Another Concept for an E reader

Everyone is coming out with their own concept for an E reader, everyone - including your mom. this is "The Page" from Jae Kim, a prototype e-reader makes use of a semi-transparent e-ink screen to display images and text with more clarity. It looks like a newspaper, kind feels like a newspaper, but oh no - it's not a newspaper. This e reader allows those with some e - reservations to have their cake and eat it too. They still have the feeling of holding a paper in their hand, but now they can jump on the e reader bandwagon as well.

What's cool is that you can scroll through articles and surf through content just as you would surfing the web. Check out the video below.

On a separate note: The New York Times is always used as an example newspaper in concepts for e readers. Do they collect royalties?

via The Design Blog

infographic of the day "So you need a typeface"

Have you ever been in the middle of a project and you can't figure out which typeface to use? Yes, no, maybe so?

Even if you are not involved with design, this fun infographic "So you need a typeface" from Julian Hansen, a graphic design student from Copenhagen, Denmark. Hansen created this project as a more amusing manner in choosing fonts for a project besides flipping through the pages of a typical Font Book.

Hansen created this project as a result of utilizing the problem-solving nature of designers. One can assume that after many instances of frustration concerning the search for the perfect font, Hansen wanted to create an easier manner to do so.

You're So Vain

Just wondering why the badass Chinese manufacturers took so long to come up with a cheap iPhone edition? Possibly, this time around they wanna give it a sleek, sophisticated look that they could identify with themselves, rather than producing a cheap mockup. Here is the strange oval phone dubbed “Leady Apple” or “Lady Apple” from China that as indicated by its name is designed to attract stylish female users with its smooth, curvaceous design. Featuring the Apple logo, the feminine iPhone comes with all the standard features, including built-in games, media playback, digital camera and an FM radio. While the super shiny mirror-finish screen, allowing an instant makeup on the go, could well turn out to be the main attraction for the female folk.

A different kind of "tweet"

The “Wildermann” by designer Georgios Maridakis is a cuckoo clock created by a magical state of the art wood cutting technique, becoming a functional sculpture for modern apartments. The digital clock bringing the fairy tale forest to life looks more like a piece of art than a timepiece, enhancing the decor of contemporary spaces with its classic, but at the same time unique, design.

Another Reason to Wish You Were At Coachella

Inspired by the Japanese tradition of folding a thousand cranes in order to receive a wish, the LA-based Crimson Collective has come up with a massive origami crane named the “Ascension” that will be displayed at Coachella music festival this weekend. Finished in modular aluminum tubes covered with a white mesh fabric, Textilene, the structure measures 45 feet in height with a wingspan of 150 feet and weighs about 35,000 pounds. The origami bird integrates multi-colored LEDs powered by a solar system to illuminate at night, creating a mesmerizing view to attract visitors.

Really?

Would you want this in your house? Wouldn't it be a bit of a bad omen? Or playing with fate?

Evan Roth: Bad Ass Mother Fucker

Google "Bad Ass Mother Fucker" and you'll find Evan Roth

Today we Hofstra New Media students had the pleasure of having Evan Roth come speak to us about his work, his belief in open/free culture, and being a bad ass mother fucker. He spoke about his fascination with remix culture (a society that allows others to improve upon, change, integrate, or otherwise remix the work of copyright holders) and the importance of an open source community (most of Evan's projects offer a free source code for others).

Some takeaways:

think "Free as in freedom, not free as in free beer" - Richard Stallman ~ especially pertinent when thinking about the distribution of free content in today's media.

to hack: "small interventions that alter large systems" - be disruptive ~ this relates well to my Honors Project "Google How to Be Disruptive". I'm placing the slides up this weekend.

"good projects take a year, great projects take a weekend" - I talked to Roth about this afterward. He explained that he thought it better to "think smart" instead of "hard". When it comes to time management, I agree that one can't sit on an idea - you have to hold on to the momentum of a brilliant idea and see it through.

"publish every day" - when timeliness equals relevance, it's necessary to publish content as soon as possible. When you have an original idea, the sooner you publish it, the sooner you have "idea right"

In terms of becoming relevant online, there are three important traits you need: Sincerity, Style, and Timeliness

For more tips, check out 11 Rules for Getting Famous on the Internet. This is a blog for Evan Roth's Parsons Paris "Viral Media for Viral Artists" class.

Be sure to check out Evan Roth's unforgettable projects such as LED Throwies, Jay -Z's "Brooklyn Go Hard", and Graffiti Analysis 2.0.