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Hilarious! Yes alright, even productivity has it’s limits. The worst part is that I kind of did believe/get my hopes up when I saw Google’s in-browser promotion for Google Chrome Multitask:
So funny! Really, go try it out yourself, press the “Try Multitask Mode” button at http://www.google.com/chrome/multitask. Here’s a preview in the screenshot below.
I came across this curious advertisement in Danish, which is really more of a private yet strategic message made public: Continue reading
Jiro Dreams of Sushi is about something as simple and yet complicated as doing better. It is an amazing and inspiring documentary with intricate and delicate movement in it. Not about money, but about pride in what you do. The movie appeals to so many sides in people. It is for those interested in food, photography, cinematography, music, and maybe most importantly, the human aspects of defining success – and the price of perfection. Continue reading
Again something that rules as to being simple, functional and aesthetic: the list-keeping app called Clear. Maybe not an obvious choice to stand by, in a world that offers more and more options. But I understand it and even more so after having tried this app for a while.
The whole idea revolves around simple feedback in the form of gradient colours, vibration, and sounds. A combined visual, tactile and auditive experience, which stimulates basic human senses in a varied and still holistic way. As a surprise, quotes also show up, but elegantly. I think it makes it rather fun and almost musical to make and maintain such a simple thing as a list.
This is a different kind of painting! I do admire inspiration through art that challenges into thinking differently. It seems as if it must be an extraordinarily intricate project process, but the video shows delicate yet simple painting – acrylic – alternated with resin. More pictures on Riusuke Fukahori’s Flickr.
Source: Designtaxi.
This is a smart advertisement that one can save and reuse. It is very simple card containing on one side illustrations of how to fold a Japanese Origami bird, and on the other side the take away restaurant’s most basic contacts details – phone number and website – as well as recommending to eat Sushi fresh. It is both fun for creative adults and children.
This is an extremely well done video (in terms of narrative and animation) by Adesias about our generation (people born between 1980 and 2000) – the Generation Y.
Thanks to the Internet, we have at our disposal new & constant access to information and new ways of exchanging knowledge and socializing. This powerful and illustrative video really makes one think about the drastic changes in the past decade.
More videos in their portfolio on their site and on vimeo.
This is such a fun social media strategy by Donnelyn Curtis, director of the University of Nevada’s research collections.
She uses Facebook profiles to give reincarnated lives online to students from the 1910s, Leola Lewis (the photo above is taken from her profile) and Joe McDonald.
(UPDATE: Unfortunately, as could be predicted, the profiles have been taken down, even if there is definitely much potential in this kind of thinking - see end of this post)
I like the engaging idea of linking this fun, illustrative and educational video with a competition launched by the utility company Frederiksberg Forsyning. Answers to questions can be found within the video’s explanation of where the local gas stems from – (translation: natural gas is pumped up and mixed with 50% air).