Quoted: Petals [charlenelam.com] by Charlene Lam merged the qualities of beauty, originality, and usability the best. As an independent object, it looks clean and sophisticated. The curves give it a real organic feel whilst the relation between daylight hours is clear. It is also definitely something that can be picked up and examined for a closer look.

The new BOB...

Quoted: Reader electrikjesus is beta-testing the BumpTop desktop interface that turns your desktop into a D space and lets you move

Quoted: Photographer Yann Arthus-Bertrand will bring his work back to the United States - to New York City for the first time in 2009. Aiming to inspire people to think globally about sustainable living, Arthus-Bertrand has been photographing unique views of our planet, seen from the sky, since 1994 - and has produced an exhibit of over 150 4-ft. by 6-ft. prints which will be on display in New York City at the World Financial Center Plaza and along the Battery Park City Esplanade from May 1, 2009 to June 28, 2009. When completed in New York City, the Earth From Above exhibit will also move on to California in 2010. Photographs and captions all courtesy of Yann Arthus-Bertrand. [Update 10.08.2008: At the request of the coordinator of Yann Arthus-Bertrand's upcoming exhibit, the number of photographs displayed here has been reduced to ten - Alan Taylor.] (10 of 38 photos total)

Simply stunning macro shots...

Quoted: Macro photography is the art of taking close-up pictures that reveal details which can't be seen with naked eye. For example, while we can see fly on wall,, our eyes aren’t equipped to make out the fine details of the hairs on it’s face. This is where macro photography comes in. It gives us a glimpse into the world of the very small, which goes largely unnoticed by us as we hurriedly shuffle through our day.

Share with the world ideas of what we should be already doing...

Quoted: Project 10 to the 100th is a call for ideas to change the world by helping as many people as possible.

Quoted: The main goal of data visualization is its ability to visualize data, communicating information clearly and effectivelty. It doesn't mean that needs look boring be functional or extremely sophisticated beautiful. To convey ideas effectively, both

Quoted: The importance of typography in design can't be overestimated. accuracy, precision and balance geometric forms can give letters the elegance sharpness they deserve. Besides, elegant

Design for the Other 90%, an upcoming exhibition at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum looks at what happens when designers design for an audience without the privilege and money of the first world. Featuring affordable design solutions for those whose main concern is not a better tea kettle for boiling water but how to get water in the first place, the exhibition includes life-saving designs such as The Life Straw, a mobile personal water purification tool, the Sierra Portable Light, a woven aluminum textile featuring flexible photo-voltaics to provide light and the Q Drum, a circular plastic container used to transport water.

Quoted: On view in the Arthur Ross Terrace and Garden, this exhibition highlights the growing trend among designers to create affordable and socially responsible objects for the vast majority of the world's population (90 percent) not traditionally serviced by professional designers. Organized by exhibition curator Cynthia E. Smith, along with an eight-member advisory council, the exhibition is divided into sections focusing on food, water, shelter, health and sanitation, education, energy and transportation and highlights objects developed to empower global populations surviving under the poverty level or recovering from a natural disaster.

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