Yahoo’s board has approved a $1.1 billion cash deal to purchase the blogging site Tumblr, according to The Wall Street Journal. We were expecting Yahoo to announce the acquisition during tomorrow’s NYC media event — CEO Marissa Mayer may instead use the last-minute gathering to detail the company’s plans for integrating the popular platform.
Art is often an emotional outlet for people—the same can be said for 20-year-old photographer Christian Hopkins, who has been battling depression for four years. Using photography as a coping mechanism, Hopkins has captured a series of surreal self-portraits that reflects the anguish that goes through his mind.
The event was a rare opportunity for designers and others to explore the beautiful world of engraved printing, both commercial and artistic. Led by respected experts in the field, guests will learn about the process of engraving as a printing method, its historical context and how engraving can be an effective option for designers today.
Google announced today that users of its myriad digital services can control how their data is handled once they are gone. The awkwardly named Inactive Account Manager lets you tell Google to delete or share your precious data with a predetermined person after a specified period of inactivity.
Google Glass has arrived like a piece of sci-fi memorabilia sent from the future. But with all the talk about wearing the Internet on your face and whether or not these glasses can ever be fashionable, the most obvious and important story has gone untold: What is Google Glass actually like to use? Here are the details.
House of Cards, Netflix’s first foray into original programming, is currently the most-watched show in the service’s library. Back in 2011, before the company made its bid, it looked at the show, examined its subscriber data, and determined that it would, in fact, be a hit. It’s one of the most sophisticated attempts at data-driven programming we’ve ever seen.
Inside Apple, Jony Ive is pushing designers to rethink iOS, the software that runs on the iPhone and iPad. Apple’s new direction? Like Microsoft, which has distanced itself from skeuomorphic design, Ive has beenpushing ”flat design” in Apple’s mobile products. But just because Apple and Microsoft are embracing flatness, don’t let that fool you into thinking the future of mobile user interface design will also be shallow.
Facebook Home sets itself apart from Android and Apple by taking full advantage of a layered UI. The key to Facebook’s new mobile paradigm is depth.
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Home: Facebook’s bold new vision for social smartphones is finally here. The new Facebook phone puts your facebook friends and text messaging at the center of the the Smartphone universe.
Check out this beautiful self promotional project which explores this young designer’s love for a clean-cut and geometric design aesthetic.
Ray Gascoigne has been around boats his whole life, as a shipwright, a merchant sailor, and now as a ship builder on the smallest dry dock there is: a bottle. This short film by Smith Journal and Melbourne-based production studio Commoner picks through the wood chips to tell the story of a craft honed over 60 years, and the man behind it. More details here.
Nicholas Felton unveils his latest annual report. And here is an exclusive first look at from Felton, life quantification guru and facebook timeline designer.
Yet another great conference and festival comes with another set of amazing titles and motion graphics piece this year – FITC 2013 Amsterdam. Here are the Official Titles created by Bradley Munkowitz (aka GMUNK).
