Wes Anderson’s latest creation is The Grand Budapest Hotel, a truly magnificent fairy tale movie. The Grand Budapest Hotel, is a typographic treat. The film’s lead graphic designer Annie Atkins was responsible for every graphic prop in the movie. Creative Review spoke to her about her work
Alastair Philip Wiper is an English photographer based in Copenhagen and working worldwide. His work concentrates on industry, science, architecture, and anything that goes on “behind the scenes”.
Fabien Sanglard recently came across Paul Heckbert’s business card raytracer. For those that have never heard of it: It is a very famous challenge in the Computer Graphics field that started on May 4th, 1984 via a post on comp.graphics by Paul Heckbert.
Earlier this week, Google bought Nest, a connected devices company, for $3.2 billion. This might seem like an ungodly sum for a company that makes thermostats and smoke detectors, but it makes absolute sense. Nest’s products are beautifully designed, their team is overflowing with talent, and they were the first company to figure out what the “Internet of Things” means to consumers and deliver products that people actually want. But using some cheap, easily available components, Spark.io created a open source clone of the Nest. Not to prove that $3.2 billion is far too much for a company selling devices worth about $70 in components. No. Neither that you can build it design and build it in a day. It’s just a prove that everyone can build fantastic applications, but only a few manage to gather a excellent team and organisation. Designing the Nest cost probably only 10% of the company’s time and effect. Managing regulations, suppliers and producers is the hard part.
If you’re the tinkering type, you’ve probably deconstructed a fair number of electronics. It doesn’t take a genius to tear apart a radio, but once you get past the bulk of plastic packaging and down to the guts, you begin to realise that reading the mess of circuits, chips and components is like trying to navigate your way through a foreign country with a map from the 18th century. Source: wired.com