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Designer passport: The colorful kingdom of the cheetahs

Oct11
by on October 11, 2014 at 2:00 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, How-To's

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Rui Stalph is an artist and Web designer based in Germany and Japan. She loves to create designs that involve animals and colors with a little bit of quirkiness. This post was originally published on the Shutterstock blog and has been reprinted with permission. Rui Stalph is an illustrator who loves to spread her passion for animals, colors, and a bit of quirkiness through her designs. She was born in Japan, grew up in Kenya, and currently lives in Germany, while traveling a lot for inspiration. It was on one of those trips that she came up with the idea for…

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The problem with designing for smart homes? You don’t have any users

Oct11
by on October 11, 2014 at 12:00 pm
Posted In: Analysis and Opinion, Around the Web, Design & Dev

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Henrik Holen is the CEO and co-founder of Viva Labs, a next-generation smart home platform for ISPs, cable companies and utilities. Want to make a bazillion dollars? Build a dishwasher that empties itself. These days, it’s easy to mock many of the smart products that appear on the market, but a really good one – one that solves a real problem for consumers – is something that people will beat down your door to get. A smart home that can reduce its carbon footprint and make people feel more secure and more comfortable without demanding too much has the potential…

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Hands-on with classic 90s game Grim Fandango, remastered for the PS4

Oct10
by on October 10, 2014 at 11:20 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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Among all the new games revealed at the E3 show this year, one of the titles I’m most excited about is over 15 years old. Sony has secured a remastered version of Grim Fandango, a wacky adventure game from LucasArts and Tim Schafer, for the PS4 and PS Vita. We got an early look at a small part of the game at a Sony preview event this week. The remastering process is still ongoing, so the graphics I saw are far from final, but they do give a sense of what Double Fine has planned for the game. The original artwork for Grim Fandango was…

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