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be jackson pollock

No comments Art + Design + Interface

An email with an hyperlink, a blank page and voilà I’m Jackson Pollock! Go create: jacksonpollock.org btw: here’s where you use flash and a .org domain. Here’s my first e-pollock: Via Aníbal Estrella

social networks: eleven things you don't want to do

One comment Barcelona + Design + Interface + Marketing

I’ve just seen on TV the ad for terminalb.org, the self procclaimed “public domain database of design, architecture, image and advertising creativity in Barcelona” created by the ADG-FAD from Barcelona, build by Double You and publicly funded. I went there and I was astonished to see the implementation of the site. ...

websites as graphs

No comments Design + Interface

A cool Java Applet lets you see your website’s HTML tag hierarchy. The graphs use colors to represent the different HTML tags (blue for links, green for divs, yellow for forms) that your site uses to lay out your content. It’s a useful tool for seeing how your site is arranged. Get ...

blogging beauty

No comments Blogosphere + Design + Interface

It’s not all about contents in the the blogosphere. Here’s a top ten of blog design by Elliott Back. Elliot, a senior Computer Science at Cornell University (remember Carl Sagan?) who claims that he will change the word, has put togehter a subjective top ten of well designed blogs. For your viewing ...

cee-lo + danger mouse = gnarls barkley

No comments Animation + Design + Music + Videoclips

Cee-Lo and Danger Mouse teaming up for a great song Crazy. The videoclip even better! I don’t know these guys too well but the videoclip is awesome. Gnarls Barkley’s website: http://www.gnarlsbarkley.com/ Gnarls Barkley’s Myspace: http://www.myspace.com/gnarlsbarkley

build your own web 2.0 website

No comments Design + Interface

Over the months I’ve noticed some aesthetic and functional aspects in web 2.0 projects. Here’s a checklist to help you make your own.  Use rounded boxes everywhere Make it a one person project Use apple green or sea blue as primary colors on your website Use Trebuchet MS as the font for your website Use ...

brochures from the information age

No comments Design + Marketing

The Computer History Museum has a beautiful on-line exhibition of computer brochures since the 50s. Good source of inspiration for all you space-age music lovers. The brochures showed here (just a fraction of the Museum’s holdings in this area) show some of the more important technologies, companies, and applications in computing ...

online comic strips

No comments Design + Interface

A simple and fun comic strip generator that will keep you amused for hours. The simplicity of the interface, the excellent graphic design of characters and objects make StripGenerator one of those projects that set a milestone in anyone’s personal internet story. Just go to the StripGenerator website, play for a while ...

3gsm: the b-sides

No comments Design + Interface + Mobility + The real world

Flip the business card, browse and discover. New trends in business cards usability. Business card exchange is cool. We all learnt this from American Psycho. In some cultures such as the Japanese, it is almost a ritual where you show respect and interest for the person you’re meeting. But the times they are-a-changing. ...

teamwork that doesn't work in spain

No comments Advertising + Design + Languages + Photography

Metaphors have different meanings in different cultures. Here’s the perfect example. February, 2006. Sun Microsistems use a picture of the Catalan “castellers” (human towers) as a metaphor of team working in most homepages of their international corporate websites (see picture below). Here are some sites where you can see the picture of ...

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