Reasons.to – Opening Titles 2013
I was lucky to open the second day of Reasons To Be Creative this year in Brighton. One of the themes of the conference that I love is the opening titles which always have a great deal of effort put…
Windows 8 Training Camp
I’m not sure what market these are being show in, not sure its even in real languages based on the comments on YouTube, but I think they’re funny – don’t know if there’s any more in the series but I…
Designing the Future of the Intelligent Car: User Experience
I love my cars, I love the changes in their interfaces over the years from the very analogue and symmetrical view in my 1972 Mini, the space age Citroen GS, the cartoonified G-wiz through to my current BMW stable of…
For a Tuesday afternoon…Micro Machines stop motion short
Micro Mayhem! from Stoopid Buddy Stoodios on Vimeo.
Content before Chrome and on-demand UI
‘Take advantage of the screen real estate’. That’s a common saying that was bandied around when working on the web in the early days. As screen resolutions increased we (collective we – designers, developers – the makers of the internet)…
Designing your Share Charm experience on Windows 8
Every web page, app, café and even individual cans of drink now provide you with the ability to ‘share’ your current experience. Tell your friends on Facebook that you’re in a castle in Wales exploring the medieval dungeon (I did…
Xbox SmartGlass – dual screening using Surface as SatNav
There’s been some discussion in recent years about how many screens we each have and that one holy grail is how we get these screens to work together – TV, PC, phone, tablet – so I thought I’d share this…
“I hearby exercise my right to skate.” Gnarly action from Ed Bacon.
I heard this story on a podcast from 99% Invisible whilst driving, and I must admit, it brought a tear to my eye. Ed Bacon (yes, actually Kevin Bacon’s dad) is the architect who conceived Philadelphia’s Love Park (aka JFK…
Self-driving hover car. Really.
The only thing I like more than a flying car is one that can drive itself. This film goes some way to explaining how this might be possible. And it’s in English.
Dutch Bank note design
In this 5 minute film, you can get some lovely insight into the mind of Dutch graphic designer and banknote designer Robert Deodaat Emile (Ootje) Oxenaar (we’ll call him Bob from now on). Incredible to think how he managed to…