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Culture, Design
Stylebook: 1958 Alpine Rally
Fifty one years on, it’s iconic for so many reasons in both technique and subject—this BAFTA Award nominated film captures the essence and texture of the 1958 Coupe des Alpes, and more broadly, a re-building Europe.
“Got it, race-cars, so what?” you say. Well. Aside from this being an excellent reference for period design, and camera… [...]
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Convergence, Culture, Design, Eco
Nuage Vert Installs Emission Awareness
Design team HeHe built on the idea of contextualizing public spaces with Dr.Evil-grade “La-sers…” — a bunch of sites picked up on this already, I’m still recovering from the Holidays. Illuminating the cloud in proportion to the energy use of the city is a great tool to build conservation awareness and engage folks. For other [...]
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Culture, Design, Mobile
Focus Groups Offer Data, Not Direction
Ever catch yourself keying a phone number from layout or gestural memory rather than numerical memory ? Cool. Bravo! to ATT and Mental Floss, for a peek into the 1960’s era user testing when phone designers were puzzling over how to redesign a ubiquitous tool… replacing the telephone dial with push-buttons. Turns out the winner, [...]
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