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And another video…

In case this is news… This is the senior project of Bang-yao Liu at Savannah College of Art and Design. It’s a stop-motion short created with a TON of post-it notes. Nice.

Link courtesy of: Core77

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Video for the day

cup-video

Peter Pinnell stands in front of a camera and speaks on this video for about thirty minutes about art, cups, intimacy, context, and more. Here’s a brief example:

  • We’ll look at things that we won’t nudge with our foot.
  • We’ll nudge things with our foot that we won’t pick up in our hand.
  • We’ll pick things up in our hand that we won’t put up to our mouth.
  • We’ll put things to our mouth that we won’t put in our mouth.

Interesting stuff. Link courtesy of: CSS-Tricks

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Welcome Rodney Johnson

Please welcome Rodney. As a reminder to any new member sign-ups, I’ll have to create a post for you (as you) for your profile to show up on the Member page.

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Welcome (back) Rafael

Please welcome back Rafael Calderon! After an adventure in Houston for the past year or so, Rafael has clicked his heels together three times and realized that there’s no place like home (in Tallahassee).

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Redesign (story) for the day

redesign

An interface designer has a crappy experience on the American Airlines site, so he decides to offer up a redesign… and then gets a nice response from one of the UX architects at American.

The gist of the response… “But–and I guess here’s the thing I most wanted to get across–simply doing a home page redesign is a piece of cake. You want a redesign? I’ve got six of them in my archives. It only takes a few hours to put together a really good-looking one, as you demonstrated in your post. But doing the design isn’t the hard part, and I think that’s what a lot of outsiders don’t really get, probably because many of them actually do belong to small, just-get-it-done organizations. But those of us who work in enterprise-level situations realize the momentum even a simple redesign must overcome, and not many, I’ll bet, are jumping on this same bandwagon. They know what it’s like.”

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Failure for the day

scherIf I ever taught graphic design, this article would be required reading. BTW, if you read all the way to the bottom, you’ll find a video link to her TED presentation titled “Great design is serious (not solemn).” Oh, and if you ever have to speak in public and the mic is built into the podium, NEVER hold the remote in your hand and have it make inadvertent clicking sounds against the podium while you’re speaking.

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QR Codes: I'm In The Matrix Now

Wikipedia tells us that QR code is “matrix code (or two-dimensional bar code)” that can be read by phone cameras. This graphic qr1 is my “mobile tagged” name, CCLA phone number, and email address. It was generated from my iPhone Contacts with the Optiscan iPhone QR Scanner and Generator iPhone app.

More about this from The Librarian’s Bane – “QR Codes storing addresses and URLs may appear in magazines, on signs, buses, business cards or just about any object that users might need information about. Users with a camera phone equipped with the correct reader software can scan the image of the QR Code causing the phone’s browser to launch and redirect to the programmed URL. This act of linking from physical world objects is known as a hardlink or physical world hyperlinks.”

QR codes are used on wine bottles, signs, and lots of other stuff.