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SolarSystemScope presents a very cool online interface for zooming around the solar system in a beautiful 3D model. The whole experience happens right in your web browser. Check it out! > Link: Solar System Scope | Interactive 3D model of Solar System Planets and Night Sky . . . → Read More: Explore the Solar System and Night Sky in 3D 
The Spanish have been doing it for centuries–mixing cultures across time and heritage. The Alhambra, the Mosque of Cordoba, the Synagogue of Santa Maria la Blanca. Why not do it in the most modern of settings?
The Barcelona Supercomputing Center features the MareNostrum: a supercomputer housed in an . . . → Read More: World’s Most Beautiful Computer  FILED UNDER: Pictures & Videos, View  TAGGED: architecture, design, science  COMMENTS: 28 comments - (Comments are closed)From Information is Beautiful: a fascinating, fun, thought-provoking, and (yes) beautiful survey of beliefs about consciousness. Click and play!
>> Play: What is Consciousness? FILED UNDER: Feedback, Imagine, Think TAGGED: design, psychology COMMENTS: 5 comments - (Comments are closed)
From Information Aesthetics: Visual Budget is a cutting-edge data-visualization web site. It explains all the complicated ins and outs of the US Federal Budget using interactive charts and motion graphics. It is a tool that lets citizens like you and me understand this important issue, armed with the latest most comprehensive facts . . . → Read More: Visual Budget – an Interactive Guide to the Federal Budget FILED UNDER: Learn, Pictures & Videos, Think, View TAGGED: current events, design, information design, politics COMMENTS: 30 comments - (Comments are closed)This video is brilliant. Its video and audio reinforce each other, its content engages, and it makes you smile. Plus it’s genius marketing for a book. By the time it’s over, I want to go out and buy “Where Good Ideas Come From.” FILED UNDER: Cool Sites, Pictures & Videos, Think TAGGED: books, design, ideas COMMENTS: Comments are closedEver wonder where all those happy/engaged/entertained/… people in architectural renderings come from? >> To Sell the Future, Find the Right ‘People Textures’ for the Sketch – NYTimes.com FILED UNDER: Articles, Learn, Read, View TAGGED: architecture, design COMMENTS: One comment - (Comments are closed)I’m a fan of IDEO, the “design consulting” firm that’s made a name for itself with multidisciplinary approaches to problem solving. Their OpenIDEO site throws challenge prompts out to the net at-large. One of their current challenges is rather big (“What global challenge do you think innovation leaders should work to solve right now?“), . . . → Read More: OpenIDEO: What global challenge do you think innovation leaders should work to solve right now? Today on All Things Considered, a conversation about the future of journalism–and a topic that really interests me: why hasn’t online aggregation caught up with the stylish design of magazines? >> Link: Mike McCue: Flipboard Brings Beauty Of Print Onto The Web : NPR For anyone who’s ever been fascinated by science fair projects or Hollywood prop departments (I fall into both categories), you’ll appreciate this video from the New York Times. Diann Duthie is the art director for “The Dr. Oz Show” — a daily talk show hosted by Dr. Mehmet Oz — that presents palatable high-level explanations . . . → Read More: Medical Props for TV Saw this very cool kitchen island made of Legos in Dwell Magazine:
According to the magazine: The idea for Simon Pillard and Philippe Rossetti’s Lego kitchen sprouted five years ago, when Pillard put 500 blocks and a day’s worth of work into building a Lego-legged chair. The designing duo—–who create products together . . . → Read More: Lego Island Just tried this “cloud art” using Wordle–a self-proclamied “toy for generating ‘word clouds’ from text that you provide.” You can pipe in your website URL, or paste in any text. Then you have a bunch of cool control over design, layout, color, and more. Here’s one of the pictures it made for SalvoLavis.com: . . . → Read More: Wordle – word cloud art FILED UNDER: Cool Sites, Pictures & Videos TAGGED: art, blogging, design COMMENTS: Comments are closedIf I weren’t so diligent about saving money right now, I’d be signing up for this weekend’s AIA Los Angeles Spring Home Tour (the 2010 tour is called “Modern Design Voyeurism in Venice, CA“). There look to be some pretty cool homes on the tour. If you go, please take some pictures . . . → Read More: Modern Design Voyeurism in Venice: the 2010 AIA Los Angeles Spring Home Tour |
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