Archive for the ‘Nerdy stuff’ Category

World Freehand Circle Drawing Champion

Category: From a friend, Illustration, Nerdy stuff

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAhfZUZiwSE[/youtube]

Design Coding

Category: Music Videos, Nerdy stuff, Technology, Web

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0qMe7Z3EYg[/youtube]

Client satisfied like they eatin on a snicker.

Edward Tufte or Matt Donovan

Category: Nerdy stuff, Technology, Typography

Edward Tufte

Matt Donovan does not have a fancy pants movie but he does have a better weather app.

Head Tracking using the WiiRemote

Category: Nerdy stuff, Play

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jd3-eiid-Uw[/youtube]

USB Razor

Category: Nerdy stuff

uSB

Robots inspired by animals

Category: Nerdy stuff, Technology

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tq8Yw19bn7Q[/youtube]

via New Scientist

Bristol Legible City

Category: Industrial Design, Inspiration, Nerdy stuff, Technology, Typography

Bristol Legible City

This is one of the better real-world examples of an effective way finding system integrated within an overall public space redesign project. Link from Chris Moorehead.

Rock Band

Category: Nerdy stuff

Rockband

Rockband is coming out soon to give Guitar Hero some stiff competition, offering guitar, bass, drums and vocals and they are planning on having hundreds of songs up for download. sweet.

23 Lessons from Eye-Tracking Studies

Category: Nerdy stuff, Technology, Web

Eye-Tracking

Eye-tracking studies are hot in the web design world, but it can be hard to figure out how to translate the results of these studies into real design implementations. These are a few tips from eye-tracking studies that you can use to improve the design of your webpage.

Pete + Viv’s fun pages

Category: Nerdy stuff, Play, Web

pete & viv

Grappa

Ok, I secretly love pages that are designed like this one. When you click the link above you will not expect it to have come from what you will see. Give it a chance though. If you scroll down you will find a bunch of great experiments that create images like the one above called “glitter trails”.