December 29 2009, 10:17pm
Oriental sticks, are easy to use in the kitchen. Are inspired by the wood clips for hanging clothes. Manufactured in aluminum by AGGO
by: AGGO studio licence: Creative Commons, Copyright / All rights reserved tags: stick oriental kitchen houseware barcelona aggo
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November 17 2009, 7:23pm
Target Clock started as a graphical reduction of the traditional clock hand motif and eventually led to the idea of two moving discs of flat contrasting colour,the boundaries indicating the hand positions. The resulting minimal icon-like graphic makes it more readable from long distance than a conventional clock.
by: Simon Lumb licence: Copyright / All rights reserved tags: clock minimalist watch target
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June 19 2009, 8:45am
Do we read differently on the computer screen from how we read on the printed page?...
June 4 2009, 8:49pm
Break in case of writing
by: Sara Farias licence: Copyright / All rights reserved tags: pencil break emergency joke
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May 27 2009, 10:42pm
"We tend to think of videogames as frivolous activities - something we do to kill time, not to improve productivity. But a new generation of designers is taking a different tack: Like [Stanford professor Byron] Reeves, they're using the principles of videogame design to transform everyday activities Give people a competition, and it can transform a dull-but-important task into something exciting."...
May 6 2009, 10:37pm
"According to new research, [c]reative minds in all kinds of areas, from science to poetry, and mathematics to humour, may have traits associated with psychosis. Such traits may allow the unusual and sometimes bizarre thought processes associated with mental illness to fuel creativity."...
May 4 2009, 6:42am
"The current decade has been characterised by an abrupt sense of deceleration. What has happened is that technology has been decalibrated from cultural form. The present moment might in fact be best haracterised by a discrepancy between the onward march of technology and the stalling, stagnation and retardation of culture."...
May 3 2009, 7:53pm
"The internet is one of the most dazzling inventions of the past 50 years, indispensable to the way we live today. But the truth is that many of those in authority have stopped seeing the internet as a medium by which people send messages and receive feedback via a loop of electronic information. Instead, they have invested the flow of electronic information with a metaphysical significance about human nature and how things work."...
April 30 2009, 10:54pm
"Kitsch encourages us to dwell on our own satisfactions and anxieties; it tells us to be pleased with what we have always felt and known. It reaches us at the level where we are easiest to please Beauty, on the other hand, demands we consider its meaning. It implies a larger world than the one we deal with every day. [ ] Still, if nearly everyone likes [kitsch], how bad can it be?"...
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Chimes&Rhymes is a hybrid art and design blog documenting innovative design and new techniques in visual artistry. Site is moderated by Cody Pallo also know as Tiny Being, Mixing Numbers and owner of Labelpeel, Utopian Key, and Groundwork Counsel.
