I’m a designer who lives in code, entrepreneur, and an idea incubator driven to make our world a better place.
New York-based artist Kim Keever specializes in photographing underwater landscapes, and a recent series explores the behavior of paint pigments in water.
Using a massive aquarium, Kim drops colored pigments in water and captures the wonderfully abstract results.
Paint Pigments in Water Yield Wonderfully Abstract Results
via My Modern Met
There is always time to do more. Most people, even the productive, have a day that is at least forty percent slack.
Do the most important things first in the day and don’t let anybody stop you.
Estimate “most important” using a zero discount rate. Don’t make exceptions. The hours from 7 to 12 are your time to build for the future before the world descends on you.
Tyler Cowen from Do I Wish to Revise My Time Management Tips?
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Showreel covering Territory’s UI concepts, design and animation for both on-set playback and VFX shots for Marvel Studio’s 2014 blockbuster, Guardians of the Galaxy.
Prestige is like a powerful magnet that warps even your beliefs about what you enjoy. It causes you to work not on what you like, but what you’d like to like.
Paul Graham, How To Do What You Love
A look at the evolution of cockpit and controls design over the last 45 years from Apollo to Discovery to Dragon V2.
Simply put, if Slack’s first-run experience was an Olympic medal, it would be gold. The level of detail, personality, and ingenuity is basically without parallel. Take notes on this one!
If you make a product good enough, even though you live in the depths of the forest, the public will make a path to your door, says the philosopher. But if you want the public in sufficient numbers, you better construct a highway.
William Randolph Hearst
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When was the last time you experienced romantic love? It was probably the last time you installed a new blog theme. Relive that moment of ecstasy with us as we unveil a better organized, better looking, and lovingly curated tumblr.com/themes.
Fall for themes. Again. For the first time.
It is not easy. It may well not be the right path for you. If you choose to do a startup make sure you know the risks and you are doing it for the right reasons.
Build something you care about.
Build something that makes peoples lives better.
Build something that will motivate you against all odds.Embrace serendipity. Grab all the opportunities you can, work harder than you have ever worked, make your own luck but do look after yourself first. Eat right, sleep decent hours and try to get as much of a work / life balance as you can.
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“I think you should always do more than what people ask for. Or we should not only look for what they ask for, but what they would like to do if they had the courage to ask for it.”
by Hartmut Esslinger, the founder of the legendary design firm Frog Design
In improvisational acting there is this great rule that I’ve used in my life: ‘Act As If’. Act as if this is completely normal. Of course I’m supposed to be interviewing Barack Obama. Of course I’m supposed to be playing guitar with Bruce Springsteen and of course there’s a big part of me inside that’s saying: ‘What are you talking about?’
Conan O’Brien
From Act As If, Entrepreneurial Life Advice from Conan O’Brien
People say the secret to successful blogging is to “keep putting out good content”.
But that’s not totally true.
You could be writing amazing posts that nobody hears about.
UI, graphics, interaction and motion design by Joseph Chan for the science fiction movie Oblivion. See more of the designs on Joseph’s case study.
Glyphish has released two new icon packs for iOS 7, and is currently offering a bundle with 1,000 icons, 14 background patterns, and 100 lovely illustrations for just $75.
