The Tremendous 10 link roundup, #30
- 9 Squares | “An international collaboration of 9 different designer/animators. Each designer creates an abstract, 350px, 3 second animated square to make up a single GIF loop, from a 4-colour palette.”
- Picking up Slack at Panic | “Before the legendary Panic found Slack, they used a variety of communication tools like instant messages and email, and tried several collaboration apps. The shortcomings were obvious: too much email, with mundane things taking as much attention as important ones, while searching across devices and applications for past conversations proved nearly impossible.”
- Writer Visualizes ‘The Art of War’ In Charts And Graphs | “Author and artist Jessica Hagy of Seattle has built her career on visual thinking, earning a Webby award for her imaginative and popular blog Indexed. Now Hagy is out with a new book called “The Art of War Visualized: The Sun Tzu Classic in Charts and Graphs.””
- Brian Solis and Hugh MacLeod Share Why Art and Storytelling Inspire Engagement | “While at SXSW, Brian Solis and Hugh MacLeod joined Trisha Hersheberger and Khail Anonymous on stage in the PayPal TechSet lounge to talk about art in a new era of engagement.”
- Creative Residency | “For the next year, Adobe will sponsor me so that I am able to work with complete independence on creative projects of my own choosing (provided that I transmit useful ideas back to the creative community, rather than being a complete work-hermit).”
- Layers | “A 3-day conference during wwdc to talk about design, celebrate our industry, and eat snacks. Like a party, but for learning.”
- My rocky first 24hrs with the ᴡᴀᴛᴄʜ | “I’m an insufferable asshole, and I’m here to complain about my brand new $350 luxury watch that so far hasn’t lived up to my insanely high expectations, which I am publishing here on Medium using my 5k iMac.”
- What it takes to change your brain’s patterns after age 25 | “Most of our brain’s patterns are solidified by our mid-20s, but it’s possible to change your brain’s pathways and patterns with these methods.”
- Google Ventures On How To Design A Killer Website | “To build the best consumer website, go shopping, says GV’s Michael Margolis.”
- Why Cloudy Days Help Us Think More Clearly | “Just as melancholy, that raincloud of the mind, expands our capacity for creativity, so does actual gloomy weather — clouds, it turns out, offer something possibly more tangible, certainly more pragmatic, than “contemplation [that] benefits the soul”; their proverbial silver lining is more than proverbial…”
Artwork by 9 Squares, link #1.