Archives for June 2013

If you run an agency or a team building out services for client’s, questions are going to arise. Questions such as: which projects are profitable, which projects are wasting resources, what activities yield the most, or what kind of discounts can be offered to still be profitable? It’s easy to compare clients based on turnover, […]

When designing a website, app, editorial or anything else getting the layout right is of the most importance. The user interface is essential to correctly convey emotion, calls to action and information for the end product. There are many kinds of design layouts one can embark to deliver, but for all of them the main […]

A startup that got a lot of buzz: the good kind, bad kind, and awkward look kind took the idea of intimate encounters mashed it with Facebook friends then launched Bang With Friends. It was only a matter of time for that same idea to be slightly twisted and introduced for another market – Indonesian […]

Skimr is simple, small, minimal and just the right mobile reader. Skimr enables you to quickly see what your favorite websites are posting. That’s it – it promises to do one thing and delivers just that. The slick and simple RSS reader lets you add websites you visit regularly, pick from the already curated directory, […]

New app Commune empowers those organizing events for community projects promote and list opportunities for volunteers. The app helps users find volunteering opportunities that speak to them as well in one place while enrolling friends to make a difference as well. Currently available for students in Columbia University, New York University and Oxbridge, the application […]

With state-of-the-art 3D scanning and color printing technology pop-up studio Twinkind produces mini 3D-printed figurines of yourself and your pets. The custom and eerily life-like products are produced with a multi-camera system that many know as the Matrix Effect. The photogrammetry 3D scanner, built specifically by the Twinkind team, captures an entire 3D scan of […]

Design that inspires us is always worth sharing. Not always a startup or dedicated to building a product, but an idea that displays delightful imagery, thought provoking graphics, or curates the way art impacts our daily lives is always worth noting. NYC Type is the collection developed by Matthew Anderson and Daniel Hunninghake concerned with […]

We’ve been discussing “swag” in our office this past week as a few co-tenants begin their startup marketing launch with contest giveaways and prizes. While sharing ideas from pencils and sunglasses to bobble heads and life-size huggable fur mascots the realization became that a lot of startups run with the typical instead of the creative. […]

Every now and again an idea comes along, usually brought into existence by a startup, that really makes you sit back and go “wow.” Waygo has definitely created one of those ideas. Essentially, they’ve built an app where you can point a smartphone camera at Chinese characters, and have it appear on your phone in […]

The Wake App by Tiny Hearts launched not too long ago and took the idea of alarm-based apps and applied design with movement controls to make waking up easier and set the bar for alarm-app design. That same method of thinking has come to play with Shake Time. Timer apps are stale to put it […]