Hans is an extremely diversified artist. His ability to quickly assimilate new information and identify relevant issues makes him a design genius. His background includes creating content for online channels - email, landing pages, and Website design.
Brand identity, art gallery curation, music industry design and promotion, action sports design, and apparel design are other strong passions for Hans. Most recently Hans created large scale illustrations for zipline structures at Burning Man 2011 in the Black Rock desert of Nevada.
Hans graduated from the College of Architecture and Plannning from the University of Colorado Boulder. He brings open ingenuity, and a fresh way of thinking to the Airways team. He is currently living and working in Venice Beach, California.
Scott Hansen, also known as TYCHO - is a San Francisco based musician / designer - and has been a long-time favorite of mine not only for his music but his design as well. This music video is a beautiful combination of his most potent skills. To check out more of his work I've included some links here. Enjoy!
Design: http://www.merchline.com/iso50/
Music: https://soundcloud.com/tycho
Tycho "Ascension" from Charles Bergquist on Vimeo.
Loving this throwback style fused with modern functionality, its an aestheic masterpiece. The Ringle 39 is a blend of modern yacht technology with timeless values from the high art period of yacht design, reminiscent of the first half of the twentieth century. The highly experienced RIngle 39 team has really paid attention to every last detail in this high performance yacht.
Travel guide iPhone app offers solid suggestions and tips from the "pros"
So often we find ourselves traveling or on the road for work, in a city that we may not know so well, and want to find a solid local suggestion. Up to this point it seemed that Yelp was the only "somewhat useful" app to help make decisions on what to check out as far as food and drinks. The only issue with Yelp is that it has such a broad range of people writing reviews, that some of the suggestions and recommendations come from very un-informed people who may or may not have a professional perspective on the scene.
We recently came across this new app, FIND.EAT.DRINK, that addresses this exact issue - with tips and suggestions from pros like Chef Richard Blais, coffee roasters and food writers. . After giving the app a whirl in our own neighborhood, we found the quality of their suggestions quite impressive, offering a more tightly edited selection than mass-marketed services like Yelp.
You can find this at the App store for Apple. Try it out!
I recently ran across Alexandre Deschaumes's photography and was quite taken back by the evocative energy his shots capture. Such power and magnitude to each one. These photos truely take you to another place. Take a look at some of his collections to see more inspiring images.
As the ammount of information on the web becomes more and more overwhelming, many of us search for a outlets of content that relates to our lifestyle, interests, or career path. Recently, I ran across this site called Protein. Protein is an insight platform that keeps you up-to-date on the latest global trends, behaviors and thinking through useful tools, daily reports and in-depth events. Sound interesting? I think so.
Protein does a great job of highlighting everything from design trends, entrepreneurial start up busineses, interesting interviews with taste-makers, relevant formum / lectures, new products, to insightful articles. Its defintely worth a few minutes of your time to check out.
Here's another great resources if you are ever looking for some inspiration or just want to see some really cool projects that other artists / designers around the world are creating.
Visual News is a place where you can find daily visual inspiration from around the world. This is an adventurous and socially aware group that believes the planet we live on is one of continual beauty and curiosities, so each day they strive to bring you some of the most interesting stories in art, design, technology and people.
As a collaborative project of Column Five Media, Visual News strongly advocates of the union between data and design, and continually searching for new ways to express the world around us in visually beautiful and easily understandable ways.
Sometimes its just easier to listen to someone in a meeting while you are drawing a picture or doodling. It helps some of us think and stay awake :) This is a really interesting article discussing the benefit of being a doodler. FULL ARTICLE on Smashing Magazine >>
“I Draw Pictures All Day” - Click on the image below to read the full artilce.
By Alma Hoffmann
Doodling helps us Retain Information
By Jason Miller - Salesforce Blog
It’s a business-eat-business universe and B2B marketers today must fully utilize social media channels if they want a chance at surviving alone in the deep recesses of space. A good social marketing campaign often times starts with the blog, or the mother-ship as I like to call it, then branches out to cover each of the social networks with tailored messaging optimized with keywords. Paying attention to the characteristics of each social platform and playing to their strengths is essential to optimizing for maximum virality.
See the full Article HERE >>
In the following infographic, we examine the elements of a successful B2B social marketing campaign to help you learn how to make your business move at the speed of light.
SUPER beautiful and VERY interesting Info-graphics from GOOD MAGAZINE and Gregory Hubacek // Based on demographic studies of the US population as a whole.
See Full article on Gregory's Blog HERE >>
Check out some beautiful new design work from ISO50 aka TYCHO - Who is both a top notch designer and music producer. He designed this poster specifically for the upcoming show in Boulder, CO. at the Fox Theathre on Sept. 26. Tickets are probably sold out, but if you can find some its well worth it. He not only plays and produces the music, but he also designs all of the visual projections for the show. The sound and visual combinations is qute stunning.
Riding the success of the inaugural event in 2010, Vimeo is celebrating the best of the best videos once agian June 7-8, 2012 in NYC . This Festival + Awards event will feature screenings, talks, workshops, and panels. The 2012 Vimeo Festival + Awards are jam-packed with new judges, new categories, and new prize money — $5,000 grants for category winners and one $25,000 grand prize for "best in show".
Since 2004 when Vimeo was founded, they have attracted 65 million unique visitors per month and more than 8 million registered users. They have developed a very respectable nitche with up-and-coming film makers, by providing an elegant / effective chanel to share their work with the world. According to Vimeo creative director, Jeremy Boxer, Vimeo is aiming at becoming the gold standard for creative online videos by discovering the best talent and providing a platform that will catapult their careers to the next level.
Click here for more info.
Scandanavian countries have always seemed to be a step ahead of everyone else when it comes to healthcare, taking care of their citizens, and especially education. A new innovative approach to classroom design by the
Vittra school - Telefonplan, in Sweeden, is just another example of forward thinking by one of the nordic countries.
from Liz Dwyer of GOOD Magazine:The traditional setup of school classrooms—straight rows of desks with accompanying chairs—doesn't do much to foster creativity or collaboration. Many experts have proposed redesigning classroom furniture, but a Swedish school system wants to take things a step further. Vittra, which operates 30 schools in Sweden, is seeking to ensure learning takes place everywhere on campus by eliminating classrooms altogether.
The newest Vittra school, Telefonplan, opened its doors last August. Students can work independently on their laptops while lounging on one of the "sitting islands" in the photo above. If they need to collaborate with their peers on a project, they can take advantage of spaces like "the village"—a tiny house for group work—or the more open "organic conversation furniture" pictured below.
Jannie Jeppesen, the principal of Vittra Telefonplan writes on the
school's website that the design is intended to stimulate "children's curiosity and creativity" and offer them opportunities for both collaborative and independent time. Vittra doesn't award traditional grades, either—students are taught in groups according to level—so maximizing diverse teaching and learning situations is a priority.
The open nature of the campus and the unusual furniture arrangements reflect the school's philosophy that "children play and learn on the basis of their needs, curiosity, and inclination." That's true for kids all over the world, so let's hope educators in other countries begin to pay attention.
Photos courtesy of Kim Wendt and Rosan Bosch
The closest thing to downloading information strait to your brain yet... Well, almost...
This upstart company has been catching eyes across the world with a revolutionary technology that gathers and presents information in a whole new format. Introducing
Qwiki.
by
Cypher 13:
The future of information consumption is changing and
Qwiki is leading the charge. With Qwiki, information becomes an experience. While only in “Alpha” Qwiki is poised to be a leader in creating the new information experience. Qwiki is an exciting platform built on intriguing technology. As information becomes more accessible and more experiential the process of learning and the potential to learn changes.
Take a look at this
TED presentation:
Video to get you FIRED UP for the weekend! Enjoy...
shinya kimura @ chabott engineering from Henrik Hansen on Vimeo.
by cypher13
The
99% just assembled quite a definitive list outlining the top 5 qualities of productive creatives (and how to identify them). The list was inspired by a recent
BusinessWeek article reporting that, “According to a new survey of 1,500 chief executives conducted by IBM’s Institute for Business Value, CEOs identify ‘creativity’ as the most important leadership competency for the successful enterprise of the future.”
The top 5 characteristics or qualities possessed by productive creatives as outlined by the 99% are as follows:
1. Communication Skills.
2. Pro-activeness.
3. Problem-solving.
4. Curiosity.
5. Risk-taking.
Read the complete article here to learn more about these characteristics.
photo: The 99% - featured article
The amount of digital data stored today is exponentially increasing. Every minute 24 hours of video is uploaded to YouTube. On Facebook, 1,000 photos are uploaded every second yielding 3 billion photos every month. Wtih this pace of creation it is estimated the amount of digital data stored in the world grew by 60% last year, closing in on a zettabyte of data. A zettabyte is equal to 1 billion terabytes (250 billion full length movies).
By: cypher13
The 2010 Biennial of the Americas is an international event celebrating the culture, ideas and people of the Western Hemisphere, hosted by the City of Denver. Throughout the month of July, Denver will welcome national and international visitors for a cross-cultural experience bridging and unifying the artistic, intellectual and political progress of the hemisphere's 35 nations.
Through the comprehensive coordination of art exhibitions, cultural programming and conversational roundtables, the Biennial of the Americas will bring together established and emerging leaders in the the arts, culture, sciences, politics, economics and technology communities, facilitating the development of a unified vision for the future of the Western Hemisphere.
So if you looking for something to inspire some of your editorial emails, you should definitely try and catch any of this throughout July! Who knows may even come across some exciting ideas to accelerate growth in your company.
City-Wide Exhibitions - throughout the city in the month of July 2010.
Hans is an extremely diversified artist. His ability to quickly assimilate new information and identify relevant issues makes him a design genius. His background includes creating content for online channels - email, landing pages, and Website design. 
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