July 2007

Artifacts missing from Antarctic historic site recovered

Artifacts missing from an Antarctic historic site since 1971 are being returned to Tasmania after being discovered at a New York auction house.

Some links for light reading (1/8/07)

U.S. returns stolen 12th-century artifact to Cambodia

The U.S. government has returned the sandstone head of a celestial dancer to Cambodia, saying the object had been smuggled out of the country.

Odile Crick, artist known for her sketch of DNA, dies

Odile Crick, the British-born artist best-known for her elegant sketch of the structure of DNA, has died at age 86.

Coupland art exhibit gives Penguins a punk twist

Vancouver author and screenwriter Douglas Coupland has drawn on his punk roots for an exhibit of new works that opened last week at Toronto's Monte Clark Gallery.

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Un strop

Information foraging

Information foraging is the most important concept to emerge from Human-Computer Interaction research since 1993. Developed at the Palo Alto Research Center (previously Xerox PARC) by Stuart Card, Peter Pirolli, and colleagues, information foraging uses the analogy of wild animals gathering food to analyze how humans collect information online.
da: Useit.com

Qualche risorsa:

wikipedia.org
shinynews.it
pixelcharmer.com
Information Foraging Theory: Adaptive Interaction with Information - book by Peter Pirolli

Good idea, pity someone else thought of it first…

When I made the 3-4-5 it occured to me it would make a cool lamp. Not the cotton crochet one, but the same shape in maybe white, semi-transparent plastic?

Last week I saw a hanging lamp in a shop which reminded me of it. It's more or less the same, I thought, no... wait... 1,2,3 and 1,2,3,4,5... it is precisely the same shape!

3-4-5 lamp by Tivoli Home

Tivoli Home

Damien Gilley “Parking Lot Miracle”

The artist/designer Damien Gilley produced and directed a series of experimental time displacement videos for exhibition. "Parking Lot Miracle," was shot in Vegas' Crystal Palace skate rink around the time I moved here from Kansas City. My only regret is that I didn't have a cardboard box to break on...

Design Inspiration - 1

Galeria de sites para os designers terem inspiração:

http://faveup.com/

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