Something For Art

Whenever I had to cite my sources, I must refer to my long long ago thesis handout, and then carefully typed out my references without missing a comma, colon or spacing. So “Citation Machine” will be really helpful!
With “Citation Machine”, all you need to do is to key in the relevant info in the available [...]

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“Professor Eric Faden of Bucknell University created this humorous, yet informative, review of copyright principles delivered through the words of the very folks we can thank for nearly endless copyright terms.” (from website)
Found this on YouTube, a place where copyrights is sometimes…simply bypassed….

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Focus on Photography: A Curriculum Guide–a publication of the International Center of Photography. This is an invaluable resource for teaching photography, it covers the technical aspects of photography, as well as its links with other disciplines (writing, history, literature etc). An in-depth guide free to download and distribute. Grab it NOW!!!

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“The majority of the world’s designers focus all their efforts on developing products and services exclusively for the richest 10% of the world’s customers. Nothing less than a revolution in design is needed to reach the other 90%.” ~ Dr Paul Polak, International Development Enterprises (from website)
Saw this at a fren’s blog, a very good [...]

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Slideshow: Solving the enigmas of everyday design…take a look…You may have new discoveries (via Core77)
A related article from Design Observer: On the Squareness of Milk Containers

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An interesting idea here, WWF’s billboard makes use of the movement of the sun to cast shadows on the board, it aims to convey the message of the rising ocean levels due to global warming. (via trendhunter)

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Great! Someone has uploaded this on YouTube! A video abt the distortion of perception of beauty.

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This animation morphs together 500 years of female portraits in Western Art…quite amazing! See the complete list of all the artworks featured in the video here.

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TED has several very inspiring talks, here’s one that I’ve enjoyed: “Showing a series of inspiring, unusual and playful products, British branding and design guru Paul Bennett explains that design doesn’t have to be about grand gestures, but can solve small, universal and overlooked problems.” (from TED)

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