A table that was designed to put all the little things that you never know where to put. With the Kai table, you’ll be able to find a hidden space for pretty much anything, but it also looks like you’ll never be able to find it.
This table was designed by Naoki Hirakoso in collaboration with Takamitsu Kitahara. It is made of wood, with a plywood finish, and produced by the designers in 2003.
Rebound by Stephen J. Rose; design by Jason Ramirez (St. Martin’s Press May 2010)
The cover design is a great piece of marketing and is the main attraction that has power to fascinate everyone and drive them to buy or read your book. It’s the first thing that everyone is introduced to in your book and if it is impressive enough then you can generate your ROI. There are several ways through which you can make you cover look awesome but at the moment like Dan said in his blog, I am also pretty inspired by a vintage cover design by Elaine Lustig and Jay Maisel that uses arrows as a part of their design.
The cover design of your book helps to drive user actions and conversions and what could best illustrate it than an effective arrows? If you do not believe then look at the given pictures to determine it by your own:
The Arc of War by Jack S. Levy & William R. Thompson; design by Isaac Tobin (University of Chicago Press October 2011)
The Bug by Ellen Ullman; design by Jamie Keenan (Picador February 2012)
Busted by Edmund L. Andrews; design by Gray318 (W. W. Norton July 2009)
Adventures in the Orgasmatron by Christopher Turner; design by Marina Drukman (Farrar, Straus & Giroux June 2011)
The Enchanted Wanderer by Nikolai Leskov; design by Peter Mendelsund (Knopf March 2013
The Act of Love by Howard Jacobson; design by Catherine Casalino (Simon & Schuster March 2009)
Hush Hush by Steven Barthelme; design by Christopher Brian King (Melville House October 2012)
There are numerous designers around the globe but only few of them are successful and stand out in the marketplace. Chungkong is one of such designers (graphic designer) from Netherlands who is famous for creating cool movie posters. What actually matters for being a successful designer is a strong ingenious personality with powerful thinking capability. And the posters by Chungkong illustrate the same. His posters stand out for a simple and humorous language that demonstrates great skills and imagination.
In each of his design work, first of all, he strips the subjects down to their bare bones and brings them to life with vivacious and playful designs. His area of expertise covers varieties of subjects from cult movies, geek art, books and sports.
Chunkong, by day, is a graphic designer who creates adverts and brand identities for clients, and by night, he transforms into a poster creating mad man. And because of his strong attachment and madness towards the passion of creating posters, today, his cool minimal movie poster collection now features over 300 titles. Check out few of his most popular posters below:
With the evolving technologies and trends, 3D printing – the process of making three dimensional solid objects from a digital model – has gained special attention and market hit. This technology is used in several fields including jewellery, industrial designs, architecture, education, engineering, and to your surprise it is now used in floral as well. Yes, you heard it right.
Joshua Harker, who is an artist, sculptor, musician, digital adventurer and imagination architect, has been working on a new 3D printing technology that pushes the boundaries of quality, and creates small bouquets comprising 10 to 12-inch flowers. He believes his 3D printed filigree floral structure will help to raise funds to complete R&D of a revolutionary new 3D printer technology.
The limit of what 3D printing can do are constantly being tested, and one of the best result is Joshua Harker’s exceptional 3D floral design which is the result of his creative imagination, art and invention. You can visualize some of his 3D floral print in the given pictures:
Philipp Banken is a talented illustrator from Germany. He freelances for various clients, in both traditional and digital techniques.
If you have stairs in your house and kids, but not enough space for a permanent slide to go down the stairs (a thing that any responsible parent should do), this foldable slide is for you. It was designed by Trisha Cleveland and can be folded in a small box. Check how easy it is to set it up in the pictures below.
A collaborative, nonprofit foundation has been started by a group of technology companies to boost the adoption of the MIPS processor architecture.
Imagination Technologies, Broadcom, Cavium, Ikanos, Ineda Systems, Ingenic Semiconductor, Lantiq, Nevales Networks, PMC and Qualcomm have founded "prpl," an open-source, community-driven foundation,
Imagination Technologies said Thursday. The company also separately announced that it will collaborate with Oracle to enhance Java for embedded and Internet of Things applications, and to optimize Java for the MIPS CPU architecture.
MIPS implementations are mostly used in embedded systems such as routers and video game consoles, for instance, which could make them particularly useful for the burgeoning Internet of Things market.
Imagination has been pushing to expand the use of MIPS chips since it bought the financially struggling MIPS Technologies in 2012. Currently, more than 3 billion MIPS units have shipped, according to the company.
Each member company will provide its particular expertise to the foundation's engineering groups. For instance, Qualcomm will focus on networking and build a community around OpenWrt, an OS based on the Linux kernel that is often used to route network traffic.
"Instead of every company doing the work individually, they all come together in prpl. They do the work and every company benefits from that work," Imagination spokesman Alexandru Voica said.
Prpl will offer open-source OS distributions for MIPS, including Android, CentOS, Debian, Fedora and Ubuntu, essentially creating a repository for developers and others.
Working together in this way makes sense, said Richard Fichera, vice president and principal analyst of infrastructure and operations at Forrester Research. "As far as I can see, it is an intelligent strategy and program to boost MIPS, which has been under immense pressure from ARM for mobile device market share," he said.
Another focus of the foundation will be on enabling next-generation "data-center-to-device" portable software and virtualized architectures, Imagination said.
That strategy, however, is less to Fichera's liking. "MIPS lost its chance at the core data-center server market," he said, adding that he seriously doubts that anyone will invest in either silicon or systems to have another run at it.
"Any significant investment in a non-x86 server will be centered on ARM or possibly OpenPOWER rather than MIPS. However, MIPS is a perfectly good embedded compute resource, and is appearing in network-edge devices as programmable cores for both embedded network functions and as a user-programmable device," he added.
As for Imagination's collaboration with Oracle, the companies will work to bring broad Java support to 32-bit and 64-bit MIPS architectures for use in a broad range of applications including routers, other networking equipment, mobile devices and the Internet of Things, they said.
originally published at : news.techworld.com
