The Donut Project

Everyone is somewhat familiar with Twitter. We all see various updates and statuses from our friends, family and co-workers. Many times there is a link posted in a tweet too. This is happening more and more with companies jumping on the social media bandwagon. In most cases, we have to go to each link individually, jumping back and forth between the twitter feed and the posted link.

Enter Flipboard. This iPad app takes care of that jarring experience and creates a digital magazine style output of your Twitter feed. No matter what type of content is shared via a tweet, Flipboard displays it appropriately. It is also possible to pull your Facebook account into Flipboard. At the writing of this post, their servers were having issues so I could not test the Facebook part. In addition to your own Twitter feed, Flipboard also has some nice built-in sets of feeds (design, style, tech, etc.)

The overall interface is great. Great typography, very intuitive. The price – FREE!
This is the sort of app that makes having an iPad justifiable.

It is also important to note that Teehan+Lax out of Toronto have a similar idea in the works too. It’s called TweetMag. Knowing Teehan+Lax, this app will be great and will give Flipboard a run for its money.

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Gabriel Shalom contacted us about his new short documentary Fail Safe. The video talks about the risks we take in our everyday lives online and in design projects. The video really helps one re-evaluate his or her own design process. Great video. Keep it up and thanks again for sending this.

Check out this conceptual video (after the jump) by Timo Arnall the looks at how to visualize the different networks and signals around us ( wifi, bluetooth, etc). The video is really interesting because it helps us to see the unseen signals that are all around. The way in which the signals are represented is very simple and it helps to not cloud over a very complex subject. As far as I can tell, the the video is just artistic and not backed us by actual location data. The rest of Timo’s work is also exhibits this high level of thinking and worth taking a look.

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Here is an afternoon treat. This video was made by Kenneth Onulak, a RISD student. I really like the simple & delicate animations throughout. Great work Kenneth!

This map puts the gulf disaster into perspective. Enter your zip/city and see the current oil overlaid on the map.

Simple and effective . . . scary effective.

(via Flowing Data)

BMW Art Cars have been going on since the mid-seventies. The task for the artist is to take a production or race-spec BMW and create an artistic outer appearance. It is fascinating to the see the transition of art styles over the years as well that the design of the cars. This years artist is Jeff Koons. The M3 GT2 will be used in various upcoming races, most notably The 24 Hours of Le Mans. Old BMW Art Cars have be done by Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, R. Rauschenberg and David Hockney, just to name a few. More images after the jump.

via Fast Company

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Designer Matt Stevens recently emailed us his Nike Air Max 1-a–Day project. The most recent ones look at some his favorite and most inspiring designers, illustrators and thinkers. Great stuff, and the style is spot-on for each of the people.

Thanks Matt !

Here is some good news. The US is going to see its first freshwater wind farm right here in Ohio on Lake Erie. Governor Ted Strickland had this to say,

“Ohio’s greatest potential for creating wind energy is offshore in Lake Erie, and this partnership marks a significant step forward. In Ohio we have all the right assets to make offshore wind energy successful, including an innovative workforce and the manufacturing strengths that would allow us to build all the component parts for wind turbines.”

(via Fast Company)

The new Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA) website was launched today. Designed by Pentagram and developed by LUCRUM. The site is very clean and has a flexible grid structure for the content. When a user clicks on a specific piece of art, an overlay floats above the grid (see below), never leaving the gallery page. The calendar feature is also very interesting. Each day has its own row of events, still sticking to the same grid structure mentioned before. Great work. More after the jump.

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There has been a large number of stop-animation / lo-fi videos out lately. This short video for Where Did the Community Go? of YMCA Vancouver is great because of its story telling. The color pallete is wonderful too.

via Motionographer