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Pierre-Abraham Rochat
November 19th, 2008
Beautiful and simple illustrations from Pierre-Abraham Rochat’s portfolio. It’s really nice to see someone working in a lot of mediums have a consistent style that spans his work. I’m particularly fond of the 3D scenes, some of which appear to be at least partially vector (maybe entirely). This kind of clean, flat illustration would lend itself well to web design, but it appears that Pierre mostly does print work. Great inspiration.
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Minority Report comes to life
November 15th, 2008
I want one. The most incredible part of this to me is that it only took 6 years to go from a sci-fi movie concept to an actual product. Development of “impossible” gadgets is becoming so fast, at some point the word impossible will just drop it’s prefix. Where will we be in 20 years? In 1988 I was two, the internet didn’t exist, TVs still had picture tubes, and a video watch was the “impossible” device. It turns out that a video watch isn’t very useful, but we’ve done even better: the iPhone or Android not only provide video (and the time), but music, internet, and a platform with limitless possibilities.
It’s hard to imagine the “impossible” gadgets from 2028. My best guess is that most of them will be robotics. Right now, our idea of an impossible robot is WALL-E. We may not be able to cram all of his features into a robot (it’s a cartoon after all), but I think we will have artificial intelligence that is convincing enough that we will have robotic friends, or pets. We will love them, and they will love us.
What impossible gadgets would you like to see in 2028?
Via Fubiz.net
Update: if you want more information about G-Speak visit Oblong
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Book Design
November 12th, 2008
These are some comps from the book that I’ve been designing over the past few months. A more complete case study of the project will follow, after we get mock-ups printed.
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Free Oblivious Poster
November 10th, 2008
Self promotional poster for Sidearm. The illustration is also available as a tshirt in the shop for $15. The poster is available for free in high-resolution (300dpi) 11x17”. Feel free to share it but please link back to this site.
Download: promo.zip
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EventBox
November 9th, 2008
EventBox looks like a promising way to organize all of your social networking into one space. So far, it interfaces with Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, Digg, Pownce, and Reddit. In addition, you get a simple, functional RSS reader. I won’t be spending $20 until they really offer an all-in-one solution, which for me means adding myspace and it would be nice to see virb support as well.
Exclusively on OS X.
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Jenni Potts - Another Way
November 7th, 2008
My friend David Drori just posted this music video he directed for Jenni Potts. David is a film student at Syracuse University in New York. More video at David and Jimmy’s youtube page.
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Werner von Braun - When space travel was still theoretical
November 5th, 2008
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The Audacity of Hope
November 5th, 2008
Two years ago, I read a book that changed my view of what great leadership can be. It’s been a long journey since I read that book, struggling to convince everyone and myself that this was the man that would be our next president. My hope of him winning blinded the cynical and more realistic side of my brain. That’s the audacity of hope.
More photos from Callie Shell and boston.com
Update: I just had to add this one.
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