I don’t know about you but I love to see examples of how other designers work–they reveal better (or worse) ways of doing things and allow me to gauge whether my methods are mainstream or totally whacked-out. “If anyone finds out how I obsess about this stuff,” I tell myself, “they’ll stick me in a [...]
R Culbertson> hmm, when did they add themes to Google Personalized Home Page?
That started me on a new wow with Google. It turns out they snuck in a new feature to allow one to personalize their “personalized homepage” with themes (look on the right hand side). [Edit: Note that the screeny changed (doesn't look the [...]
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Bloomframe (from the Dutch firm Hofman Dujardin Architecten) is a cross between a picture window and a balcony — it slides out of the side of the building to convert to a balcony when the need strikes, then retracts when you’re done. Link [via Boing Boing]
OK I’m a huge home improvement and that sort type [...]
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When you look at the logo, you may worry that we forgot our name overnight, skipped a letter, or have decided that “Googe” has a better ring to it. None of the above. I just know that those with true romance and poetry in their soul will see the subtlety immediately. And if you’re [...]
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“Doomsday” vault design unveiled
The final design for a “doomsday” vault that will house seeds from all known varieties of food crops has been unveiled by the Norwegian government.
The Svalbard International Seed Vault will be built into a mountainside on a remote island near the North Pole.
The vault aims to safeguard the world’s agriculture from future [...]
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In 1993 Adobe published the full specifications for its Portable Document Format, or PDF, granting royalty free license to those who chose to build PDF tools into their applications, and helping PDF to become a de-facto standard for document creation.
Tomorrow they will announce that they are relinquishing control over the PDF format to AIIM, the [...]
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This project was pretty time consuming, but easy overall. All you need is some magnetic paint. I used Rustoleum brand and I found it at Lowe’s. This stuff is pretty expensive ($20 per quart) and is probably more suited to smaller areas than a whole wall. I used two cans here and got four coats [...]
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I found a cool deign for faucet over at Trendir.
A fabulous innovative concept transforms the Ring Faucet into a compelling artistic design. The Ring uses rectilinear forms with gently rounded corners to elegantly present its finest feature. The thin spout dramatically cantilevers over the basin and finishes with a circular negative shape. From the [...]
This crazy aquarium is really something — it looks like a habitrail, for fish, with glass tunnels rising out of it and wending around the restaurant or cafe.
It’s Knuttz - Home Aquarium
The site is extremely short on details. And the site that pointed to it thought this was in a persons house. [...]
I love the shows on HGTV and TLC that talks about strange homes. In some cases I look at them and wish I was the one that owned the house. Other times I look at the houses and wonder what the people where thinking. These “houses” go more into that area. [...]
