Breaking the deadly habit of sitting all day before the habit starts.
As much as you might want to ditch your office chair for a standing desk, a lifetime of sitting is a hard habit to break. So when a group of designers decided to attack the culture of sitting, they realized that they should start at the beginning and make a kid-sized standing desk.
Implanted with GPS and given to unsuspecting poachers, the tusks tell the story of how poaching funds warlords in Africa.
When Bryan Christy, an investigative journalist for National Geographic, wanted to dive into the ivory trade—finding out what happens to the tusks from the 30,000 African elephants that are killed each year—he realized that he wouldn’t be able to safely follow the tusks as they traveled from warload to warload in places like South Sudan. So he came up with an ingenious solution: a fake tusk implanted with custom GPS.
And the response is not great.
Three flags prominently displaying a silver fern leaf and one with a Moari koru (which has been nicknamed the “hypnoflag”) make up the four designs short listed in New Zealand’s campaign for a new national flag. These four will go to public referendum by the end of the year but so far, public reaction has not been great.
We asked some of the biggest names in branding for their take on the Google logo. They love the motion, but some question the word mark.
Google revealed a new logo yesterday, and in our book, it’s pretty great. With a smoother, sans serif typeface, it’s built to shrink legibly to fit the smallest screens. But the bigger story is its animated interaction language—the fact that it can morph into a series of dots that can convey anything from “Google is listening” to “Google is searching for nearby ice cream.”
The SmartHalo looks dead simple on its surface, which is precisely how a navigation tool should be.
In the realm of interfaces, a screen isn’t always the answer. Increasingly, designers are experimenting with ambient UIs as way for devices to communicate with people in an unobtrusive, yet effective, way. The SmartHalo, a connected biking gadget, is one example of this theory in action.
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Remember when Facebook forced you to download its standalone messaging app, Messenger, by revoking access to messages from within its flagship app? Turns out that strategy worked swimmingly for the social network: A new report by app analytics firm App Annie says Messenger is one of the most downloaded iOS apps of all time.
Pay $5 for a Dash button, and you’ll get $5 back from Amazon once you make a purchase.
In July, Amazon officially debuted its Dash button: an Internet-connected, branded, physical button that orders refills of various products with a single press. As of Wednesday, the e-commerce giant is making the Dash button program available to all Prime subscribers—and giving you a rebate that essentially refunds the price of the button.
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