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Welcome to typography
Totday we feature a young talented typographer from Detroit Michigan - Neil Tasker. Ever since he is drawing, his style boasts creativity and his custom lettering is one of a kind. Beautiful treatments and a nice detailed forms make his artworks so fantastic.
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“Design the experience.”
Paddy Harrington, Executive Creative Director at Bruce Mau Design
speaking at CreativeMornings/Toronto(*watch the talk)
REARVIEW
People say, don’t look back. Look forward. But I say, hell yes, I’m looking back. I’m going to turn around and look for my grief. Where is it? I can barely see it back there shifting the wind.
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Fountain of youth
could be typography, or making art, or having more money you can spend or just loving your work. I think the last one fits perfectly to Georgia Hill the freelance typographer from Berlin, germany. Her work is playful and inspiring. Enjoy it!
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The future of robotics: in a transhuman world, the disabled will be the ones without prosthetic limbs…
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Bertolt Meyer’s amazing bionic hand controlled by an iPhone app is a glimpse of the advances being made in prosthetics. But in years to come, will everyone want one?
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Bertolt Meyer is used to being viewed as not fully human. Born with a stump where his left hand should have been, he spent his childhood wearing a hook connected to an elaborate pulley and harness. “To open the hook and grasp things I had to flex my shoulders like this,” he says, striking a he-man pose. “The harness was very uncomfortable. To stop it chafing my skin, I had to wear a shirt underneath it at all times. I was always sweating.”
Even when, at the age of 19, Meyer exchanged his body-powered hook for a myoelectric prosthesis with a more realistic plastic hand, he kept his disfigured left arm hidden from view. “It wasn’t simply a question of aesthetics,” he explains, proffering the plastic hand, now grubby and discoloured with use. “You have to understand, this is a stigma. People think it’s weird and that is how you come to perceive it. You walk around with a sense of shame.”
Today, that shame is gone. In 2009 Meyer, a social psychologist at the University of Zurich, was fitted with an i-limb, a state-of-the-art bionic prosthesis developed by a Scottish company, Touch Bionics, that comes with an aluminium chassis and 24 different grip patterns. To select a new suite of gestures, Meyer simply taps an app on his iPhone.
“This is the first prosthesis where the aesthetics match the engineering,” he says, balancing a Biro between his purring electronic fingers. “It’s part of me and I’m proud of it.” (via The future of robotics: in a transhuman world, the disabled will be the ones without prosthetic limbs | Technology | The Observer)
Baratunde Thurston unplugged from his digital life for 25 days and is sharing his experience. “The greatest gift I gave myself was a restored appreciation for disengagement, silence, and emptiness. I don’t need to fill every time slot with an appointment, and I don’t need to fill every mental opening with stimulus…”
To help you embark on your own digital detox, we’re putting together a guide to unplugging. This will be something you can print out and take with you. To do this, we’re soliciting pieces of advice from our readers on the best ways to unplug. Got some thoughts? Submit them here, or tweet them at @FastCompany with the hashtag #unplug.
“I am still a creature of my technological time. I love my devices and services, and I love being connected to the global hive mind. I am neither a Luddite nor a hermit, but I am more aware of the price we pay: lack of depth, reduced accuracy, lower quality, impatience, selfishness, and mental exhaustion, to name but a few. In choosing to digitally enhance, hyperconnect, and constantly share our lives, we risk not living them. We have collectively colluded to take this journey, but we’ve done so inches at a time, not realizing that we have traveled leagues in the process.”
soon this advice will be taken..
Wish I could do that.
