Got design on your mind? From celebrity ski homes to an eco-friendly dwelling controlled with your game paddle, we’ve rounded up all the good stuff for the last week of January 2012.
It seems everything is a group effort these days. From software to logo design, people are teaming up and sharing ideas to create products. Now even breweries are getting into the action. Samuel Adams is using group think in the formation of its next beer. The brewer has joined forces with social-media maven Guy Kawasaki in an effort to produce what they are calling the world’s the first “collaborative ale.
Are you taking full advantage of your LinkedIn? This LinkedIn basic boot camp will give you all the tools necessary to use the site at its maximum potential. Created by Column Five for Mindflash, this handy infographic will help you get in optimum marketing shape.
As the third week of January 2012 comes to a close, we are getting the sense that this year will be big for design. From cool car to solar powered ship, this week we bring you all the best design related posts and articles from around the web.
How well do you know the names of homes from movies and television? Test your knowledge of famous fictional residences with our quiz.
When faced with the difficult decision of where to eat or where to shop one of the first places to turn is Yelp.com. Have you ever wondered what characteristics make for a great Yelp reviewer? Who are these people that need to review everything from a thrift store to funeral home? Column Five Media and Flowtown have put together an infographic that explores just that.
How’s that New Year’s resolution going? Even with best intentions, commitment to change for the the New Year often fizzles out before February. Column Five Media and Confused.com have put together a graphic of the most common and commonly-broken new year’s resolutions. Take a look to see how likely resolutions are to be abandoned and what you can do to stick to your goals.
Playing cards embellished with turning gears and pumping steam appendages? Deal us in. Embodying the steampunk aesthetic of Victorian Era steam and futuristic science fiction, this very cool deck of cards is an industrial collaboration between Bicycle and Theory11. The card box appears to be forged from a single brick of bronze, and the cards themselves are remarkably detailed, inside and out.
Rumor has it that Van Halen will be reuniting and touring this year. It got us to thinking about their 1982 tour and the demands the band to the venues it would be rocking. Column Five created this infographic with Sonos to visualize what is considered to be one of the most ridiculous riders of all time (a rider is the list of amenities required by a band that the host venue must provide), Van Halen requested some items that define the phrase “over the top.”
