David Lidsky's Blog, page 3024
March 24, 2015
For Digital Art, Watermarks Aim To Bring More Aura—And A Hotter Market
Anti-piracy technology lets media industries trace movies, music, and books across the Internet. Can it help the digital art market?
Thanks in no small part to the Internet, digital art is having a moment, and it's attracting collectors too. An auction last year of GIFs, digital paintings, and printouts at Phillips in London raised over $113,000, including $3,500 paid for a website by the Dutch-Brazilian Internet artist Rafael Rozendaal.
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This 17-Year-Old Has Discovered DNA Mutations That Could Combat HIV And Meningitis
High schooler Andrew Jin is answering previously unasked questions in biology.
Like plenty of science-oriented high school kids, Andrew Jin is interested in human evolution. But Jin, one of three $150,000 first-place winners in this year's Intel Science Talent Search, took that interest further than most. For his project, the high school senior came up with machine learning algorithms that detect mutations in the human genome—mutations that could one day be used to develop drugs to combat diseases like HIV and schizophrenia.
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What Happens When Data-Viz Designers Become Penpals
When two designers switched continents, they embarked on a yearlong project to make data feel human.
Two years ago, designers Stefanie Posavec and Giorgia Lupi met at a design festival in Minneapolis, where they were both giving talks on drawing and sketching with data. They kept in touch online after connecting over their shared artistic, analog approach to visualizing numbers. Because they'd switched continents—Lupi moved to Brooklyn to start the New York office of her company Accurat, Posavec moved to London for studies and love—they decided to embark on a yearlong, hand-drawn pen pal project, called Dear Data, in which they send each other regular postcards that visualize a week's worth of personal data.
We wanted to prove that data can be totally human.
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This Cute Little Robot Is Designed To Help You Form Any Habit
To stick with a new challenge and really change your life, you're going to need more than cold data of a fitness tracker or smartphone app.
If you buy a shiny new fitness tracker, there's a fairly good chance it will end up forgotten in a drawer six months later. Maybe part of the problem is that it isn't cute enough. A new Tamagotchi-like device is based on the theory that if you really want to form a new habit, it helps if you feel an emotional connection to your technology.
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The Cost Of Bad Urban Design: $1 Trillion A Year
A new study from the Victoria Transport Policy Institute pinpoints the cost of the U.S.'s sprawling development.
Exactly how much does America's sprawl cost every year? Somewhere in the range of a trillion dollars, according to a new research paper.
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A Rare Interview With Graphic Design Legend Massimo Vignelli
From 2006, the late designer shares the story behind his infamous New York subway map and why typographic elegance will prevail.
This is the third of three excerpts from Helvetica/Objectified/Urbanized: The Complete Interviews by filmmaker Gary Hustwit (read the first two here and here). Join Hustwit Wednesday, March 25, at the Strand in New York for a talk about the book with designers Paula Scher, Tobias Frere-Jones, Karim Rashid, Davin Stowell, and Noah Chasin.—Eds.
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The New Purse-Friendly Cosmetics Startup That's Gunning For Big Makeup
Cosmetics startup Stowaway's "right-sized" beauty products mean no more bulging makeup bags, crusty mascaras, or weird-smelling lipsticks.
Julie Fredrickson cited the following statistic three times over the course of a 30-minute conversation: 70% of the $60 billion makeup market is controlled by 10 conglomerates. "Any time an industry is that consolidated, that's when it's ready for a change," she told Fast Company. Enter Stowaway Cosmetics, a makeup company started by Fredrickson, who has a background in e-commerce and digital marketing, and her friend (and former makeup artist) Chelsa Crowley.
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Meet M.Gemi, The Shoe Startup For Carrie Bradshaws On A Budget
The company is selling luxury-quality Italian shoes for under $300 by cutting out the middleman.
Christian, Jimmy, and Manolo have long ruled shoe lovers' closets. Now M. Gemi, an American-born women's footwear brand with Italian bona fides, is vying for that same shelf space. The company, which launches today, has found a way to deliver luxury-quality shoes at a fast-fashion pace and a fraction of the price by forming partnerships with Italian craftsmen and selling direct to consumer.
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This New Feminist Beer Is Waging A Battle Against Sexism In Advertising
Beer branding usually features seminaked women as a prize for men. A new Brazilian beer, labeled with a definition of feminism, aims to provoke a conversation instead.
The traditional American beer ad isn't exactly known for progressive feminist ideals: Picture, say, bikini-clad models mud-wrestling over Miller Lite. The same is true in Brazil, where a group of advertising creatives decided to push back with something new: a feminist-friendly beer.
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An Implant Could One Day Fix Spinal Cords And Let People Walk Again (Rats Already Are)
The tiny skinlike device attaches directly to damaged spinal cords and stimulates them as if they were connected to the brain.
Here's how we might fix spinal injuries in the future: with an implant that reconnects our body with the rest of our nervous system.
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