A good read on this broad topic is the excellent book from Donald D. Hoffmann: Visual Intelligence: How We Create What We See
LEGO – Imagine by Jung von Matt | Great example of our visual intelligence
Tag: books
Where Children Sleep | Portraits and Pictures by James Mollison
Stories of children around the world, told through portraits and pictures of their bedrooms.
Found by Colleen.
Newspeak – narrow the range of thought | Hate it | this isn’t happiness
What was the last reality that you made up? | ARE ARTISTS LIARS? | Great article by Ian Leslie
Collection of Art by Moebius: quenched consciousness / one of my visual heros / found by @bang1000
Wonderful gallery of vintage Czechoslovakian book covers at 50 Watts / RT @brainpicker
via 50watts.com
Real Hyper Threads in a Book (Traumgedanken) – by Maria Fischer
c60 Redux from I Miss My Pencil / making music tangible again
via vimeo.com
just one of the many beautiful experiments….
see Michael’s thoughts: http://michaelhendrix.blogspot.com/2010/12/music-industry-hack-yourself.html
Core 77 writes about it here: http://www.core77.com/blog/object_culture/core77_exclusive_ideos_i_miss_my_pe…
visit the site: http://www.imissmypencil.com/
or buy the book… it’s worth it.
20 Things I Learned About Browsers and the Web / by the Google Chrome team / RT @geoffbrown
Designing Media – new book by Bill Moggridge – all Interviews online (with e.g. Wales, Anderson, Zuckerberg, Nussbaum, Rosling)
Don’t miss this new book and website from Bill (who? here: http://www.fastcodesign.com/1662670/ideo-co-founder-bill-moggridge-wins-2010-…
Here’s an overview of the chapters and people Bill interviewed:
1 HERE TO STAY
Interviews with Paul Saffo, James Truman, Chris Anderson, Neil Stevenson, and DJ Spooky
2 YES WE CAN
Interviews with Jimmy Wales, Craig Newmark, Tim Westergren, Blixa Bargeld with Erin Zhu, Airside, and Roger McNamee
3 NEW CONNECTIONS
Interviews with Jorge Just, Chad Hurley, Alexandra Juhasz, Bob Mason with Jeremy Merle, Ev Williams, and Mark Zuckerberg
4 BOTH WORLDS
Interviews with Joel Hyatt, Bruce Nussbaum, Jessie Scanlon, Jane Friedman, Martin Eberhard, and Rich Archuleta
5 CONTENT IS KING
Interviews with Arthur Sulzberger Jr., Alice Rawsthorn, Ira Glass, and Colin Callender
6 LET THE TRUTH BE TOLD
Interviews with David Fanning, Mark Gerzon, Shinichi Takemura, and Hans Rosling with Ola Rosling and Anna Rosling Rönnlund
NZ Book Council – Going West – beautiful animation
via youtube.com
If you like that, don’t miss this: http://centripetalnotion.com/2007/09/13/13:26:26
Exactitudes: Versluis and Uyttenbroek provide an almost scientific, anthropological record of people’s attempts to distinguish themselves from others by assuming a group identity…
via exactitudes.com
If you have a chance – get this book.
All info about it here: http://www.exactitudes.com/
Thanks Lionel for reminding me…
Third World Hands and the Denial of History | NO CAPTION NEEDED
MOBILE ART LAB. — モバイル表現研究所 — PhoneBook
via mobileart.jp
Mia, thanks so much for sharing this: “The “Phone Book” pushes the boundaries of interactivity in storytelling. Plus, it’s a great product promo video. Simple, emotional, not a pushy commercial.”
Chimamanda Adichie: The danger of a single story
http://video.ted.com/assets/player/swf/EmbedPlayer.swf
via ted.com
one of my favorite talks from TEDGlobal now online. Listen to her story…
I MISS MY PENCIL
Source: www.imissmypencil.com
It’s a blog, that thinks it’s a website, that thinks it’s the book I Miss My Pencil. And it’s so loopy and schizophrenic, it feels a little like dry humping a cheese grater: at times exciting, sometimes outrageous, and always painful—and in the process, you might ruin a good pair of trousers.
30 Essential Books for Industrial Designers
