Why We'll Never Be Able To Let Our Beloved Magazines Go. The magazine industry is on the decline, as anyone who's seen their monthly issues grow thinner and thinner knows. Thanks a lot, Internet. But much as we love style blogs, GIF lists, Pinterest boards and Instagram filters, we've still got a soft spot in our hearts for print magazines. The excitement of opening the mail box and finding that glossy waiting for you, the impossibly glamorous stars staring back at you from the cover, the obsessive act of reading and re-reading and re-reading every article, the careful tears you made as you ripped out the pretty shoots and ads to hang on your bedroom wall -- sorry, but none of that can be had from the Internet. Here are the magazines we've held onto and still cherish after all these years.
Teen Vogue, February 2006 Michelle Persad, associate fashion editor: "I was obsessed with a pair of lavender Tsubi jeans she wore in the editorial. I think I even eBayed a copy of the magazine after I spilled water on the original. " Sassy, April 1992. A New Thermodynamics Theory of the Origin of Life. Why does life exist? Popular hypotheses credit a primordial soup, a bolt of lightning and a colossal stroke of luck. But if a provocative new theory is correct, luck may have little to do with it. Instead, according to the physicist proposing the idea, the origin and subsequent evolution of life follow from the fundamental laws of nature and “should be as unsurprising as rocks rolling downhill.” From the standpoint of physics, there is one essential difference between living things and inanimate clumps of carbon atoms: The former tend to be much better at capturing energy from their environment and dissipating that energy as heat.
Kristian Peters Cells from the moss Plagiomnium affine with visible chloroplasts, organelles that conduct photosynthesis by capturing sunlight. “You start with a random clump of atoms, and if you shine light on it for long enough, it should not be so surprising that you get a plant,” England said. England’s theoretical results are generally considered valid.
Weekly – Web Development Resources and Tools #38. A European Visited Bangalore And Rode Rickshaws. Then He Made This Amazing Animated Video On Them. 10 Startups to Watch in 2014. If you only focus on the multi-billion dollar valuations of young companies like Pinterest, Uber and Snapchat, you might assume 2013 has been a very good year for tech startups. In reality, it has been more of a bittersweet year. Many early-stage companies struggled to raise a Series A rounds of funding, a phenomenon commonly referred to as the "Series A Crunch," which for some meant to fight for their survival. Meanwhile, several later-stage companies like Fab and Rdio laid off large portions of their staff to rein in costs. Even so, plenty of promising startups raised funds and launched (or teased) exciting features this year in markets ranging from mobile payments to media.
What's more, the success of Twitter's IPO has boosted investor interest in other social startups and may help revive the market for tech IPOs, which suffered after Facebook's troubled public offering in 2012. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. A year ago, the concept of e-book subscriptions was just that: a concept. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 15 Business Models to copy + PDF Download with all cases. 9 Out Of 10 Americans Are Completely Wrong About This Mind-Blowing Fact. Origins of Common UI Symbols. The User Experience of Enterprise Software Matters. Column by Paul J. Sherman Published: December 15, 2008 “As important as the user experience of enterprise software is to a business’s success, why isn’t its assessment usually a factor in technology selection?”
Over the past twenty years, the field of user experience has been fortunate. However, there’s one area that I believe has lagged behind: the enterprise software space. Just as the mass market has demanded and is receiving more usable products, so should businesses demand that their technology vendors make their software easier to learn, more efficient to use, and easy to remember. Consider this column a call to action to organizations that buy enterprise-level software.
Your technology selection processes are incomplete. The rest of this column explains why this happens and what enterprise technology purchasers can do about it. Enterprise Software “Enterprise software products are complex, powerful tools. Enterprise software products are complex, powerful tools. Smart Transitions In User Experience Design. Filmmaker Jason Silva Is Inspiring Us To Live Life To The Fullest.
Filmmaker Jason Silva Is Inspiring Us To Live Life To The Fullest. Colossal | Art, design and visual ingenuity. | Page 2. Obariyon. 2013. Stoneware, antique hooks, glaze. 17 x 46 x 30″ Washington-based artist Beth Cavener Stichter sculpts human-sized animals from clay and other materials in both dramatically overt and subtly ambigous displays of emotion. Hung from ropes or pinned to walls, the anthropomorphic sculptures are infused with juxtapositions that depict the extremes of both human emotion and animalistic behavior: predator and prey, love and hate, fear and peace.
“On the surface,” shares Stichter, “these figures are simply feral animals suspended in a moment of tension. Beneath the surface, they embody the consequences of human fear, apathy, aggression, and misunderstanding.” Stichter collaborates with a variety of artists in her work, including Alessandro Gallo, who designed and painted the ornate Japanese tattoos on the nineteen-foot long anaconda snake depicted in Tangled Up in You seen below.
Obariyon, detail. Tangled Up in You. 2014. Tangled Up in You, detail. The Sentimental Question. 2012. An illustrated life. Whether it is the cheerful moustachioed Indian men on Alicia Souza’s fridge magnets or the abstract images of women that Maheswari Janarthanan illustrates in notebooks, young women artists are using their skills to connect their art with the world. Alicia Souza Age: 27 Occupation: Freelance illustrator Website: Alicia Souza Alicia, born and brought up in Abu Dhabi, was completing her Bachelors in Communication Design in Melbourne when she realised how much she loved to draw. “When I left college, I realised that the jobs involving illustration were primarily contract-based. Since I was starting out and supporting myself entirely, I took up got a job at a bank and illustrated part-time.
Maheswari Janarthanan Occupation: Freelance illustrator and designer Website: Little one's doodles A visual communication graduate, Maheswari took a break after working as a graphic designer for three years. Deepika Vaishnavi Age: 25 Occupation: Designer – Drama Designs Website: Drama Designs Nancy Raj Age: 32. Colossal | Art, design and visual ingenuity. | Page 2. Interview: Understanding Good Product Design.