Excentro is a simple but advanced tool that can create guilloche designs like backgrounds, borders or rosettes.
The guilloches are vintage design elements that were frequently used for anti-counterfeiting security purposes on banknotes, passports, checks and certificates during the past two hundred years. As the times changed and digital copy and printing technologies perfected, guilloches no longer presented sufficient security measures that could prevent forging and counterfeiting of valuable papers. Today the main part of security technology lies in the special paper or tricky inks the designs are printed upon or with.
Still, it is too early to say that the days of guilloche designs are over. They can still be used to prevent the counterfeiting of products that do not require the highest level of security (i.e. theater tickets, diplomas or gift certificates). Or, they can just be used to decorate and add some aesthetic value to a product giving the ‘money-like’ look and value.
Despite the rise of ebooks, the interest in cover design and the look of physical books is probably stronger than ever. The rate of books being published grows ever higher, and they all need covers, even if it's just a thumbnail for a Kindle edition on Amazon.
Cover designers the world over have access, via online art databases and stock libraries, to a vast array of images that can be used to decorate and, with any luck, sell books. Unfortunately, all those designers tend to have access to the same databases and libraries, which means you sometimes end up with books which feature photographs that look strangely familiar…
This is (almost) everything I learned in design school in one website. Getting a design degree is not a waste of time. In fact, it's one of the best decisions I've ever made. However, most people aren't as lucky to have the sort of professors I did. Some people don't have the access, the ability, or the time to go to school for this stuff. And frankly, that 10-week design intensive is not going to make you a fantastic designer right out of the gate. You need something more.
You have to be self-sufficient. You have to be hungry to learn.
That's why this website exists. This is a list of everything I've found useful in my journey of learning design, and an ongoing list of things I think you should read. This is for budding UX, UI, Interaction, or whatever other title designers.
An open source collection of 20+ computational design tools for Clojure & Clojurescript by Karsten Schmidt.
In active development since 2012, and totalling almost 39,000 lines of code, the libraries address concepts related to many displines, from animation, generative design, data analysis / validation / visualization with SVG and WebGL, interactive installations, 2d / 3d geometry, digital fabrication, voxel modeling, rendering, linked data graphs & querying, encryption, OpenCL computing etc.
Many of the thi.ng projects (especially the larger ones) are written in a literate programming style and include extensive documentation, diagrams and tests, directly in the source code on GitHub. Each library can be used individually. All projects are licensed under the Apache Software License 2.0.
[ About Re:Sound Bottle -second mix- ]
Experimental sound medium that transforms recorded everyday sounds into music
[ Concept ]
• Allows anyone to create music using sounds from daily life
• Communication that arises from intuitive sound interaction
The conventional way of experiencing music is usually through existing technologies such as the ipod or the radio. However, this style of experiencing music takes place in a given form; is static and as a result leaves us dissatisfied.
To really enjoy music, we need to find music through sounds around us. We need to stop being tied down with new gadgets that provide the music for us, but to search for music ourselves.
A series of ideas like these lead me to create this device.
This creation's main concept is to record sounds from daily life. It is the concept of ‘collecting sounds in a bottle’. You choose the sounds collected in the bottle. Using everyday sounds as a musical component establishes a new understanding of the sounds we listen to everyday. By collecting your own sampling of sounds, you encounter a unique piece of music that can be experienced only once.
This device will bring a smile to anyone, as many will be able to experience the charm of music, leading them to turn music into something they love and adore.
Created by Jun Fujiwara
https://gist.github.com/nickloewen/10565777
This is a plain-text version of Bret Victor’s reading list.
In 1991, Cuba's economy began to implode. "The Special Period in the Time of Peace" was the government's euphemism for what was a culmination of 30 years worth of isolation. It began in the 60s, with engineers leaving Cuba for America. Ernesto Oroza, a designer and artist, studied the innovations created during this period. He found that the general population had created homespun, Frankenstein-like machines for their survival, made from everyday objects. Oroza began to collect these machines, and would later contextualize it as "art" in a movement he dubbed "Technological Disobedience."
Apparently Cuban President Raul Castro is currently shaming the corrupt by passing around confession videos of busted officials to the rest of the country’s elite. This brand of viral justice is a particularly creative application of technology in Cuba, which at once makes me think of Cuban-American artist Ernesto Oroza.
Oroza has spent much of his time studying the technological innovations that popped up during “The Special Period in the Time of Peace,” the Cuban government’s euphemism for the 90s collapse of the country’s economy that’d been set up for thirty years of isolation. He found scores of homebrew, DIY machines that citizens made to get by when no other options existed. In 2010, Motherboard visited Oroza in Miami to talk about his discoveries and the mass of brilliant creations made by Cuba’s DIY inventors.
Cuba’s inventor culture has its roots in the 70s, when a group of revolutionary-minded scientists and mechanics formed the National Association of Innovators and Rationalizers (ANIR). Building on the ethos of Che Guevara, ANIR untied hacker-minded folk with the needs of an isolated economy and the call of a socialist revolution. Oroza showed us his meticulous collection of machines from this era, which he has contextualized as art pieces in a movement he calls “Technological Disobedience.”
Originally aired on Motherboard in 2011. Read the full article here:
http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/mbtv-the-technological-disobedience-of-ernesto-oroza
Crane.tv is the premium online video magazine for contemporary culture. Devised by an experienced editorial team, its content is aimed at a digital audience of style conscious and culturally curious, global citizens. To date, Crane.tv offers a selection of 500+ videos, showcasing the latest and the best on its five magazine channels - Art, Design, Fashion, Lifestyle and Travel. An international editorial team of leading video-makers and lifestyle-scouts produces the high-calibre content, featuring new talents.
Make your Franklin is international, bearer of a cultural reflexion.
With this mind, Make your Franklin suggest each of you to
suggest each of you to re-create a symbol of modern society : the 100$
Dribbble is show and tell for creatives.
Cutting Edge Audio/Visual Synesthesia, Experimental Motiongraphics, and Visual Effects.
Ever pause and hold the handle, wondering what you might find waiting for you on the other side of the door? Like a little real-life snow globe, interior scenes are captured in real time and reflected as a miniature world for you to view before you decide
Curated audiovisual content from the global underground. We are a new media platform showcasing exclusive underground content from artists across the world.
As a designer it is important to understand where design came from, how it developed, and who shaped its evolution. The more exposure you have to past, current and future design trends, styles and designers, the larger your problem-solving toolkit. The la
Ubuntu software for designers and developers
French designer
Kickstarter is a funding platform for artists, designers, filmmakers, musicians, journalists, inventors, explorers...
Freshbump is a daily visual inspiration source for industries including, but not limited to: Advertising, Architecture, Computer Arts, Graphic Design, Illustration, Industrial Design, Interior Design, and Photography.
This site is dedicated to hunting and exposing similar advertising ideas from around the world. Shameless copycats or unfortunate coincidences?
Welcome to 'you thought we wouldn't notice' a site dedicated to pointing out those things that give you that feeling of 'haven't I seen that somewhere before?"
What initially sounds quite abstract, in reality, is mostly practical in that her creations are not generated on a computer but rather by meticulous handwork, sometimes incorporating the most mundane materials.
Axel Peemoeller developed a way-finding-system for the Eureka Tower Carpark while working for Emery Studio. The distored letters on the wall can be read perfectly when standing at the right position. This project won several international design awards.
A place to bookmark and savour quality type-related images and quotes. Think of it as FFFFound for all things type, typography, lettering, & signage.
Modern contemporary design & architecture
Make Your Own Handwriting Font With Your Fonts. YourFonts.com is a free online font generator that allows you to create your own OpenType fonts within a couple of minutes. Go make your own handwriting as a font!
Notre ambition est simple, devenir la plus grosse base de sites aux couleurs criardes, aux bannieres omnipresentes, aux gifs animes en surnombre, etc. Aidez nous a recenser ce qui se fait de mieux en matiere de mauvais gout.
Le magazine des musiques et des cultures qui ne tiennent pas en place.
kokkugia works across scales on design projects in a range of fields including architecture, urban design and industrial design. kokkugia's ongoing design research involves the creation of generative design methodologies..
A book that summarizes how the technology of interaction came into being and prescribes how it will advance in the future. Written by the designer who was there, who helped make it happen, who pioneered the digital revolution
Community of artists and those devoted to art. Digital art, skin art, themes, wallpaper art, traditional art, photography, poetry / prose. Art prints.
A blog on ikea hacks
Architecture and design magazine
The design aggregator
Idealist is a platform for designers and creators to publish and share their creativity, get feedback from the community and increase the popularity of their ideas. Idealist is all about ideas, concepts, sketches, designs and new products.
A daily collectives on arts, design, graphic, fashion and photography.
RSS reader in flash
Icon is one of the world's finest architecture and design magazines. Every month we interview the most exciting architects and designers in the world, visit the best new buildings, analyse the most interesting new cultural movements and technologies, an
Personal site of Hi-Res art director Carl Burgess.
ALAVs 2.0 (Autonomous Light Air Vessels) are networked objects that communicate the concept of connectivity among people, objects, and the environment.
Electronic motion seems often artificial, synthetic... well... in fact it does not convey any emotions. By defining new rules to create movements, eMotion is a new kind of software made for visual live animations. As it is based on real world physics law,
The Behance team studies exceptionally productive people and teams working across creative fields. We document the methods and resources that productive creative professionals use to push their ideas forward.
Art, architecture and design blog
NYC based motion gaphics and animation studio
Inhabitat.com is a weblog devoted to the future of design, tracking the innovations in technology, practices and materials that are pushing architecture and home design towards a smarter and more sustainable future.
Territory for design(AND/AS/FOR/FROM)research via Rhinoscripting
materialicious is a weblog featuring residential architecture, design, craftsmanship, materials and products.
Blog of design by Tina Roth Eisenberg
Gabriel Uribe Portfolio
Theodore Watson is an interactive artist and designer living in Amsterdam.
A documentary about art, design, street art with Ed Templeton, Margaret Kilgallen, Geoff McFetridge, Mike Mills, Shepard Fairey http://www.beautifullosers.com/
The NO!SPEC campaign: Serves as a vehicle to unite those who support the notion that spec work devalues the potential of design and ultimately does a disservice to the client.
Design, illustration, advertising blog
VLU is devoted to contemporary art & design.
Your daily dose of design inspiration
Typographic studies
Design webzine
TWENTY1F (or 21F) is a group of designers, researchers, artists and technologists pushing the boundaries of fashion. They are committed to exploring and documenting the redefinition of the body and society through the hybridization of clothing and techno.
Better Living Through Design is an e-magazine dedicated to providing a resource to people interested in great design.
We aim to provide all the information a user will need to make an intelligent purchasing decision. productdose covers the style, design, and technology trends that interest our readers, and the magazine offers in-depth reviews of consumer products
Bienvenue sur oeil pour oeil, un blogue publie par la Societe des Designers Graphiques du Quebec (SDGQ) qui se consacre a la reflexion et l actualite dans le domaine du design graphique a l echelle locale et internationale.
Canada's first bilingual webzine dedicated to global design
Artist from Chile
Image Blog of art and design
[foam]'s expertise and interests cover the interstices between artistic and scientific, physical and digital, professional and cultural boundaries.
Multi-touch interaction design
L'agenda des cultures electroniques.
Design news and inspiration
Design and technology blog from Japan
The blog from Akinori Oishi, graphic artist
FIELD PROCESS is the portfolio site of Singapore-based graphic designer Abdul Basit Khan. Previously, Khan worked at the Design Incubation Centre (2007 – 2011)
Notes on installation art, performance art, interactive art, digital art, web art, theater, cinema, painting, sculpture, and more, and more, and more
things magazine was originally founded in 1994 by a group of writers and historians based at the Victoria & Albert Museum/Royal College of Art in the belief that objects can open up new ways of understanding the world.
Art and design magazine
The works of Roel Wouters
esono.com is the design studio of Prof. Boris Muller. While the studio is just a desk in Berlin, Boris has the great pleasure to work with fantastic people on interactive and often experimental projects.
Writings about design & culture
TreeHugger is the leading media outlet dedicated to driving sustainability mainstream. Partial to a modern aesthetic, we strive to be a one-stop shop for green news, solutions, and product information.
A visual filtration of ideas+aesthetics+amusement.
Really nice interface
Studied at the Rotterdam art academy after three years of architecture at the university of Delft. Asides doing performances and installations he started making work for the internet in 1997
Story Driven Design
Doors of Perception (Doors) is an international conference and knowledge network which sets new agendas for design - in particular, the design agenda for information and communication technologies (ICTs). Five conferences have been organised since 1993
Scriptographer is a scripting plugin for Adobe Illustrator. It gives the user the possibility to extend Illustrator's functionality by the use of the JavaScript language.
people create art with viscosity
Public Access is about live, be it live music, performance, creation or whatever form of expression that makes people gather together and share a moment of their life.
design interactive video
Loop.pH specialise in the design and research of environmentally responsive textiles & structures for the built environment.
Kontakt aims at actively supporting the social and cultural transformation processes in Central and Eastern Europe. We would like to bring the people of this region together to work on common ideas and perspectives.
DESTRUCTED.INFO IS AN ART AND DESIGN MAG IN .PDF FORMAT.
ANTI Magazine aims to showcase outstanding visual content as an online magazine and also through future exhibitions all around the world. CONTENT:
Portfolio of Art Director Diego Zambrano, focused on designing experiences and emotional relationship with the product. Advertainment to sell dreams, not products!
Droog is a brand and a mentality: design of products that do what they should and think about why they're doing it in the first place: function? fun? wit? criticism? All of the above? Droog is a curatorial collection of exclusive products,.
Composer - Sound Designer, installation Artist, Interactive System Designer
Abstraction today is no longer that of the map, the double, the mirror or the concept. Simulation is no longer that of a territory, a referential being or substance. It is the generation of models of a real without origin or reality: a hyperreal.
rAndom International is a London based design collective that was founded by Stuart Wood, Flo Ortkrass and Hannes Koch in 2002.