What happens when [swissmiss] studiomate Frank Chimero takes a break from writing his book? This. A brand new personal site. His new site is a scrollable firework: Frank’s brilliant mind visualized. (Book lovers, make sure to check out his library section!)
In his own words: “Each invention shows that the world is malleable, from [...]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/As_We_May_Think
This visionary essay by Vannevar Bush, one of the founders of the Manhattan Project, was a wellspring for decades of computer development.
The LIFE magazine version of Bush’s essay includes this leading illustration, which makes it clear that Bush’s original vision for computation included a head-mounted camera. There’s even a reticule built-in to the user’s glasses [...]
Teach Augmented Evil: early Sketchpad demonstration
“It’s real nightmare material… We’ve expanded Ivan Sutherland’s program into three dimensions… I have to bring that off the magnetic tape.”
(((This visionary document is still the ultimate augmented reality manifesto, and a road-map for computer graphics generally. It was published almost fifty years ago.)))
The Ultimate Display
by Ivan E. Sutherland
Information Processing Techniques
Office, ARPA, OSD
(((Note: Ivan Sutherland was at this time in the Advanced Research Projects Agency in the Office of the Secretary of Defense. ARPA [...]
Ever wonder what typeface a website is using? Too lazy to look at the source code? Well, the WhatFont Bookmarklet is here to help—it tells you what font is being used on text you hover over. Very helpful.
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You’ve heard of lorem ipsum, now meet kitten ipsum. As it says in the description, placekitten is a quick and simple service for getting pictures of kittens for use as placeholders in your designs or code. Brilliant. Get ready to see a lot of kittens in the early weeks of your Art Center classes (latin [...]
“…[C]ommercial artist Reid Miles (an avid jazz fan himself) joined the Blue Note to become the label’s senior album cover designer and over the next 11 years, created some of the most iconic covers in music history.”
Mediatecture is creating space as media. From skinning structures to engineering spaces, mediatecture is about programming the experience of a space. Experiments with transmitting and reading messages are the key to this class as we explore and apply strategies for manipulating the physical world. We study various techniques that bring to life visual experiences [...]
