Not that I am a huge Microsoft fan, but I think their new search engine, Bing, combines a really nice design aesthetic. Also, the search for pictures and videos is (currently) far superior to Google.
It’s a richer form of blogging because you can include pictures, links, audio and video, along with text. Some of the world’s most popular bloggers are moving over to it. Like Steve Rubel. Here’s how he describes it
I like to think of lifestreaming as today’s digital equivalent of Leonardo Da Vinci’s notebooks. (Make no mistake, I am no Da Vinci nor do I think of myself in such a way. It’s purely an aspirational metaphor.) Da Vinci recorded notes, drawings, questions and more in his notebooks. Some of these were quite mundane (grocery lists and doodles), others were not. But the body of work was over time, a view of a one individual’s mind (in his case a great one).
My friend Jamie Allpress has just relaunched his website with a cleaner, more functional design. He buys and restores some fantastic English and European furniture and works of art. I was in his Melbourne shop the other day and saw a table that was 500 years old. One aspect (one of the many) I love about antiques is that they are probably the ultimate example of recycling.
The Design Institute of Australia (DIA) is Australia’s professional membership body for designers and design businesses.
Melissa Galt podcast.
This is an interview by Alan Saunders on National Radio 691 with Melissa Galt. She is a well-known designer in the US, but also the great-granddaughter of groundbreaking architect, Frank Lloyd Wright.
Evening reflections mirrored in the pool. Due to Queenstown’s position low in the southern hemisphere, dark in high summer is well after 10pm.
