From limitations come creativity. It’s an age-old adage that’s been repeated in almost every industry. And it rings true for the Netherland-based artist Peter Gentenaar, whose billowing paper sculptures were born out of what he couldn’t do with commercial paper. As a printmaker, Gentenaar’s search for a better type of paper led him to an unexpected process of creating his own custom beater that processes and mills long-fiber paper pulp into the material he now uses in his artwork. “My sculptures start as totally 2-dimensional,” says Gentenaar, describing the process in which his organic forms come to life. As the wet pulp dries around the bamboo framework it begins to shrink and curl, “just as a leaf when it drys.”

The resulting sculptures—massive, yet delicate—seem to resemble underwater organisms gracefully floating in water. The pieces are then suspended in mid-air in sprawling spaces like churches. His latest, completed last month, is on display above the main restaurant at Hotel Indigo St. Petersburg. (via My Modern Met)

We decided to use screensavers as media and turn them into a virtual pet adoption fair. The screensaver is available for all platforms and displays videos of dogs that are up for adoption.

The 12-minute video features several leading creatives in various industries such as composer Hans Zimmer, actor James Franco, filmmaker Lee Daniels, fashion model Joan Smalls and photographers Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin.

Directed by Liberatum’s founder Pablo Ganguli and polymath Tomas Auksas, the interviewees cite passion, their past, culture and family, to name a few, as sources of inspiration.

On the preservation front, in an editorial is provided with a spread of ways for safely storing your work. the primary of those is one with that you’re possible familiar: like several alternative services, associate editorial options an always-on autosave.

Preserving your work

As you’re employed, the app is consistently saving your work. you’ll check on the standing of the auto-save at the highest of the page report whether or not it’s busy saving or if it’s wedged.

Copyright Visual James

Who studied German literature, German literature is, who is studying medicine, is doctor who studies physics is physics, but who studied philosophy, this will by no philosopher.

But I would say that the study of philosophy according to specialization may be an ideal preparation for the Informationsachitekten. For philosophy teaches one to work on and to the order of the terms.

A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

Who studied German literature, German literature is, who is studying medicine, is doctor who studies physics is physics, but who studied philosophy, this will by no philosopher. But I would say that the study of philosophy according to specialization may be an ideal preparation for the Informationsachitekten. For philosophy teaches one to work on and to the order of the terms.

Recording and reflecting on the work in progress

Intuitiveness can be broken down into a sort of ladder, or a cake with three layers: legibility at the top, metaphor in the middle, and skills at the bottom. By way of example, the concept of scrolling (which we hardly give any thought to) relies on all of them:

1. It has to be legible. Legibility is about having cues or signals that are unambiguous and recognizable.
2. Metaphor is the framing concept. In the case of scrolling, either you think of a scroll (the papyrus kind!), where one end rolls up and the other end unrolls to reveal more text, or you think of a window in space that you pan around.
3. Skills are the motor skills that you pick up. It’s the physical ability to click your mouse on up/down arrows, or to slide your finger across the scroll wheel.

For better or worse, we live in a world of media invention. Instead of reusing a stable of forms over and over, it’s not much harder for us to create new ones. Let’s buy this theme.