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Today is Valentine's Day and to celebrate love Cowbird has collected all the First Loves stories written by its members to create a collection of interactive emotions. I have (obviously) contributed with a couple of stories - Endless Love, Matilde ♥ Samuele and First love | Love first - and enjoyed reading most of them. The ones I loved [...]
This is a great project spotted two days ago on GOOD. I love the concept and how they designed and made it real. "As entrepreneurs and food activists attempt to bring fresh produce to more and more urban food deserts, they're setting their crosshairs on one target in particular: the corner store. Packed to the gills with cigarettes, lotto [...]
plan.b is a study by Robert Richter of a digital city map for blind people. The device provides within seconds a tangible illustration of their immediate surroundings. By feeling the surface of the tablet, the user receives information about the environment and by pressing the “structures” he will receive additional acoustic information. Thus the blind [...]
I hate to receive more than one daily updates from the blog I follow but I really could not help myself from sharing this wonderful video. This Red Blooded Video has been created by Coudal Partners to sell their' new line of Field Notes notebooks. I must admit it, I had a little tear appearing [...]
Yesterday I found this interesting Mashable article about Digital Storytelling. The article featured four projects, but what stroke my attention were only two of them (actually, I was not able to watch the fourth one, Rome, because "It appears that your computer's graphics card doesn't support WebGL technology." ): Bear 71 and Welcome to Pine [...]
I was tempted to merge FEIT and Oliberté in one single post, but althought there are similarities (handmade premium quality shoes) the business model which these two companies are using is very different. FEIT is a niche product, Oliberté is a mass market one. FEIT appeals to uniqueness, Oliberté to social responsibility. Oliberté has been [...]
I would like to talk about FEIT shoes from two different point of view: their style and the underlying online made-to-order concept. Style is the more "subjective" issue - you can either like FEIT shoes or think they are not that cool. To me, they are very stylish - I particularly like the PNTHA LOW CLOUD and [...]
So that next time you will ask me "Mommy, where is your heart?" I will open my hands, and while holding yours I reply: "Right here, this is my Heart" This morning I created my CowBird Diary (for those who do not know this incredible social network, well, it is really worth a visit). I [...]
Thanks to IwantTOrideMYbicycle for sharing this! Click on the image and enjoy Stickman!
The concept is quite simple: together with Sainsbury’s supermarket chain in the UK, Innocent are donating 50p from every smoothie sold to charity Age Concern to help keep older people warm for the winter. How it works The hats are knitted by knitters up and down UK, sent to Innocent HQ, counted and handpacked onto the [...]
Just curious to know if any of you are able to actually play with this great visual and interactive experiment by Honda. I am not - but I still love the concept, the visual, and the "Making of" Video (this last gave me some clues about how to play with the interactive game and showed [...]
I can't help myself from sharing this amazing game concept by Adam Henriksson - a portable motion controller allowing to play games with people in real life. Sounds crazy, instead to me this is pure genius! "I was starting all over again and this time I wanted to focus on what people loose time for" [...]
I have just finished reading this FastCoDesign article and a sense of "discomfort" rose inside of me. The article is about a new concept, Tangle, by a former Apple designer, Bret Victor. Tangle is a JavaScript library for creating reactive documents. Readers can interactively explore possibilities, play with parameters, and see the document update immediately - [...]
eBook (English version) now available on Lulu.com, and it's free! This is my last story, a short illustrated yet unknown story about the Christmas star. I first wrote the story one year ago. I had to read "something Christmas related" in front of my daughter's class. I could not find anything interesting, therefore I decided [...]
AR, or Augmented Reality, is something that is already known to those who work in the mobile/web/tech field and is becoming quite widespread all over the world to the "common" people too as a 2.0 version of QR codes (this is my opinion, of course). But what it is? " Augmented reality (AR) is a term for [...]
I am very happy to share with you the last "corto" my friend Giacomo worked at as animator and in the character modeling and shading department, with the supervision of Alex Ongaro, actually Head of Effects in Dreamworks Animation - LA. Giacomo is a very talented guy who comes from my small village in the North [...]
I am a big fan of technology, and I also think that the Web and tablets can really make education more engaging. I am not saying that a tablet-only class is the future, because what must be pursued is a balance between the new and the traditional teaching methods and media. Being a mother of [...]
I am a fan of crowdsourcing and I love photography and technology, this is why this project by the band The Vaccines captured my attention. The Vaccines asked to their fans to upload pictures using Instagram to be used in the video of their "Wetsuit" song. The result is a not-that-original video but some pictures [...]
In my next life I will learn how to design websites - in this one I am just enjoying and celebrating the creative work of others! These are a couple of examples of great trendy layouts - feel free to add others! Designed by: Gregory Wood A Yaron Schoen project Designed by Dustin Curtis via [...]
I've found this Ross Crooks, cofounder of the infographics firm Column Five, article very interesting for those who like me love infographics. Unfortunately I do not possess the tech skills to create a one, but I think they are a very smart and beautiful way to make data and info accessible and easy to understand. [...]
A new series of web tutorials called “Don’t Fear the Internet” tries to teach web design to people who don’t want to be web designers. Anyone who has ever tried to build a website for the first time knows that awful feeling when confronted with lines of HTML, CSS, and PHP, languages as foreign [...]
