Posts tagged as "design"
Are there any web masterpieces?
My colleague and friend Miemo Penttinen gave a presentation about his experiences of his trip to South by Southwest (the nerd version, not the cool music one) and he was talking about Cennydd Bowles‘ presentation titled Beauty in Web Design. Mr. Bowles’ presentation touched on the subject on why the web isn’t beautiful and how [...]
Why content is so important?
This post in my web 101 series will be short, because this came up again in a workshop yesterday.. Most house-builders and constructors don’t really care about the sofa you had planned for your living room. They’re in the industry of building houses. True, too often we need to furnish our houses according to the [...]
Gorilla viewing glasses
Just like dogs and good people, Gorillas have been taught not to stare. Since a lot of humans are a bit retarded and spend time in animal-staring sanctuaries, we have spent our knowledge and unbelievable brain power to make pieces of cardboard that have pictures of eyes in them – and a hole we can [...]
Spam’s electric bill? $3 Billion USD
Antivirus and web security company McAfee commissioned a research project from ICF International to measure the ecological effect of spam e-mails. Of course, it’s all about the carbon footprint now and everybody is up to the challenge. Now if only we could have a company to sell us a software that kills sp… oh, yeah. [...]
Amazingly fruity product packaging
The lords at Toxel provide us with great inspiration again, this time with Japanese designer Naoto Fukasawa who designed this: The designer explained his design aesthetic by stating: “I imagined that if the surface of the package imitated the colour and texture of the fruit skin, then the object would reproduce the feeling of the [...]
eBooks, Kindle and the iPhone
Today I made a leap towards a future I’ve been supporting for a long time, but something I have been reluctant to start enjoying – electronic books. For a long time, I’ve been on a personal mission to reduce my use of paper by embracing everything digital – be it all my writing, mind mapping, [...]
Last week on Varha.com from 30th March – 5th April
If you didn’t have time to read all the posts last week – here’s a simple summary for you to enjoy your Monday with! GDC: Mass Effect 2 Leaked Footage Posted on Monday, March 30th, 2009 in Euphemisms of Markus GDC: Mass Effect 2 Leaked Footage | Gossip Gamers.Mass Effect quickly became one of the [...]
Inspired in slow motion
Here’s some awesome slow motion videos for your inspirational pleasure to get ready for a relaxing weekend. I was watching my friend Mete’s production company Look Mama‘s show reel (you need to put it online, dudes!). They had amazing footage shot with high-speed cameras of various things exploding from speakers to doors with hinges and [...]
Dude, where’s my electric car?
As I’ve said earlier, I like gadgets, new technologies and all things related to those. I think one of the coolest gadgets lately have been electric and hybrid cars. Finally they are starting to come out looking less than a Tupperware box and more like a spaceship. Who doesn’t like spaceships? When Tesla came out [...]
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