Just like you shouldn’t start building a project from scratch, you shouldn’t start crafting a wireframe out of a blank canvas as well. The place where you should start is here:
Great looking stencil kits for building everything from iPhone, browser, facebook, MacOS apps – even Blackberry. Preview the iPhone kit below
A fantastic snapshot of the current web design trends by Smashing Magazine:
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/05/04/web-design-trends-2010/
A nice little brush set containing hand-drawn arrows for that sketchy feel in your design.
http://finner.deviantart.com/art/Sketchy-Arrow-Brushes-59096138
Also in the pack: Sketchy Marks and Sketchy Text
And the mother of them all: Hand-drawn-photoshop-brushes-collection
Less than a month since Kinect’s launch, people are already experimenting with a hacked driver of the Kinect sensor. These include capturing 3d video, 3d object recognition and interactive puppeting. At the moment I haven’t seen full 3d video capturing, and I regard those online experiments as 2.5D as they are only getting the side facing the sensor. But any moment now someone’s gonna link an array of them together to get nearly-full 3d video. That would be awesome.
Keep track of these projects at http://openkinect.org/wiki/Gallery
ZEROING from andrey nepomnyaschev on Vimeo.
Direction & animation by
Andrey Nepomnyaschev
www.anep.ru
Sound design by
Studio Takt
www.studio-takt.com
Thanks to Makiko Itoh for translating Satoshi’s last words. It is definitely long and rambling as she claimed, but I found it an easy reading. Being an animator and also someone who tends to surround myself with work, makes me rethink.
A refreshing version of World War II told on Facebook.
A novelette by my favorite sci-fi author, Stephen Baxter. Read it online at
http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/stories/moon6.htm
In 40 pages, Baxter discusses alternate universes and speculates worlds without the advent of Nasa.
Love the graphics in this website. You can navigate through the amazingly detailed town and even build your own room. The UI design is intuitive and the transitions between the many context menus are smooth and polished.
A car with flexible skin and movable metal structures beneath. Theoratically, you an better customize the look of your car, it is scratch resistant and it probably costs less to change the entire “cover” too. But the best part is that it also consumes much less energy to manufacture these compared to full metal casings. Safety is not an issue because crash damping and structural integrity is handled by the frame. Love the lights.