Read on Adobe Create Before clients and corporate gigs, there was the divine muse. It flowed through artists, guiding their hands to create masterpieces in paint, ink, and pen. Now projects are planned—work is reviewed, revised, and approved. Rarely do we enjoy the free flow of creativity. But for illustrator and animator Ori Toor, there’s no […]
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Nicholas Felton is an icon in the world of data visualization and an information-design expert. He has spoken at countless conferences, he co-designed Facebook’s Timeline, and in 2011 Fast Company named him of the 50 most influential designers in the United States. It was Felton’s obsession with data that led him to the series that helped establish him
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Read on Adobe Create Many of us wanted to be astronauts when we were kids, but very few of us actually became one. Filmmaker Stephen van Vuuren wants to make our childhood dreams of space exploration a reality. Stephen and a team of dedicated volunteers are producing the hyper-realistic IMAX film In Saturn’s Rings, using millions
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Read on Adobe Create The universe is an awe-inspiring place, a beautiful swirling storm of complex systems. It’s also extremely difficult to understand. Thankfully, there’s Kurz Gesagt, a team of artists and animators (based in Munich, Germany) who create entertaining, easy-to-understand animated videos about everything from the big bang theory and the origins of life
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Read on Hemmings When the price of gas leaps into the stratosphere, we scramble to find alternatives and biofuels become big news. They’re hailed as miracles of modern technology that promise to solve our energy problems – or at least ease the pain. But biofuels are not new. In fact, Henry Ford himself envisioned a
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I wrote for the men’s health, culture, and gear website AskMen.com for three years between 2003 and 2006. I covered everything from health (and unhealthy) eating habits to the best single-speed bikes.
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Brian Eno paints with light. And his paintings, like the medium, shift and dance like free‐flowing jazz solos or elaborate ragas. In fact, they have more in common with live music than they do with traditional artwork. “When I started working on visual work again, I actually wanted to make paintings that were more like
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Erykah Badu is awash in creative energy. She conjures the stuff from thin air, whipping up hooks and melodies with little more than a basic backing track. Think soulful freestyle riffs and lyrics punctuated by the boom and clack of a jazzy drum kit. Yet even a steady stream of creativity like Badu’s can be
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The Chatuchuk weekend market in Bangkok, Thailand, is a vast labyrinth of more than 15,000 cell-like stalls, and it buzzes with the combined voices of more than 200,000 shoppers. The sharp smell of new clothes, perfumes, rubber and strange food marry to form an intoxicating fume that hangs in the air like fog. It is
“You have reached the International Bird Rescue Research Center. If you know your party’s extension you may press it at this time. If this is an animal or spill emergency, please press 5 now.” At 6:30 p.m. on April 27, 2004, at least 40,000 gallons of diesel fuel leaked into the Suisun Marsh. The fuel