Playbook for Business Designers
Catlin Arctic trek to reveal true extent of melting ice caps. The team will also stop one to three times a day to drill holes in the ice. From this they will take more detailed measurements of cores and the ocean below.
Would one rather stay in the Antarctica cabins of Halley VI?
Syncing geo location data of your photographs means that Panoramio now feeds into Google Earth. It’s a doddle to do, I checked if my images are up, sure they are, I’m contributing to the community!
A Span Across Time. Often shrouded in mist, Ms. Mensch’s bridge appears like an apparition from a bygone era. “View From North Window,” 2007 Photo: Barbara Mensch
Who doesn’t appreciate the subtle interplay between a glorious vintage wallpaper and some delectable sans-serif font craftsmanship?
Marketwatch reporting today:
Otellini reaffirmed the company’s plan to introduce a 32 nanometer production technology in the second half of the year, saying, “We’ve always believed that the best way to successfully emerge from recessions is with tomorrow’s products, not by standing still with today’s.”
Intel, please help us by describing what attributes make for desirable products that people truly love to use? I call this going beyond the nanometer yard stick.
The 15 Things Charles and Ray Eames Teach Us is an excerpt from an essay by Keith Yamashita:
1. Keep good company
2. Notice the ordinary
3. Preserve the ephemeral
4. Design not for the elite but for the masses
5. Explain it to a child
6. Get lost in the content
7. Get to the heart of the matter
8. Never tolerate “O.K. anything.”
9. Remember your responsibility as a storyteller
10. Zoom out
11. Switch
12. Prototype it
13. Pun
14. Make design your life… and life, your design.
15. Leave something behind.
Farnborough Airport Building, England, UK by REID architecture.
“TAG Aviation’s customer experience is one of ‘comfort, quality and excellence’ “says Matthew Bedward, Design Director at REID architecture.
“The challenge for us was to realise a design that delivers a high quality customer environment that creates a memorable visual and spatial excitement appropriate to TAG (Techniques de Avante garde) Aviation’s cutting edge reputation for technological and service excellence.”
Farnborough is the historic site of the world famous air show. REID architecture has created a ‘theatre of aviation’, with grandstand views of the dynamic activities of the airport, yet maintaining a functionality and intimacy of scale appropriate for the privacy often demanded by the client’s customers. “Our aim,” stated Matthew Bedward, “was to create a building, which picks up on and reflects the technology and beauty of aircraft”.The 5,000sqm building is designed as a two storey office and operations ‘wing’ clad in mill finished aluminium shingles ‘hovering’ over a fully glazed ground floor of customer lounges, conferencing and entrances.
The main atrium is a 3 dimensional oval bowl pace that appears to peel away from the external skin of the building. This complex space is the heart of the building and provides a processional circulation route for all passenger facilities, offices and operations areas. Its sculptural nature creates an open, fluid and welcoming introduction to TAG Aviation’s service.
David twittered this morning: “Read ‘a day at el bulli’, Ferran Adria’s book. His creative methods are easily transferable to other domains, brilliant process”
A Day at el Bulli: An Insight into the Ideas, Methods and Creativity of Ferran Adria reveals for the first time the creative process, innovative philosophy and extraordinary techniques of the multi-award-winning restaurant, el Bulli, and its legendary head chef, Ferran Adria. Situated on a remote beach on the northeast coast of Spain, el Bulli is famous for being the ultimate pilgrimage site for foodies, and a reservation that is nearly impossible to obtain. Each year el Bulli is open for just six months, and receives more than 2 million requests for only 8,000 seats. Renowned for his spectacular ever-changing 30-course tasting menu, Adria’s pioneering culinary techniques have been applauded – and imitated – by top chefs around the globe for the past decade, and he was named one of Time magazine’s 100 most influential people of our time.
If you weren’t one of the lucky few to get in this year (2008 reservations were booked a year in advance), you can now experience the restaurant like never before. This generously-illustrated 600-page ”day in the life” features over 800 photographs, menus, recipes and diagrams, and presents a guided tour through a full working day at el Bulli. The book documents the activities of each hour of the day, from dawn at 6.15 am to switching off the lights at 2.00 am.
The book highlights 30 dishes which represent a full elBulli menu, and Adria shows you how he creates the restaurant’s innovative cuisines. Sample recipes include Samphire Tempura with Saffron and Oyster Cream, Steamed Brioche with Rose-Scented Mozzarella, and Coulant/Souffle of Granadilla with Cardamom Toffee.
In April 2008, elBulli won the #1 Best Restaurant in the World, for the third year in a row at the S. Pellegrino World’s 50 Best Restaurant Awards.
An enormous undertaking, this monumental tome, complete with more than 1,000 photographs, chronicles one day at revolutionary eatery elBulli in northern Spain, arguably one of today’s most influential restaurants. Adria, the culinary genius behind this success, along with restaurant manager Soler and brother and fellow chef Albert give the reader a firsthand look at day-to-day activities and the innovation for which elBulli is known. Lavish photographs are the main attraction in this work; text is sparse and offers only glimpses into activities. While there is an examination of the team’s creative methods, most topics are only touched upon briefly, such as creative sessions, testing and utilizing a mental palate. Given the highly technical nature of the dishes served at elBulli, recipes (Pine Nut Marshmallows; Steamed Brioche with Rose-scented Mozzarella) are rare. A glance behind the scenes at a pivotal time and place in culinary evolution, this book will delight serious foodies, and its stunning package guarantees it will grace many a coffee table. (Oct.) –Publishers Weekly
Looking at these adaptable interfaces and thinking about ways to prototype this thinking into a demo (Irene-Au interview).
It’s a remarkable heroic movie that on balance, would be worthy of watching on a cold winter night.
Taking a closer look at this forgotten film, examining that familiar look of a “greenish tinge with hints of blue”. What I particularly appreciate is how under the guises of Ridley Scott these actors are not only supremely focused and alert, but look so convincing in battle costume.
Without sentimentality this movie has a cold heart but you’ll warm to it’s eye for delectable beauty. The characters are rich and intriguing, the plot has plenty of twists and turns.
I’m what you might call a brand advocate for outdoor adventure living, it therefore comes as no surprise to find a particular attraction to www.howies.co.uk. Here’s a link to the winter catalog 8mb
“The best education in film is to make one. I would advise any neophyte director to try to make a film by himself” ( neophyte means “a recent convert to a belief” )
AGENCY.COM produced and directed a mini intro video (1999) to help user understand how to use the interactive digital services provided by Chorus in Ireland.
Kurosawa in Color is Pretty But Jumbled
Akira Kurosawa made a movie with several interlocking stories. The stories were all about the denizens of a Tokyo slum. They fight, gossip, joke, fantasize and live out their daily lives in destitute poverty. Dodes’ka-Den is pretty to look at in parts but jumps fitfully about and the stories are not particular compelling & the entiremovie has a relentlessly downbeat & somewhat preachy tone.
I’ve seen it twice now and I was bored both times. I’ve seen all but two or three Kurosawa movies and there are a few Kurosawa movies I don’t care for but this is the only one that outright bores me. Kurosawa highlighting the travails of les miserables is nothing new. He had already done so in Red Beard and The Lower Depths and both of those are far superior works. Here, Kurosawa seems to be playing it safe with retread themes and unimaginative camerawork. For all of the pretty colors, the maker of Seven Samurai, Throne of Blood and Rashomon renders a surprisingly static palette.
The making of Dodes’ka-Den was a turning point in Kurosawa’s life. It was an unqualified disaster. After over two decades in in the Japanesestudio system Kurosawa had broken with the studios and his stable of actors & entered into a fragile production partnership with three other directors. They desperately needed their first feature to be a hit. Dodes tanked critically and publically and Kurosawa tried to kill himself. Fortunately, he rallied and made six more movies, including the excellent Kagamusha & Dersu Uzala, the masterpiece Ran and the very watchable Dreams & Madadayo. Dodes’ka-Den is a lesser work by one of the greatest directors ever, which means it’s a better work that most directors’ best work.
Night Photography – Forget the time-lapse effect, that’s not what I’m talking about, it’s the drop dead gorgeous palette that’s worth checking out on Flickr
A limited edition of Terra Incognita was published by Chronicle Books in September 2008 and is available through Richard Sexton’s galleries and select booksellers. The gallery edition includes a linen covered clamshell case and an original signed quadtone pigment print of the cover image. The gallery edition is limited to 200 books.
From the looks of it, the wind swept winter day may have become a surprising advantage to this inspiring fashion image. Photographer Steve Howdle from the UK using PhaseOne with just one strobe light. Nicely done.
