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We’re celebrating the first anniversary of tweetwrappr.com with a Special Edition featuring eBoy gift wrap paper.
Today is the first anniversary of tweetwrappr.com, a Twitter-based mashup experiment we conceived, designed, coded and launched on a single day on December 19th 2008. We’re celebrating this with a Special Edition, featuring eBoy’s marvelous Giftwrap Set designs as Tweetwrappr’s gift wrap paper of choice for the next couple of weeks.
A big Thank You to eBoy! You should definitely go to their online shop and hit that lovely BUY button all over the place, there’s plenty of great work to admire.
Here’s a short tutorial on how to use a Nintendo Wii Remote to control Apple’s Keynote presentation tool using OSCulator, a great little tool to connect (un)usual controllers to software.
We had our first experience with using a Wii Remote during a presentation we gave at the Typo Design Conference 2007 in Berlin. At that time OSCulator, the software we were using to pipe the controller data coming from the Wii Remote buttons and sensors to the software, was quite buggy for that purpose and using it on stage was a bit adventurous.
In the meantime, we were using the Wii Remote rather for some experiments with music software. But last Thursday, I decided to use it once again – this time with Apple’s Keynote, our current tool of choice for presentations. I downloaded the latest version of OSCulator and quickly set up a pretty basic configuration for controlling the Keynote presentation with the Wii Remote.
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Books, toys, a dollhouse, a portable computer and a pair of shoes – here’s an unordered and mixed up list of great design-driven (or driving) products of 2009.
I wanted to write this post since quite some time now but successfully procrastinated. I finally assembled some of the products that excited me the most this year – in no particular order. Enjoy!
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The fantastic Guitar Rig 4, for which we (re)designed the framework part of the GUI once again, is in stores now.
Visit the Native Instruments website for more information, screenshots, videos and audio samples.
HBO is again experimenting with innovative storytelling.
The HBO Story Cube embraces the spirit of HBO telling deeper more engaging stories in innovative ways. Demonstrating that a change in perspective changes everything. The HBO Story Cube shows four sides of a single story simultaneously. Only when you’ve seen all four sides of the story will you begin to see the bigger picture.
Have a look over here. And there’s also a video installation.
