More details about Apple’s alleged iWatch are starting to make their way into the wild.We’ve been hearing rumblings about an Apple-made smart watch for several years but those rumors have become more frequent and detailed since the start of 2013.Last month, the New York Times reported that Apple was working on making a wristwatch and iOS companion out of curved
Aaron Swartz, an Internet activist who was one of the creators of the Web news sharing site Reddit, was found dead in his New York apartment Friday, an apparent suicide. Internet activist and computer prodigy Aaron Swartz, who helped create an early version of the Web feed system RSS and later played a key role
Today, we have a beautiful Christmas icon freebie for you created by the talented, hard-working folks at RocketTheme. The icon set contains ten icons available as 256×256px PNGs that have been lovingly and exclusively prepared for Smashing Magazine and the Web design community. As usual, the set is released under a Creative Commons license and can
It seems that almost everyone has a website. If you are in business, a website is vital, and for everyone else, a site can be a great way to make some extra money. Creating and designing a web site from scratch isn’t easy. There are folks who spent a lot of time in school trying
Lampshade Bulb for Booo Front was inspired by the long life of a LED lamp. Its burning time of almost ten years makes it possible to create a lamp you never need to change the bulb of. The inner dome softens the light and creates the illusion of a lamp without a bulb, blurring the boundary
One of the best Computer Animation Movie [vimeogallery js=none showtitles=true title=above] [/vimeogallery] Loom tells the story of a successful catch. A moth being caught in a spiders web. Struggling for an escape, the moths panic movements only result in less chance of survival. What follows is the type of causality everyones expecting. The spider appears, claims
Clockwise from top left: Karen, Karen, issue 3, 2007; Laurenz Brunner, Akkurat typeface, 2005. Courtesy Lineto; Fanette Mellier, Specimen, 2008; Mike Perry, Eames Eiffel Side Chair, 2010; Felix Burrichter and Dylan Fracareta, Pin-Up, Issue 10, Spring/Summer 2011; cyan, Flieger, 2010. Courtesy Maharam Digital Projects Editor’s note: The following essay was completed prior to Rick Poynor’s
Tune in to illustrative designer Von Glitschka as he presents 6 Steps to Better Creative Concepts. Are you looking to develop breakthrough concepts for your design projects? Does your creative process (or lack of one) leave you struggling to come up with fresh ideas? Check it out. I can’t draw. Well, that’s not entirely true.
Interesting factoids and stories about late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs have been constantly surfacing since his death in October of last year. Biographer Walter Isaacson revealed that Jobs had “finally cracked” a standalone Apple TV set, and many “lost” interviews and anecdotes with Jobs have made headlines over the last several months. One of Jobs’ more interesting closet skeletons is
It is a never ending discussion whether it’s street art or street crime, but no matter how severe the punishment could be (remember the story about 20-year-old Thomas Dolan and Thomas Whittaker, 18, who were given 15 and 12 month prison sentences respectively after admitting painting graffiti on trains and railways stations at Manchester Crown