Announcing the Cognitive Cities Conference
Update: New date for Cognitive Cities Conference is 26/27 February 2011 (details). A few friends and I are planning a conference this fall. Please allow me to cross-post from the Cognitive Cities blog: Our future will be played out in cities. The projections tell us that our planet will resemble some very familiar fictional fantasies: [...]
iPhone Killer Prototype
Says my friend and open design guru Ronen Kadushin: Whenever a new hand held device, or new exciting smartphone hits the market, a questions roars through the internets, tech blogs and news: Is this the iPhone killer? The answer is always…well…not quite, not yet…. So I was thinking, maybe these guys who make these devices [...]
Some Geeky Web Culture Graphics
No context, no hidden meaning, just a few slightly geeky graphics that made my day. It’s likely you’ll see them again since I love them and just might try to squeeze them in somewhere, sometime. Retro Games With Modern Themes by Penney Design This and many more like it by Stéphan Massa-Bidal (some rights reserved: [...]
Hack Your Chair (Open Design Chair)
Ronen Kadushin‘s works blow my mind over and over again. Ronen is a Berlin-based designer, mostly he works on furniture. The twist: It’s all open-sourced & released under a Creative Commons license. You can take his designs, copy them, remix them, hack them. It’s yours for the taking. And more importantly, it always looks awesome, [...]
LeWeb fanboys and Macbook signings
Johannes said it and what can I say, it’s true: die @berlinblase crew verwandelt sich mehr und mehr in einen haufen web 2.0 groupies. “OMG, hast du den gesehen?” #leweb ;-) (Roughly: “The Berlinblase crew is turning more and more into a bunch of web 2.0 groupies. “OMG, did you see him?” #leweb ;)”) So [...]
Open Design by Ronen Kadushin
Yesterday I had the chance to see the opening of Ronen Kadushin‘s Open Design exhibition at Appel Design Gallery, Berlin. (Thanks for the invitation, Ronen!) What’s so special? All the designs are free and open, as in open source, and released under a Creative Commons license (by-nc-sa): Designers and hardware hackers can download the plans [...]
New customized pixelated Waving Cat icon
W00t: I just got this awesome custom waving cat icon. Melbourne-based multimedia designer and pixel artist Louise K of Agmyst Studio was so kind to create this image for me. Thanks, thanks & thanks, Louise! Eventually, after years with a simple photo of a maneki neko I have at home, this blog now has it’s [...]
Aurora shows future user experience for the web (which rocks)
Aurora is Adaptive Path‘s take on a possible future user experience for the Web. As you can see in the video below, it rocks. Aurora (Part 1) from Adaptive Path on Vimeo. (via waxy)
Twitter plus Flash as a simple CMS
Patrick, one of the awesome flashers here at Panorama3000, has coded this neat flash website for an actor friend of his. Usually I’m not a huge fan of flash sites for all the well-known issues around flash (no direct links, lousy accessibility etc). What I like about this one, though, is its smart implementation of [...]
Relaunch: Slowly getting there
Slowly, but steadily, I’m getting to the point where my website looks acceptable again. To be fair, that’s only partly my achievement: The design is to a huge part based on on Boris Anthony‘s theme for Joi Ito. (Of course Boris and Joi are referenced in my blog’s footer, and I’ll keep trying to get [...]
