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Spotted in chi city
Coast 2 coast people
Today we opened up submissions and launched the site for the Vimeo Festival + Awards. Kevin, Joe, Jake, and I have been working on this and I’m really pumped to see it go live and start getting attention.
The Festival and Awards will take place this October in NYC. We’ve got some really awesome stuff planned. The awards celebrate the best in online video and are judged by a really great panel of judges. These are people you’ve heard of like David Lynch and DJ Spooky.
Blake goes into some more detail.
pile:
Vimeo on the Apple store roof
All Vimeo users wear leggings.
Different view:
TinySong.com Redesign. I like the focus on sharing, it’s why everyone uses this great service. I also approve of the colloquial apostrophe use. Another great piece of design coming from Grooveshark.
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Changing Habits: Mapping Environmental Impact as Humanoids -
The website Changing Habbits shows the environmental impact of a person by using humanoid forms with body parts distorted relative to the environmental impact of common activities.
Each part of the body is allocated to a different type of environmental burden: the feet correspond to the transport footprint, the hands to home energy, mouth to water, stomach to consumption, bottom to waste and the eyes and head to electrical consumer products. The overall CO2 footprint is conveyed to the human figure’s height. People can input their personal data to retrieve their personalized humanoid sustainability representative.
The test is far from flawless, has some built-in bias (it assumes I own a washing machine, for example) and is decidedly British but this is still a cool tool with an interesting result. Here was my form based on environmental impact. Their tips? Turn off my laptop, turn down the heat, and recycle more.
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Leslie Buck, Designer of Iconic Coffee Cup, Dies at 87 -
It was for decades the most enduring piece of ephemera in New York City and is still among the most recognizable. Trim, blue and white, it fits neatly in the hand, sized so its contents can be downed in a New York minute. It is as vivid an emblem of the city as the Statue of Liberty, beloved of property masters who need to evoke Gotham at a glance in films and on television.