To prepare for the launch of a new aircraft, Air New Zealand decided to scrutinize its current long-haul offering. The company asked IDEO to rethink the entire traveling experience.
Together, they revamped the airline’s equipment, service, and technology strategy. Reconfigurable seats in coach allow travelers one of two desired experiences: connection and socialization or solitude and retreat. New policies and procedures give travelers more control of their space and time, and ultimately allow for a more enjoyable and memorable flight.
IDEO, shit is legit.
From Michael Marten’s series, Sea Change, which explores rising sea levels from regular tides and also climate change. His statement:
‘Sea Change’ is a study of the tides round the coast of Britain. The views in each diptych are taken from identical positions at low tide and high tide, usually 6 or 18 hours apart.
I am interested in showing how landscape changes over time through natural processes and cycles. The camera that observes low and high tide side by side enables us to observe simultaneously two moments in time, two states of nature.
Recent landscape photography often focuses on human shaping (and reshaping) of the environment - urbanisation, globalisation, pollution. Even when critical and committed, this approach can emphasise, even glamorise, humankind’s power over nature. I’m interested in rediscovering nature’s own powers: the elemental forces and processes that underlie and shape the planet.
The tides are one of these great natural cycles. I hope these photographs will stimulate people’s awareness of natural change, of landscape as dynamic process rather than static image. Attending to earth’s rhythms can help us to reconnect with the fundamentals of our planet, which we ignore at our peril.
‘Sea Change’ also comments on climate change. The tide floods in and quickly recedes again, but rising sea levels will flood our shores and not recede for thousands or millions of years. Many of the views in these pictures may have disappeared in 100 years’ time.
— Michael Marten
Everything in its right place
Typefaces for People with Dyslexia By designer Felix Lobelius
(via stbernard)
The fire maps show the locations of actively burning fires around the world on a monthly basis, based on observations from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite. The colors are based on a count of the number (not size) of fires observed within a 1,000-square-kilometer area. White pixels show the high end of the count —as many as 100 fires in a 1,000-square-kilometer area per day. Yellow pixels show as many as 10 fires, orange shows as many as 5 fires, and red areas as few as 1 fire per day. Via EO NASA
(Source: climateadaptation)
“We’re talking about design as a way of helping people learn.”
Dave Peth, Senior Produce of Interactive Media at WGBH
speaking at CreativeMornings/Boston(*watch the talk)
Irina Werning
Back to the Future, 1957-presentThis is the best one of these I’ve seen.
I LOVE THESE
(Source: jonyorkblog, via illtakealifeforyou)
