30 Conversations on Design is a web based project bringing together the thoughts of 30 designers, architects and authors. Each is asked: “What single example of design inspires you most” and “what problem should design solve next.” It is the creation of Joe Cecere, Creative Director at Little&Company.
Travels of Code Monkey comprises 600 photos of a stuffed monkey, traveling across the world at 12 frames per second, to the tune of Jonathan Coulton’s song, Code Monkey. Courtesy of Mr Steve Lloyd. Nice effect.
Greta Corke, one of the co-founders of DIY KYOTO and co-designer of ‘Wattson’, the personal energy monitor got in touch with TDOD about their product.
With her business partners Richard and Jon, they are all graduates from the ROYAL COLLEGE OF ART. Greta explains…
“Wattson is a real time monitor showing you how much electricity you are using at home and also how much you are spending on money. The way it shows the information is very simple but yet effective. We now have grounds based on actual data that an average saving of 20% has been achieved by our users. Which is fantastic news and shows how important communication is.”
Have a further gander here.
This site is doing the rounds… Well it is November? Enjoy.
The unseasonal snow that fell on Beijing for 11 hours a few Sundays ago was the earliest and heaviest there has been for years. It was also, China claims, man-made.
By the end of last month, farmland in the already dry north of China was suffering badly due to drought. So China’s meteorologists fired 186 explosive rockets loaded with chemicals to “seed” clouds and encourage snow to fall.
Officials said the blue skies that brightened Beijing’s parade to celebrate 60 years of communism last month were a result of the 18 cloud-seeding jets and 432 explosive rockets scrambled to empty the sky of rain beforehand. Last year, more than 1,000 rockets were fired to ensure a dry night for last year’s Olympic opening ceremony. Putting an entirely new spin on the notion of climate change.
Paraphrased from an article in G2
