Category: Inspirations

  • Powering the People

    Powering the People

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    There is a sovereign human drive inside us all that chants these basic desires: Let us be free. Let us speak. Let us learn what we want. Let us trade with whoever we want. Let us live and work where we want. Let us build communities with whoever we want. Let us solve our own…

  • Winnie Woods and The Ocean’s Soul

    Winnie Woods and The Ocean’s Soul

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    In her final years my Grandmother, Winnie Woods, told me that she remembered reading something in the Bible about the ocean having a soul, but now she couldn’t find it. Repeatedly she told me this. She thought it was possibly in Psalms. Throughout her life she spent her active days in the garden, reading the…

  • Everyone is Changing Everything

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    “You’re not just anyone. One day, you’re gonna have to make a choice. You have to decide what kind of man you want to grow up to be. Whoever that man is, good character or bad, is gonna change the world.” – Jonathan Kent to young Clark Kent in Man of Steel Inspired by this…

  • Tribute to the The Great Wave: A color palette based on an old Japanese painting

    Tribute to the The Great Wave: A color palette based on an old Japanese painting

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    The Great Wave Color Palette After years of admiring the The Great Wave Off Kanagawa print by the legendary Japanese artist, Hokusai, I realize the colors are just as dramatic as the composition. So I decided to extract a few hues and create a color palette based on the main elements of the design. I…

  • The world’s simplest phone

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    I love this. The world’s simplest phone in a sleek little black box. It’s called John’s Phone. Consider it the anti-iPhone. No apps or hi-res screen. Just a phone with buttons that works really well. A better user experience through LESS experience. Has anybody used one, or seen it in person?

  • The next stage in Google’s redesign

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    Checkout the next stage in Google’s redesign http://t.co/IiaG7MAE.

  • “Terminator”-Like Contact Lens

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    “Terminator”-Like Contact Lens making way takes augmented reality to another level http://t.co/mCxd5PNL

  • The User Experience Hierarchy of Needs

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    The User Experience Hierarchy of Needs http://t.co/fUVdDwdf #ux #ui #design

  • The wisdom of craftsmanship

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    I came across this interesting piece of Scripture while reading the Bible this morning: 1  AND THE Lord said to Moses,2  See, I have called by name Bezalel son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah.3  And I have filled him with the Spirit of God, in wisdom and ability, in understanding and intelligence, and…

  • Old-School Dark Color Palette: Sportomatic

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    Inspiration Cruising through designspiration.net I found an old poster of a Porsche 911 “Sportomatic” at the Nurburgring in 1967. I was drawn to the green monochrome photo and the overall color scheme. The green and orange reminded me of old video game cartridge labels. The Porsche poster’s dark background and muted colors are a theme I’ve…

  • I’m a podcast junkie.

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    I love listening to podcasts while I work. Especially if the task at hand is monotonous or design related. Now if I’m coding, I usually just listen to instrumental music. Hearing words and writing code don’t mix. I’ll end up typing what the person says somewhere in the code. That breaks things. I love my…

  • Mid-Century Modern Color Palette: Modern Hero Suit

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    Inspired by the hero graphic on hulu.com for The Colbert Report (as of 4/12/11), the color scheme really connected with me. Calm, powerful, and bold. I had to create a color palette in tribute. Enjoy.

  • Book Review: The Four Hour Work Week

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    Summary Overall, my mental and emotional experience reading the The 4-Hour Workweek by Tim Ferris felt something like this: I’m having a chat in a coffee shop with Tim, the author. He suddenly flips over the table, screams “Eighty Twentyyyyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!!”, punches me in the face, injects an adrenaline shot into my neck, and throws me into a Ferrari…

  • Interview with Designer and Entreprenuer Casey Doss

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    After interviewing Casey Doss recently, I found myself humbled and inspired by the way he manages work and family life. He doesn’t let being extremely busy get his priorities out of order; an on-going battle for anyone, especially freelancers. Who are you? Casey Doss. 28. Married and father of two girls. What do you do?…

  • Goodbye, Internet Explorer 6. Enjoy hell.

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    This week I received an email so beautiful I had to share it with the world. It said that Google will no longer support Internet Explorer 6. This means that maybe… just maybe, the day when I can completely ignore that buggy browser is a bit closer. If you didn’t receive this hope infused email,…

  • Illustrator: Matthew Lewis

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    Saturday night I ran into Matthew Lewis, an old friend from high school, who is also an amazing illustrator. We reminisced about ancient times while I drooled over his sketchbook. You can view his portfolio at www.lostkeep.com. He also publishes a sketch blog at http://lostkeep.blogspot.com/ Here are some examples of his work:

  • My True Father

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    My father told my mother he didn’t want any more children. SURPRISE! I was the last of his nine kids. When I was 2 months old they separated. Other than a few phone calls, I never saw the guy again. In 2005 I found out that he died alone in Costa Rica in 2003, two years…

  • Retro Vintage Color Palette: Vinyl Polaroid

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    All the faded luminescence of photographs from the 60s, 70s, and 80s expressed in a simple swath of muted hues. I created this mellow palette on COLOURlovers.com after being inspired by this beautiful photo of a woman flipping her hair: COLOURlovers is a great place to find inspiration. I visit the site often when deciding…

  • The Best Watch Design I’ve Ever Seen.

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    This extraordinary minimal wrist watch designed by Iskender Asanaliev, features a clear LED display that shows the current hour with a hand built from the minutes. The minutes are ultra slick numbers fashioned into the shape of the hour hand. This watch is not currently in production. The designer is still looking for a manufacturer.…

  • The Off / On Coffee Mug

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    This coffee mug changes color as you pour hot coffee into its temperature sensitive core. It also happens to be exactly what my brain looks like as I down my daily dose of wake-up juice.

  • The Mazda Furai explodes my face.

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    Check out this wild concept car: The Mazda Furai. The Mazda Furai concept car [1] is a beautifully designed piece of machinery that will melt your face. The swooping curves built into the exterior, the lighting in the grill, and the overall shape of the car shocked me when I first saw it in TopGear magazine. The…

  • Scientists Invent Holodeck!

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    FINALLY! Every gamer has dreamed of the day of real virtual gaming. Well, my cheeto-loving friends, our day has finally come. The VirtuSphere let’s you run around in what looks like a huge plastic soccer ball that sits on rollers. With a headset over your eyes and a gun in hand, you can literally run,…

  • The Father’s Love Letter

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    Growing up without a father in my home, I eventually viewed the Christian God of the Bible as my father. I looked to the Bible’s principles for wisdom. It helped me avoid many pitfalls in life, and make better decisions. This “love letter” from God based on verses from the Bible is an interesting way…

  • Fusion Power by 2035 …ish.

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    If scientists can perfect fusion power, they will usher in a golden age for power production, with systems providing all the benefits of nuclear reactors and none of the drawbacks. -read full story

  • Body Clock ‘Control Switch’ Found

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    Our DNA amazes me. It is a complete language describing how to build a human. Beautiful. The good ole BBC came out with this interesting story a day or two ago. “Researchers say they have identified the chemical switch that controls the genetic mechanism regulating our internal body clock.” Read on with the links below.…

  • Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Year 2007: w00t

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    That’s right. Digital Culture has exploded in large part to the success of video games and the evolution of online gaming. According to Wired.com, “This year’s winning word first became popular in competitive online gaming forums as part of what is known as l33t (“leet,” or “elite”) speak—an esoteric computer hacker language in which numbers…

  • Light to Shrink Computer Clusters

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    IBM is looking to replace the well-known copper circuitry in computers with beams of light. What are the benefits of using light instead of clunky copper wiring in computers? Here are a few: 100 times faster more powerful much smaller produces less heat and uses less energy How? Well, since they replaced the copper wiring…

  • The University of Alabama Permanent Collection, 2005

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       The first curious steps into Sarah Moody Art Gallery quickly transformed into a journey through some of the most popular names in contemporary art over the last 100 years.  Picasso, Rauschenberg, and Chuck Close hung within inches of each other. This impressive collection only grew more interesting after passing Krasner, Dali, and Richard Long.…

  • Choosing a path

    Choosing a path

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    One day while daydreaming as usual in a college math class, i made a list. This list was different from most lists because i never got past number one. I had been struggling again with stressing questions like: What should i major in? What do i want to be? What should i do with my…