Copyright and remix culture: The new Prohibition?
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
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
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
Flipboard for iPhone
Ha! Flipboard now available for iPhone. Perhaps this reinvigorates my usage of Flipboard, which has slowly turned into zero on the iPad. The app looks nice and fresh again, just like it did originally on the iPad. Also notice their
Gradient app
Gradient App is “The missing link between web designers and colors.” — An app with very pretty UI, and it’s probably handy for those working with CSS3 gradients.
Retrospective on the Design and Philosophy of Firefox
Interesting, and long, backstory about the design of Firefox, which used to be my favorite browser for half a decade or more. via @fabiandanielsen
Hello Little Printer
Little Printer by BERG is a cute connected object that makes internet tangible. I think I want one. I’ve seen this basic concept back in the PixelAche 2009 event, though. An art installation printed out tweets with the word #love
Weeknote 207 + 208
Nordkapp in Computer Arts Projects Sept 2011, a photo by TeppoTK on Flickr. We launched Urbanflow Helsinki website, made it to Computer Arts magazine and met some elders. Nordkapp Weeknote 207 + 208
Weeknote 206
I wrote about autumn projects and thoughts about utilizing user research data, the Microsoft way, in our company blog. Nordkapp Weeknote 206 — Hardware projects, Windows 8 Explorer
