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UX Storytellers. Principality Building Society. Nathalie Guinamard questions the way we live in her bold, colourful work. Nathalie Guinamard: Chair 2 Recent Chelsea graduate Nathalie Guinamard is interested in how our memories and identities are shaped by the physical spaces we live in and the tangible objects with which we surround ourselves.
Her work has evolved over the past few years but her fantastic latest updates see her add blocks of gouache to images of interiors from the 1950s and 1960s. These interventions can range from simple sweeps of block colour to more subtle additions and manipulations all of which make us question our relationships with our living spaces and the almost theatrical precision with which we arrange and furnish them, well aware as we are what our houses say about us.
She says: "The paint is used as an editing tool to carefully select what parts of the image to show and which to hide, leaving certain elements, i.e. furniture, floating in a sea of colour. “The pictorial space is flattened through the addition of colour, which I hope disorientates and dislocates the viewer. ReSRC.it - Responsive images on demand, directly from the cloud. RomneyMakes.com – The Realtime Mitt Romney Wealth Calculator. 18 reviews Why it's awesome For those of us with better things to do than remembering how to tie a necktie, now you don't have to.
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While the candidates are busy battling it out, the Web design world is entrenched in its own debate about how to address the mobile Web: creating separate mobile websites versus creating responsive websites. It just so happens that the two US presidential candidates have chosen different mobile strategies for their official websites. In the red corner is Republican candidate Mitt Romney’s dedicated mobile website, and in the blue corner is incumbent Barack Obama’s responsive website. We’re going to see how well their mobile Web experiences stack up. Why Bother With Mobile? Why are the candidates attempting to create mobile-optimized Web experiences?
What’s more is that people are arriving to the mobile Web through more diverse channels than ever before. These are just a few channels that drive people to the Web on mobile devices. (al) The Communications Market 2012 (July) This is Ofcom’s ninth annual Communications Market report. This supports Ofcom’s regulatory goal to research markets and to remain at the forefront of technological understanding.
Viewers watched an average of four hours per day in 2011 – up from 3.7 hours in 2004. Over a third (37%) of UK adults with home internet watch online catch-up TV. Some 5% of UK households now own an internet connected ‘smart TV Total UK TV industry revenues increased by 4.9% year on year in 2011, reaching £12.3bn. This was driven by increases in subscriptions (up 8.3%) and advertising (up 2.1%). Read more... UK radio listeners listened to an average of 22.5 hours of radio each week, up by 24 minutes on 2010. Listening to the radio on digital devices has increased to 29.2% of total listening, with DAB accounting for two thirds of this.
More than four in ten UK adults say they own a DAB radio set, a 4.4% year-on-year increase. Play - Create Homepage. Build with Chrome. The Parks of the World. The urban park is an impactful place.
Humans of the 21st century are spending more time than ever living, working, and socializing in busy, overcrowded, mega metropolises. The 7 billionth person was recently born, and it is estimated that three quarters of the world’s population will be living in cities by the year 2050. Thus the importance of green space allowing this growing population the room to spread out. Aside from the obvious major environmental impact that parks have, we should investigate the social influences. Who uses these parks and what for? This project started in part because of a simple question that I wanted to find the answer to: How does the size of Golden Gate Park compare to that of Central Park?
With this project I’ve begun to examine the size differences between each of the large city parks that I’ve visited around the globe. Parks are more than just a section of town with grass and trees where dogs run around and yuppies play frisbee. CSS 3D Lighting Engine.