designswarm thoughts

“The cupcake is a real symbol of femininity and a camp symbol of a bygone era,” says Shail. “People really respond to it and love it.” (Although, unfortunately, few people actually eat the cakes, because they tend to assume that they are poisoned or laced with drugs.)

via The Guardian

I’ve never in my life given that answer to that question. Am I the only one? I get the feeling this is an American perspective on the role of an interaction designer. Is it the only one? I hope not.
via core 77

This is a little project of mine that was born over a year ago in Amsterdam but went into hibernation for a while for obvious reasons. I’m happy to consider this is my first actual contribution to the web2.0 conversation.

I’d like to thank D’arcy Saum, Richard Groenendijk and Nicholas Land for helping me out on this project.

Constant Setting:

Communications technologies allow us to be connected globally but there is nothing more deeply moving than the natural and uncontrollable motion of the day. Every hour of the day, somewhere in the world, Mother Nature offers us that symphony of color, and we take pictures of it.

Constant setting is a simple website that displays in real time, any sunset images taken and posted to Flickr as creative commons that correspond to the cities where the sun is setting at the moment.

You can see the city where the image was taken (which you can click to be redirected to the Google maps location, if you don’t know where in the world that is) as well as its geographical information (long / lat) and the local time in that city.

You can also see who took the picture and get redirected to the original picture to add to your favorites! There’s a little timer to let you know how long to the next one, and because this is crowdsourced in a way, it might go back to the same image, until it finds an image tagged with “sunset” for the next location.

Enjoy and do let me know what you think! Consider this version1.0 :)

“An iPhone is a phone you can FUCKING PUT DOWN for five minutes in order to PAY ATTENTION to the people who are in the FUCKING ROOM WITH YOU”
From 2lmc.

Not interactive designer, all designers are interactive!

Lovely interview of Kars here, I think that conversation embodies the misunderstandings and challenges around the concept of “just enough prototyping” (mantra that Gillian Crampton Smith pushed at Ivrea) and the need to be dependent on technology when designing or be technology agnostic.

“I do not have the authority to obligate the government to make purchases.”

Images taken while sitting in Citizen Cupcake in front of the Apple Store in SFO.

Girl in the yellow shirt from Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino on Vimeo.

It’s August finally and as a form of relaxation, I’m forcing myself to do some video editing, something I used to enjoy tremendously when I was studying.

This one is for Karola.

What is jewellery? from Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino on Vimeo.