Just Days Until Our #Ohm #Music @AppStore release

After months of intense design work, we finally pulled the trigger on submitting our 1.0 Beta release to Apple’s App Store (more improvements to come shortly after!). Ohm Music is a music player app that we hope will take your on-the-go music listening experience to the next level. We’ve build in a number of improvements such as a dynamic queue to quickly build playlists on-the-go, gesture controls, playlist artwork and colors, and sleek artist collection pages to make  your existing iPod music library both more beautiful and more useful to you.   If all goes well we hope it will be out come mid next week. meanwhile, we’ve attached a few screenshots just to get you excited.. stay tuned!!

PS- if you have an Android phone, we’ll be releasing a very similar update on or around the same day, so no worries you will not be left out in the cold! :)

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The 2012 @TedPrize goes to the city of the future #urban #design

In past years, the TED conference (Technology, Entertainment, and Design), has awarded a TED Prize- $100,000 and a prime time speech to articulate their world-changing vision- to only one exceptional individual. This year that changed when TED announced that the winner was not a person but an idea- the city of the future, or the City 2.0. The organizations behind this extraordinary initiative- IBM, Razorfish, Autodesk, and The Knight Foundation- have articulated beautifully why the city is so important to our future and why we must take care in building it correctly: 

I  am the crucible of the future.
I am where humanity will either flourish or fade.
I am being built and rebuilt every day.
I am inevitable. but I am not yet determined.
I wish to be inclusive, innovative, healthy, soulful, thriving. but my potential can only be reached through you.

you can forge a new urban outlook. begin by connecting. imagine a platform that brings you together, locally and globally. 
combine the reach of the cloud with the power of the crowd. connect leaders, experts, companies, organizations and citizens. 
share your tools, data, designs, successes, and ideas. turn them into action.

together you can:

    bridge the gap between poor and rich communities.
    spectacularly reduce your carbon footprint.
    make nature part of daily life.
    empower entrepreneurship.
    re-imagine education.
    nurture health.

I am the city 2.0. dream me. build me. make me real.

Watch the video below to get inspired, and click the link to check out the website which was unveiled to launch this initiative.

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Colours in Culture: an #infographic via @visually

In America, Red is often associated with passion, emotion, and anger. But in China, it’s often associated with fortune & good luck (check out pictures of the Lunar New Year). Check out this beautiful infographic to learn more, distributed by our friend over at @visually & authored by Information Is Beautiful. Just click the picture to see the full hi-res version.

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@Airbnb Takes Over the World

Our friends over at Airbnb have taken their signature focus on #design seriously… even their  progress reports look great! To celebrate their 5 millionth booking, they put together a beautiful infographic portraying their global growth. Click on the picture to visit their site and download a version of your own.

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@Foursquare Checkins Reveal Holiday Travel Patterns

Shout out to our friends over at Foursquare for putting together impressive visualization. It reminds me of those flight pattern maps from airport controllers, the cool thing is that this set of data was entirely crowd-sourced. Click the picture to see higher resolution on @visually and see if your route was covered!

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Introducing #Thunderdog Studios

Thunderdog Studios is a New York based creative agency and toy brand, founded by artist Tristan Eaton, in 2003. Thunderdog cultivates art for city streets, gallery walls and everywhere in-between. They design and produce limited edition, fine art-based products. Most famous for their influential work in ‘Designer Toys’, Thunderdog also designs and develops books, apparel and accessories for an ever growing, worldwide fan base. Thunderdog products are made for the sake of art and fun, first and foremost. Even The POTUS used Thunderdog for his campaign. (It is worth noting that Shepard Fairey is the designer of the famous “Hope” poster used by The President. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shepard_Fairey ). CLICK THE PIC to watch the Life+Times interview with Tristan.

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This great office for Swedish horse racing company ATG is a great example of applying sleek design principles to even the most traditional settings. 

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From cardboard to Photoshop: Occupy Design brings infographics to the aid of the 99 Percent.

Browse the full collection on GOOD→

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"Timeline really is a blank canvas. We have no idea what’s going happen next. We’re a culture of builders, now let’s make something awesome,"

— The inspired story of Facebook’s new Timeline - The Next Web (via thenextweb)

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typographic renditions of common positive phrases

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