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He contrasted his nature-oriented artwork with the realism of John James Audubon, drawing influence from Cubism, Minimalism, Einsteinian physics and countless other developments in Modern art and science. His style distilled and simplified complex organis

GRAVITAS is a visual and musical celebration of the beauty in a dynamic universe driven by gravity. Animations from supercomputer simulations of forming galaxies, star clusters, galaxy clusters, and galaxy interactions are presented as moving portraits of

Don’t miss the wonderful polaroids of photographer Grant Hamilton. Using a Polaroid camera from 1975, Hamilton snaps one-of-a-kind shots of found objects and colors. His portfolio is also on Flickr, where he has a legion of fans, including Badgurl, who cr

Cascade on Wheels is a visualization project that intends to express the quantity of cars we live with in big cities nowadays. The data set we worked on is the daily average of cars passing by streets, over a year. In this case, a section of the Madrid ci

Parallax scrolling is a psuedo-3D effect often used in side scrolling games to create depth. In this article Clearleft lead designer Paul Annett explains how he used the effect to great success on their newly launched Silverback site.

Since then we’d heard nothing more about the Adobe Light-Field Lens, but a video has recently surfaced on techeblog indicating the lens is definitely real! Check out a short but sweet demo on the lens’ capabilities below.

This article presents recent trends, examples and innovative solutions for design of modern navigation menus.

New books have been piling up here at Design Observer. We thought we’d share some of the many recently published titles we have received over the past couple of months — with a few older titles just stumbled upon. We hope you will find a surprise or two

A navigation bar that automatically knows which tab/button/whatever should be considered the currently active link, without having to manually specify a class or ID on either the body tag or on the links themselves.

While pseudo-classes are gaining support among browsers, they’re not really IE’s strong point, though in fairness to the IE team, IE 7 does offer some improvements over IE 6.So, what now? Well, you could add a class to the markup (such as first-child