Studio Ghibli Goes Old-School in Awesome 8-Bit Tributes | Underwire | WIRED

For famed animation director Hayao Miyazaki, turning your vision to reality has a lot less fairy dust than it does construction equipment. “The work of animation is building up bricks and mortar, bricks and mortar,”he said earlier this year, while discussing his claims of retirement. With a quote like that, it’s almost as though he was asking his fans to pay tribute to the many celebrated films of his Studio Ghibli. And one of them did—using tiny, brightly colored digital bricks.

 

Creative Photomanipulations by Nois7 – Fubiz™

Proposant sur Instagram ses créations, le photographe et directeur artistique allemand Robert Jahns plus connu sous le pseudo Nois7 invente des situations surréalistes à l’aide de manipulations du plus bel effet. Voici une sélection de ses œuvres, proposant une baleine à Venise ou encore des manèges entre deux gratte-ciels.

The World's Top 10 Most Innovative Companies In Design | Fast Company | Business + Innovation

NIKE

For putting sustainability at the top of its design agenda. The sportswear company is aggressively pursuing new materials that can replace the EVA foam and nylon used in shoes. To do this, they're partnering with NASA, the U.S. State Department, and USAID to research the textiles of the future. Internally, Nike has synthesized and compiled nearly eight years' worth of their findings on sustainable materials into a beautiful and graphic app called Making, which enables any designer, anywhere, to create apparel that has less of a footprint.

Trianglify by @qrohlf

Trianglify is a javascript library for generating colorful triangle meshes that can be used as SVG images and CSS backgrounds.

Descubre los curiosos huevos de pascua en OS X

La cantidad de detalles y curiosidades escondidas en el sistema operativo de Apple es impresionante. Precisamente hoy vamos a desvelados algunos de los huevos de pascua en OS X más curiosos, aunque desde luego no los únicos, que hemos encontrado.

The Markdown Mark

I’m making something that uses Markdown, and there’s currently no great universal symbol for identifying Markdown support. So I created one.

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