This infographic depicts data researched by Pew Research Center on the U.S. population on which demographics use social media. According to the data, Facebook is the leading social media. What other daunting facts are there?
http://blog.marketamerica.com/blog/social-media-monday-who-uses-social-media
Pantone’s new color schemes based off of Queen Elizabeth’s fashion!
100 ideas that changed graphic design.
http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/05/08/100-ideas-that-changed-graphic-design/
In the city of Rikuzentakata, a single pine tree stands as a testament to survival after the tsunami of 2011. This beer’s name means “One Pine Tree” and its design is a symbol of charity and hope for Japan’s brighter future. A scroll-like, handwritten label seals the top with its story written on the inside. The label is a solitary pine made of three triangles facing up, symbolizing the wish for progress in the reconstruction efforts.
Designer Neri Oxman is the Sony Corporation Career Development Professor and Assistant Professor of Media Arts and Sciences at the MIT Media Lab, where she founded and directs the Mediated Matter design research group. Her group explores how digital design and fabrication technologies mediate between matter and environment to radically transform the design and construction of objects, buildings, and systems.
Snowflakes: Macro Photos by Andrew Osoki, beautiful images of one of natures’ most transitory jewels. Reposted from Faith is Torment.
Straight Line Designs is a one-of-a-kind workshop that has been operating out of Vancouver, British Columbia for the past 25 years.
In addition to installations, sculptures and private commissions, designer Judson Beaumont and his staff of eight full-time craftspeople have designed and constructed a variety of custom-built furniture and projects for public institutions and children’s exhibitions throughout North America and abroad.
Incredible Geometric Pencil Lead Sculptures by New Zealand artist Peter Trevelyan. Reposted from mymodernmet.com.
