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Outstanding Bachelor and Master Projects

  The end of the week I spent mostly at the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam visiting Bachelor and Master presentations. While I was a little bit disappointed by the Masters I saw 2 outstanding Bachelor projects. First one was … Continue reading

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TileMill Quick Tutorial

  Great. MapBox updated TileMill! TileMill (source:http://mapbox.com/tilemill/) In the past you had to start and install TileMill via the console and run it from there. Now you can just download TileMill and run it without any technical hassle. So its … Continue reading

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Portfolio Slam Berlin

Neat. Cool to see that the frogs go new ways even when acquiring new people … Nice to see as well that Matthias Dittrich is still a happy frog.

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LiquiData at DESIGN MEETS DATA

Paul Brickle is talking about his work on the 4th DESIGN MEETS DATA on Sept 6th (6.3opm): »The freshly recruited Infographics Editor at ZEIT ONLINE, will run through a selection of his projects and give us some insight into the … Continue reading

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»Sommerfest 2011« photos are online

Photo (c): Designcenter Berlin via Fotos vom Sommerfest 2011 … | Designcenter Berlin.

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Infographics of the ministry of finance

Source: http://www.bundesfinanzministerium.de The website of the ministry of finance Germany has its own infographic part. Not the best, but at least some Sankey Diagrams and in total much better then the stuff I’ve seen in my school for political/financial explanations. … Continue reading

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Justin McLean on a visit

Stefan Hermann, Justin Mclean and Pierre La Baume (left to right) Last week I met Justin Mclean, a programmer and Arduiono-tinker at a Arduino/Flex Seminar in the center of Berlin. Justin presented some cool prototypes in which he used Arduino … Continue reading

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DCB Sommerfest

In 2 weeks the Design Center Berlin (DCB) is inviting you for an on-boat summer party at the historical harbour of Berlin (»Historischer Hafen Berlin«). If you like to join you can get a reservation at the DCB webseite. The … Continue reading

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Chip.de is an iPhone hater

    Apprently. They count the iphone4 generation to one of the top 5 smartphones on the market but write articles like »10 reasons not to buy an iphone« (just in German): 10 Gründe: iPhone 4 nicht mehr kaufen – … Continue reading

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Skeuomorphic UI’s

Interesting article about skeuomorphic design and interfaces:  when is it useful?   via Synthesizer 76 iPad App Shows Delights and Pitfalls of “Skeuomorphic” UI’s | Co.Design.

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