Hasta La Ideas

Utah-based freelancer Aaron Hughes’ portfolio is practically DaVinci-esque, with illustrations and renderings demonstrating complete form mastery of man, machine and object.

The CCS grad has been contracted by the likes of Astro Studios and Microsoft, and if that auto concept at the bottom looks like Volvo’s new wagon to you, it should be noted that he did it as part of a Ford internship–back in 2001. Talk about prescient.

Hughes’ work spans footwear, product, automotive, interiors, straight-up illustration, and more. Check out his full book on Coroflot, and someone get this man a job!

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As Twitter continues its indefatigable march towards digital brevity by limiting us to a scant 140 characters per dispatch, a parody website developer invites us to try something else entirely with their 1,400 character minimum version called Woofer.

The results range from my not-so-thoughtful screed to the downright lazy cutting-and-pasting Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address.

Woofer carries no affiliation with Twitter in any way—a fact the site goes out of its way to make clear for a myriad of legal reasons. Yet after you’ve composed your 1,400-character rant and enter your Twitter user name (no password required), the site “borrows” your Twitter profile pic, allowing users to impersonate other Twitter users. But given it’s a parody site to begin with, who wouldn’t take its output with anything more than a grain of salt?

via Network World

Remember earlier this year when The Standard hotel opened up in New York? Everyone was all abuzz about the new modern building, designed by Todd Schliemann. Even the video playing in its elevators, a motion graphics piece by Marco Brambilla, was being passed around all over the internet. But with this popularity has come some criticism this week, as neighbors and pedestrians from an adjacent park have complained of almost constant nudity in the floor to ceiling windows in each room, as well as the occasional glimpse of porn shoots and random sex acts for all to see. Further complaints have said that The Standard has been encouraging such exhibitionism on places like their Facebook page and through their advertising. Our response to all of this is to call back to some comments over at Curbed from a couple of days back, when it was rumored that this was all some marketing ploy The Standard had organized, that perhaps they were hiring models to wander around in the buff in order to drum up attention. After all, floor-to-ceiling windows aren’t all that rare in a big city. Is this hotel so sexually charged that everyone who stays there just feels compelled to go nuts?

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The latest speculative mockup on how an Apple tablet interface might work comes from an anonymous Georgian grad student, who’s trying to keep his identity anonymous in hopes of eventually being hired by Apple.

His YouTube page features 10 different videos of tablet mockups in action, performing everything from text editing to gaming to file management.

Amusingly, in his quest for personal secrecy, said student has run his voice through some type of electronic anonymizer–which makes him sound like a calmer version of Wild Bill from Silence of the Lambs. I kept waiting for him to demo the “She puts the lotion in the basket” app.

via cult of mac

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