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Joel Laumans

Pooping in Public

Sitting on the pot, pushing brown, desecrating the throne, doing the doodly-squat, faxing a cigar to Castro, or whatever else you want to call it, it usually is our private moment of Zen. However Monica Bonvicini came up with a design with preserves our privacy without obstructing us from the environment around us. Bonvicini’s ‘Don’t [...]

piksels.com – new look and feel

Yesterday WordPress 2.3 was officially realeased, and which better time to give piksels.com site a visual overhaul than now? WordPress 2.3 isn’t really a breakthrough release compared to 2.2, but definitely has some nice improvements (tag support!). I am still working out the kinks, and getting all the plugins to work properly. Unfortunately I had [...]

Something to think about

It’s been far too long since the last time I’ve written a post, my apologies. But I’ll be back on track writing posts on a regular basis soon as I get some important work out of the way. But until then I’m leaving you all with something to think about: enjoy =)

Adobe’s listening

In response to one of my previous posts about bad file versioning. Two weeks ago I wrote a post on the problems of file versioning, in which I cried out to Adobe: “Dear Adobe, I’m kind of sitting here online with a couple million designers, and we think you should fix this. Love, Designers” And [...]

Perspective of information

Today I came across two very noteworthy examples of clever information design which make understanding sets of data both more visual and relative. The best way to grasp what data means is often to put it into perspective with other sets of data so you can easily make a comparison. This is when charts and [...]

A look at Apple’s .mac web gallery

Subscribers to .mac will be pleased to try out Apple’s new web gallery. It looks great, and is a sure example of how well offline applications can be translated into online web apps. Instant image resizing, different viewing modes, and lots of reflections make you quickly forget you are viewing the photos online. Great features [...]

The Steve Jobs Hokey Pokey

[ to the tune of the Hokey Pokey ] Put your turtleneck on, take your turtleneck off, Put your turtleneck on, and shake it all about, You do your hokey pokey and you leave us all in doubt, Thats what it’s always about. ———— For some reason Apple news seems to travel on average 1.5-2x [...]

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Currently I am working on a project about adaptive interfaces as part of the graduation program for Communication and Multimedia Design students. I will be using this platform to publish progress reports and documents. Syndicat will be sponsoring my graduation project for the coming months, so please take a moment to get to know them. Interestd in more work of mine? Than please also take a look at creatinginspiration.net or my portfolio. Please remember to subscribe to the RSS feed to stay up-to-date with the most recent posts.

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