate, it's helped me connect with friends and family throughout the world, it's my lazy way of getting the news and connecting with people for the odd design job. Maybe one day, I'll feel like sharing my opinions about anything and everything with nobody and everybody. But right now, I'll just do it when I have too.
WARNING: This post might subconsciously inspire you to listen to your users and test your ideas. The story below is about Foosio, an online game for football fans where you get points based on real players’ performance in real life, in real time. Foosio was created by some funny and open-minded guys from Hungary. They …
People love to personalize things even if that doesn’t affect their results in the game. More on game’s UX: http://uxstudioteam.com/ux-blog/41-wows-we-felt-after-user-testing-with-football-fans/?utm_source=tumblr.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=ownsocial
The Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, and other VR products have changed the future of technology. We may scoff at the idea of VR headsets but much like the Internet in the 1990s, VR is the way of the future. [post slug="youtube-vr-daydream-smartphones"] And thanks to WebVR we already have a way to merge the Internet with VR using a powerful JavaScript API. This library is completely free, open source, and supported by the W3C so it's the perfect library to play…
[For] Beginner to Intermediate developers and designers who want to become comfortable with both JavaScript fundamentals and working in the DOM without a library.
You should already know some JavaScript to start - This isn’t a JavaScript 101 course. We learn by application - encountering many new situations while talking about the hows, the whys and the whats that we use to solve them.
Records sales hit £2.5m last week compared with £2.1m for digital, with surge partly attributable to Christmas gift buying
This is an interesting one, I work in a record shop, so I have this conversation a lot. There are a few different reasons that could answer this, Why is vinyl making a big come back? In this age of increased technology, the re-emergence of a nearly dead analogue medium is definitely something we have to consider when pushing forward digitally.
If you ask that question to my boss, he will make the claim that music on vinyl sounds better. He can wax poetic about all the little nuances vinyl brings to the sound experience that digital and even C.D could never capture. However, quality does not guarantee marketability. As most people buying vinyl for the first time aren't buying top of the range record players, with high-end speakers. They are mainly picking up the cheap plastic needle vinyl player, with built-in speakers. These are good for beginners but at the reduced quality my boss couldn't lament.
If you ask the question to my Dad, who has collected records since his first paycheck, at probably a younger age then legal now, quality isn't the main factor. To him, there's a sense of nostalgia to it, but also a more rewarding sense of purchase with a record. He loves the physical element, the size and the shape. He says holding a record actually feels like you've bought something substantial, the artworks bigger and can be appreciated more easily. Where something digital is never ultimately own as you can never hold it. He also doesn't say vinyl, vinyl a trendy marketing word to him.
But besides a better quality, nostalgic and a physical weight to the purchase, other theories have been passed around. Maybe buying vinyl is a reaction with everything going digital lately. There's a social reward to sharing a vinyl or c.d. which most digital music distributors don't let you do. This engaged allows and strengthen bonds between people and give an impression of a fuller appreciation. This social bond can even be a stretched to incorporate the idea that buying something physical is a stronger way of showing your support for that musician, which to some creates a stronger bond with them.
I think all of this needs to be considered when it comes to digital media, as so many apps seek to replace analogue ways of life. That maybe a harmony between the two mediums needs to be considered more carefully as perception and reward could heavily out way convenience.
I'd be curious to see how this weighs up against music streaming services like Spotify. Spotify, maybe considered the future by some, but at this point in time, it is still selling analogue forms like records on its app.
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First it’s just a few curvy lines on paper. Then a grayscale prototype. But the result: https://www.behance.net/gallery/29167443/RightNow-Material-Dashboard?utm_source=tumblr.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=ownsocial
Branding for Deluca Coffee by Christopher Doyle & Co
“We created a unique logomark based around the D and L letterforms found within Deluca, that also references the silhouette of a coffee cup on the machine tray, and the barista’s tools. This mark was then abstracted and used to create a series of supporting illustrations that are applied to product bags, collateral and in-store artwork. To coincide with the rebrand, the cafe underwent a full renovation to complement the new identity.”
Christopher Doyle & Co. is a creative company led by Creative Director, Christopher Doyle. An internationally recognised designer with over 15 years experience, Chris has worked at some of Australia’s leading brand and design agencies. At CD&Co, they work with a diverse range of companies, brands and partners across multiple platforms. They specialise in brand identity including naming and verbal identity, creative direction and digital design.
The UK is about to become one of the world’s foremost surveillance states, allowing its police and intelligence agencies to spy on its own people to a degree that is unprecedented for a...
This Law has been in place in the UK for nearly a month now and it is hard to view it with drawing comparisons to the novel 1984 by George Orwell. In this novel, he theorises a future fascist state where the government has all the control and watches everything. The UK government now has the unwarranted access to all the citizen's internet history and makes internet network providers hold onto this information and delete it after a year.
The thing, however, we share most of our lives online anyway. Through countless different social media apps like Facebook, Instagram, Youtube, Snapchat, Twitter, Tumblr and much more. Online privacy isn't the same as it used to be, with the privacy settings on most people's social media accounts generally ignored. Older users on social media seem to a lot more concerned with making sure only they're friends and family can see what they are doing. So if a government really wanted to watch they're citizens investing in a community-based social media platform would probably wrinkle a lot fewer feathers.
I'm curious to see how apps like Snapchat will handle this type of law, given the premise of their app is that everything things deleted after 10 seconds or in the case of the story feature 24hrs. Facebook messenger is also playing around with this idea for a more private chat and there's A south Korean version of Snapchat taking over Asia., while Instagram also has a 24hr story feature that deletes content as well.
It will be interesting to see the first case in which this law is used, will it be there to take down hackers and terrorist, or simply used by the government to do whatever needs to be done.
Virtual Reality even though it has been around for a long time, is becoming the most prominent form of technology that companies are focusing on to usher in the next revolution in how we use technology.
Social media giants like Facebook are backing it, using it to expand on communications with Oculus Rift. Google are using VR, making some of the most easily accessible devices to first-time users with Daydream. Microsoft, are taking the biggest leap with VR technology and if successful, they will redefine how we interact with technology and make screens a thing of the past.
The problem with VR and especially in its early days is that VR can be used as a cheap gimmick. This has been exploited in the past when the technology was more expensive and less likely to be used day to day.
This is what my fear is, for how Playstation is handling VR. Playstations are the game consoles that are in most households nowadays. In the console market, they are rivalled only by Microsofts Xbox. PSVR, maybe the first interaction a mass audience might have with VR, outside of mobile and so far the reviews aren't good.
PSVR is taking the VR and applying it with older failed hardware in order to cash in on VR market. They are using some of their top selling franchises, like Batman Arkham Asylum, but not creating any games they break new ground. The PSVR could reach a lot of people soon as it could be at the bottom of many Christmas tree's this year. If these users only experience VR as a gimmick, it could drastically set it back when the truly great version come on the market. VR is on its way to do great things, hopefully, the mediocre first steps on versions like PSVR don't hinder it.
PlayStation VR (Zero Punctuation) a crudely unforgiving review below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8BpSSsMH34
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