Facebook’s new Timeline design gives users a large “cover photo” space at the top of the page. We think this revamp is a great opportunity to get creative with your profile presentation.
We recently asked the Mashable readership to share how they’ve played with the new design. Here are 10 examples of Facebook Timeline cover photo designs we think are particularly creative, and that offer a witty take on the new layout.
via 10 Facebook Timeline Designs That Will Blow You Away [PICS].
The Function Of Textures
We love texture on the Web for a multitude of reasons. Design decisions shouldn’t be made simply on the basis of, “Oh, well. It looks good.” Design should serve a purpose, and each decision about texture should be made by weighing the pros and cons. Let’s start by going over some of the key benefits.
via The Whys And The Hows Of Textures In Web Design – Smashing Magazine.
Combining German hand-crafting expertise and curved ship hull construction methods, this patterned wooden tub shoots both to satisfy the eye and to soothe any aching back.
via Gorgeous Grain: Wooden Bathtubs Really Go with the Flow | Designs & Ideas on Dornob.
One of two lamps released by Crealev, the $1,196 Silhouette lamp is comprised of two pieces, one which levitates and illuminates above the second base piece using LED and electromagnetic technology. Still confused? Watch the video below…
via Final Frame: The Levitating Silhouette Lamp | Apartment Therapy Unplggd.
Craft cutter Beth Ann Magnuson creates patterns on eggs that are reminiscent of Victorian lace. You can view the artist working on an eggshell at YouTube.
“Reseau Ferre de France” is a film promoting a railway infrastructure company of the same name (RFF). The movie displays tilt-shift technique and other visual effects. It was directed by Thierry Poiraud and cinematography by Patrick Messina.
Well, as it turns out, lots of people are actively working towards the dream of expanding the one-way street of time into a multi-lane superhighway! Of course, many of these time pioneers are completely whackadoodle. But within the temporal engineering profession, you can also find accomplished researchers pursuing serious, science-based approaches to time travel.
Yesterday, we looked at various time travel theories inspired by science fiction. Here, we highlight three of these proposed methods of temporal manipulation that aren’t only attracting serious consideration, but might be available sooner than you think.
via 3 science-based approaches to time travel that aren’t crazy | DVICE.
Hopefully one month has been enough time for our stencil-inclined readership to have pieced their minds back together, because we’ve just come across yet another stencil artist who might just detonate it yet again.
via More Mind-Blowing Stencils: Dave Soukup Is In the Moment – Core77.
Despite the rise of digital tools and rapid prototyping, it has never been more important for designers to make things with their hands. Comfort with three dimensions as a sketch and development tool enhances a designer’s sensitivity to form tremendously, and helps them understand how products are made in the real world. If you can build it, you’re halfway to knowing how it could be manufactured. Instead, schools often allow students to jump into 3D CAD before they have a solid understanding of form and construction.
Over the past decade I’ve reviewed hundreds of portfolios, more often than not full of glossy 3D renderings based on weak underlying designs. Rendering technology has gotten so good and so easy to use that students quickly become reliant on it. Iterative exploration and refinement using your hands is essential, and in fact makes CAD modeling more effective and efficient in the long run.
via Prototyping: Learning to Think and Make With Your Hands, by Paul Backett – Core77.
“The Dreamtime” is a unique series of paintings by So Yoon Lym. It is inspired by “the Aboriginal stories and visions of creation. Each braided pattern, carried by the students, is a map of the ancient universe, a topographical palimpsest of the world in pattern: valleys, mountains, forests, oceans, rivers, streams.”