Hockney and the iPhone
Posted by: Christine Golus
David Hockney, one of my longtime favorites, used an iPhone to paint this week’s New Yorker cover. Yes!
Read Joanna Rieke’s blog and this Wall Street Journal article.
All Wrapped Up
Posted by: Tim Montie
This summer I was given the opportunity (and extreme challenge) to work on a graphic design project that would need to translate and scale into a full-size graphic vehicle wrap.
User Experience People
Posted by: Jeff Callender
One of the goals Peter Morville and I had with our book, Search Patterns, was to have our ideas and concepts live beyond the pages, allowing readers not only to be inspired by the content, but to utilize it in developing and explaining there own ideas and concepts.
Fritz Kahn: Man Machine
Posted by: Alissa Ampezzan
Monday a slightly belated birthday gift arrived on my desk at Q. Thilo at Q old world sent me a copy of his book Fritz Kahn: Man Machine, which he co-wrote with his sister Uta.
Spring Break in Italy
Posted by: Christine Golus
Just returned from a spring break trip to Italy with my daughter. Rome, Florence, Tuscany all in one wonderful whirlwind week. Way too much to document in this blog, but here are a few highlights.
Three Things
Posted by: Christine Golus
Michigan Public Radio has been running an interesting series of interviews that takes a look at how to make things better in Michigan. Listen to Monday’s posting with Keith Taylor and visit the Three Things web page to hear past interviews.
Thank you Penny
Posted by: Christine Golus
Kudos to the University of Michigan School of Art & Design for their excellent Penny W. Stamps Distinguished Visitor Series – a series of free lectures held at the venerable Michigan Theater on Thursdays at 5:10 pm.
Micro-controllers, proximity sensors, shape-memory alloy actuators
Posted by: Christine Golus
I attended SIGGRAPH 2009 in New Orleans a couple of weeks ago along with a few of my Q colleagues. One of my highlights was in the BioLogic: A Natural History of Digital Life gallery.
Meeting Up With Area Innovators
Posted by: Paul Koch
As a member of Automation Alley, I recently attended the organization’s summer networking event and discovered there’s no shortage of inspired individuals who continue to look toward the future.
SIGGRAPH 2009 is here
Posted by: Jocelyn Edin
Next week SIGGRAPH begins. The 36th annual conference on interactive techniques and computer graphics. A long-standing Q client and event.
iFun
Posted by: Christine Golus
Finally I’m an iPhone owner!
Searching by Sound
Posted by: Jocelyn Edin
A few weeks back, Q had a brown bag seminar on the future of search. Lots of interesting topics and tidbits were discussed, but one site that amazed me was Midomi.
User Experience Deliverables
Posted by: Jeff Callender
Recently, colleague Peter Morville invited me to co-author Search Patterns, a new book (in process) about design for discovery and the future of search. Intrigued by the challenge of utilizing my graphic design skills to enhance and communicate ideas and abstract concepts, I gladly accepted. We’ve kicked off our collaboration with an examination of User Experience Deliverables.
Consumer Behavior Insights: TV and Internet Usage
Posted by: Scott Hauman
The Center for Media Research released a brief on the convergence of TV viewing and Internet usage. According to the The Nielsen TV/Internet Convergence Panel, the heaviest users of the Internet are also among the heaviest viewers of television: the top fifth of Internet users spend more than 250 minutes per day watching television, compared to 220 minutes of television viewing by people who do not use the Internet at all. Nielsen found that the reverse is true as well - the lowest consumers of television have the lowest usage levels for the Internet.
Where Americans Go
Posted by: Christine Golus
140 million Americans attended sporting events this year, but 850 million visit museums annually. Wow!
