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Thinking about macro and micro content

Have been spending some time thinking about micro content especially within location based activity. I guess what is occupying my mind could be summed up simply as location within location: your at a night club and you want to generate content based on the room, floor or bar you are at for example. I’ve been [...]
Interest, Recommended, Sustainability

10 Principles for better design practice

1. re-thinking
2. re-using
3. using friendly materials

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Digital, Interest, NextWeb™, iPad

Thinking about how to investigate and observe how clicks vs taps are different

As we sit at the dawn of finger based interaction vs the old mouse method, I’m looking at how to best establish the differences this interactive method causes to the user experience? Read more here
FFBüro, Interest, Latest Work

What’s going on?

Lots of posts but not much news on actual activity at F/F recently. Read more here
Interest, Recommended

Great re-use skate deck art

This stuff is awesome – it’s part of a show from Harvest by Haroshi called Skate and Destroy currently showing at plsmis gallery in Tokyo, Japan until the 27th Feb. All the artworks have been created with old worn, or snapped, skateboard decks.
Concerns, Interest, Opinion

Need vs Want

It’s fairly excepted that in the debate over the worlds ever widening poverty gap that what an individual’s ‘needs’ is pretty much the same universally – you know shelter, full belly, clean water, security etc. Essentially in monetary terms not very much at all. So what is causes the gap to keep growing. The answer [...]
Interest, Sustainability

Three Trees Don’t Make a Forest

via threetreesdontmakeaforest.org At BGreenNow™ and Function/Form this is the kind of action we like to see and support. Well done to Sophie, Caroline and Nat for their efforts and good luck with the Three Trees project. About Three Trees Vastly experienced, Three Trees’ founders, Sophie Thomas (thomas.matthews), Caroline Clark (Lovely as a Tree) and Nat [...]
Interest

This building is ACE

Took this shot during a photo mission around the Melbourne CBD over the weekend. There are so many great bits of old and forgoten signage and typography on buildings across Melbourne – must find the time to document more of it.
Digital, Interest, iPad

The future of magazines?

via creativereview.co.uk Creative review articulate some of the views on tablets and the future of magazines we’ve been discussing at Function/Form since the arrival of the iPhone and the future of tablet/touch devices.
Interest

Google + Cloud = Better Monitoring of Global Deforestation

via feedproxy.google.com Great use of both Google Earth and the power of the cloud to map and monitor deforestation rates around the planet. Nice work Posted via web from arcd

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