miosite: July 2006 Archives

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July 31, 2006

Cameraphone accessories

Greenbulb have a couple of cheap simple accessories for your mobile phone camera. The greenbulb 'Colour flash cube' and the SS mirror to help you take self portraits

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Cool hunting heads online

In the past magazines used to be the carriers of the latest trends and fashions - Times Online looks at how the new arbiters of style are online, leaving the dead wood media in the dust.

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John Walters Interview

For the past seven years, John Walters was editor of design magazine EYE. Walters talks to Stephen Heller from AIGA about EYE's history and what he has done to both preserve its legacy and make it relevant today.

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July 21, 2006

Street Installations

Guerilla public art - Mark Jenkins' street installations

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Photography questions

10 questions to ask yourself before taking a photograph - What story am I telling? Am I close enough? What is in the Background?

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DRM free

The purpose of digital rights management is to lock the owner of content into a particular technological platform. Ars Technica takes a look at the different types of DRM and how to circumvent them.

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What kind of genius are you?

Are you the bloom early fade away kind or the start slowly bloom later kind? Wired looks at the academic thesis of David Galenson and his categorisation of 'genius'

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July 20, 2006

Nicolas Roope

Can an art project make the transition from being 'art' to being a mass product? Does the resonance of that product get lost along the way? Mocoloco interview Nicolas Roope ceo of Hulger

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Are cities the new countries?

Global super-cities are getting bigger, are more culturally diverse and less dependant on the countries that encompass them. How is this changing the city/nation/state relationship?

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Marian Bantjes

Beautiful, delicate and ornate drawing from Marian Bantjes

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Ethical consumerism

Food outlets in Britain are finding that their customers do not always purchase their product based on price. It is becoming more common that shoppers are looking at the source and content of their food before they make the decision to buy. These new 'ethically aware' food outlets/growers and distributors are not your stereotypical hippies either - this new wave is expanding out of the niche and coming to a store near you - Ethical consumerism

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July 18, 2006

Trevor Jackson

Designer, DJ and Producer - Trevor Jackson

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Graffiti -v- Vandalism

Fashion designer Mark Ecko talks to Wired about graffiti and how it is incorrectly perceived by many as vandalism - what is the difference?

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Urban Fonts

Free Mac and PC fonts and dingbats from UrbanFonts

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The customer is not always right

The old maxim 'The customer is always right' dates back to Harry Gordon Selfridge, the founder of Selfridge’s department store in London in 1909 - but times have changed and here are ten reasons why the customer is not always right

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Old News

In the world of instant news whenever and wherever you want it - when does online news become old? According to the New York Times and Albert-László Barabási of the University of Notre Dame it takes 36 hours

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Genuine Fakes

Convicted forger John Myatt talks to the Guardian about his life before he painted forgeries to be sold at Christies and now after getting out of jail. The tale of a convicted forger.

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July 17, 2006

Desire controls what we see

New studies at Cornell University reiterate the old belief that our perceptions are altered by our desires

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18 tricks to teach your body

Ever wondered how to get rid of an ice-cream headache or hold your breathe for longer underwater - 18 tricks to teach your body

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BoardPusher

Design your own skateboard deck - BoardPusher

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The art of credit card design

What makes a great credit card design and how has credit card design changed in the last 30 years

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Minipreneurs

It's not always about consuming - there is now a growing desire to produce. With new channels to sell through (re: eBay) a new trend has emerged - the Minipreneur

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Vanilla

Vanilla is an open-source, standards-compliant, multi-lingual, fully extensible discussion forum for the web. Free to download and use on your own webspace

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Launchpad

The top 20 Launch Pad finalists will be showcased in an exhibition at the Melbourne Museum from July 11-26 2006 - view their work here

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July 10, 2006

Chris Erickson

Some good looking design in a fluid flash website - Chris Erickson

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PS Lab

The water resistant air chair from PS Lab - for when you need a more nautical theme.

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John Powers

John Powers, an artist where the whole is greater than the sum of it's parts

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Kone by Karim Rashid

KONE™ is a cordless hand vac designed by Karim Rashid for Dirty Devil - the type of portable vac you can leave out on display - on your table, shelf, or counter.

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Blanka

BLANKA is a collection of original, vintage and limited edition posters and prints.

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Publishing Statistics

If you are interested in what makes the publishing world go around then here is a good statistical resource. For example: They pay an average of $276.25 for illustration on each book, $465.17 for a simple cover design to as much as $3,533.26 for a complex cover design, between $5 and $18 per page for interior page layout and on average it takes 475 hours to write a fiction title and 725 hours to write a nonfiction title.

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