Idée Inc – A company that develops advanced identification and visual search software – has extracted the colors from 10 million of the most interesting Creative Commons images on Flickr. It uses a visual similarity technology that allows you to intuitively navigate the collection by picking a color. It’s incredibly functional and the colors really match:
And you can add how many different colors you might want.
I think it’s great when you have such a technology over a cool image bank. If you want to develop a corporate identity system that uses pictures only in some pre-determinate colors, for example.
I was invited by MAC+ Magazine – the main brazilian publication focused on Apple goodies – to come up with a nice concept illustration for the new iPhone 3G and its newest major feature: the AppStore.
Briefing, brainstorm, first concept draft.
The hard work. None of the iPhone images provided by Apple Press Center would fit my desired layout. I then made a vector illustration from ground zero:
From Illustrator to Photoshop. Here is the complete Illustration+Layout.
Translation:The magic of iPhone – We’ve tested the new Apple’s launch and it’s proven: It’s faster, the GPS works, The AppStore is great, and, when it arrives in Brazil, it’ll be a success.
Also, I could never give enough thanks to Louie Mantia, for having helped me out on the final composition. As a fan of whis work, I’ve featured most of his wonderful app icons on the final layout. I’ve just talked to him this morning by email, and he asked me a copy of the magazine. =)
MAC+ #27 has just been published and can be found in any big book/magazine store in Brazil. If you prefer to order a subscription, you can do it here (in portuguese).
That’s it. Can’t wait to get my iPhone 3G, 16gb. Hope that happens soon. =)
Tom Giannattasio of Smashing Magazine asks, ‘Is time kickin’ your ass?’ and offers his Top 10 Killer Photoshop Combo Moves to help you defend yourself! Unfortunately, in spite of its accompanying graphic depicting a MacBook Pro, the article assumes you’re using Photoshop CS3 on Windows. If you mentally replace ‘Ctrl’ with ‘Command’ and ‘Alt’ with ‘Option,’ you should be fine.
These tips should help keyboard shortcut fanatics save even more time. If you have any trouble getting any of these to work, please feel free to comment.
I was just wondering if it is indeed easier to post right from a mac blog client, rather than from the online blog admin section.
So i just googled “blog client for mac” and Mars Edit showed up as one of the firsts on the list. I’m giving it a try – right now i’m using it to make this post.
Although it’s a beautiful icon, I’m not a real fan of it… As my friend Everaldo always says, some icons kinda miss the opportunity of being better designed. Anyway, it’s still a cool icon and the application seems to be very functional and easy to use.
Let’s see if MarsEdit ends up being my definite blog client. =)
I’m now on twitter too. I don’t twitt a lot. I mean, just enough to keep my online addictions. =) Using Twitterrific on the iPhone has made it a really easy and funny thing. If you happen to be there in the blue bird’s land, let’s meet. Follow me here.
I’m now searching for one of those wordpress/twitter updates plugin to embed here. Twitter is cool.
Volkswagen made an interesting use of number types for its electronic gear box. Simple and absolutely effective, it conveys the message of the German manufacturer instantly. Way cool man.
That’s exactly what they do in this great viral campaign for Total Blender. If you’re not familiar with “Will it Blend?”, you should take a look at this.
They not only have put the iPhone into a blending test, but also an iPod and a lot of other hard stuff.
The result is absolutely hilarious. Specially the part where he says “iSmoke?”, haha.
It’s been more than a whole year since the last post on my portuguese written blog. After centuries of procrastination, lack of free time, perfectionism that led to picky and useless conclusions, some nights without sleeping and a plenty of excitement, here it is. My new personal website and blog.
Man, doing your own website design may become much more tiresome and exhausting than designing anyone else’s. You are never satisfied. Your illustrations never seem as cool as the ones you’ve came accross on that catalogue just the other day. You create something that pulls out a “now that’s cool” from your mouth, then open your browser on your css galleries feeds, and notice your “cool creation” has already been “created” and clichéd a thousand times in a dozen other sites. Not to mention those html-css-whatever codes that seem to hate you to death. Once i’m not a programmer, a lot of the visual aesthetics I planned for this blog is not yet done.
To cut short, an infinity of obstacles – most of them within my picky mind, I admit – have shown up only to delay the final release and put a little more procrastination on my bag.
But I decided to procrastinate the act of procrastination and struggle to put cool stuff out of the box. The result is not a final product yet, but finally have I managed to open the limitations box and draw a new blue-sky horizon on it.
May a bright future come!
[ the figure on this post is a screenshot of one of the first rough versions the site had. ]
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I’m now on twitter too. I don’t twitt a lot. I mean, just enough to keep my online addictions. =) Using 
