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November 8, 2013
Check Out The New Olympic Pictograms
One year ago we saw the curvy logo for the Rio 2016 games. Today, we get the rest of the graphic identity.
We still have two years and some change before the athletic elite descend upon Rio de Janeiro for the Olympic games, but preparations are, of course, already well underway. Along with stadiums and pools and dizzying changes to the city's infrastructure, there's also a brand new graphic identity.
Highlights From Innovation Uncensored San Francisco 2013
Fast Company's Innovation Uncensored conference in San Francisco featured some of the most innovative entrepreneurs of the moment. If you couldn't make it, here's what you missed.
So, you couldn't attend Fast Company's Innovation Uncensored conference in San Francisco? That's okay. We've pulled together some of the highlights that had attendees (and Fast Company!) tweeting up a storm:
5 Apps That Make Reading The News More Fun
Because we're tired of reading about hipsters, Miley Cyrus, and Breaking Bad spoilers.
Today's xkcd comic poked fun at news outlets' stale terminology. Next time you read the oft–used phrase "could not be reached for comment," it'll be hard to not think that person or company avoiding the press "is guilty and everyone knows it." This inspired a Chrome extension that brought the comic to life (and makes news more fun to read). As such, we've hunted for other quirky creations designed to enhance news consumption.
Type Your Own Animated Movie With This Crazy Software
Inside this playful screenwriting software may hide the future of filmmaking: You simply write what you want to see, and that vision plays on screen.
Here's how Hollywood works today: Somebody writes a script. And especially if it's an animated feature––a piece that will take hundreds of Pixar artists years to produce––there's almost no chance it will be made. So filmmakers turn to low budget YouTubing, or even playing out their stories inside video game engines (machinima) in lieu of professional production and distribution.
Turning Can Collectors Into Designers, One Melted Beer Can At A Time
As a supplement to recycling, Studio Swine has created a mobile foundry that makes art of aluminum cans.
Discarded aluminum cans can be an urban blight. But designers at Studio Swine want to turn them into something else: an integral part of a city's character. To transform such a major segment of trash in São Paulo, the Studio Swine team, splitting their time between their London base and Brazil's largest city, created Can City, a mobile foundry that roams the streets, melting aluminum cans down into stools.
Airbnb Gets Support From Fellow Tech Companies In Ongoing Battle In New York
The Internet Association, a lobbying group that represents the most powerful companies in tech, has filed a statement with the Supreme Court of the State of New York supporting Airbnb in the midst of its dispute with the Attorney General.
Airbnb is still embroiled in a dispute with New York City regulators a month after the state's Attorney General filed a subpoena demanding data on the apartment–sharing site's estimated 15,000 NYC hosts (and Airbnb refused). But now, Airbnb has the support of the tech startup industry's biggest names through the Internet Association, a lobbying group that represents the interests of companies like Amazon, Facebook, Google, and, yes, Airbnb.
Add Gesture Control To Everything With This Tiny Chip
An ultrasound innovation may enable 3–D gestures on devices from watches to TV remotes.
Gestural control is something with which we're all familiar, thanks to products like the Wii, Apple's multitouch iPhones and iPads, Microsoft's Kinect, and Leap's Motion. But while gestures can be an extraordinarily efficient control mechanism for many pieces of technology, it's more difficult to implement them on smaller devices simply due to the more limited touch–surface real estate offered by, say, a smartwatch. Ultrasound physics and a minuscule device developed by researchers at University of California at Berkeley and Davis may fix this.
Design Icon Chip Kidd Shares His Wisdom With The Pre–Teen Set
Go: A Kidd's Guide to Graphic Design teaches the basics of typography, branding, and imagery in a witty primer aimed at kids.
Chip Kidd has been called the closest thing to a rock star in the design world, having created over 1,000 iconic covers for books from Jurassic Park to Geek Love and album art for the likes of Paul Simon and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion. In his new book, Go: A Kidd's Guide to Graphic Design, Kidd shares this rock star wisdom with the pubescent set, explaining the basics of typography, form, function, color, branding with playful narration and eye–popping visuals.
Want Your Instagram Photos To Get Attention? Use The Color Blue
A new study of more than 30 million Instagram images shows which pictures are likely to get the most likes.
Here are a few things you should keep in mind when posting pictures to Instagram to get the most likes:
Images with blue as a dominant color perform 24% better than those with high concentrations of red and oranges. Think #sky #bluebells #superman. Bright images perform 24% better than dark images. Think #sunnyday #LEDs #TimesSquare. Duck–face selfies generate a crazy 1,112% more likes than normal ones.
Microsoft Is About To Turn Your TV Into A Smartphone
Weeks before launch, Microsoft shows off the Xbox One's full interface and it will change the way you watch TV.
The Xbox One has a trick that few non–gamers know about (and no, it's not this trick.) The One has a feature called HDMI pass–through, which allows you to plug your satellite or cable box into it and run your entire television experience through the filter of the Internet–connected, Skype–wielding, fantasy–sports–playing, Xbox One.
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