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I love the digital displays at the Ron Arad exhibition, which has just opened at the Barbican Art Gallery. The ethereal images which float across the screens are a beautiful counterpoint the the translucent physicality of the displays themselves, and of course to the rugged elegance of Ron Arad's... read more

tags: design, digital, exhibition, Gallery, installation, motion, screen

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File this one under 'online tools for web designers'. its a useful resource to help calculate the optimum size for your web designs. It factors in screen sizes and browser borders (or chromes) and gives you a set of sizes and the amount of users you can expect to hit. Wont be big news to most ... read more

tags: community, design, digital, education

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Yet another age old problem being tackled by digital media: the naming of little 'uns. A simple concept executed flawlessly, a great interface which just cries out to be used. I just love watching the nodes drift around the screen, although i'm not currently on the look out for baby names so i... read more

tags: baby, collaborate, digital, interactive, interface, Internet, names

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Another simple little online game with impeccable physics simulations. There's not much more to say than that, it's pool, it's online. It's very diverting. OK, there's no multiplayer mode (which there used to be). OK, there's only one mode of play. OK, the interface is loud and lacks some subt... read more

tags: competition, digital, entertainment, game, interactive

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I can't quite remember where i heard about this originally (possibly www.crackunit.com ) but this is the bespoke end of the Boomkat Records online presence. Basically you get a hand picked selection of records—14 to be precise—usually wrapped around a theme, and usually quite a specific theme... read more

tags: audio, digital, download, entertainment, mp3, music, shop, social

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Recently met these very interesting guys down at CASA – the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis at UCL. They were responsible for the Virtual London model. Just a great blog crammed with urban visual experiments, playing with mash-ups, tutorials and 3D tube maps in all dimensions and colours. read more

tags: blog, digital, how-to, london, mapping, tutorials, urban

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I felt I should draw attention to the new Fabrica website. Strangely, the new site was NOT designed by the Fabrica Interactive team, headed by Andy Cameron. Apparently this new site has been designed by the newfangled 'Fabrica Development Team'. Perhaps Daniel Hirschmann (ex Fabrica webmaster, an... read more

tags: benetton, campaign, colors, creativity, cultural, design, digital, Fabrica, fabricanti, interactive, interface, magazine, redesign, website

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Do you remember how we were all told, a few years ago, about the wonderful idea of 'convergence'? Your tv and you computer would soon blur into on single device, with shared content, better pictures, more handsome actors and on converged tv it would always be sunny. Me too, and although it sti... read more

tags: design, digital, entertainment, interface, poke, usability, website

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Bill Moggridge, celebrated cofounder of product design company IDEO, is Chairing a quite staggering array of speakers and events for the Connecting07 World Design Congress in San Francisco. This is a biannual affair, hosted by the International Council of Societies of Industrial Design (Icsid)... read more

tags: 2007, community, conference, creativity, design, digital, education, event, information, world

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