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Autodesk helps Smoke & Mirrors New York bring The Beatles’ Abbey Road album cover to life
The visual effects team for Smoke & Mirrors New York (SMNY) recreated the classic Beatles Abbey Road album cover and then brought that moment to life for 30-second and 60-second spots promoting the MTV videogame The Beatles: Rock Band.
Posted in design, information technology, innovation, software Also tagged animation, Animation software, artist, Autodesk, Autodesk Media and Entertainment, design, entertainment, Game, information technology, MTV, Softimage, United Kingdom Leave a comment
China, Technology, Development and the Environment: Photographer Lu Guang’s “Pollution in China”
To give us some perspective on the massive social and economic impact of pollution throughout China, Shanghaiist turned to photographer Lu Guang's "Pollution in China" project. Lu won this year's $30,000 W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography from the Asia Society in New York. His project documents families, farmers, industrial districts, rivers, the countryside, cancer patients, children; anyone and everything affected by pollution across China [...]
Posted in China, economics, trends Also tagged Asia Society, Beijing, cancer, China Daily, Climate change, environment, Environment of China, freelance photographer, Global warming, green energy, Lu Guang, photographer, Photographers, photography, pollution, Rural Area, Social Issues, Tsinghua University, United States, Urban area, USD, Yangtze River, Yellow river 4 Comments
Listen to Jeff Dachis’ “User Experience as a Crucial Driver of Social Business Design” talk at IDEA 2009
Everything that can be digital will be. Why? Because it’s faster, better, and cheaper. UX in the digital world will be the key definer of value. UX design now means to embrace a whole new set of behaviors and characteristics. Social Business Design is a framework to understand and think about the multi-faceted users and the way they participates inside a business ecosystem in meaningful ways [...]
Posted in design, information technology, trends Also tagged Boxes and Arrows, CNBC, CNN, current CEO, design, Entrepreneur, information architecture, information technology, Interaction Design, Jeff Dachis, leadership, microsoft, producer, Razorfish, speaker, United States, USD, user experience, User experience design, user research Leave a comment
Watch Stefan Sagmeister’s “The power of time off” talk at TED
Every seven years, designer Stefan Sagmeister closes his New York studio for a yearlong sabbatical to rejuvenate and refresh their creative outlook. He explains the often overlooked value of time off and shows the innovative projects inspired by his time in Bali [...]
Posted in design, innovation Also tagged advertising, Creative Process, designer, Graphic Design, Graphic Designer, poster, Stefan Sagmeister, TED conference 2 Comments
Architecture & Urban Planning in China: future cities to make small carbon footprint
Even as China undergoes one of the most rapid urban transformations in the world, the Chinese government is promoting sustainable development to curb the country's growing rate of carbon emissions, a World Bank urban specialist said in Beijing on recently [...]
Posted in China, economics, trends Also tagged architecture, bank, Beijing, Chinese Government, energy, environment, Greenhouse gas, greenhouse gas emissions, Gross Domestic Product, International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, Statistics, sustainability, sustainable, sustainable development, The World Bank, Urban Development Projects, urban infrastructure, Urban Planning, Xinhua Leave a comment
Autodesk’s Dawn Danby Named One of 100 Most Creative People in Business by Fast Company
Autodesk's Sustainable Design Program Manager, Dawn Danby, was selected #20 on Fast Company's 100 Most Creative People in Business. Read the article to learn why Fast Company calls her a 'mixed martial artist' of sustainable design.
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Watch Manuel Lima’s “Visual Complexity and Mapping Complex Networks” talk at IxDA | Interaction ‘09 conference
In this talk, Manuel Lima leverages the existing pool of knowledge from Visual Complexity (VC ) to convey a current portrait of network visualization. It illustrates some of its current trends and representation methods, and explore the reasons behind the recent outburst. It highlights some seminal executions and finalize with the exaltation of interactivity as the key measure of cognition in Information Visualization, by presenting a series of interaction design principles for exploring complex networks [...]
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Watch Bruce McCall’s “faux nostalgia” talk at TED