“If you have three copies of your file, you actually only have two. If you have two, you actually only have one. Never, ever only have one copy of a file, ever.”
Corollary: “Never put all your backup copies on one storage device.”
-Paul Lutus
Posts under ‘Catch-all’
Lutus’ Backup Rule:
Twenty Five User Experience Videos (via Smashing)
A great collection of videos gathered from around the web about our relationship to objects and interfaces. Seen Objectified and looking for more? Try these.
oomlout design
The projects link I was looking for last class is here. This outfit gives away the plans for their projects with full instructions via instructables and also sell kits and components for those who can’t be bothered to start from scratch.
From their site’s about page:
What We Are
We like to describe ourselves as a plucky [...]
3D Printed Marketing Campaign from FOC for ASICS
A fascinating case of an extremely limited edition of 3D objects + packaging printed together to support a marketing campaign. If this doesn’t blur your notions of the boundaries between art and design, at least a little, you’re not paying attention.
via Fabaloo
Hopes and Dreams…
Here is a tag cloud (click for big) of the top 100 words compiled from the list of reasons you in the History and Theory class gave for wanting to study design. The size of the words relates to the frequency of their appearance across all the responses. Common words like “a,” “an,” and “the” [...]
Structure Synth & Sunflow
Structure Synth is a free, open-source rules based 3D geometry generator
Sunflow is a free, open-source renderer
blink.click.whir.bleep sketches & slides
Full slides from the workshop: blinkclickwhirbleep
Sketches from the workshop: Unzip this archive [ bcwb2009 ] into documents/arduino…
Links:
Main Arduino Site
Code reference
The Arduino Playground
Big Freeduino Index of Knowledge
Liquidware – interesting Arduino peripherals
Meggy, Jr. – Arduino-based handheld gaming
Adafruit Industries – Arduino shields
Sanguino – alternate Arduino-alike
Boarduino – another alternate
Freeduino – yet another alternate
Sparkfun – great electronics supplier
All Electronics – good [...]
Collection of Early Comics
Early Comics Archive
Mid-to-late 19th century comics from the U.S. and Europe, worth a look for those interested in the development of serial narrative and character design…or just those curious about what people found funny almost 200 years ago. There are several examples of racial stereotypes that would be considered completely unacceptable today. Assembled by ‘Andy [...]
