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 | The Mac Inventor's Gift Before Dying: An Immortal Design Lesson for His Son |
| Aza Raskin |
| Twenty-five days before my father Jef died, on my birthday exactly six years ago, he gave me a present. He had the sparkle back in his eye -- the one that had been reduced by pancreatic cancer to an ashen ember -- when he gave it to me. It was a small package, rectangular in shape, in crisp brown-paper wrapping. Twine neatly wrapped around the corners, crisscrossing back and forth arriving at a bow crafted by the sure hands of a man who built his first model airplane at age seven.  Read more |
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| | Infographics of the Day: A Son Honors His Father's Life With a Masterpiece |
| Cliff Kuang |
| Each year, graphic designer Nicholas Felton creates an "annual report," summarizing an entire year of life in a series of beautiful charts and graphs. For 2010, he's created a masterpiece. Instead of looking at his own life, he's captured the entire life of his father, Gunter, who passed last September. Read more |
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| | What Ricky Gervais's Bruising Comedy Teaches About Innovation |
| Paddy Harrington |
| Ricky Gervais is a great designer.
Some would say that Gervais's cutting jokes as the host of the Golden Globes were a form of professional suicide. In fact, after the event, several members of the Hollywood community said that he would never work again. Read more |
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| | A Beethoven Sonata Visualized as Ripples in Milk [Slideshow] |
| John Pavlus |
| Sound sculptures rock: this we know. And so does photographer Sara Naim, who turned Beethoven's instantly recognizable "Moonlight Sonata" into a series of visual interpretations that act like a sound-sculpture-as-digital-flipbook. Read more |
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| | 10 Wild Materials That Could Help Save the Earth [Slideshow] |
| Cliff Kuang |
| We take the stuff that makes up our world for granted. Plastic is plastic, right? And wood is wood? Absolutely not: Materials are still a hotbed of innovation, often involving ideas to help save the planet in imperceptible ways that mask their huge impact. Those innovations are highlighted in this year's Material of the Year awards, given out by Material ConneXion. Read more |
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