Archive for the 'Design' Category

Red Camera Skate

Impressive a video of skateboarders filmed in slow motion HD. Via Fubiz.


skate – shot on red #1347 – 120 fps from www.theglobules.com on Vimeo.

Multicolr Search Lab

I just came across this. So cool.

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:

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And you can add how many different colors you might want.

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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.

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Wanna give a try? Click here.

Floorcasting

CBS Outdoor presents “Floorcasting” in 2008. A new way of interactive communication with target groups.

I found it quite interesting, although i’m not sure if digital communication in the near future won’t get too overwhelming.

You can check more about their cool digital outdoors here.

Twitter Whale =)

I HATE when twitter gets stuck, but I just LOVE the way they tell you that.

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Mac+ Magazine, issue #27 – Cover illustration

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.

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Briefing, brainstorm, first concept draft.

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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:

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From Illustrator to Photoshop. Here is the complete Illustration+Layout.
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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. =)

Top 10 Killer Photoshop Combo Moves

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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.

(Via MacMerc.com.)