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ORBITAL BOMBARDMENT
Dueling Angels Entertainment, a duo of creative and technical
mastery, have spent the last year+ developing a pretty badass iPhone game.
You basically blowup projectiles with your fingers to save your little peeps. The level of detail and polish in OB is very impressive.
Demo & full game available for your iPhone enjoyment.
½ Billion Users. ½ Billion Kilograms of Solid Gold.
Ever want a Facebook logo icon that looks as though it were stamped out of pure gold? No? Me either, but now that I know it exists and it was created by Cuban Council, I can't resist.
In celebration of Facebook's passing of 500,000,000 users, Cuban Council, the agency responsible for their huge growth (due to their creation of Facebook's bad-ass logo and migration from the capital "F" to lower-case "f"), is offering you, yes you, a free icon download. Gold icons bitches!
"Advertising is puffery and deception. No one goes proudly into the next world with a career built on deception, no matter how well you did it."
ARCHITECTING THE FUTURE- Michael Ben Eli, Keynote
Michael Ben Eli discusses the renaissance of the concept of "design" and how all aspects of human activity are manifestations of a design process and what that implies about our role as human beings on the planet.
Great talk for any Buckminster Fuller enthusiasts.
Play the game for more than you can afford to lose…only then will you learn the game.
IndigNation
The 2010 World Cup didn’t even had its final and we are already seeing problems in the next World Cup. Being a Brazilian citizen and a designer I am ashamed and angry about what is going on right now. Yesterday there was the official presentation of the World Cup 2014 that will be held in Brazil. Everyone was quite worried about that, already knowing that there would be a big possibility of having dirty stuff happening under the negotiating tables. So we discovered the first one yesterday.
The new logo is the first proof of how unreliable things will be. Since this logo was shown in Brazil, nobody knew who did it and who choose it. ADG, the designers organization in Brazil, was supposed to hold a competition to make the logo, and suddenly, this awful logo appears from nowhere, being the “official”. All designers in Brazil were terrified with the news (not only counting that the logo seems a person ashamed). A few days later, we discovered that a french studio did it. Bizarrely when we googled about it, there was not a simple link to that studio. Weird huh? But yesterday we discovered that the agency Africa was the one behind it. Nizan Guanaes, the owner of Africa, is well known by his political contacts and benefits he has gained with it. So, what probably happened here? He bought the rights to do all the campaign, behind everyones back. How can we be represented by that crap when we have amazing professionals working here?
A nice start for a cup that the president Lula told everyone that will be “transparent” about everything. Not only counting that there are some politicians trying to make a law to avoid bids for stadium constructors and etc, telling that would make things happen faster (translating: stealing makes things faster?).
Say hello to the “transparent” 2014.
The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
This lively RSA Animate, adapted from Dan Pink's talk at the RSA, illustrates the hidden truths behind what really motivates us at home and in the workplace.www.theRSA.org
Daniel Pink teaches us that purpose, autonomy and mastery are far more motivating than money both in our world and in our businesses.
This is definitely a must-watch for anyone who is running a business or is responsible for managing people.
Creativity is a double-edged sword. The more ideas we have, the less likely we are to stay loyal to one. So the creative mind ends up jumping from idea to idea, and none of them happen. There is no correlation between how great an idea is and the likelihood of it happening.
Surfstation