Tame-Duck Diaries

The Blog of a Design Masters student studying at Edinburgh Napier University. Documenting the points of interest over the year.

Permalink Best Friends: Designer Maps His Facebook Network, In 3-D Infographic By Tim Maly, fastcodesign.com Colin Pinegar untangled his virtual and real relationships with an infographic, and ended up confronting some real-world messiness.What does “friend” mean? It’s always been a slip­pery term, sub­tly chang­ing through the ages. Even today, the w… What an interesting take on “friends” on Facebook! Pretty daring to invite everyone and possibly show some folk he’s not that fussed about them as friends!
Permalink Mapnificent: A time-based transit map N.B. | LONDON, economist.com STE­FAN WEHRMEY­ER, a 23-year-old Ger­man pro­gram­mer, has devel­oped a Google Maps appli­ca­tion called Map­nif­i­cent (harhar). It’s pret­ty cool: it shows you the places in your city that you can reach in a given amount of time using pub­lic… What an amazing use of google maps, seriously smart 23 year old! I hope it’s in Edinburgh!
Permalink It Will Be Awesome if They Don’t Screw it Up: 3D Printingpublicknowledge.org This white paper, It Will Be Awe­some if They Don’t Screw it Up: 3D Print­ing, Intel­lec­tu­al Prop­er­ty, and the Fight Over the Next Great Dis­rup­tive Tech­nol­o­gy, exam­ines how intel­lec­tu­al prop­er­ty (IP) law impacts the rapid­ly…
Permalink Watch A Drum Solo Recorded With Motion-Tracked Sticks BY JOHN PAVLUS, fastcodesign.com This stunning video by Odaibe is part infographic, part performance art.What does music look like? You’d have to be synaes­thet­ic to real­ly answer that ques­tion, but the rest of us can get a glimpse thanks to motion-capture tech­nol­o­gy. A…
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http://www.neatorama.com/2012/01/19/where-did-gulliver-leave-his-glasses/

Nice street art, fresh look at normal surroundings.

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Baker Tweet

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São Paulo: A City Without Ads

Permalink Extraordinary Carved Out Book Landscapes Pinar, mymodernmet.com It’s hard to believe that these detailed sculp­tures were once ency­clo­pe­dias. Inter­dis­ci­pli­nary artist Guy Laramee redesigns old vol­umes of information-heavy books that have descend­ed into obso­lete­ness, going untouched in this present a… http://flpbd.it/jw36 Seriously cool sculpture!
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Peugeot's new advertising for the 208

Click on the 208 Experience… get a webcam and enjoy! 

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