Category Archives: Made me smile
8 Insights About The Coming Era Of Interactive Design
The 18 minute “Connecting” documentary is an exploration of the future of Interaction Design and User Experience from some of the industry’s thought leaders. As the role of software is catapulting forward, Interaction Design is seen to be not … Continue reading
Peugeot Hybrid4 : The Hybrid Graphic Novel
One of the -if not THE best- Parallax effect websites out there. The combination of the Comic Style, the parallax effect and the sound effects make this an incredible experience! This is made by @transylvain – check out … Continue reading
Philips Hue
Something that makes me proud -once again- to be Dutch. Philips have release a new wonderful product that is on my “wanttohaveitsobad” list directly! “A bright idea from Philips: the electronics giant has released the Hue system; a set of … Continue reading
A Story For Tomorrow
Wonderful scenes in this short – one of my sins is not seeing enough of our great world before settling down and becoming a dad “This video was written and produced while traveling through Chile & Patagonia with my … Continue reading
On Creativity: Andrew Zuckerman
On Creativity is a lovely series of short, informal interviews with designers, artists, musicians, filmmakers, animators, educators, and others. In the above video On Creativity talks with filmmaker and photographer Andrew Zuckerman as he discusses the nature of creativity, the creative process and the … Continue reading
RG | DropMark Usability Video Channel
I got my DropMark Beta invitation today! Wow what a great tool this is. DropMark is a simple way to organize and collaborate in the cloud. It allows you to make collections of pictures or movies (upload or link … Continue reading
Secude to Reduce
Very interesting experiments from Hivos how simple changes can get people to change their behavior. In this example they test if it’s possible to get people to take the stairs instead of the elevator.. and therefor save energy! More info: … Continue reading
Top five regrets of the dying
Very recognizable.. and so time to try and #change so that some of these don’t apply anymore More about this @ Guardian.co.uk
Graphic-ExchanGE – best of 2011
A fantastic collection of the best of 2011 by Graphic-ExchanGE. I always enjoy visiting this blog with all the wonderful posts of Letterpress identities and fabulous photography. A great space for #inspiration and #goodstyle.. This year overview is like a cherry.. Njoy! … Continue reading
Object Oriented CSS (OOCSS)
The concept of object oriented CSS and how it can help improve both the performance and maintainability of your Web pages. As with any object-based coding method, the purpose of OOCSS is to encourage code reuse and, ultimately, faster and more efficient … Continue reading
Testing the 2012 Porsche Carrera 911
Watch as Porsche engineers rigorously test the all-new 2012 Carrera 911 in South Africa and the Arctic Circle. Our engineers took the car on the most demanding road trips imaginable while in the most punishing of climates. They pushed … Continue reading
TEDx Hogeschool Utrecht Moral Persuasion
This was the opening video for the TEDx Hogeschool Utrecht event curated by Mischa Coster. Persuasion is used every day to get people to act in certain ways towards other people, towards causes, but mostly towards products and brands. … Continue reading
Sebastian Deterding – Rethinking the Ethics of Design
Sebastian Deterding TEDx talk “Rethinking the Ethics of Design” @ TEDx Hoge School Utrecht on the 8th of November 2011. Sebastian Deterding is a designer and researcher working on user experience, video games, persuasive technology and gameful design. He … Continue reading
The Nest
Nest is the first thermostat that learns from you. Stay comfortable when you’re home, save energy when you’re away. Biggest question is.. will it come to Europe in the near future aswel ? I would order More … Continue reading
InvisionApp
Just came across InvisionApp while browsing UxMovement.com. This tool really looks promising and it can indeed speed up the proces design-wise but also to get feedback from clients! More info @ http://www.invisionapp.com/
Steve Jobs on Creativity
“Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That’s because they … Continue reading
Acceptance speech Nasrdin Dchar
Actor Nasrdin Dchar wins a Golden Calf for his rol in RABAT at the Netherlands Film Festival 2011. He describes how so many Dutch people feel, the feeling of fear is something that is injected into the (Dutch) society. … Continue reading
Wacom Inkling
I just came across my next *wanna and gonna have* from the interwebs .. the Wacom Inkling. I just saw someone working with a Livescribe and that looked neat but the Inkling goes even further. The Inkling is a neat device … Continue reading
Back to the Start
Great short about what the current food industry has come to.. found it funny because I just recently ate my *first Chipotle* meal ever and it was quite an experience.. “Back to the Start.” The film, by film-maker … Continue reading
Photography-themed Rube Goldberg Machine
Very nice and long Rube Goldberg Machine (wikipedia) film by 2D Photography Inc. Also nice that at some point you see puppets who look like the singers of Ok Go in their Rube Goldberg music clip (recommended watch..). … Continue reading
TV Portraits
The Estonian photographer Andris Feldmanis wanted to put at the place television by creating this series of stereotypes, in order to show another glance and point of view on the media. Indeed, in his country an average inhabitant looks … Continue reading
Sucker for Soccer [retro style]
Just came across these designs on FFFFound. There are some really nice retro designs on this Behance post. The only thing I miss is a poster of my all time hero’s Jari Litmanen and Dennis Bergkamp. Also makes me proud that there … Continue reading
Lytro: Camera Start-Up Offers a Whole New Perspective
This is real incredible innovation – a camera sensor that enables you to change the focus AFTER the pictures are taken. Very nice and the camera’s will be available later this year (2011)..!! More info @ allthingsd.com also … Continue reading
Walt Disney’s MultiPlane Camera
Incredible bit of history I just came across while browsing YIMMY’S YAYO™. For me this was news so I am so excited I “found out” how Disney did this. I always wondered but never knew.. damn how genius! Walt Disney’s … Continue reading
Tang Yau Hoong – Negative Space
Very nice illustration of Tang Yau Hoong where he makes very good use of negative space. More info @ http://tangyauhoong.com/negative-space/
JEG FORVENTER INGEN (I expect no one)
Very nice short movie written and Directed by Kristoffer Borgli. The fact that the essential moments are left out are brilliant! Watch and enjoy! Commissioned by the F5 Festival (f5fest.com) Cast: Woman – Inga Longvastøl Flem Thief – Inge … Continue reading
Theo Jansen’s Strandbeest
Dutch design / engineering at it’s best… Theo Jansen’s strandbeest Self-propelling beach animals like Animaris Percipiere have a stomach . This consists of recycled plastic bottles containing air that can be pumped up to a high pressure by the wind. … Continue reading
A next-generation digital book
Software developer Mike Matas demos the first full-length interactive book for the iPad — with clever, swipeable video and graphics and some very cool data visualizations to play with. The book is “Our Choice,” Al Gore’s sequel to “An Inconvenient … Continue reading
Tribute to UX Design part II
Who doesn’t love a good UX design, and who doesn’t get totally frustrated with bad experience design. This is a Follow up on the first tribute .. Hail to all the great UX designers of the world. Spread the love … Continue reading
The Saga Of Biorn
Very nice animation movie from The Animation Workshop. Story Biôrn, an old Viking, is determined to reach Valhalla, the warrior’s afterlife full of excessive drinking and debauchery. To gain entry he has to die honorably in battle, but he … Continue reading
Magnum Pleasure Hunt
Very amusing Flash game made by Magnum. The campaign was made by Lowe Brindfors, production by B-Reel and sound & music by Plan 8. More info @ http://pleasurehunt.mymagnum.com/
328stories.com – Stories worth sharing
328 stories. We are crazy about stories. We love to make them happen. Your stories. Our stories. Any story. We work on & offline. Long stories. Short stories. Ads. Poems. Docs. We used to be a production company. Now, we … Continue reading
Hyundai Accent 3D projection mapping
An awesome video created for the Accent. Check out the cool graphics. It highlights the new slogan “New Thinking. New Possibilities.” and showcases the Accent in many way. Enjoy this clip!
JellePelle.nl Cowboy enters Saloon
Jelle Gijsberts is a very talented Dutch young man who has his own Illustration style. Like he states on his website: “I simply love to create images that tell a story and put a smile on your face!” And he … Continue reading