are listed a number of creativity techniques to help with creative thinking. Like most tools these creativity techniques all have their good and bad points.
the first and only fully integrated 3D graphics creation suite allowing modeling, animation, rendering, post-production, realtime interactive 3D and game creation and playback with cross-platform compatibility - all in one tidy, easily and free.
How many possible ways are there to lace an average shoe? This simple question, when answered with mathematics, results in some surprisingly big numbers - on an average shoe with six pairs of eyelets, there are 1,961,990,553,600 ways to feed a shoelace
Ferrofluid is a very interesting material originally developed by NASA it has now found itself been used for a whole range of devices including dampers for controlling and stabilizing large building that move around in the wind. It is amazing...
community of designers and site owners sharing free web design templates as well as web design information. Helping to make the internet a prettier place!
These are Russian soldier action figures made entirely out of cabling with an arsenal of 23 weapons. I have no idea what the page says, but they are fun to look at.
the octomatics-project is about a new number system which has a lot of advantages over our old decimal system. the name comes from the mixture of 'octal' and 'mathematics'.
one of the pioneers of the cross-disciplinary marriage of origami with mathematics. He is noted for designs of great detail and realism, and includes in his repertoire some of the most complex origami designs ever created.
project management tool, provides an optimizing scheduler that computes your project time lines and resource assignments based on the project outline and the constrains that you have provided.
One Cool Hunt is a blog dedicated to cool hunting. Always on the lookout for all what is cool, hip and trendy. Topics mostly revolve around design, fashion, gadgets, technology, art and lifestyle.
Xinghan Chen, a USC student, based his thesis on the flow in video games. Chen saw that there was a relationship between challenge, player ability, and the way these factors affect ones playing experience. Chen then implemented his theory into his games
professional artists draw their own version of a chosen fictional character. "11.3 Kid Creatures" is great (professional artists' interpretations of children's drawings)
people, out of an overabundance of creativity or just a love of the game (or hate of the publishers components), make homemade versions of the game with exceptionally good components.
a collection of ActionScript 3 classes for building a wide variety of interactive visualizations. For example, flare can be used to build basic charts, complex animations, network diagrams, treemaps, and more.
Natural Interaction will let computer tools capture and understand ideas that are today captured in pencil on scraps of paper. This capability can introduce design capture into the earliest stages of the design process and radically shorten the design cyc
Why is transforming furniture so alluring? What if you could simply reuse packaging as part of a product rather than sending away for disposal or recycling? Flat pack furniture is exactly what it sounds like: furniture that starts out entirely as sheets
concept created by lone developer (Eskil Steenberg) bent on creating an entire massively multiplayer online world single-handedly, using procedural generation techniques that cause the game to build itself by starting with clever rules and exploring them
MIT professor Neil Gershenfeld talks about his Fab Lab -- a low-cost lab that lets people build things they need using digital and analog tools. It's a simple idea with powerful results:
offers replicas in paper of the ships of the great saga Wing Commander, this great game of space combat that it revolutionized the world of the games, with their innovative ideas and attractive history.
Steampunk is Goth, Punk, Geek, and Maker Culture whipped into a delicious melange with a healthy seasoning of political and environmental activism. It's the intersection of science and romance, it's sustainable rebellion.
Vintage design, when done well, can make a user feel like they have been transported back in time. This particular style often uses design elements that look like they were found in the attic of an old house dating back to the 1920’s, 30’s, or 40’s.
Microsoft Announces Surface Computer Duncan Riley 119 comments » surface1.pngAt the D: All Things Digital conference Wednesday, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer will unveil Microsoft Surface, the first in a new category of surface computing products from Mic
Wufoo's form builder is the easiest way to create and style beautiful HTML forms, online polls and event registrations without writing a single line of code.
What's this? A near pixel-perfect copy of Microsoft Paint in HTML, CSS and JavaScript, using the <canvas> tag as specified by WHATWG and supported by Safari 1.3, Firefox 1.5 and Opera 9. .
Physical space matters. It’s easier to be productive, creative and happy at work in a colourful, organic, playful environment than in a grey, linear, boring one.