From the ‘44 stock photos…‘ article below. Tooga / Stone / Getty Images
DESIGN
- Less than one. Soulmate calculation and movie. I did the math, if I stay in Pittsburgh there is a chance there might be 1 person out there for me. Neat project and concept, the movie was lovely and so was the website.
- Students Devise Products for Adults With Dementia. I need to think of a thesis project.
- Design Thinking Is A Failed Experiment. So What’s Next? (via Co.Design) Lol. I stumbled across this article and thought it was funny because I’m kind of doing design thinking, kind of not. It’s from 2011.
- A Game of Shark and Minnow – Who Will Win Control of the South China Sea? (via The New York Times) This could go in two places. It’s a legitimately good article, but it’s also very well designed as an interactive experience and worth playing with.
- Famous Movie Quotes as Charts. Charts all the the time plz.
- Meet The Unheralded Genius Who Designed The Nest Thermostat And Smoke Detector. CMU alum! Represent.
- Borders Of The World Notebooks. Notebooks whose lines are the boarders that separate two countries. Love, but also depressing.
SOCIAL
- 44 Stock Photos That Hope To Change The Way We Look At Women. It seems heinous to source a buzzfeed article, but they did draw my attention tot his incredible project. Getty images in conjunction with LeanIn.org has launched a series of photos through the Lean In Collection which challenge our typical representation of women and girls in the media. As I’m studying visual rhetoric and culture so closely right now, I think it’s an incredible and much needed project that believe has the ability to make an impact. Even if it’s just 2,500 photos, it’s a start and I hope it starts a trend. Stock photos create the standards of what the world sure look like and here’s an opportunity to emphasize the real diversity the world has.
- Why patriarchy fears the scissors: for women, short hair is a political statement. It sounds kind of like an inflammatory title, but my friend Grant (former short-haircut-hater) sent me this to me and said it changed his mind about short hair cuts on women, so don’t even think that I’m getting all rant-y on you. It’s a thoughtful piece that I recommend.
- Ellen Page’s coming out speech on friday punched me in the heart and the brain at the same time (via GOOD). It was really well spoken. Also, Good Magazine has outrageously conversational titles.
- Hiroo Onoda, Soldier Who Hid in Jungle for Decades, Dies at 91. He didn’t think the World War II was over. For decades.
- Sallie Mae Publicly Shamed For Harassing A Dead Law Student’s Family. Title says it all, but if you want read it and justify your frown lines, you totally should.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
- What Drives Success? (via New York Times) Man, was this a good month for articles or what? I thought this article was fascinating and insist you read it. I find education amazing.
- Do Google’s Smart Contact Lenses Portend A Glassless Future? Google contact lens for measuring your blood sugar? that would be helpful for my dad. It’s funny that posts like these its like: all my design friends already know about this, all my regular life friends have no interest in technology.
MEDIA
- Watch Newly Discovered Footage of Steve Jobs’ First Public Mac Demo. I didn’t want the whole thing, but I watched a a pretty good chuck of it just because I was so captivated by what the first graphic computer looked like. It was also eerie seeing something I had imagined from Walter Isaacson’s biography of Steve Jobs.
- 4 Interactive Chart Tracks The Narrative Structure Of “The Hobbit”. Neat project visualizing different elements of novels. If you go to the artists’ website, they also did Kafka on the Shore and The Glass Menagerie.
- 24-hour music video. Cool and catchy.
- UX is not UI. Important information.