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We love design, but we also love to observe and discuss its intricacies here.

Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson Hollow Book by HollowBookCompany

Nov 17, ’11 2:44 AM

One of the coolest gifts one can possibly give or receive in tribute to the late Steve Jobs is this pretty cool book that seems to highlight the impact the iPad has had on the publishing industry. Give it another seven or so years, books of the future will look exactly like this one.

Although a little more symbolic, and now off track. The book itself is a tribute to the history of Steve Jobs, but the hollowed out version from Hollow Book Company continues to bring forth the inspiration that we once remembered from good ‘ol Steve.

Pick up and reserve your copy @ Etsy

Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson Hollow Book by HollowBookCompany.

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The Hollow Book Company – Keys to London

Oct 25, ’11 9:56 AM

Just a few snapshots of this gorgeous vintage map of London found within this hollow book print from The Hollow Book Company. There are plenty more beautiful books if you are looking to get a hollow book over at Etsy.

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A printer to envy

Oct 2, ’11 6:21 AM

Recently I’ve had a run in with Amazon whom failed to deliver my Epson printer, which I patiently waited 10 days for. I did get a refund, but in disgust of the wait time, I ran over to Best Buy to try to pick up the same printer. Instead I find another.

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Stuck Together in Distill of Water

Sep 15, ’11 9:12 PM

So recently I’ve been working on my off computer design skills, and have been using powered glues which require them to be mixed with water. Which is a semi-new experience for me because I’ve not touched glue since I graduated from school. Since more and more work done on computers are done on computers. However the handcrafted world is still done best by hand. A graphic designer’s world is left so flat and simulated on the computer. Even with all the magic of limitless undos, and cleanest of cutting that didn’t leave little pieces of dust, scraps and little round circles on the floor. Photoshop lacks the ability to capture human mistakes that can become part of the art. The art of plop, the spill, the drip. The rusty nail, damage from water, burnt to a crisp, edges gone wild due to temperatures of the room. The natural habitat of the artist/ designer has to be remembered, simulated in the mechanical workings of Photoshop.

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Lighting up my path

Aug 9, ’11 6:40 PM

More innovation coming out of Palo Alto, Benedikt Steinhoff designs an intelligent lighting system of rim mounted hardware and LEDs called Revolights, which is able to project lighting from the front and back, as well as the sides of your biking path. These lights visibility in the darkness to improve safety measures for bikers sharing the road.

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Adobe Edge

Aug 1, ’11 1:42 PM

Finally Adobe introduces a new tool to its creative family suite of software for creating animated web content using HTML5, CSS3 and Javascript. Currently a preview, Adobe Edge is available free for download for the next couple of months. Not only is this a much needed response from Adobe, necessary to keep up with the web. But also an inherent need for animation on the web without having to rely on such piggy back technologies such as Flash, which plagues the open web, and slows down our mobile devices with memory hogging websites, and worse annoying animated banner ads.

There are other applications that have already gone this route, despite Adobe’s ability to create a tool that will better work with all its standard graphic tools such as Photoshop, Illustrator, and Fireworks. However times have changed, and there’s a recent surge of great javascript based plug-ins just waiting to be downloaded and used within an app such as this. Can Adobe rustle up this already-in-place community of developers in opposition of it’s own dominating close-sourced Flash tools?

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