Ever wondered where did those original Mac OS Sys 6-7 icons come from?
Susan Kare is the answer.
Its fantastic now looking back, its hard to imagine that they were actually designed just because they are sooo mac. I remember sitting hours in front of them and using Photoshop 2 and Mac Paint. Oh, those were the times...none of this dock scalling up and down stuff and eyecandy..

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User Rumbero Design on cpluv.com found this collection of old atari game manuals on flickr. Can you remember the good old days? :) Just check out some of those graphics!!

They look better now than they ever did. Allthough i do remember walking into a shop and checking some of these out and going ..whooooo...gotta have this!! :)

The first computer i ever got was Commodore 64. God, i still remember those sounds you have to sit through whilst copying games ...very funny looking back now.

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How fantastic were these. I remember spending hours with a graphic pen and stencil to name my tapes....and you favourite music always had to be on those special tapes ..I remember TDK doing some really amaizing "Metal" tapes, all in black. Oh, those were the days. Looking at them today does make you feel quite nostalgic.

Here is a site dedicated just to audio tapes. Looking at them you will get suprised how many of them you have had and loved.

http://www.tapedeck.org


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Fantastic guide to Flickr for beginners. If you havent heard of Flickr (which would be the reason for you reading this post) it is a fantastic site for sharing photos with you friend and total strangers. Flickr also includes all kinds of photo groups which you can join and share you photos with them. It is also a great source for finding all kind of photos ...lets say for example you want to go to a place you've never been before ...flickr is definetly the place to start and I am pretty sure you will find many photos.

Read the guide here

A must if you haven't been there before!

Fantastic solution for those emergency situations. Imagine you get someone breaking into your home ...all you need to do is plug in your siren ..and if it doesnt scare your thief it will definetly make him think you are totally mad and he will leave you alone :)

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I am sure this is the begining of all kinds of USB products .... here is another, a coffee warmer.

Love the idea to build your own products. This is a fantastic solution to adding something extraordinary to your home.

Info on the product:
The Designer Emulation Kits (DEK’s for short) are meant as the sincerest homage to some of the greatest modern designers of our time. The lamps and designers being “emulated” have a particular importance. They are represented in countless design tomes extolling the various movements, and they are held up as prime examples of “good design.”

- Arco kit: is based on the classic Arco by Achille Castiglioni. A ubiquitous symbol of good taste, and universally recognized...
- Lucellino kit: was inspired by Ingo Maurer’s Lucellino. Why make it the first in the series? The originator of the DEK’s, Mark McKenna, took his first professional job as a member of the Ingo Maurer team.
- Tizio kit: takes the form of the famous Tizio by Richard Sapper.  This is the most challenging DEK to put together...

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I think almost all of us tried this one back in the days ...it was one of those things you were really proud to have achieved even though it took hours. There is still some delight in seeing images pixelated or converted into text.

www.typorganism.com/asciiomatic/

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You really have to try this ..absolutely brilliant ...i tried it out the other day and was chatting to this character ..the conversation went like this:

me: Hey
other: hi
me: This is pretty cool, isn't it?
other: Yeah it is ..
other: Are you M/F?
me: M
other: Forget it ..I am off ...

hehe..

try it ..its fantastic and the characters are just brilliant!
(for those not clear what you need to do ..its simple, pick the character at the bottom of the screen and type messages ...you can drag your character around the wold too....e.g. put them in front of another character and have a chat)

How often are you are late? ...Its not about not planning your trip but all the things that happen along it. When you address this problem ...there is a simple solution...in the form of a watch......now how about implement this as mobile phone software as i don't know who still wears watches ..i gave up long time ago...

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Although..the only good reason for still wearing a watch is that when a couple of very odd blokes wearing hoodies walk up to you and ask you what time it is, you look at your watch instead of pulling out your $500 mobile phone and before you know it ..its snatched out of your hand. In this case though ..if you pulled this watch out to look at the time ..its probably your arm that would go ...:)) I think i'd rather loose a phone than a limb ..hehe

Art meets product design and analogue meets digital. An interesting investigation in how we  might interface with technology via analogue objects.

http://www.dialog05.com

Artist's text:what is the difference between analogue and digital, physical and virtual? what connects and bridges these apparently different worlds?

this is the area we wanted to explore with our universal connections experiment and project. It is a question that each member of dialog05 addresses on a daily basis as an industrial designer creating consumer products.

USB, an abbreviation for a technical user interface, is nowadays often used as a synonym for a universal connection. originally only used by computer experts and nerds, this so-called former high-tech standard has developed into an every-day item and low-tech symbol for such universal connections.

this is an example of technology being clearly understood and accepted by the general public. something democratic evolves and develops and therefore often even receives a totally different usage than was originally intended. given the current, often exotic use of USB, it would even be argued that there is a 'USB subculture'! this phenomena inspired us to use the USB interface, with all its possibilities and ambiguities as a medium for this project. we created installations, objects and products that are surprising, enlightening, inspiring and questioning, and on the other hand ironic or even amusing.