If you donʼt look at things from a realistic point of view and admit that things are not as good as they can be, they wonʼt get better.

(via Seth Sandlers)

A coming soon movie called This is my dream about the "clothes-maker" Yohji Yamamoto.

I also discover the Color application.

I also chance upon an interesting visualization called Heart Chamber Orchestra. The input data of that visualization is the heartbeat of the 12 musicians.

A website Made by Many, the studio of London, for the SXSW exhbition in Austin. That website is a plateform that aggregates all the Instagram pictures that the members of the team are taking.

An interactive CD packaging, generating an ink stain when it is opened for the first time.

A tool quickly established by Google after the tragic Japan earthquake. This website enables users to search people.

Method Design Lab, is a new branch of Method, an international design studio, specialised in interaction design and design services. Here is the website of that plateform.

On the Cooper's blog, Jenea Hayes and then Alan Cooper both react after reading an article published on Co.Design called User-Led Innovation Can't Create Breaktroughs; Just Ask Apple and Ikea. Here is the video Alan Cooper is talking about at the end of his post :

Let's end this week with a game called Helicopter Taxi, from the studio Toca Boca. This is a mixed reality game that uses mobile devices such as the iPhone.

A few days ago, I watched a video that I was keeping in my browser into my Watch-it-later file. This is is the following video, in which Frank Chimero talks about design, what is design, what is important in design, what is a designer, etc.

The points I want to remember about this thoughful video is how he describes designers as full human beings. I like the way that he present himself as a skillful person and vulnerable as well. (36') "Be skillful, be vulnerable, be thoughful, be human". And that goes through being squichy, more than being slick.

Another point is his experience with the movie Wall E (29') that he uses to demonstrate the importance of storytelling. Still about movies, he uses Avatar and 8½ (33') to talk about how things can "really damn slick".

A vibrant website that uses parallax. It was made by Wieden + Kennedy for TED x Portland event, happening on April 30 : http://tedxportland.com/ 

Trash | Track is a visualization that explains how the content of a trash in Seattle is scattered all over the country.

via Information Aesthetics

Massimo Vignelli's interview. He spokes about beauty as an opposite of vulgarity, good design in opposition to ephemeral design and about his work on the NYC Subway Map.

I loves these projects that shows the invisible that surrounds us in our daily life. What I like is the subtility, the sensibility, the paradoxal invisible shown. The form factor and so the design is also important in this paradoxal activity. How to represent this invisible information/data?

Here is one of these brilliant projects, made by Timo Arnall, Einar Sneve Martinussen and Jørn Georg.

John Maeda's post about this idea of "twitterfly effect" : http://our.risd.edu/2011/02/23/the-twitterfly-effect/

Fighting homelessness 140 characters at a time : http://underheardinnewyork.com/

"A collaborative music and spokien word project conceived by Darren Solomon from Science for Girls, and developed with contributors from users" : http://www.inbflat.net/ (via Berg)

An easy way to connect "things" using the sentence "If This Then That" (bonus point for the simplicity!) : http://ifttt.com/wtf

Prêt à jeter, Ready to throw out, is a documentary beamed on Arte, available in French and German only. It explains how products are based on the idea of programmed obsolescence.

I am also adding this link, it is a post written by Matt Jones from BERG about shoes built to run with for 100km.

Watson is a machine developped by IBM, which the particularity is it understands human language and it learns by itself. Watson has been invited to participate to Jeopardy, the "America's favorite quiz show". The super computer is going to be opposed to the two greatest champions of the game. It is a very exciting moment in the world of artificial intelligence (AI).

I recently discovered through Flowingdata, this video that shows the design process of Watson. Not the package but its voice and its visual behaviours. The visual part has been made by the artist Joshua Davis.

It makes me so excited! You can also follow Watson on Twitter @ibmwatson.

An interesting slide from Nick Foster about industrial design products made of DNA, genetic mutation and natural selection.