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Tradigital thinking in graphic design

On August 14, 2010 By

The term “tra­dig­i­tal” art refers to art that is cre­ated by com­bin­ing tra­di­tional and dig­i­tal media. Jim Leggitt’s pre­sen­ta­tion (below) shows you how he employs con­ven­tional draw­ing tech­niques to pro­duce tex­tured, warm, and visu­ally inter­est­ing archi­tec­tural draw­ings using dig­i­tal ren­der­ings from, in the case of this class, the SketchUp 3D program

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Beautiful Houses: House in Ubatuba, Brazil

On August 13, 2010 By

The idea in this series is to show beau­ti­ful and inspir­ing houses. Houses that are remark­able for its design, ele­gance, ele­ments, con­cept or sim­ply because they are beau­ti­ful. So if you like archi­tec­ture, inte­rior design and beau­ti­fully designed houses, you are at the right spot

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Sites of the Week #115

On August 13, 2010 By

For this Sites of the Week we have selected some great sites such as The Com­bine 2010 and Par­tic­i­pa­tory Politics.

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The Best Design Competition List on the Internet — September Edition

On August 13, 2010 By

32 design con­tests & com­pe­ti­tions EDITOR’S PICKS • MAX­topia T-shirt Design Con­test — 29 August 2010 Mother nature meets moth­er­board in this amaz­ing new chal­lenge brought to us by the won­der­ful folks at Adobe. Your chal­lenge is to design an awe­some tee inspired by MAX­topia: the cel­e­bra­tion of nature + tech­nol­ogy! Win­ner gets Adobe CS5 Design Pre­mium, Thread­less voucher for $500, and $2K

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Creative Illusion Portraits — Dan Escobar Constructs Amazing Digital Art (GALLERY)

On August 13, 2010 By

(TrendHunter.com) We live in a world that is depen­dent upon tech­nol­ogy, and even art can be dig­i­tal­ized to bring more life into it.

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Computerized Game Calls — The NFL is Considering Switching to Microchipped Footballs

On August 13, 2010 By

(TrendHunter.com) The future of pro­fes­sional foot­ball may lie in microchipped foot­balls. The NFL is cur­rently talk­ing with Ger­man com­pany Cairos Tech­nolo­gies about imple­ment­ing ball-tracking advance­ments into the league.…

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Cell Phone Dryers — The Dryer Box Salvages Soaked Cellulars

On August 12, 2010 By

(TrendHunter.com) Save your wet cell phone from a watery grave with the Dryer Box. The Dryer Box is a mys­te­ri­ous piece of tech­nol­ogy from JMC Risk Solu­tions that can report­edly reverse the effects of water dam­age on a phone.…

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High-Tech Hybrid: Hanging Lights + Digital Photo Frames

On August 12, 2010 By

Sus­pended like mod­ern chan­de­liers, these multi-sized light­ing designs com­bine the tech­nol­ogy of a dig­i­tal pho­to­graph frame with the multi-directional light sup­plied by a more typ­i­cal fix­ture. The result: an ele­gant mix of dynamic mem­o­ries and use­ful lights. The small size fea­tures two cir­cles com­posed of six frames, each stor­ing a giga­byte of pho­to­graphic (or other image) mate­r­ial that can be dis­played as a sta­tic series of rotat­ing set of visuals.

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Dwell Reports » Up to the Task

On August 12, 2010 By

by Aaron Britt Whether wrought from molded alu­minum or the lat­est techno-mesh, few seats work harder than the sturdy desk chair. We worked a few over.

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Crazy FLIP ship designed to change its orientation–from horizontal to vertical

On August 12, 2010 By

This has got to be the weird­est ocean­go­ing ves­sel I’ve ever seen: The FLIP (Float­ing Instru­ment Plat­form) was a ship appar­ently built in 1962 as a research plat­form. After being towed to its tar­get site in a hor­i­zon­tal, nor­mal ship posi­tion, bal­last tanks begin tak­ing on water–and the ship piv­ots 90 degrees, send­ing the bow some 300 feet below the sur­face, while the tail end rides above the waves, bristling with cranes pre­sum­ably used to lower equip­ment. Why the pivot

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