May 2012
Facebook vs. Google →
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The first couple of scenes are so brilliant they could’ve been rendered as part of a HD version of The Sims.
World’s Biggest Car Makers in the World’s Biggest... →
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If you are in New York, go outside for a stroll around 8pm and snap a time lapse of Manhattanhenge. Your best bet will be to view it from any one of the following streets: 14th, 23rd, 34th, 42nd and 57th (thanks hipmunk)
What? you missed the half Sun on the NYC grid yesterday ? You still have a chance today.
I am very much looking forward to seeing Phillip Toledano’s A Shadow Remains at Galapagos Art Space on June 11. Read more about the event here.
Women Use (And Would Miss) Social Media More Than... →
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The Alternative British Summer →
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New York Tech Meetup has launched a video series called #StartupStories, co-produced by NASDAQ OMX and HD Made. In Failure, members of the tech community explain why stumbling is so often a checkpoint on the roadmap to success (check out the Fab mention at 1:45!).
Cooking Their Way Through Magazine History
To the food world, Gourmet magazine was an almost-religious institution. Indeed, it was the epitome of über cooking, of fine dining, of the true epicurean, for almost 70 years. And although it was forced to close its pages for good in late 2009, the Gourmet legacy continues. With The Way We Ate, Noah Fecks and Paul Wagtouicz, professional photographers...
Baratunde Thurston’s Approach To Social-Media Haters: Total Absurdity
To stand out: try stuff, even when it's crap.
“It is very important to embrace failure and to do a lot of stuff ‒ as much stuff as possible ‒ with as little fear as possible. It’s much, much better to wind up with a lot of crap having tried it than to overthink in the beginning and not do it.” – Stefan Sagmeister
If I hadn’t published this article, who would have? If you didn’t create the ideas in your head, and put them out into the world...
Killing Democracy Silently →
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User experience designer Richard Anderson spoke at CreativeMornings/SanFrancisco about the patient experience and its urgent need for transformation. Richard shares his perspective on the broken health system, proposing that designers may have a large role in creating a better future for health.
Many thanks to Typekit for hosting at the Adobe Design District office, to Caleb Sexton (@calebsexton)...
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Moving fashion portrait sculptures by ZEITGUISED.
“A collaboration with Berlin fashion label Franzius and ProdCo Stink Berlin. Premiere at the Stink Temporary Gallery during Gallery Weekend Berlin 2012.”
Where International Students Go, and Why →
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