Pixar’s 22 Rules of Storytelling
You admire a character for trying more than for their successes. You gotta keep in mind what’s interesting to you as an audience, not what’s fun to do as a writer. They can be very different. Trying for theme is…
Blogs
Online life
Although I’m excited about the #blogg100 initiative, some days it’s harder than others. I guess I haven’t found my method for daily blogging quite yet. I used to be good at this.. Or am I just doing it differently now?…
Saul Bass Pitch Video for Bell System Logo Redesign [Short Film 5]
Incredibly thorough pitch for the redesign of Bell System. For more from the AT&T Archives, visit http://techchannel.att.com/archives Bass’ work in logo design and movie title credit sequences spanned the latter half of the 20th century, with prominent work in each field….
Pictures of People Scanning QR-codes
Brilliant Tumblr blog where the title (as well as the content) says it all.
Mobiles designed for the elderly are not needed
Christopher Nortier, Art Director, and John Ågren, interaction designer, from inUse went to the annual conference NotRation 12 in Dublin, Ireland. Here is their second report from the conference. Samsung asked design agency Vitamins to develop a new mobile phone for the elderly. Vitamins’ user studies showed that something else was needed. Adrian Westaway was working on the project Out of the Box,…
Tiny Story [short film 3]
Good storytelling looks ridiculously easy when it’s done well, but is in fact devilishly hard to pull off. The only way to get better is to practice–and what better way to practice than by forcing yourself to tell a story…
Designing for responsiveness
Designing for responsive websites can be a bit challenging at first because the process is so different. As designers, we’ve gotten used to building pixel-perfect mockups as our web blueprints. But responsive design takes a different approach. A designer’s role…
Vincent Van Gogh interactive animation
Usually when digital artists try to “do something new and digital” with an art masterpiece, things usually go horribly wrong. Not so much for Greek digital artist Petros Vrellis who made this stunning interactive interpretation of Vincent Van Gogh’s masterpiece…
Pears
Pears is a brilliant WordPress theme created by SimpleBits, the creative studio of Dan Cederholm who is also responsible for Dribble (think show and tell for designers). The theme allows anyone to collect, test and experiment with interface pattern pairings of CSS and HTML. If you’re not…
Pinterest and Tumblr
I found some interesting information today looking at the statistics in Google Analytics for the company (that I still work for for a couple more days) website. It turns out that even though I never had the chance to start…