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Visit the Sistine Chapel: A breathtaking virtual 3D experience
The Vatican has published a gorgeous interactive virtual Sistine Chapel, allowing online visitors to enjoy a truly remarkable experience: zoom in on the ornate detail of just about any corner of the room, or pan around to take in the immensity of the space. This is a terrific example of how new media can expand … Continue reading »
UX Designer’s Best Friend: FlairBuider
I’ve been involved in the design world for 15-plus years, and one of the more difficult aspects of this work has always been developing user interface concepts for clients that convey the general concept of the product without getting too mired in the specifics of layout, color and design. The original practice was to build … Continue reading »
Marketing 101: Will Boring Package Design Make Teens Stop Smoking?
According to the British Heart Foundation, more than a quarter of teenagers make assumptions about the harm of cigarettes from the wrapping. Heart health campaigners urged the British government Thursday to follow Australia’s lead and ban all eye-catching designs and branding from cigarette packs to stop young people being lured into smoking. Australia is preparing to … Continue reading »
Picture of the Day: The UnFacebook World?
Artist Ian Wojtowicz created this map by mashing together two existing portrayals of the world, NASA’s The Earth at Night and Facebook’s Friendship Map. By “subtracting” the Facebook map (blacked out areas) from the NASA map, Wojtowicz reveals the parts of the world that are lit up at night but are not linked in to the global social network of … Continue reading »
Boeing’s Dreamliner: Could It Make Flying Better?
On Wednesday the “revolutionary” Boeing Dreamliner will fly its very first commercial flight. After two years in delays almost two years after its first test run, the latest update to the Boeing series will cart 264 passengers from Tokyo to Hong Kong, reports USA Today’s Charisse Jones. “The flight is a coming-out party for a … Continue reading »
Six Ways To Tell If A ‘Designer’ Handbag Is Fake
Jonathan Bates: The Hundred Thousandaire
Fortune Magazine // September 27, 1999 Your intrepid blog host & writer was featured in the 1999 edition of Fortune Magazine’s Top 40 Under 40 issue, with the headline “The Hundred Thousandaire”… read on to see why it was appropriate given the timing of the issue. http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1999/09/27/266144/index.htm