Clay Newton // Clay is a User Experience Designer interested in emerging technologies and platforms. With a background in interaction design and front end development, Clay has a full spectrum of competencies including ethnographic research, user requirements, IA, accessibility, internationalization, usability, prototyping & development.
Clay was the co-founder and president of Remarkd.com, a run-anywhere ecommerce & auction service. Clay has also designed web applications and user experiences for Bank of America, Navis, eve.com, and other companies. In a previous life, Clay worked as a gardener and cook at The French Laundry, both before and during the Thomas Keller era. Ask him about the time he spilled paint on the new carpet just before the grand opening. He has a lot of tattoos.
I came across this awesome collection of minimalist poster designs from the Star Wars Galaxy and it really inspired me with the simplicity of the design and the complexity of the meaning. These posters were designed by Justin Van Genderen, a freelancer designer/illustrator from Chicago. Check it out!
Click here for more from Justin Van Genderen
A series of minimalist takes on planets and places of the original Star Wars Galaxy. Not my normal style but I really enjoyed making these.
Prints available at imagekind
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Hi there! I'm Paulo Canabarro, 25 year old web designer from Brazil currently living in Providence RI, USA. I'm truly passionate about design of all kinds. Finding and sharing inspiration has become part of my life. If you have any suggestions or requests just get @ me - pvpcanabarro@gmail.com For some cool stuff make sure to Follow me on twitter!
Very nice!
The commoditization of smartphone hardware is just the beginning. Plunging prices of integrated “system on a chip” devices, paired with free Linux clones like Android, have enabled not just cheap devices, but,cheap cloud-based devices. This has applied to phone products like the Sony Ericsson LiveView, and also to home appliances like the Sonos home music system.
Here it comes.
Court battle looms as hundreds of Picassos turn up: report(AFP) – 1 hour ago
PARIS — A 71-year-old retired electrician is at the centre of a legal battle after coming forward with more than 200 hitherto unknown paintings by Pablo Picasso, a French newspaper reported Monday.
Experts who have examined the collection have estimated it could be worth some 60 million euros (80 million dollars), Liberation reported.
Pierre Le Guennec wrote to Claude Picasso, the artist's son and the administrator of his estate, in a bid to get the canvases authenticated, and the two finally met in September.
Le Guennec said he had worked installing alarm sytems at a number of Picasso's residences, including a villa in Cannes in the south of France, during the last three years of Picasso's life -- he died in 1973.
He said he had had been given the works as presents, either by Picasso's wife or from the artist himself. The collection included 271 works, Liberation reported.
Once experts had authenticated the works however, Picasso's heirs filed a complaint alleging receipt of stolen goods.
Claude Picasso dismissed Le Guennec's claim that he could have received the paintings as gifts, telling Liberation that his father would not have given such a quantity of works to anyone.
"That doesn't stand up," he insisted. "It was a part of his life.
After Picasso's heirs filed the complaint in September, officers from the Central Office for the Fight against Traffic in Cultural Goods (OCBC) seized the works from the couple's home on the Cote d'Azur in southeast France.
Le Guennec himself was taken into custody, the paper reported, although it did not say whether he had since been released.
A spokesman from the OCBC, part of France's interior ministry, confirmed to AFP the seizure of the paintings.
The haul ranges from notebooks to drawings and completed paintings, including nine cubist works which alone are worth some 40 million euros, according to experts.
Also in the collection was an aquarelle from Picasso's blue period, portraits of his first wife Olga, as well as a number of gouaches and lithographs, Liberation reported.
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In many ways, our Kickstarter iPhone Application idea is like every other iPhone Application proposal. We want to:
(1) Make the #1 iPhone App in the world
(2) Provide a chance for amused consumers to become fully engaged creators
(3) Make a lot of money
(4) Make our Kickstarter investors rich, and
(5) Retire with the ones we love somewhere in the South of France
What makes our iPhone application radically different is its orientation (creative), approach (smart) and goals (learning by doing). We have already spent two years designing the project’s 200 exercises specifically formulated to take an IPhone user on a journey through the history of art, retracing the 25,000 years of art historical landmarks.
How did we come up with the idea? It all started with a question posed by our visionary CEO Clay Newton to his clandestine research team (a lone counter-cultural academic living out his delusions in a crawl space under a prominent research library). The question was simple:What does the world want (well, besides sex)?
Upon thorough review, the answer that our crack researcher discovered was clear:
The world wants to draw.
Yes, you read this right: the world wants to draw!
Examine the indisputable statistics for yourself. Google Zeitgeist’s 2009 Year-End Search Queries Rankings placed “How to draw” only below “How to kiss.”
Since our team is currently happy kissing our partners off-line, Clay made a crazy decision to follow through with the unlikely result of the inquiry, developing an iPhone application that would give a constructive creative outlet and counteract now popular destructive i-activities of the likes of “Shooting Pigs,” and “Farting” iApps.
The Bottom Line: This Kickstarter proposal would like to acquire the start-up monies to build an iPhone “Drawing” application that would fully engage the hearts and minds of over 1,000,000,000 people all over the world who want to draw every single day.
New project I am working on.
