Ajay Murthy

Pictured as an old woman, Britain is “isolated and fuming with rage”, turning away decidedly from events on the mainland, almost forgetting, as the caption tells us, about Ireland, the rather cute dog she keeps on a leash.

Digital planning insight in a Pitchfork review.

...In the face of digital endlessness, restraint is just as important as creation.

...Miles being Miles, he didn’t merely dabble, but made creating art as much a part of his life as making music in his final decade. He was said to have worked obsessively each day on art when he wasn’t touring and he studied regularly with New York painter Jo Gelbard.

Who are you wearing? .. IBM Watson.

A color-changing dress sounds simple enough, but the shifts weren’t random. Prior to the gala, Watson analyzed Marchesa’s social media to translate followers’ sentiments into colors. 

It turned emotions into information, and created a color palette for the LEDs from that analysis. In real-time during the gala, Watson processed the huge volume of tweets surrounding the event, and changed the color of the dress according to the emotions in them. 

Rose signified joy, coral meant passion, aqua was excitement, lavender denoted curiosity, and butter indicated encouragement.

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Jugaad is a Hindi word meaning frugal innovation. 

It’s a clever solution born in adversity.

Constraints birth creativity. 

Step inside a memory

The Memory Observatory acts as a bridge between worlds, creating a shared consciousness by blending the physical and digital, the memory and the experience, the personal and the shared.

Step into your own special memory turned into a multi-sensory experience. Or enter the worlds of others and experience their memories brought to life around you.

Created by Wieden + Kennedy Tokyo in 2014, the Type range has recently been extended to feature the 11 styles shown above, with the newest additions being American Typewriter, Bodoni and Times New Roman

It’s not the tools, it’s the craftsman.

Hal Lasko, who was better known as Grandpa, worked as a graphic artist back when everything was done by hand. His family introduced him to the computer and Microsoft Paint long after he retired.

Grandpa would spend ten hours a day moving pixels around his computer paintings. His work is a blend of pointillism and 8-Bit art.

Welcome to the world of Hal Lasko, The Pixel Painter. See more work at hallasko.com

The word dates back to the very beginning of modern Japan, the Meiji era (1868-1912) and has its origins in a pun. Tsundoku, which literally means reading pile, is written in Japanese as 積ん読. Tsunde oku means to let something pile up and is written 積んでおく.