IKEA UPPLEVA — New TV System from IKEA!

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Quote: IKEA introduces UPPLEVA, a completely new range that integrates smart TV and sound system with furniture. UPPLEVA brings beauty and functionality to the living room, solving the problem of cable clutter and miss-match between TV and furniture. You will

Fluent.io — A New(ish) Take on Email

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Ex-Google people from Australia have created a new email product (for Gmail) called Fluent. “We’re trying to … imagine the future of email,” Adams said. “We think that email has sort of stagnated and got into these set patterns of

Dieter Rams: Less and More Interview

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This Rams interview features 10 principles of good design + endless list of memorable quotes from this Braun designer who has influenced Apple’s design and industrial design in general. The un-spectacular things are the important things. — Dieter Rams —

Designing Devices (Free eBook)

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In honor of #IxD12 starting tomorrow and running until the end of the conference my Kindle ebook Designing Devices will be free to download! — Dan Saffer on Twitter In other words, get a free design / tech book delivered

PageLayers – Your Dream Tool For Website Redesign

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Page Layers creates PSD files of websites. It’s an awesome tool, if you ever: plan to do an unsolicited redesign for some entity are at work, and are asked to do an actual redesign project for a client have a

Site Recommendation: Minimal Me

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Soothing Minimalism in photography, design & art at http://mini-mal-me.tumblr.com/

Copyright and remix culture: The new Prohibition?

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The video above is The Kleptones – Welcome Back (Instamatic video mashup), my favorite example of excellent piece of mashup/remix culture. Push play and continue reading: If there’s one concept that has suffered more damage than just about anything else

Alternative Design Capital 2012 Site Launched

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My work wolleagues at Nordkapp just did and launched a website for Alternative Design Capital 2012. This is a shadow event for the official World Design Capital Helsinki 2012 project. Read more about ADC on the site and submit your

How-to: Create dithered 16-bit graphics for WP7

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Here’s a common problem when developing WP7 applications, solved. Problem The Windows Phone 7 platform, and apparently especially Samsung phones, require you to use 16-bit graphics. Photoshop only writes 8-bit or 24-bit PNG files. Of those, 24-bit gets dropped down