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There’s a man who does all of his design work from the French Hotel Cafe in Berkeley, California. His name is Kenneth Smythe. His designs are loaded with symbloism, very high-end, completely open-source and created for a random sequencing production system. If I wanted to describe his work in a way that would make you grit and pinch your elbow tips, I’d say his designs are ones that sift the threaded cells, skin, words and musical notes floating through the universe, isolating them into the strum of single chord that could be mixed, reproduced, combined, extrapolated and re-mixed with any other design vibrating along the same thread. You’ve seen his asymmetric permutations of titanium and richlite. However, most recently he has shared the third iteration of a design he began conceptualizing in 1983, TIME’S MOMENTUM.
Let’s admit it: wireframe views in CAD are awesome. While they may not be functional or necessary 100% of the time, the combination of even line weights and simple, informative curves to guide your eye really do standout as a unique form of digital and art. Inspired by the unique look of the wireframe display,…
Siggraph 2014 is coming up this weekend in Vancouver and as expected, lots of exciting new computer graphics tech developments will be announced. Among them is this incredible new photo editing tool from researchers at Carnegie Mellon and the University of California Berkeley. Operating under the project title “3D Object Manipulation in a Single Photograph…
Well, time for another round of apps that cover the spectrum of your beloved mobile device, be it iPhone, Android or Windows. The Weekly App Smack is the best of design and productivity apps (and maybe a couple of fun ones, too) for the busy professional and this week we have a list sure to make you more efficient.