Thinking The Sounds

Cosas Mínimas

Minimal Things is the personal portfolio of Madrid based illustrator and designer, Blanca Gómez. I’m in love with her illustrations. Every aspect of her style exhibits a sense of minimalism, from the simple geometric shapes, to the solid colors.

via Cosas Mínimas AisleOne.

I love the simplicity of these designs.

Check out Etsy for some of these images as prints or greeting cards.

Maybe this is what Ella needs (see the last post) to find her way around….

It’s rare that I see a new technology that makes me actually say “Wow” out loud, but this video did it.

It looks like Microsoft has taken Google Street View and kicked it up quite a few notches.  This is a really excellent and intuitive interface in many ways.  They really thought about how to take 3-dimensional information and find an elegant way to translate it into 2D.  While it isn’t completely natural (in that it doesn’t mimic the eye view of what you’d see as you drive down one of these streets), it does present a view that makes visual and logical sense.  I don’t think you need to be really technically savvy to “get it” when you start using it.  I’m excited to try this in action.

I have to say that MS has actually come up with some really interesting visual interfaces (Photosynth and Surface come to mind).  They have to do some more work to get them implemented into real devices, but I have to say I’m impressed with how their thinking about these technologies.

What would happen if the world stopped turning? – Boing Boing.

The gravity of the still earth is the strongest at the polar regions (shown in green). It is intermediate in the middle latitudes and weakest at the high altitudes of the Andes, close to the equator.		When global rotation stops, the massive oceanic water migration would cease and sea level would be at different locations, completely changing world geography.

This is some really fascinating theorizing.

It’s important to note that the creator of this article isn’t saying that this will or can happen.  (What mechanism could possibly stop the earth from spinning, yet keep all other processes intact?)  The point of the article is really a test of the computer software and the types of calculations it can perform.

However, the entire “what if” idea comes up with some really fascinating outcomes and may shine a light on how some other geologic processes operate in conjunction with gravity and centrifugal force.

Laptopograms: Expose prints with your laptop screen! | Photojojo.

Here’s the gist:

Aditya Mandayam developed this exciting new way of making prints: press photo-paper against your laptop screen, flash the screen, and dip the paper in developer, stop, and fix.

I’m always excited by seeing how people mix digital and analog technologies to come up with new ways to create.  There are so many possibilities for those who can look at technologies in unexpected ways.

Hysterical!

50 Fantastically Clever Logos | Design Shack.

There are some amazingly creative concepts in this batch of logos.