The Storyboard Book

"The problem with all those other sketchbooks is they’re pretentious and overpriced. The Storyboard Book is for the People! A lightweight, portable, and durable sketchbook for storyboarding, sketching, listmaking, visualization, plans, doodles, and just about anything else. The idea is simple: a frame for the action and space for notes, story, dialog, stage directions, enemies lists, etc.  The Storyboard Book is designed to be used as a personal sketchbook, but also sized to be handy for project notes and ideas."

Really cool!!
Check out the website for purchase or more info.

Color Codes for The Color Blind

Can you imagine a world without color? From health care to transportation, we rely on it to cue us daily.

Miguel Neiva has created a color coding system to improve daily life for the predominantly male population who experience color blindness. The Color Add Color Identification System offers monochromatic icons to represent a range of colors. Using red, yellow and blue as the foundation, a code is developed in order to create visual icons. These icons can then be included on all color-based systems (from clothing tags to transportation maps) in order to increase accessibility and understanding.

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TeuxDeux App

TeuxDeux is a simple, designy, browser-based to-do app and the first collaboration between studio-mates swissmiss and Fictive Kin.

The idea was to build a bare-bones, but visually compelling and highly usable to-do app based on Tina’s personal ideal work-flow.

Features include:
- week overview
- check off done tasks
- delete tasks
- move tasks
- someday bucket

The Visual Miscellaneum Book

"Visual Miscellaneum" is the new eye-popping book of infographics by London-based visual and data journalist David McCandless. Forget about pie charts, bar graphs, line graphs and histograms; the book showcases the infinite number of ways to represent data through engaging graphics.

Those interested in getting a taste of David's work can follow his blog Information is Beautiful.

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Creative Search

A new search aggregator especially made for designers conducting visual research.
The site shows results from various lace all over the web: Google Images, Flickr, iTunes, YouTube, Twitter. Wikipedia, etc.

Try it out.

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Color Picker Pen — by Jinsun Park

"Color Picker is an innovative design for a concept pen that can scan colors from anything around, then instantly use the color for drawing.

After placing the pen against an object, the user presses the scan button. The color is detected by a color sensor and the RGB cartridge of the pen mixes the required inks to create the target color. With Color Picker, artists can create a more accurate, visual rendering of their surroundings and the colors of nature."


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