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Quantum Theory
Quantum mechanics (QM — also known as quantum physics, or quantum theory) is a branch of physics which deals with physical phenomena at nanoscopic scales where the action is on the order of the Planck constant. It departs from classical mechanics primarily at the quantum realm of atomic and subatomic length scales. Quantum mechanics provides a mathematical description of much of the dual particle-like and wave-like behavior and interactions of energy and matter. Quantum mechanics provides a substantially useful framework for many features of the modern periodic table of elements including the behavior of atoms during chemical bonding and has played a significant role in the development of many modern technologies.
Technical advancements are not creative CONCEPTS
Ongoing advances in technology always open new possibilities for creatives and developers. It’s a way of life in digital media.
But do those exciting new advances make us better or worse at what we do? How do they challenge our inventiveness and our range of skills?
I hate to report, but the most exciting technical advancements in our medium today are a trap of a sort that critically limits how creative most of us are. And many are blind to it.
In fact you could be doing significantly better work than others in your field if you just change your mindset. And I want to help you do that.
The only way I know to explain this is to tell you how I came to this place.
The Two Strings Theory
How Humanity’s Deepest Longing And Beauty Are Hidden In Technology
Technology is advancing at an exponential rate. It’s overwhelming. And while there are countless technical domains that I cannot speak about with any expertise, I can talk about one.
My domain is communication media. And it, like all the others, is advancing wildly, exponentially, and in seemingly unpredictable ways with no end imaginable.
However, what has taken me years to realize is that counter to popular assumption, there is nothing unpredictable about the progression of technical advancement in communucation media, and that the progression does indeed have an actual end-state, a technical state afterwhich no further technical development will be sought.
What honestly surprised me most of all was that this end-state revealed something core, and beautiful about humanity.
On this day RIP Steve Jobs passed away on Oct 5 2011
Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement Speech 2005
Happy New Year 2018!
The Web Is Dead. Long Live the Internet
Interesting read from The Great Web Design Crisis of 2017 by Joel Hladecek , September 27, 2016
Jet iPod commercial
Susan Alinsangan, Art Director at TBWA\Chiat\Day came up with the design of the iPod silhouette commercials in 2003. She worked on the print campaign with artist Casey Leveque of Santa Monica’s Rocket Studio. This is one of the first iPod commercial to feature the silhouetted dancers against brightly-colored backgrounds. This ad also introduced an iPod that was made for both Mac and Windows users.
Happy Holiday
Merry Christmas & Happy New Years 2016
From me to you,
The Do Not Destroy Team
MetaTalk: Tim Smith
MetaTalk: Tim Smith (full) from MetaDesign on Vimeo.
In a mobile-obsessed world of BYODs, implementing a mobile first strategy is a direction many brands consider. In his recent MetaTalk Mobile First: Designing and Developing New Digital Experiences, Applied Design Group Principal Tim Smith covers the basics on why mobile matters, and why responsive design is only a small part of the answer.