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Ask a designer or artist if any aspect of their process is random. The answer will likely reveal a complex relationship between human cognition, digital media, authorship, and even conceptions of reality and the divine. For those of us who work in computational media to make art, the question can be even more focused: When and why do you use a “random()” function when you write code?
Be careful, it isn’t exactly street legal.
Driving down the street, a new paper car—hand-glued from 1,700 pieces of cardboard—looks more like a piece of animation than a real-life object.
Easily configurable, custom furniture: It’s the anti-Ikea, and the latest trend in interior design.
Responsive design has already taken over the web, with apps and sites that can automatically stretch and shrink to fit on tablets or televisions with equal comfort.
Gorgeous concepts by Universal Everything imagine a future in which our words and buildings are one.
Ideo looks like a roller coaster designed by M.C. Escher. AKQA is a series of fans gone sentient. These are some of the strange, part-typographical, part-architectural brand interpretations designed by Universal Everything for the OFFF Design Festival.
“Slapdash Supercars” is a lo-fi, guerilla version of that MTV show that shall not be named.
The era of mass customization has afforded us with the ability to make products our own, but artist Max Siedentopf noticed that we’ve lost our creative edge when it comes to personalizing cars. So he took things into his own hands and started a guerilla art project that involved kitting out nondescript cars with cardboard spoilers, headlights, body kits, and more.
A new Fast Company feature reveals why Snapchat booted Yahoo from Discover—and replaced it with BuzzFeed.
When Snapchat launched Discover, a selection of editorial videos from publishers updated daily, it debuted the feature with a spectrum of media brands. Included in the inaugural group of 12 Discover channels were content creators like Comedy Central, Vice, Cosmopolitan—and Yahoo, whose channel was headlined by none other than Yahoo News anchor Katie Couric.
You’d be surprised which things in your timeline are tipping them off: your anger level and linking habits.
Twitter is largely a public forum, and most users know this. If you tweet about something you want to keep private, you’ve failed. But what many people don’t realize is that simply using Twitter at all can reveal a lot more than intended.
Flipboard’s new interest-graph ad targeting promises more relevant ads in a less annoying format than we’re used to.
It’s no secret to publishers (or readers) that placing ads around stuff people want to read is a deeply imperfect, still-evolving science. In the heyday of printed magazines, advertisers could make only broad assumptions about audiences. Who doesn’t recall flipping past pages of irrelevant ads and choking on cologne samples along the way?
Snapchat Discover insists people want to return to a time when you had limited channels, and limited time to catch shows.
Snapchat Discover, launched in January, was a counterintuitive offering from the messaging app. The Discover tab features a selection of channels that are based around brands, including Comedy Central, Food Network, CNN, and BuzzFeed. Unlike Twitter, YouTube, or modern-day television, the content on Snapchat Discover is limited—there are only 15 channels—and completely refreshes each day; there’s no way to go back and watch a video you might have missed.
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